LouReviews
Camden Fringe preview: Ziyi Cao on Dünyada
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Sophie Smyth on The Subplot: A Hyperfixation on the Titan Submersible
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Lizzy Skrzypiec on Murder, She Didn’t Write
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Kerry Cleland on Float
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Liz Coin on Lizzy Sunshine
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Kristina Lee on The Spy Who Came In From The Park
Play review: Pews at Ten (Hope Theatre)
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Compagnia Bellanda on Il canto dell’assiolo
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Tom Little in His Comfort Zone
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Edith Alibec on The Void
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Jake Alexander on Like a Good Neighbor
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Dax Wiley on Oil & Whiskey
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Steve Garrett on The Song of the Ice
Play review: I Dreamt You Differently at Camden People’s Theatre
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Bailey Edwards on Play Dead
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Jack Ellis on Van Gogh and Me
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Adele Leach on Jekyll and Hyde
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Elena Arvigo on Atomic Tales
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Shuyi Alice Wang on Until Spring Comes
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Conor Kelly O’Brien on Ulysses of Scranton
Play review: Krapp’s Last Tape (Calder Bookshop Theatre)
Edinburgh Fringe preview: CIRCLE and Kitty Daddy
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Caitlin Ort & Megan Ort on The Yellow Wallpaper
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Abandoman – Afterglow
Play review: How To Make Art That Brings Housing Justice at SPID Theatre
Dance review: Hofesh Shechter – In The Brain at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Edinburgh Fringe preview: The Gilbert Twins on Under The Influence!
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Lorraine Hoodless on Mean
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Ryan Lithgow on The Powerpop Girls – A New Diva Religion
Play review: Good for Her! at Other Palace Studio
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Jack Kenyon on Table for Two
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Billy Morton on Every Ghost Story Ever
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Rowan Brown on Launa
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Eric Weiner on My Life Is a Sonnet
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Dede Lovejoy on Shamaniac
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Kiely Sugayan & Jessie Ballard on January 6th the Musical
San Antonio Film Festival review: Coconut Valley
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Alex Franklin on Mothman – A Romance Musical
Museum spotlight: Bow Street and Brunel
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Lizzie Bean on Phuckets and Rainbows
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Justin Skelton on Dystopia 26 – The Rock Opera
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Hendrik Quast on Spill Your Guts
Book review: Out on Stage – How to Make Queer Theatre
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Marina di Marzo on Love in the Time of Fifth Grade
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Arden Fitzroy on CVNTCLAVE
Spotlight: North-Sapph Fest at The Hope Theatre
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Kento Morita on Japanese Grandma Funeral
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Zoe Redlich on Last Laugh
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Reilly O’Shaughnessy on BELLY
Edinburgh Fringe preview: John Achkar on His country is collapsing …
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Rickerby Hinds on BLACKBOX
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Devon Loves ME! Productions on Time Travel Postman
San Antonio Film Festival review: Dave vs Hollywood
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Sir Dickie Benson and Scarlett Whispers on Midday/Midnight Mania Cabaret
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Hanna Andréa on MUSE – The Shakespeare Mayhem Musical
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Dani Johns on Best in Class
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Frisky’s Remix Roulette
Grimeborn Opera review: After My Breath & Eden 2.0. at Arcola Theatre
Edinburgh Fringe preview: David Saffert and Jillian Snow on Liberace and Liza – A Tribute
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Tom Short on I Get ChatGPT To Write My Edinburgh Show
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Bianca Boorer on ChatLGBT
Fringe Focus: Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham
Musical review: Here Comes J Edgar! (King’s Head)
Play review: The Swan, The Werewolf and Gianpiero at COLAB Theatre
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Geoff O’Flanagan on The Double G Comedy Rodeo
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Joel Bray on Daddy
Play review: Hit Machine at Soho Theatre
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Aalex Mandel-Dallal on Where Was I?
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Tom Nemec on A Cat in a Box
Musical review: The Jonathan Larson Project at Southwark Playhouse Borough
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Arwa Omaren on Hecuba – Why Am I In Your Country?
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Scout Boxall on God’s Favourite
Edinburgh Fringe: Georgina Collins on SUCCUBUS
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Selina Mosinski on Puss in Boots – A Working Class Fairy Tale
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Sarah Roberts on Scary Movie 7
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Indalecio Corugedo on Erika – Reflections on a New Era
Johnny Ball: My Previous Life in Comedy and Stories That Must Be Told
Play review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Questors)
Dances With Films – The Resistance
Play review: Rika’s Rooms (Theatre at the Tabard)
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Robin Grainger on Lemonade
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Dee Allum on Raumdeuter
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Maddie Rice on Goodbye Dandelion
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Anne O’Sullivan on Becoming Dr Ruth
Play review: love you long time (already) at Theatre503
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Chelsea Birkby Is In Full Control The Entire Time
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Katy Murphy on (No) Regrets
Comedy review: The League of Improv at Phoenix Arts Club
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Adi Parmar on Sunny Boy
Digital review: Make It Count at Louth Riverhead Theatre
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Stephen Cole on Camelton
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Kona Morris on How to Poop in an Outhouse at -58C
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Ron Placone on Anti-Fascist Pasta Night
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Liv Rocklin on An American (Not) In Paris
Musical review: The Ballad of Johnny & June at Richmond Theatre
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Lev Steinberg on 44 Minutes
Sam Ryder and Jesus Christ Superstar
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Aidan Monks on Moth and Dog Are Trying to Get Out
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Hannah Platt on Cult Classic
Spotlight on Border Crossings and Checkpoint
Highlight Festival review: Feral Daydreams at The Glitch
Show preview: Johnny Ball – My Previous Life in Comedy
Edinburgh Fringe preview: John Dinneen on The Jolly Fisherman
Digital review: Sherlock Holmes vs Arsène Lupin: A Drag Crime Caper
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Airi Hosokawa on The Sumo Show – HIRAKUZA
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Steven Phillips-Horst on The Last Mad Man
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Robert Pearce on Mama G in The Magic Bookmark
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Dafydd Hughes on Girlz
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Camilla Borges: Be Not Afraid!
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Jerry Topitzer on Once Upon A Wall Street
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Danyah Miller on The Mystery of Pleasance Two
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Reuben Kaye on Hard to Swallow
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Delea Shand on Madame Chandelier’s Grand Theft Opera
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Dennis T Giacino and Fiely Matias on Disenchanted!
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Abbey Gillett and Elsa Strachan on I Dreamt You Differently
Dances With Films – It’s Getting Late With Owen Reed
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Austin Jennings Boykin on A Gay Masseur’s Guide to Happy Endings
Play review: Wife to James Whelan (Jermyn Street Theatre)
Show preview: Blossom Timothy and Ava Honey on Romeo and Juliet at Greenwich Theatre
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Kayla Boye on Call Me Elizabeth
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Robbie Hail on Don’t know? Have a go!
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Ting Lim on Asian But Wrong
Play review: Springwood (Hampstead Theatre)
Spotlight on augmented reality adventure at Theatre Peckham
Musical review: Hot Mess (The Other Palace)
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Simon Shaw on I’m Not Myself Today – A Villainous Cabaret
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Natalie Patuzzo on Every Single Sound in the World
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Scene 24 Productions on If We Really Were Witches
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Brooke Laing on Romeo and Juliet for Bairns
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Sofia May on 9/11 Birds and the Bees
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Jonathan Laury on The Vampire Run
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Katrina Bennett on Cruising
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Jake Butterworth and Polly Hoban on Dinner With The Wolves
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Kevin McGeary on Are Musical Comedians a Chinese Psyop?
Play review: Love & Information (Drayton Arms)
Edinburgh Fringe review: Big Tobacco’s Pinocchio
Dance review: Colossus (Queen Elizabeth Hall)
Company focus: Tom Dixon on The HandleBards
Edinburgh Fringe preview: John and Christian – Teenage Heartthrobs
Show preview: Arthur Hull on FLOP!
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Joshua Hauville on Joshy in Paris
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Alex Howarth on You and Me (and Whoever Comes Next)
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Late Shift Theatre on Take Care
Fringe Focus: Emily Carewe on Theatre503
Play review: Cyrano de Bergerac (Noel Coward Theatre)
Musical review: Sinatra the Musical (Aldwych)
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Oscar Brennan on Self Censored
Edinburgh Fringe preview: King’s Company on Rebellious Women
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Maxwell Caulfield on Pilate – The Lost Gospel
Theatre review: Venus and Adonis at Barbican Pit
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Nichola McAuliffe on Annie Wobbler (Revisited)
Edinburgh Fringe preview: James Lucas and Rafi Ritterband on Famous Last Words
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Gabi Flares on Deluge
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Out of Office Theatre on Dr Faustus
Show preview: A DoL House at The Big House
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Will BF – Moon Team IIIV
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Kristina Libby – I Almost Died for This?!
Play review: Why I Stuck A Flare Up My Arse For England at Garrick Theatre
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Kimberley Nixon on Baby Brain
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Edie Campbell on Apples in Winter
Film review: Loves Company
Play review: Julius Caesar at Tower Theatre
Female theatre reviewers project: Lorna – Theatreland Adventures
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Andrea Coleman on 3 Times I Killed
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Tim Benzie on Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Rosalie Minnitt on Clementine 2
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Kayla Eisenberg & Marguerite Stern on The Sound Within
Play review: Cluedo – Questors in Walpole Park
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Abby Goldfarb on Most of My Moms Are Gay
Edinburgh Fringe preview: George Grant on In The Cold Light
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Piet Van Dycke on EXIT
Play review: RON at Riverside Studios
Book review: God’s Fools – satire, prophets, martyrs, and the making of modern comedy
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Sarah-Louise Young on The Bob Ross Effect
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Elaine Quan on Dear Lihua
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Amanda Rubell on Dinosaurs
Show preview: Remember That Time? at London Queer Fringe Festival
Female theatre reviewers project: Aliya Al-Hassan
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Alex Grech on Awaiting Evaluation
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Meg Millane on Bride To Be
Show focus: Full Moon by The Lady Boys of Bangkok
Book review: New British Drama in 15 Scenes
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Brian Dykstra on A Play on Words
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Kathleen Ruddy on The Cut of Her Jib
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Amanda Andrews on Bipolarcoaster
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Lottie Walker on Bloody Mary(s)
Female theatre reviewers project: Shanine Salmon – View from the Cheap Seat
Theatre review: I Made You A Mixtape at The Cockpit
Film review: Cowboy (Raindance Film Festival)
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Johnnie McNamara Walker on The Heterosexuals
Edinburgh Fringe preview: George Grant on Operation Blank
Female theatre reviewers project: Kirsty – From Page to Stage
1st year at Soho Walthamstow
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Encapulus Productions on Witches Corner
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Frankie Regalia on Spinster
Play review: Stories for Boys at Drayton Arms Theatre
Syndicated interview: Relics at Lyric Hammersmith
Event review: The Magician’s Table at The Vaults
Female theatre reviewers project: Sarah McPartlan at MusicalTheatreMusings
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Eduardo Enrikez on The Last Song
Edinburgh Fringe preview: David Aldred on Rockbeth
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Andrew Slade on 1 King, 2 Princes & Shakespeare’s Lie
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Lexi Wolfe on After Shakespeare and A Forgotten Woman: Mrs Oscar Wilde
Female theatre reviewers project: Shehrazade Zafar-Arif – London Box Office
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Dean Friedman on Songs for Grown-Ups
Female theatre reviewers project: Caroline – Theatre Muse UK/North West End UK
Digital play review: Othello (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
Female theatre reviewers project: Christine – RatedReviewed
Film review: Unbroken – The Untold Story of Shen Yun
Film review: Bastards of Soul
Female theatre reviewers project: Kat Masterson – Theatre & Travel Reviews
Play review: Slaughterhouse-Five at Southwark Playhouse
Dance review: Groove at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Female theatre reviewers project: Emma – Curtain Call Reviews
Female theatre reviewers project: Maryam Philpott
Event preview: 10th anniversary of the Creative Women Forum
Play review: The P Word at Bush Theatre
Brighton Fringe reviews: Evangeline, and The Shape of Things Undone
Female theatre reviewers project: Chloe – the theatre gal
Event review: RESET – BOLD Elephant Tuesday Night Group
Female theatre reviewers project: Bianca – A Shiny Life For Me
Dance review: Maria Caruso – Counterpoint of Chaos at His Majesty’s Theatre
Female theatre reviewers project: Fiona Gilbert – LondonTheatre1
Event review: London Clown Festival 2026 Opening Cabaret
Play review: Before I’m Dead at The Glitch
Female theatre reviewers project: Cindy Marcolina
Play review: Everlasting Cake at Questors Studio
Female theatre reviewers project: Nilgün Yusuf
Musical review: Redcliffe at Southwark Playhouse Borough
Female theatre reviewers project: Connie – connieandthetheatre
Female theatre reviewers project: Sisters in the Stalls
Musical review: Dark of the Moon at Charing Cross Theatre
Female theatre reviewers project: Bri – Stalls to Stage
Interview: The Divine Fringe and London’s Queer Performance Scene
Female theatre reviewers project: Lisa Martland – Musical Theatre Review
Concert review: Leading Voices LDN at Union Theatre
Female theatre reviewer project: Mind the Blog (Debbie)
Phone experience review: CLAWS by Candle House Collective
Review: Giffords Circus: Waterfield at Chiswick House & Gardens
Female theatre reviewers project: Elyse – Scene It Reviews
Play review: Nine Sixteenths
Musical review: The Harder They Come
Female theatre reviewers project: Emmie – Theatre and Tonic
Opera review: HMS Pinafore at Theatre at the Tabard
Film review: The Midway Point
Female theatre reviewers project: Emma Clarendon – Love London Love Culture
Play review: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (Richmond Theatre)
Female theatre reviewers project: Kerrie – Wheelie Stagey
Film review – Huntsman (out at festivals)
Female theatre reviewers project: Mia Hassan – The Musings of Mia
Female theatre reviewers project: Julia Rank
Play review: The Fastest Clock in the Universe (New Wimbledon Theatre Studio)
Female theatre reviewers project: Ruth – Reviewed by Ruth
Female theatre reviewers project: Kim at curtaincallkim
Show preview: Take Flight
Album review: Broadway Maybe by Henry Patterson
Female theatre reviewers spotlight: Cathryn Macey
Female theatre reviewers spotlight: Rev Stan’s Theatre Blog
Female theatre reviewers spotlight: Jude Gair-Ah Siu
Female theatre reviewers spotlight on: Beatrice – Like Nobody’s Watching
Show preview: Maria Caruso on Counterpoint of Chaos
The Lord of the Rings: Films In Concert at Royal Albert Hall
Female theatre reviewers spotlight on: Rachel – TheatreGenics
Female theatre reviewers spotlight: Georgina Monk – Culture’s Coffee
Female theatre reviewers spotlight: Adventures in Theatreland – Vicky
Musical review: Company by Sedos
Brighton Fringe spotlight: Bound by the Wind – Echoes of the Past
Spotlight: William Foote on the Irish Cultural Centre
Female theatre reviewers spotlight: Susan Elkin
Musical review: Flyology at Union Theatre
Female theatre reviewers spotlight: Jolien Laeremans – Jolien’s Theatre Diary
Female theatre reviewers spotlight: Elaine Chapman – Theatre and Arts Reviews
Play review: Tender at Soho Theatre
Season spotlight: Leeds Playhouse
Female theatre reviewers spotlight: Ellie Talks Theatre
Concert review: Total Eclipse at London Coliseum
Female theatre reviewers spotlight: Lizzie – I’ve bought another ticket
Show focus: Waterfield by Giffords Circus
Female theatre reviewers spotlight: Theatrical Wheelie (Emma)
Pre-Brighton Fringe review: Sam and _____
Female theatre reviewers spotlight: Emma’s Theatrics
Female theatre reviewers spotlight: Lindsay – fairypoweredproductions
Experiencing La Chat Noir at The Lost Estate
Book review: The Plays of Henrik Ibsen
Play review: Firewing at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs
Musical review: Jeezus! at New Diorama
Play review: Two Halves of Guinness at Park Theatre
Digital review: Mountain Woman and PeoplePeople at C Arts
Theatre review: Little Town Blue at Camden People’s Theatre
Play review: RUM at Camden People’s Theatre
Peckham Fringe preview: Marcos Byrne on Hello, My Name Is …
Digital theatre review: Net Cafe Refugee 2.0.
Book review: Arthur Miller’s New York
Play review: Les Liaisons Dangereuses at National Theatre
Theatre review: The Wooster Group in Nayatt School Redux at Coronet Theatre
Show preview: Thomas Guthrie on Dancing In The Mirror
Show preview: Hannah Khalil on Love Omar
Play review: Managed Approach at Riverside Studios
Show preview: Charlie and Striptease double bill at the Golden Goose
Play review: Invisible Me at Southwark Playhouse Borough
Musical review: Avenue Q at Shaftesbury Theatre
A focus on Alec Guinness
Spotlight on Shedinburgh
Theatre review: An Evening Without Kate Bush at the Underbelly Boulevard, Soho
A look back at LouReviews over the years!
Show preview: James Sweeney on Make It Count
Concert review: ABBA Voyage
Book review: Quiet Please! and other humorous tales
Play review: Boiler Room Six (Pleasance)
Spotlight: Hoopla 20th Anniversary Improv Festival
Play review: Saint Joan (Arches Lane Theatre)
Musical review: Flyby (Southwark Playhouse Borough)
David Irvin on Ibsen and his enduring relevance
Spotlight on The Black Cap, Camden
Play review: John Proctor is the Villain (Royal Court)
Play review: Please Don’t Fall In Love With Me (it’s really not sexy when that happens) at Hope Theatre
Show preview: Kevin N Golding on Invisible Me
Spotlight on the London Soundtrack Festival
Book review: When Rock Met Hip-Hop
Film review: Proud Princess
Musicals from the cheap seats: The Producers
Review: Your Toys at Unicorn Theatre
Digital review: Last Call for Nefertiti at Dunedin Fringe Festival
Home media review: Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Vol 6
Musical review: Lifeline at Southwark Playhouse Elephant
Show preview: The Witch and the Whistleblower
Film season preview: Marilyn Monroe – Self-Made Star
Play review: Teeth ‘n’ Smiles at the Duke of Yorks
Show preview: Alexis Gregory on SMOKE
Musical review: Sunny Afternoon at Richmond Theatre
Play review: Choir Boy at Stratford East
Musical review: Kinky Boots at London Coliseum
Celebrating the stage and screen Jane Eyres
Play review: In The Print at King’s Head Theatre
Show preview: The team from Not Quite Three Sisters
Show preview: Angel’s Bone by English National Opera
SPRINT Interview: Daniel Grimston on Fieldfare
Play review: Carmilla at The Space (livestream)
Play review: Laughing Matters at Canal Cafe Theatre
Play review: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding at Lyric Hammersmith
Spotlight: Luke Ditchfield on 2nd Row Comedy
Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards 2026
Show interview: Sunny Side by Northern Rascals
Show preview: Jonathan Munby on The Price
Musical review: SIX at Vaudeville Theatre
Film review: The Containment
Play review: Chopped Liver and Unions at Theatre at the Tabard
Play review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time At Questors
Film review: Daddies Boi at Cinequest Film Festival
Play review: R.O.I. (Return On Investment) at Hampstead Theatre
Play review: Tobermory at Questors
Play review: Welcome to Pemfort at Soho Theatre
Book review: The Cambridge Footlights by Robert Sellers
SPRINT Interview: Alex Robins on Meet Mayor Max
SPRINT Interview: Anju Deshpande on Dear Azaadi
SPRINT Interview: Stoness on That Song From Rocky Horror (Toucha Toucha Touch Me)
SPRINT Interview: Jim Spencer Broadbent and Johnjoe Irwin on Poppies
SPRINT Interview: Rhys Williamson on A Very Difficult Person
Film review: The Mechanics of Borders
SPRINT Interview: Tristen ZiJuin on Bayangkan Bayang
Show preview: Sarah-Louise Young on An Evening Without Kate Bush
Book review: Nowhere To Go But Up – What Angela Lansbury Can Teach Us About Living A Big Life
SPRINT Interview: Yuya Sato on Net Cafe Refugee 2.0.
SPRINT Interview: Amina Aaliya Beg on My Mum Told Me Not To Marry An Atheist
Spotlight: Critics Circle Award nominations
SPRINT Interview: Jonny Brace on That’s Ace
SPRINT Interview: Francesco Diaz on SIGH at Big Bang Scratch Night
Play review: The Extraordinary Life of a Rat Racer at Etcetera Theatre
Film review: Dancing on the Elephant at Cinequest Film Festival 2026
SPRINT Interview: Holly Gifford on Big Little Sister
Film review: La Bohème (Finite Films)
Reflecting on 2026’s Olivier award nominations: part one
SPRINT Interview: Samuel Masters on The Man Who Was Thursday
Show preview: Tim McArthur on Oh, Sister Mary!
Play review: Double Indemnity at Richmond Theatre
SPRINT Interview: Fruit Bowl Theatre on Who Gave You The Mic?
Play review: Our Town at Rose Theatre Kingston
Interview: Greg Mosse on Criterion New Writing
Play review: Broken Glass at Young Vic
Show focus: Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
Book review: Box of Delights by Richard Marson
SPRINT Interview: Karla Shacklock on Niplash
SPRINT Interview: Diego Agurto on El Gran Varón
Show focus: Jessica Regan on 16 Postcodes
Film review: OBEX at the Glasgow Film Festival
SPRINT Interview: Sam Hickman on First Woman
SPRINT interview: Sam Holland-Bunyan on Am I Losing My Mind or Just My Figure?
SPRINT interview: Verity Sharpe on Landlord’s Wet Dream
SPRINT Interview: Benji Paget on BOGGIN
Festival preview: Naomi Sorkin on Women’s Voices at The Playground Theatre
Looking forward to … March
Digital theatre review: Doing Time With Lavinia (NZ Fringe)
Show interview: Jules Coyle on Managed Approach
London amateur theatre focus: Sedos (Pippa Kyle)
The Story of Peer Gynt: An Evening with Kåre Conradi at the Coronet Theatre
Film review: The Other Roe at Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Opera review: Iolanthe by Charles Court Opera
Show interview: Last and First Men
Glimpses: Sea Witch in rehearsal, Polly in development
Show interview: Kirsty Patrick Ward on Manic Street Creature
Play review: The Vertical Hour at Questors
Musical review: The Bodyguard at New Wimbledon Theatre
Home media review: Daniel Farson’s Guide to Britain vol 1
Play review: Spanish Oranges at Playground Theatre
Play review: Shadowlands at Aldwych Theatre
Show interview: Clare Norburn and Lottie Walker on Practically Imperfect
Fringe Focus: Inside The Glitch post Vault Festival
Shows from the cheap seats: Arcadia and Boris Godunov
Play review: MILES. at Southwark Playhouse
Book review: Offstage: The Pip Simmons Theatre Group 1974-86
Digital review: The Paper Doll House
Show interview: An Evening of Eric and Ern
A day in the life of a theatre critic
Opera review: Così fan tutte by English National Opera
News: Thomas Hopkins Productions launches new shows
Book review: A Year of Creative Thinking
Play review: Debate – Baldwin vs Buckley at Wilton’s Music Hall
Concert review: That’ll Be The Day at London Palladium
Play review: Maggots at Bush Theatre
Stockard Channing on Krapp’s Last Tape
David Westhead on Krapp’s Last Tape
Charity concert Love Life supports One for the Boys
Book review: Trailblazers of Black British Theatre
Show preview: Plays for a Poor Theatre
Film review: Disremember
Play review: Guess How Much I Love You? (Royal Court)
Musical review: Ballad Lines at Southwark Playhouse
Show interview: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Show preview: Go Feral Like The Big Dogs
Looking forward to … February 2026
Book review: Curtain Up! – How to Stage Great Youth Productions
Concert review: Jo – The Little Women Musical at Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Play review: One Jab Cures All at Theatre at the Tabard
Play review: Margarita’s Crown of Shadows (Etcetera)
Show interview: Henry Naylor on Monstering the Rocketman
Musical review: Beautiful Little Fool (Southwark Playhouse)
Book review: Tiger, Tom & Tinkle
Comedy review: ROTUS (Park Theatre)
Book review: Bows and Ties
Book review: Notes From a Working-Class Playwright
Play review: I’ll Be Back at The Glitch
Book review: Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: Behind the Bloody Musical Masterpiece
Show interview: Maryam D’Abo on Spanish Oranges
Concert review: The Death of Gesualdo (St Martin in the Fields)
Show interview: Hersh Dagmarr on Dagmarr’s Dimanche
Musical review: Already Perfect at King’s Head
Circus review: Cirque du Soleil’s OVO at Royal Albert Hall)
Dance review: Resolution 2026 at The Place
Shows from the cheap seats: My Neighbour Totoro at Gillian Lynne
Dances With Films: Committee Animal, By The Grape of God
Show focus: Most Favoured
Book review: Everything Has Order, Every Action Has Its Place
Film review: Hamlet (NT Live)
Shows from the cheap seats: Coven at Kiln Theatre
Play review: High Noon (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Show interview: Adrien Rosza on The Bitter Pill (21 Soho)
Musical review: Into The Woods at Bridge Theatre
Looking forward to … January 2026
Panto review: Cinderella (Richmond Theatre)
My review of the year – 60 picks from across theatreland!
Panto review: Cinderella (The Questors)
Book review: Queers in History
Digital review: Singing Into The Dark
Book review: The Mother-Daughter Relationship Makeover: Four Steps To Bring Back The Love
Southwark Playhouse 2025 round-up
Binge Fringe Festival: How to Live Like a Millionaire When You’re a Million Short
Binge Fringe Festival: Marilyn Monroe “Unknown Letters”
Theatre review: The Magic Flute (The Place)
Book review: Alan Hovhaness: Unveiling One of the Great Composers of the 20th Century
Binge Fringe Festival: John Huston – The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
Film review: Don’t Trip
Theatre review: Oh Mary! (Trafalgar Theatre)
Theatre review: What’s The Trade? (White Bear Theatre)
Film review: Réservée
Film review: Broadway, Bars, and Fortune
Theatre review: Indian Ink (Hampstead Theatre)
Theatre review: The Railway Children (Theatre at the Tabard)
Changes in London’s theatre landscape
Theatre review: Ms Holmes and Ms Watson – Apt. 2B
Film review: 31 Candles
Theatre review: The Lost Library of Leake Street (The Glitch)
Film review: Teddy and the Mountain
Panto preview: Rapunzel at Tower Theatre
Panto review: Beauty and the Beast: A Horny Love Story
Theatre review: Fallen Angels (Menier Chocolate Factory)
Theatre review: Ballet Shoes (National Theatre)
Review: The Great Christmas Feast (The Lost Estate)
Digital review: Down For The Count (Green Room 42)
Show preview: Beautiful Little Fool
Theatre review: LA Baby (The Glitch)
Digital review: Overshare by Eleanor Hill
Theatre review: Porn Play (Royal Court Upstairs)
Show preview: The Fit Prince …
An Evening With Nicola Benedetti (Royal Albert Hall)
Show preview: My Life With Kenneth Williams
Theatre review: Precipice (New Diorama)
Plays from the cheap seats: Punch
Theatre review: A Fairytale for Christmas (Dominion)
Theatre review: All My Sons (Wyndhams)
Christmas show round up: a festive forty
Theatre review: Pressure 3 (Playhouse East)
Show preview: One Woman and Her Bitch
Binge Fringe Festival: Adopted by Appalachians
Josh Jones: I Haven’t Won The Lottery … (Leicester Square Theatre)
Days of the Dead: One Man Exorcism (online)
Show preview: Alice in Wonderland (Theatre Peckham)
Theatre review: Drifting (Southwark Playhouse)
Book review: Pan’s People – The Lee Ward Story
Show preview: Potted Panto
Films in Concert: Star Wars – The Force Awakens (Royal Albert Hall)
Binge Fringe Festival: Black Don’t Crack / The Advocate (online)
Days of the Dead: Spooky Town (online)
Theatre review: Possum Trot (Theatre at the Tabard)
Theatre review: The Gardening Club (New Wimbledon Theatre)
Theatre review: After Sunday (Bush Theatre)
Book review: Straight White Men Can’t Dance
Theatre review: Facility 111
Show preview: Perfect Show For Rachel
Show preview: Private View (Soho Upstairs)
Film review: Testimony
Voila! Festival preview: When Judas Lost His Boots … and Other Words
Voila! Festival review: I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Too
Voila! Festival review: Comfort
Voila! Festival preview: The Extraordinary Life of a Rat Racer
Film review: Humans In The Loop
Film review: Reawakening
Dance review: Toussaint to Move – FREE
Theatre review: Fatherland (Hampstead Downstairs)
Voila! Festival preview: Invisible Border
Days of the Dead: The Witching Hour (online)
Voila! Festival preview: La Bella Bimba
Theatre review: Gwenda’s Garage (Southwark Playhouse)
Voila! Festival preview: Le Grand Soir
Voila! Festival review: Dick Fiddler is Dead
Binge Fringe Festival: Jane and the Magic Album (online)
Voila! Festival preview: Letters to Joan
Theatre review: Julius Caesar (Omnibus)
Theatre review: Emilia (Questors)
Voila! Festival – Waiting for Julieta
Voila! Festival preview: 333
Theatre review: Period Parrrty (Soho Upstairs)
Voila! Festival preview: RATKING
Voila! Festival preview: I [Redacted] You
Days of the Dead: One Man Poe (online)
Theatre review: Midsomer Murders – The Killings At Badger’s Drift (Richmond Theatre)
London amateur theatre focus: Bromley Players
Binge Fringe Festival: Mafia Anonymous – The Women Speak (online)
Theatre review: Crocodile Fever (Arcola)
Film review: The Marbles
Theatre review: The Night Before The Wedding Day (Theatro Technis)
Voila! Festival preview: The Sound of Absence
Voila! Festival preview: EAT
Theatre review: Kindling (Park Theatre)
Voila Festival preview: Cherry Sour
Show preview: Fatherland
Voila! Festival preview: Imprints
Show preview: A Christmas Carol (Sheffield)
Voila! Festival preview: I have a flight to Frankfurt at half past ten
Voila! Festival preview: The Absence of Aunt Greta
Theatre review: Bloody Mary and the Nine Day Queen (Union Theatre)
Voila! Festival preview: Babel Beast
Voila! Festival preview: CAMINO
Show preview: Kindling (Park Theatre)
Voila! Festival preview: One Hundred Percent
Voila! Festival preview: Working Class Hero
Voila! Festival preview: Woo Woolf
Theatre review: Ragdoll (Jermyn Street Theatre)
Voila! Festival preview: Daughters of Spring
Show preview: I Dream of Theresa May
Theatre review: Hindle Wakes (Questors)
Voila! Festival preview: KILL YOUR FATHER
Voila! Festival preview: Women Over 30 Don’t Matter
Theatre showcase: India Blog (Bush Theatre)
Voila! Festival preview: Be Gay, For God’s Sake
Film review: Anxious (London Breeze Film Festival)
Theatre review: Getting Through It by Michael Rosen (Old Vic)
Voila Festival preview: God is Dead
Voila! Festival preview: The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin
Film review: Terry’s GI Dad (London Breeze Film Festival)
Voila! Festival preview: Codachrome
Voila! Festival preview: Hidden Voices
Theatre review: Fanny (King’s Head)
Voila! Festival preview: Mendaki
Theatre review: MJ The Musical (Prince Edward)
Theatre review: The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence (Drayton Arms)
Lambeth Fringe preview: Stories From The End
Lambeth Fringe review: Goodbye, Earl!
Show preview: Mr Jones
Show preview: Free
London amateur theatre focus: The Questors (Alex Marker)
London amateur theatre focus: Tower Theatre Company (Amanda Waggott)
Show preview: Boogie on the Bones (Omnibus)
Theatre review: Death on the Nile (Richmond Theatre)
Show preview: The Ecstasy of Hedy Lamarr
Film review: Happy As Larry (London Breeze Film Festival)
Theatre review: Lifers (Southwark Playhouse)
40 facts about Les Miserables
Theatre review: Four Sisters (Barons Court)
Book review: Broadway Nation
Film review: The Long Quiet (London Breeze Film Festival)
Review: The Saturday Superstore Cabaret
Book review: Now and Then by Leigh Lawson
Theatre review: Uprooted (New Diorama)
Reflections on being a theatre critic, 7 years on
Lambeth Fringe preview: Hysteria
Theatre review: Lee (Park Theatre)
Theatre review: The Importance of Being Earnest (Noel Coward)
Lambeth Fringe preview: Overwhelm
Get Down Tonight: The KC and the Sunshine Band Musical (Charing Cross)
Theatre review: (the) Woman (Park Theatre)
Album review: Winchell The Musical
Death on the Nile: Poirot on Tour
Theatre review: The Billionaire Inside Your Head (Hampstead)
Show preview: Wondering Soul (Crazy Coqs)
Theatre review: Lacrima (Barbican)
Lambeth Fringe preview: An Evening With Nana Funk