Reviews

On December 19th, 2022

Review: Mother Goose, Hackney Empire – packed with puns and full of contagious energy

Hackney Empire-Now on until 31 Dec   Mother Goose – who, in fact, isn’t a goose, but whose best friend, Priscilla (Ruth Lynch), happens to be…a goose! Yes, it’s a little bit confusing...

On December 16th, 2022

Review: My Neighbour Totoro, Barbican Theatre-Magical, endearing, exciting

Barbican Theatre – Now on until 21st January 2023   Magical, endearing, exciting: Barbican Theatre opens the long-awaited adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki’s 1988 film, My Neighbour Totoro. Th...

On December 15th, 2022

Review: Broken Spectre-Mosse’s most ambitious exhibition about environmental crimes in the Brazilian Amazon is a brutal wake-up call

180 The Strand – Extended until 30 Dec   ‘My film examines an intergenerational destruction; a legacy passed on from grandparents to grandchildren’ says Mosse. ‘We have one generation...

On December 14th, 2022

Review: Kerry Jackson, National Theatre – fun but far-fetched

Dorfman Theatre – on until 28 Jan 23   Kerry Jackson, written by April de Angelis and directed by Indhu Rubasingham, is a wonderfully entertaining new play which despite its dark themes (a...

On December 9th, 2022

Review: The Snowman-fills and breaks your heart at the same time, enchanting till the very end-Sadler’s Wells until 31 Dec

Since 1997, Sadler’s Wells has presented The Snowman every December at the Peacock Theatre and what a smashing Christmas show it is! Just like the book and the film, there are no words, apart fr...

On December 7th, 2022

Review: Othello, National Theatre-Clint Dyer plays out Othello like an exposed wound

Lyttleton Theatre-Now on until 21 Jan 23   Othello at the National, directed by Clint Dyer (who is the first ever black director of Othello), plays out like an exposed wound – raw and painf...

On November 29th, 2022

Review: The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! – Four actors tell the tragic story in Jermyn Street Theatre’s playful adaptation-on until 17 Dec

Running until 17th December, writer John Nicholson’s theatre adaptation of ‘The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary’ mischievously reinvents Gustave Flaubert’s novel about the tragically frustrat...

On November 24th, 2022

Klimt: The Immersive Experience – step into the world of the Austrian genius Gustav Klimt-Now on until 27 Nov at The Boiler House

Tucked away in former warehouse, the Boiler House, just off Brick Lane, is popular Austrian modernist painter Gustav Klimt’s life story and art. Organized by Exhibition Hub Entertainment and global ...