Reviews

On December 23rd, 2022

Review: English National Ballet’s Nutcracker is enchanting and a must-watch this holiday season

London Coliseum – Now on until 7 January 2023   The English National Ballet’s Nutcracker is truly enchanting. This year’s show is the ENB’s 10th of Wayne Eagling’s production. Over ...

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...