Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Jesus Christ Superstar, London Palladium review - febrile classic captures the burning energy of the original
Rachel Halliburton
Wed, 07/08/2026 - 11:53
Eur…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:10AM[SHARE]Friday, July 3, 2026
Springwood, Hampstead Theatre review - international politics revealed as a gentle comedy of manners
Rachel Halliburton
Fri, 07/03/2026 - 07:24
Transatlanti…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 28, 2026
Cyrano de Bergerac, Noël Coward Theatre review - smouldering sadness beneath the verbal fireworks
Rachel Halliburton
Mon, 06/29/2026 - 14:08
Language is en…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2026
Venus & Adonis, Barbican Pit review - wittily alternative expression of love's highs and lows
Rachel Halliburton
Thu, 06/25/2026 - 06:49
The aesthetic i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare's Globe - conceptually fascinating production leaves a bitter taste
Rachel Halliburton
Tue, 06/23/2026 - 12:28
Pippa Nix…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Slaughterhouse Five, Southwark Playhouse review - engagingly slick account of Vonnegut's eccentric vision
Rachel Halliburton
Tue, 06/09/2026 - 09:10
A versa…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2026
War Horse, National Theatre review - this tour de force is going to be a hit all over again
Rachel Halliburton
Wed, 06/03/2026 - 13:27
The OIivier is exploi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:27AM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2026
Care, Young Vic review - profoundly sobering and strangely uplifting
Rachel Halliburton
Fri, 05/29/2026 - 10:10
Alexander Zeldin's play is a deeply moving m…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Mother Courage and Her Children, Shakespeare's Globe review - a post-apocalyptic vision of a world corrupted by violence and greed
Rachel Halliburton
Wed, 05/20/202…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:06AM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2026
Sherlock Holmes, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre review - gleefully madcap and unashamedly cerebral
Rachel Halliburton
Sat, 05/16/2026 - 11:44
Joshua James p…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:05PM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2026
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's Globe review - a riot of crowd-pleasing absurdity
Rachel Halliburton
Fri, 05/01/2026 - 11:25
★★★★ A M…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2026
In the Print, King's Head Theatre - a moment that changed the newspaper industry for ever
Rachel Halliburton
Wed, 04/22/2026 - 09:58
★★★ IN THE …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 4, 2025
Åukasz Twarkowski's production dazzles without illuminating
It's truly thrilling to see the Barbican embracing big concept long-form theatre again, seeking out productions that are as con…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:06AM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2025
James Graham's play transfixes the audience at every stage
For the first part of Punch it feels as if you're riding a roller coaster, watching the world speed and loop past as you see it fro…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:02AM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2025
A visually virtuoso work with the feel of a gripping French TV drama
So often the focus " in the coverage of a royal wedding " is the story of the woman wearing the bridal dress. While every…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 24, 2025
The actors skilfully evoke the claustrophobia of family members trying to fake togetherness
The Gathered Leaves is set on the tectonic plates of a middle-class family reunion, in which three…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2025
Emma Pallant and Katherine Pearce are formidable opponents to Falstaff's buffoonery
Shakespeare's Prince Hal may have rejected Sir John Falstaff as a symbol of his misspent youth, but the re…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2025
This transfer from Regent's Park Open Air Theatre sustains its magic
It's always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whethe…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 31, 2025
Story of self-discovery through playing the piano resounds in Anoushka Lucas's solo show
This charmingly eloquent semi-autobiographical show " which first played at the Bush Theatre in 2022…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2025
Ince's fidelity to the language allows every nuance to be exposed
A society ruled by hysteria. Lurid lies that carry more currency than reality. There's no shortage of reasons that Arthur Mi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 15, 2025
This wild, intelligent play is a tour de force till the doom-laden finale
Ava Pickett's award-winning début play, 1536, is a foul-mouthed, furious, frenetically funny ride through the lives…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:02AM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2025
Sean Holmes' Western-style production brings a flamboyant start to the Globe's summer season
Holsters, Stetsons and bluegrass music bring a distinctive flavour to this Wild West riff on Rome…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:32AM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2025
The production gets stronger in the second half as the shadows of tragedy begin to loom
In 2012, an eight-hour long version of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby arrived in London a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:42PM[SHARE]Friday, March 14, 2025
KT Tunstall's new score brings bite and momentum to a high octane evening
Before there was Barbie: The Movie, before there was Legally Blonde, there was Clueless, the Valley Girl movie that …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:18AM[SHARE]Friday, February 28, 2025
Missed opportunity to create a rich drama from this intriguing historical encounter
Why is it so hard to write a decent play about Bach? Maybe, in part, because there are no words that can e…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:24AM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2025
Bush's writing is as fresh as a sea breeze and as lyrical as birdsong
"Who'd be a woman?... Who in their right mind would choose all that?" The question comes towards the end of a conversat…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2025
Diamond-sharp banter and an endorphin fizz make this one of the best parties in town
Over the last few months, celebrity-driven West End productions have suffered some inglorious crashes - n…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:32AM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2025
The script turns dry-as-dust diplomatic detail into nothing less than an adrenaline sport
It took a while for journalists to identify the chain-smoking, Machiavellian figure who was a perman…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:12AM[SHARE]Friday, December 20, 2024
This latest incarnation of the show is a wild, spinning ride through different forms of reality
This feels like the theatrical equivalent of being in a centrifuge " a wild, spinning ride thr…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2024
This psychedelic mashup conveys a sci-fi-style alternate reality
Hermia is a headbutting punk with a tartan fetish, Oberon looks like Adam Ant and Lysander appears to have stumbled out of a …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 30, 2024
Oscar Wilde speaks just as strongly to the 21st century as he did to his own
If Harold Pinter's work represents, as he slyly joked, the weasel under the cocktail cabinet, then Oscar Wilde…
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