Reviews & News

Date: 25/02/26 Stars: 4 A bump to the head shouldn’t unravel a life, and yet… here we are. Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind begins with Susan lying in her garden, disoriented, and from that moment on nothing feels entirely sure – reality and fantasy sit side by side, sometimes politely separated, sometimes bleeding into one… Read more

Date: 19/02/26 Stars: 4 Twenty years is a long time to live with a question mark. Little Sister opens with a disappearance that never left anyone alone and then calmly places a bloodied woman on the family doorstep, simply asking the question – what if she’s back? The story, as all good folklore seems to… Read more

Date: 11/02/26 Stars: 5 MILES. walks in with one of the biggest names in music hanging over it, and it would’ve been very easy for the show to turn into a kind of respectful tribute. A few famous tracks, a few facts, a sense that you’re watching something fairly interesting… But that isn’t what this… Read more

Date: 10/02/26 Stars: 4 The Undying sounds, on paper, like it might be a big supernatural concept piece. A pill. Immortality. The temptation to cheat death. The kind of premise that could easily tip into something larger-than-life or overdone. But the play is much more interested in something smaller and sadder than that. The Undying… Read more

Date: 27/01/26 Stars: 3 Mrs President is an odd, thoughtful, sometimes frustrating piece of theatre. It’s not interested in walking you through Mary Lincoln’s life, or even particularly in explaining it. Instead, it drops you into the aftermath, when everything has already gone wrong, and asks a question: who do you become when history has… Read more

Date: 26th January 2026 Stars: 2 There’s something genuinely admirable about Cable Street. It’s trying to turn a moment of collective courage into a piece of musical theatre, and that’s not an easy thing to do without slipping into either sentimentality or sloganeering. When it first appeared at Southwark Playhouse, its roughness felt forgivable, even… Read more

Date: 11/01/2026 Stars: 5 The funny thing about Kenrex is that it doesn’t feel like a one-person play when you’re watching it – that’s the first thing that really sticks out. Jack Holden manages to fill the stage with people, and every character (and there are a fair few of them) has their own voice,… Read more

Date: 02/01/26 Stars: 4 Oh, Mary! doesn’t hang around! It starts loud, strange and already slightly unhinged, and it keeps that energy right through to the end. And it’s wise to remember that this isn’t a respectful retelling of history by any means, or even a particularly interested one – it takes Mary Todd Lincoln,… Read more

Date: 16th December 2025 Stars: 3 Top Hat at the Southbank Centre is generous, busy, and very good at entertaining an audience. It looks polished, it sounds great, and it keeps moving, which turns out to be exactly what the show needs – there’s no sense of it trying to reframe itself or add layers… Read more

Date: 11/12/25 Stars: 4 Evita Too is exactly the kind of theatrical oddity that only Sh!t Theatre could make: part political excavation, part parody of pop-culture mythmaking, part musical, and part fever dream about what happens when history simply shrugs and forgets a woman who once ran a country. In the Purcell Room, the usually… Read more