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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

Date: 6th December 2025 Stars: 5 Southwark Playhouse Elephant has been turned into a sort of broken fairground for Ride the Cyclone, the kind of place where the lights flicker just a little too long and the metal scaffolding looks like it’s survived one storm too many. It’s scrappy, deliberate, and instantly atmospheric. You walk Read more

Please note: this review was originally publised on West End Best Friend. Date: 24th November 2025 Stars: 5 There’s something magical about walking into Wilton’s Music Hall and knowing one hundred percent you’re about to be fooled. The Enigmatist, created and performed by David Kwong, is the kind of show that reminds you why people Read more

Date: 26th November 2025 Stars: 3 There’s a particular kind of theatre trip where you sit down, look at the title Murder at Midnight, and think you know exactly what’s coming. Sharp twists. Breathless tension. A sense that someone will start monologuing about motives. What you actually get here is something far stranger: a play Read more

Date: 10th November 2025 Stars: 3 The afterlife, as it turns out, isn’t harps and halos. It’s forms, folders, and a printer that only works when it feels like it. Helen Cunningham’s Curating, directed by Nikoletta Soumelidis, imagines the next world as an office – the kind with rules, red tape and very little divine Read more

Please note: this review was originally publised on West End Best Friend. Date: 24th October 2025 Stars: 4 At the Union Theatre, Bloody Mary and the Nine Day Queen takes a well-known piece of English history and gives it new life through music, emotion, and a surprisingly sharp sense of humour. It focuses on Mary Read more

Date: 16th October 2025 Stars: 4 History has a way of forgetting the wrong people. Felix Mendelssohn’s name is practically stitched into the fabric of classical music, but his sister Fanny’s? It’s been scribbled in the margins. She was every bit as gifted as her famous brother, but nineteenth-century Europe wasn’t exactly built for brilliant Read more