Category: West End

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Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell delight in raucous revival of Much Ado About Nothing – review

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Jamie Lloyd’s revival of The Tempest (starring Sigourney Weaver) has only just closed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, and in its place we have his take on another Shakespeare: this time we have a very different play, the lighthearted comedy Much Ado About Nothing. Our guest stars this time around are Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwood. From the moment we entered the theatre we knew we were in for an experience – this is a raucous affair even before the show begins, with dance music blaring and a light…

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Articles Culture News Oliver Originals Theatre West End

New West End production of Oliver! is an absolute triumph – review

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Where to begin with a show like this? Oliver! is one of the most famous musicals ever written. Charles Dickens’ original story gave us countless memorable characters, from the titular Oliver Twist through to the likes of The Artful Dodger and Fagin, while Lionel Bart’s musical brought the story to the stage with songs such as Food, Glorious Food, I’d Do Anything and Oom-Pah-Pah which are now staples of musical theatre. Many of us will have grown up watching the 1968 film, although it’s been quite some time since the…

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Articles Clueless Culture KT Tunstall LGBTQ+ Theatre Music Musical Theatre News Originals West End

“If you can get away with doing this then I’m in!” – KT Tunstall on writing the songs for Clueless the Musical

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It’s 2025, which means classic ‘90s movie Clueless is now 30 years old (ugh, as if). If you’re a fan of the film – and/or a musical theatre aficionado – you may have clocked that a new stage adaptation, Clueless, The Musical, is about to open on London’s West End at the Trafalgar Theatre. We’ve already had a bit of a preview: singer/songwriter KT Tunstall, who has written the music for the show, treated us to a few songs at a private gig at London’s Ham Yard Hotel in the…

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Articles Culture Layton Williams LGBTQ+ Theatre News Originals Theatre Titanic Titanique West End

There’s camp and then there’s Titanique, London’s gayest new show – review

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If you thought panto season was over, you’d be wrong. There’s camp, and then there’s the ridiculously flamboyant off-Broadway smash hit Titanique, which has sailed into London for 2025, docking at The Criterion Theatre this week. It’s as if the show’s writers collectively agreed “we’re going to give the gays everything they want” – which of course we’re totally on board with. The concept itself is ludicrous in its own right: this is absolutely not a documentary-style retelling of the Titanic disaster. Instead, it’s a pastiche of the film, told…

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Barcelona is a major West End debut for Lily Collins and Alvaro Morte but does it deliver? – review

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There’s a lot of hype surrounding Barcelona and it’s easy to see why. Bringing together two well-known TV stars in Lily Collins (the titular Emily in hit series Emily in Paris) and Alvaro Morte (The Professor in Money Heist) in a major West End theatre, and with award-winning director Lynette Linton at the helm, expectations are understandably very high. So how does this play, from writer Bess Wohl, stack up? It starts promisingly – our pair make quite an entrance, stumbling into an apartment after a boozy night out, laughing, snogging…

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Articles Culture Jodie Whittaker News Originals Theatre West End

Jodie Whittaker stars in slightly muddled update of The Duchess (of Malfi) – review

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We didn’t know much about The Duchess (of Malfi) before going to check it out at the Trafalgar Theatre, other than this production, written and directed by Zinnie Harris, is an update of John Webster’s renowned Jacobean revenge tragedy from the early 17th century. This version is set in a more modern time – it’s not too clear exactly when, but a fairly recent past. It all starts reasonably promisingly – sure, there might be a little too much exposition, with characters setting out who they are and what their…

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Oedipus re-imagined as tense political thriller starring Lesley Manville and Mark Strong – review

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Writer and director Robert Icke returns to the West End with Oedipus – a well-known Greek tragedy, of course, but one that has been re-imagined as a tense, modern political thriller. We meet our titular protagonist (played by Mark Strong) on election night while he is awaiting the election results at campaign HQ; he is joined by his wife Jocasta (Lesley Manville), his family and their staff, as they wait to find out whether Oedipus has been elected leader. A timer ticks ominously down towards zero in the background throughout…

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Adrien Brody Articles Culture News Originals Theatre West End

Adrien Brody is completely captivating in gripping new play The Fear of 13 – review

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Occasionally a new play will come along that absolutely grips us from the moment it starts and doesn’t let go until the curtain call. The Fear of 13, by Lindsey Ferrentino, is one such show – you may already be familiar with the story, as this production is based on the documentary film of the same name which was released a few years ago, but if not: it tells the incredible true story of Nick Yarris who, in 1982, at the age of 20, was wrongly convicted of rape and…

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Articles Ben Whishaw Culture Lucian Msamati News Originals Theatre West End

Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati shine in stunning revival of Waiting for Godot – review

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Waiting for Godot is one of those plays – the sort that you might have read in English lessons at school, the type that’s revered within theatrical circles as one of the true greats. Regarded as Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, a new revival has opened this week on London’s West End, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, directed by James Macdonald. Famously it’s a play in which nothing much happens: for two and a half hours we watch as our protagonists Vladimir (Ben Whishaw) and Estragon (Lucian Msamati) find ways…

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The Rocky Horror Show is a riotous night out – review

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This may come as a surprise, given the musical is now more than 50 years old, but we’ve never actually seen the Rocky Horror Show. As such, we didn’t quite know what to expect from this production, which has opened at London’s Dominion Theatre this week, and which will tour the UK through to summer 2025. Turns out it’s actually really good fun – this trip to the theatre was one of the most riotous nights out we’ve had in a while. We should caveat this by saying that the…

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