REVIEW: THE BOOK OF MORMON (Prince of Wales Theatre, 2026)
SIGN UP NOW FOR NEWS, COMPETITIONS & DISCOUNT TICKETS Join the West End Wilma mailing list! SIGN UP Loading… SIGN UP Loading… Welcome! You are now subscribed. When The Book of Mormon opened in London’s West End in 2013, it certainly got people talking. Written by Robert Lopez (co-creator of Avenue Q) alongside Trey Parker […]
Sea Witch at Theatre Royal Drury Lane – Review (March 2026)
SIGN UP NOW FOR NEWS, COMPETITIONS & DISCOUNT TICKETS Join the West End Wilma mailing list! Email Name Nearest City – SIGN UP Loading… Welcome! You are now subscribed. New musical Sea Witch makes a splash in the West End – but despite its brilliance, the story can’t quite be saved from drowning 2026 is […]
Cynthia Erivo in DRACULA “overly ambitious” – Theatre Review
Wicked Movie Star Cynthia Erivo plays 23 characters in an uncomfortable and overly ambitious one-actor, one-act adaption of Bram Stoker’s Dracula Sydney Theatre Company’s acclaimed production of Dracula, adapted and directed by visionary theatre-maker Kip Williams, has arrived at London’s Noël Coward Theatre. At its centre is one of the most celebrated performers of modern […]
REVIEW: C.S. Lewis story Shadowlands brings joy to the stage
Hugh Bonneville plays childrens author C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands, a funny and thought provoking play which is a joy to watch Originally produced by Chichester Festival Theatre in 2019, William Nicholson’s 1989 play SHADOWLANDS (adapted from his own original BAFTA Award-winning TV Movie) directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, is now open and I went along to […]
REVIEW: MAN AND BOY at National Theatre (Dorfman) ★★★★
Crooked corruption in the corporate world and the razzle dazzle game that the big dogs play in order to win Terence Rattigan’s 1963 play Man and Boy tells the story of ruthless businessman Gregor Antonescu, who turns up at the New York apartment of his estranged son, Basil, just as news breaks of a major […]
REVIEW: BALLAD LINES (Southwark Playhouse, Elephant) ★★★★
Centuries of song uncover family blood lines, through folk ballads, in this foot-stomping new musical Ballad Lines (originally titled A Mother’s Song) began life in 2018, written by Finn Anderson and Tania Azevedo. Eight years on, the musical is making its London premiere at Southwark Playhouse Elephant. This female-led new musical stars Frances McNamee and […]
REVIEW: AMERICAN PSYCHO (Almeida Theatre) ★★★★
American Psycho – an entertaining satire of capitalism, culminating in a beautiful bloodbath American Psycho first hit cinema screens at the turn of the millennium, starring Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman: a wealthy Wall Street investment banker whose obsession with status, perfection and self-image spirals into something far darker. Beneath the designer suits and pristine […]
REVIEW: BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOL (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★★
The World Premiere of Beautiful Little Fool shows the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, wasn’t quite the party his books alluded to. Telling the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, through the eyes of their daughter Scottie, the world premiere musical Beautiful Little Fool is now playing at London’s Southwark Playhouse. The […]
REVIEW: THE LION KING (Lyceum Theatre) ★★★
Does The Lion King still sit proudly at the top of Pride Rock or has it gone to the Elephant’s Graveyard? Written by Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi and based on the 1994 Disney film, The Lion King stage musical premiered in London’s West End at the Lyceum Theatre in 1999 – more than twenty-five […]
REVIEW: THE OLIVE BOY – Southwark Playhouse ★★★ January 2026
The Olive Boy explores the uneasy space between adolescence, grief and emotional immaturity The phrase “boys will be boys” often gets used to excuse behaviour, rather than examine it. The Olive Boy explores that uneasy space between adolescence, grief and emotional immaturity. First staged at the Hope Theatre in 2021, The Olive Boy has since […]