Beetlejuice the Musical Review – screamingly good fun ★★★★

After a seven-year wait – Beetlejuice finally brings the West End alive Broadway’s smash hit musical Beetlejuice has finally crawled out of the Netherworld and onto the London stage, taking up residence at the Prince Edward Theatre for a limited run. This is the show audiences have been asking for, for years, only recently taken over […]

End of the Rainbow Review starring Drag Race’s Jinkx Monsoon

Promotional poster for End of the Rainbow featuring a woman in a black dress with pearls holding a microphone against a black background, text reads End of the Rainbow and Jinkx Monsoon as Judy Garland.

Peter Quilter’s play End of the Rainbow premiered in Sydney in 2005 and went on to enjoy acclaimed runs in the West End and on Broadway. Set in London in 1968, End of the Rainbow tells the story of the final months of Judy Garland’s life, leading up to her death at the age of […]

Tamzin Outhwaite to star in Abigail’s Party London transfer

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. Theatre Royal Stratford East’s ★★★★★ production of Abigail’s Party transfers to the West End Mike Leigh’s ferocious black comedy of suburban life, social class, materialism and sexual tension […]

Abigail’s Party Review: Wyndham’s Theatre 2012 ★★★★

Abigail’s Party – you couldn’t feel more back in the 70’s if you wanted to! Even if you weren’t born then, this is exactly how you imagine it would be. With the awful leather sofas, thick woollen rug, fold-out table and of course the drinks cabinet! Transferring to the West End after a 2-month sold-out […]

Megan Hilty Review – Broadway royalty comes to London ★★★★★

Megan Hilty in Concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane: ‘Let me be your star’ she sang and she deserves them all. Broadway sensation and television star Megan Hilty returned to the London stage for the first time since 2018 with two very special solo concerts at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane – and she did […]

Nine Sixteenths: Janet Jackson Reclaimed | Brixton House

Vibrant concert scene: a vocalist in purple outfit sings into a microphone, one knee raised, bathed in orange stage lights.

Nine Sixteenths at Brixton House Review: A Bold Reckoning with the Janet Jackson Super Bowl Scandal Nine Sixteenths, the bold multimedia theatre piece created by Paula Varjack about Janet Jackson‘s 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, returns to Brixton House for a second London run and is an incredibly important step in the right direction for […]

1536 REVIEW (Ambassadors Theatre) ★★★★★

Split poster: teal left panel with 'REVIEW', large '1536' and five stars for Ambassadors Theatre; right panel shows two women in period dress beside a dead tree at sunset.

1536 – “one of the top three plays I have ever seen” Ava Pickett’s debut play, 1536, went down a storm when it opened at the Almeida Theatre and soon after announced its West End transfer. I can’t remember the last time there was a theatre show on that so many people told me I […]

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind Review (Soho Place) ★★★★

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind @sohoplace – “uplifting, important and unlike anything else on stage right now” The Royal Shakespeare Company‘s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is based on the true story and memoir of William Kamkwamba, a bright and curious 13-year-old boy living with his family in an African farming village. From […]

The Last Man Review, Southwark Playhouse ★

Poster for 'The Last Man' musical featuring a person in a green and brown jacket holding a teddy bear, standing by a metal door on the left; bold orange title on the right.

The cult Korean rock musical The Last Man has been a huge hit across Asia. Newly reimagined for English-speaking audiences, it has now landed in London at Southwark Playhouse, inviting us deep into a bunker for an intimate experience of one person’s struggle to hold on to hope, connection and humanity. The apocalypse is something […]

I’m Not Being Funny Review (Bush Theatre) ★★★

Woman sings into a microphone on a red-curtain backdrop in a cozy room with bookshelves, while a man sits on the floor nearby.

It is estimated that more than 3 million people are currently living with cancer in the UK, a figure expected to rise to 4 million by 2030 and 5.3 million by 2040. There has been a noticeable increase in cases among those aged under 30, prompting a reassessment of who a “typical” patient is and […]