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Review of We Didn't Come to Hell for the Croissants at Riverside Studios - Delightfully subversive

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 When the bee stumbled upon ‘We didn’t come to hell for the croissants’, a wonderful one-woman play at Riverside Studios, it...

Review of The Canterville Ghost at Southwark Playhouse - Spooktacularly funny

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 What's not to love about a play within a play within a play? The charming cast of the latest Southwark Playhouse production...

Review of Eureka Day at The Old Vic - Let's all take a minute, step back and breathe before judging

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 What just happened?! Depending on how synced up you are with the whole liberal / woke / anti-woke / progressive /...

Cabaret Extends to January 2023. That's 200 more chances to try the ticket lottery

Giving us another 200 odd shows to enjoy for those who can afford it (or another 200 chances to enter the Cabaret theatre ticket lottery...

Review of Julius Caesar at Shakespeare's Globe - A fun experiment with gender

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 The play opens with Brutus inspecting the statue of Caesar — the only thing to adorn the stage other than a purple carpet...

Review of Britannicus at Lyric Hammersmith - An appealing modern take on a beloved classic

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 It is easy to go wrong with Jean Racine’s Britannicus. First, it is hard to design a set that’s redolent of ancient Rome, a...

Review of The Glass Menagerie: A little too gentle to be evocative

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 Set in St. Louis in 1937, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is called a memory play, ostensibly because all its action...