Review of Park Theatre's The End of the Night - Ben Brown's script is intense and gripping
Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Towards the end of Hitler's reign, one of the most powerful chesspieces of the oppressive and barbaric Nazi war machine...
Theatre Bee Reviews
Reflections on the latest plays and musicals at the West End, Off West End and fringe.
Theatre Bee
- Jul 15
- 5 min
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...
Theatre Bee
- Jul 10
- 4 min
Review of Oklahoma! at The Young Vic - Reinvention ruins original for uninitiated
Rated 🍯🍯 It is impossible to enjoy the Young Vic’s revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Oklahoma! if one has not been exposed...
Theatre Bee
- Jul 1
- 2 min
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...
Theatre Bee
- Jul 1
- 3 min
Review of Jitney at The Old Vic - Strikingly evocative, absolutely unmissable
Irresistibly rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯 August Wilson’s Jitney at The Old Vic, masterfully directed by Tinuke Craig, is a bold and beautifully...
Theatre Bee
- Jun 26
- 7 min
Review of That Is Not Who I Am - Royal Court shenanigans
Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Before you read, the bee recommends that if you haven't watched the show yet but plan to, then stop right here! Go in with...
Theatre Bee
- Jun 25
- 4 min
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...
Theatre Bee
- Jun 23
- 5 min
Review - A Doll’s House Part 2 - Lacks novelty and depth
Rated 🍯🍯 If the bee had to pick its least favourite play among everything it has ever watched in London, sorry folks, but this one...
Theatre Bee
- Jun 18
- 7 min
Review - 13 by Mike Bartlett - Thought-provoking despite some pointless elements
Rated 🍯🍯🍯 Say we are in the early twentieth century, and you spot a ten-year old Hitler playing in your yard. You have the gift of...
Theatre Bee
- Jun 12
- 7 min
Review - The Gunpowder Plot - Fails to rouse despite high production value
Rated 🍯🍯🍯 After the relentless hounding of Catholics in 16th century England under Elizabeth I who reigned for 45 years... ...her...
Theatre Bee
- Jun 11
- 9 min
Review - To Kill A Mockingbird - Reflections on justice vs the right thing
1 June 2022. Gielgud Theatre. Rating: 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯 Spoiler warning. This piece is not so much a review of the production (which is...
Theatre Bee
- Jun 2
- 4 min
Review - 2:22 A Ghost Story - Spooky enough but I can't stop scratching my head
Rated 🍯🍯🍯 The bee went to 2:22 A Ghost Story with its lovely human friend who noticed we were sitting in the same row as the lovely...
Theatre Bee
- Jun 2
- 5 min
Review of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Playhouse Theatre - Reflections
Rated 🍯🍯🍯 The bee spent many days trying to piece together what felt like a disjointed sequence of scenes and songs in this musical...
Theatre Bee
- May 28
- 7 min
Review - House of Shades - Absolutely hair-raising
Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 This is not so much a review as a reflection about the big questions explored in this play. Spoilers abound. The...
Theatre Bee
- May 27
- 6 min
Review - The Father and the Assassin - Eerily topical but lacks ambition
Rated 🍯🍯🍯 Growing up in India in the 90s, I was conditioned to see Mahatma Gandhi as a venerated saint, the great freedom fighter who...
Theatre Bee
- May 19
- 2 min
Review - Back to the Future - Olivier award well-deserved
Irresistibly rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯 An absolutely electrifying show. The Bee was full of child-like wonder at how immersive it was. As you can...
Theatre Bee
- May 19
- 3 min
Review - My Fair Lady - A feel-good but forgettable musical
Rated 🍯🍯🍯 Watching a musical from the last row of a theatre as large as the London Coliseum (meant for the opera, really, and too big...
Theatre Bee
- May 19
- 2 min
Review - Six - Garish and lacks substance
Rated 🍯🍯🍯 A rather odd show, in Theatre Bee’s humble opinion. The costumes are garish, outlandish, over the top, even comical, not to...
Theatre Bee
- May 18
- 3 min
Review - Straight Line Crazy - Ralph Fiennes kept me hooked
Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯 The Bee always wanted to go and watch Ralph Fiennes on stage and would have gone sooner if it had been able to get...
Theatre Bee
- May 17
- 3 min
Review - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Pure magic on stage!
Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯 This was of the most memorable and joyous theatre experiences the Bee has ever had! (Creatives spoiler). Flawless...