Theatre News and Reviews

10 new theatre shows to see in london in may 2025

The 10 best new London theatre openings in May 2025

By Emmie Newitt Thursday, May 1 2025, 14:44

May offers audiences a plethora of new shows to discover with over ten new openings happening across the city this month. We take a look at the ten we’re the most excited for making it one of the best times to head to the theatre.

10 new theatre shows to see in london in may 2025

Elizabeth Debicki (Mathilde), Ewan McGregor (Henry Solness) in My Master Builder at Wyndham's Theatre. photograph by Johan Persson

01 May

Reviews

Review: MY MASTER BUILDER at Wyndham’s Theatre

By Stuart King Thursday, May 1 2025, 09:49

American writer Lila Raicek utilises Ibsen’s old-man-besotted warhorse as the scaffold for this modernist marital recrimination play, but the end result — MY MASTER BUILDER — is very much a beast of its own, albeit that some of the dialogue wouldn’t appear out of place at an airport paperback concession.

Elizabeth Debicki (Mathilde), Ewan McGregor (Henry Solness) in My Master Builder at Wyndham's Theatre. photograph by Johan Persson.

01 May

News

Brendan Gleeson to make West End debut in THE WEIR

By Emmie Newitt Thursday, May 1 2025, 09:45

Conor McPherson will direct his Irish pub drama for the first time later this year starring Brendan Gleeson. The Weir will head to the West End from September, following a premiere in Dublin, which is planned for August.

the weir harold pinter theatre The Weir artwork starring Brendan Gleeson.

Clifford Samuel and Daniel Ward in Tambo & Bones (c) Jane Hobson

30 Apr

Reviews

Review: TAMBO AND BONES at Stratford East

By Stuart King Wednesday, April 30 2025, 21:07

What starts as a bizarrely incongruous combination of two black actors delivering a hobo pastiche in which one repeatedly begs for quarters, (think Waiting For Godot or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead overlayered with dust bowl/plantation motifs), morphs into a global rap tour as Tambo and Bones pursue the money and success central to the American Dream.

Clifford Samuel and Daniel Ward in Tambo & Bones (c) Jane Hobson