West End Theatre News and Reviews

19 Sep

News

STARLIGHT EXPRESS returns to London in 2024

By Emmie Newitt Tuesday, September 19 2023, 10:10

Andrew Lloyd Webber's iconic musical is heading back to London next summer!

Starlight Express artwork.

MyAnna Buring in ANTHROPOLOGY at Hampstead Theatre. Photo credit The Other Richard

19 Sep

Reviews

Review: ANTHROPOLOGY at Hampstead Theatre

By Stuart King Tuesday, September 19 2023, 10:07

The life of a Silicon Valley software engineer Merril (MyAnna Buring) implodes when her younger sister Angie (Dakota Blue Richards) vanishes. A year passes during which police make little headway in the case, so Merril begins to trawl through the online digital footprint her sister has left behind and creates an AI algorithm from the data — but will the result be a familiar (albeit computer generated) companion, or open a Pandora’s Box of other information?

MyAnna Buring in ANTHROPOLOGY at Hampstead Theatre. Photo credit The Other Richard.

The cast of THE LITTLE BIG THINGS at Soho Place. Photo by Pamela Raith

15 Sep

Reviews

Review: THE LITTLE BIG THINGS at @sohoplace

By Stuart King Friday, September 15 2023, 08:17

When the third son in a family of vibrant and committed rugby fans succumbs to a swimming accident whilst on holiday with his brothers in Portugal, the world changes overnight — for everyone. THE LITTLE BIG THINGS is a zingingly fresh story which manages to tick all the right boxes as it combines comedy with a soupçon of schmaltz, but mercifully manages to avoid musical theatre cliché and cynicism.

The cast of THE LITTLE BIG THINGS at Soho Place. Photo by Pamela Raith The cast of THE LITTLE BIG THINGS at Soho Place. Photo by Pamela Raith.

14 Sep

Reviews

Review: PRIVATE LIVES at Ambassadors Theatre

By Stuart King Thursday, September 14 2023, 16:23

Noel Coward’s perennial comedy of warring coupledom has been dusted-off for yet another outing in the West End, and it has aged surprisingly well — or perhaps this reviewer has simply begun to feel an alarming sense of nostalgia for the plays which were considered tired old warhorses in his youth!

Patricia Hodge and Nigel Havers in Private Lives at the Ambassadors Theatre