The theatre company Complicite are known for their dedication to long periods of research and wide reach of collaboration, to devise innovative, imaginative theatre and THE ENCOUNTER, Simon McBurney’s latest offering currently playing at the Barbican, is no exception.
West End Theatre News and Reviews
25 Feb
Reviews 
Review: THE ENCOUNTER at the Barbican Theatre
By Harriet Grenville Thursday, February 25 2016, 14:09
25 Feb
Reviews 
Review: Jeff Wayne's musical version of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS at the Dominion Theatre
By Davor Golub Thursday, February 25 2016, 13:18
Well SPRINGTIME FOR HITLER has finally met its match! I have sat through some duff shows at the Dominion Theatre but this one takes the cake. Anyone remember David Cassidy as an intergalactic warrior in TIME acting along with a 3-D hologram of Lord Olivier’s head? Well, the hologram is back. However this time it is Liam Neeson and we’ve progressed to a whole body hologram.
25 Feb
Reviews 
Review: NORMA at English National Opera
By Kit Benjamin Thursday, February 25 2016, 12:37
Norma, by Vincenzo Bellini, belongs to a school of opera known as Bel Canto which, to translate somewhat freely, could be said to mean “it’s all about the singing”. Some of the music can be a bit humdrum and the plots bizarre, but the pulses of the opera-loving public are set racing so frantically by the dazzling vocal firework displays that we are prepared to forgive almost anything. Luckily.
25 Feb
Reviews 
Review: MOTOWN at the Shaftesbury Theatre
By Hugh Wooldridge Thursday, February 25 2016, 11:26
While we here in Britain were listening to The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Cliff Richard and The Shadows, most of America was listening to the extraordinary output and music of Berry Gordy, the founder and owner of the (Tamla) Motown label.
18 Feb
Reviews 
Review: MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS at the Adelphi Theatre
By Phil Willmott Thursday, February 18 2016, 15:49
MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS, which is being promoted as a new British musical, has been adapted from a 2005 film of the same name which starred Judy Dench in the title role.
Mrs H was an upperclass lady who took it into her head to buy the dilapidated Windmill Theatre in London's Soho. When her hopes of a non-stop variety review failed to find an audience she hit upon the idea of parading topless show girls on her stage.
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