West End Theatre Reviews

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" As the Bennet sisters haplessly search for love in Jane Austen's ultimate romantic comedy, it is Mr Darcy who unwittingly finds his match

Following the continued success of BBC One's ratings-winning Strictly Come Dancing, Craig Revel Horwood's brand new show, Strictly Confidential will give theatre audiences the chance to get up close and personal with some of the stars of the show.

Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana was commissioned by the Royal Opera House to mark the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953.

Elyot and Amanda are glamorous, rich, reckless .

This gala performance, in aid of Help for Heroes, celebrates the UK's finest military musicians and the greatest West End shows.

Following the continued success of BBC One's ratings-winning Strictly Come Dancing, Craig Revel Horwood's brand new show, Strictly Confidential will give theatre audiences the chance to get up close and personal with some of the stars of the show.

Derren Brown returns to London’s West End with a brand new live show.

A pioneer of minimalist music, Steve Reich’s work has been a catalyst throughout De Keersmaeker’s career ever since she created Fase (1982), her debut as a choreographer.

What is the personal price of political success? The question lies at the heart of Giuseppe Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra.

Award-winning comedy The Ladykillers returns to London this summer at The Vaudeville Theatre. Gloriously adapted for the stage by Graham Linehan (Father Ted) and directed by Sean Foley (The Play What I Wrote), The Ladykillers is the classic, blackly comic tale of a sweet little old lady, alone in her house, pitted against a gang of criminal misfits who will stop at nothing to pull off their meticulously-planned heist. Featuring a stellar cast of some of the finest stage and screen comedy actors including Simon Day (The Fast Show), Ralf Little (The Royle Family), Olivier Award winners Con O’Neill and John Gordon Sinclair, Chris McCalphy, and Angela Thorne (To The Manor Born) as the sweetly innocent Mrs Wilberforce. Posing as amateur musicians, Professor Marcus and his gang rent rooms in the lopsided house of sweet but strict Mrs Wilberforce.

Following the continued success of BBC One's ratings-winning Strictly Come Dancing, Craig Revel Horwood's brand new show, Strictly Confidential will give theatre audiences the chance to get up close and personal with some of the stars of the show.

Lili Adler, the beautiful, fragile daughter of a wealthy German-Jewish refugee, meets Nick Lockridge, a handsome young stranger, and finds herself falling in love.

Michael Rosen’s award-winning book We’re Going On A Bear Hunt is brought vividly and noisily to the stage in director Sally Cookson’s fun-filled adaptation set to Benji Bower’s versatile lively score. Join our intrepid adventurers on their quest to find a bear; as they wade through the gigantic swishy swashy grass, the splishy splashy river and the thick oozy, squelchy mud! Expect catchy songs, interactive scenes and plenty of hands-on adventure – plus a few special surprises!

Swinging drum kits, flying ironing boards, dangling divas.

The West End just got hotter! This Spring, the stylish and charismatic Lee Mead (Wicked, Legally Blonde, BBC Series Winner of Any Dream Will Do), Matt Willis (Wicked, Flashdance, Footloose and BRIT award winning member of Busted), Glenn Carter (Jersey Boys, Jesus Christ Superstar, Whistle down the Wind), David Thaxton (Olivier Award winner for Passion, Les Miserables) and Stephen Rahman-Hughes (Bombay Dreams, West Side Story) are back and better than ever in the spectacular theatrical concert THE WEST END MEN. This spectacular theatrical concert from award-winning director Mitch Sebastian (The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas) features songs from the West End, Broadway and beyond in breath-taking theatrical style, backed by a full live band and choir. Joined by special guest star Kerry Ellis (Wicked, Oliver, We Will Rock You, Born Free Tour with Brian May) this intimate production, which runs for four weeks only at the Vaudeville Theatre, promises to take you on a journey to the very heart of the West End and its leading men.

Exploring the rivalry and mutual fascination between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I, Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off re-tells this murky tale of political and sexual intrigue with ferocious wit and innovation and examines Mary's legacy through the eyes of Corbie, a carrion crow who is her unseen attendant through life and death. Previously only seen in London for one week at the Donmar Warehouse in 1987, it will get its first full London season, 25 years after its Scottish premiere, directed by Olivier Award Winning La Bohème director Robin Norton-Hale at the King’s Head Theatre, Islington, from Wednesday 29 May - Saturday 22 June.

This gala performance, in aid of Help for Heroes, celebrates the UK's finest military musicians and the greatest West End shows.

Following the continued success of BBC One's ratings-winning Strictly Come Dancing, Craig Revel Horwood's brand new show, Strictly Confidential will give theatre audiences the chance to get up close and personal with some of the stars of the show.

Circa are quite simply one of the world's great contemporary circus companies.

Two unspoken themes run throughout Britten’s much-admired opera: the impossible passion that a troubled writer forms for a fellow hotel guest, and the cholera epidemic which the authorities are all too keen to hush up.

A pioneer of minimalist music, Steve Reich’s work has been a catalyst throughout De Keersmaeker’s career ever since she created Fase (1982), her debut as a choreographer.

Based on Peter Stephan Jungk’s novel and written by Philip Glass, one of the world’s most important composers, The Perfect American imagines the final years of Walt Disney’s life, including mythical imaginings of Abraham Lincoln and Andy Warhol.

'People don't really accept chickens, which is wrong, 'cos we invented the pecking order.' Following a sensational sell-out run at the Old Red Lion Theatre in 2012, extended to an unprecedented eight weeks, Happy New proudly transfers to Trafalgar Studio 2. The Australian outback.

The Menier Chocolate Factory is excited to announce this revival of Giles Havergal's Olivier-winning adaptation of Graham Greene's classic comic novel Travels With My Aunt. Christopher Luscombe, whose sterling stage comedy credits include the West End production of Spamalot and The History Boys at Bath's Theatre Royal, directs the uplifting and anarchic tale of retired bank manager Henry Pulling and his globetrotting adventures with his Aunt Augusta. From Paris to Istanbul to Paraguay, the unlikely pair journey together, discovering colourful characters and the possibilities that life conjures up in the most unusual of places.

The highly acclaimed Northern Broadsides brings Githa Sowerby’s classic Edwardian drama set in the north of England to the London stage under the direction of renowned theatre director Jonathan Miller. Set in 1912 and relocated to industrial Yorkshire , Rutherford & Son tells the story of iron-fisted John Rutherford as he battles the scheming rebellion of his eldest son and his daughter’s scandalous love-affair, while fighting to prevent the legacy of the family glassworks from shattering.

Following the continued success of BBC One's ratings-winning Strictly Come Dancing, Craig Revel Horwood's brand new show, Strictly Confidential will give theatre audiences the chance to get up close and personal with some of the stars of the show.

It's the show you've been waiting for ? the super-spectacular new Spice Girls musical Viva Forever!, coming to the West End's Piccadilly Theatre this December.

Puccini’s gift for writing emotional music is brought to the fore in La bohème’s tale of doomed love in poverty-stricken Paris.

ZooNation’s Some Like It Hip Hop has been a runaway success since it hit the Peacock Theatre in 2011, wowing audiences and prompting widespread critical praise with five-star reviews and standing ovations.

Following the continued success of BBC One's ratings-winning Strictly Come Dancing, Craig Revel Horwood's brand new show, Strictly Confidential will give theatre audiences the chance to get up close and personal with some of the stars of the show.