FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 2 - Caught on Camera

The Red Shoes review: Matthew Bourne is in his storytelling pomp

4/5 This adaptation of Powell and Pressburger’s famous classic is a tragedy told with shattering brilliance

Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2025

Spies, lies and men in ties: Agnes O'Casey reports from le Carré world

Ridley Road and Black Doves star Agnes O’Casey on hitting the West End (and almost some audience members) in the sensational adaptation of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

Evening Standard · Dec 10, 2025

Pinocchio at Shakespeare's Globe: 'Chaos addict puppet will delight children'

4/5 Pinocchio is a whirlwind of chaos in this entertaining new musical which refuses to preach

Evening Standard · Dec 8, 2025

Audience reduced to tears by Paddington Bear reveal for new West End musical

The stage design of the beloved illegal immigrant bear has been a tightly guarded secret for years

Evening Standard · Nov 1, 2025

Line of Beauty at Almeida Theatre: 'Hugely entertaining skim across shiny 80s Britain'

4/5 This adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s novel looks at Thatcherism, the AIDS crisis and class in 80s Britain in satirical fashion

Evening Standard · Oct 30, 2025

Good Night, Oscar at the Barbican: 'Sean Hayes gives an astonishing performance'

4/5 Will and Grace’s Sean Hayes stars as trouble pianist Oscar Levant in a fast-paced, zinger-packed play which has an unforgettable climax

Evening Standard · Aug 7, 2025

First look at Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel in 'ferociously sexy' new play Born With Teeth

Liz Duffy Adams’ play imagines the relationship between Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare

Evening Standard · Jul 30, 2025

101 Dalmatians The Musical at Eventim Apollo review: this show is a dogs dinner

2/5 The puppy puppets have been simplified and a twee mawkishness introduced in this disastrous transfer to a different theatre

Evening Standard · Jul 25, 2025

The Great Gatsby party is still raging on the West End

Corbin Bleu and Jamie Muscato on the ever-evolving, always-mysterious, entirely spectacular Gatsby production which marks 100 years of the novel

Evening Standard · Jul 25, 2025

Nye at the National Theatre: 'Michael Sheen shines'

3/5 Michael Sheen plays the founder of the NHS in this fine, if patchy, crowd-pleaser

Evening Standard · Jul 11, 2025