David Spicer’s new play is a thrilling addition to the farce canon
Category: Off-West End/London Fringe
The Tempest, Southwark Playhouse ★★½
A shortened production reduces, rather than improves, Shakespeare’s magical play
Glockenspiel, Tristan Bates Theatre, London ★★
Veterans’ post-traumatic stress disorder is inadequately covered
A Christmas Carol, Lost Theatre ★★★
Alan Menken and Lynn Ahrens’s adaptation gets the amateur treatment
Soho Cinders, Union Theatre, London ★★★★
It’s safe to call 2016 as the year of Stiles and Drewe, isn’t it? With Half a Sixpence transferring into the West End from Chichester Festival Theatre (where their Travels With My Aunt also debuted), Wind in the Willows touring the UK and rumours that their adaptation of Soapdish may finally be finding its away to…
Licensed to Ill, Southwark Playhouse ★★★★
This potted history of The Beastie Boys captures the spirit and essence of a time in music history
Jest End, Waterloo East Theatre, London ★★★
It’s no Forbidden Broadway, but this series of comedy skits has its moments
Disaster!, Charing Cross Theatre, London ★★★★★
What was supposed to be a charity concert turned into a fully-fledged performance of Seth Rudetsky’s hilarious Broadway comedy
The Mirror Never Lies, Cockpit Theatre, London ★★
Barbara Pym’s novel is rendered inert by this adaptation into a musical
Learned Friends, Central Criminal Court, London
A courtroom drama, played out in the world’s most famous court
The House of Usher, Hope Theatre, London ★★★
Poe’s short story in musical form
Moby Dick, Union Theatre, London ★★
More white elephant than great white whale
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