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Simon Thomas in the Midlands
★★★☆☆
19 July 2026
Directed by incoming Artistic Director Joe Murphy, Birmingham Rep’s Sweeney Todd is surely one of the best-sung productions in the show’s nearly 50-year history. It’s unfortunate, then, that it is so over-amplified that much of the nuance of Ste...
Neil Dowden on the South Bank
★★★☆☆
17 July 2026
The Oresteia “written and directed by Simon Stone after Aeschylus & others” is the latest example of the Australian auteur’s dragging classical and classic drama – kicking and screaming if necessary – into the 21st century. As previously with the li...
David Wootton in West London
17 July 2026
Until Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw was the only writer to have won both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar, indications respectively of the distinction and popularity of his extensive literary output. Indeed, for much of his lon...
Mark Shenton in West Sussex
★★★★☆
16 July 2026
Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics, adapted closely from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion) and Frederick Loewe (music) premiered their most successful musical My Fair Lady on Broadway exactly 70 years ago.
Keziah Ibe and Hadley Fraser.Robert Schneider in Connecticut
★★★★★
15 July 2026
In a programme note, director Michael Fling lauds this show as “light, fun, frothy entertainment—AKA escapism”. Like the dozen Gershwin films, musicals and orchestral works that were raided to make up this very successful jukebox musical, Crazy for You...