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The Arms
Moon Kim’s surreal play The Arms tells the bizarre story of Domi, a woman who grows extra limbs to help save the world, and her suspicious neighbour Sora. Blending dark comedy, horror and physical theatre, the production explores clashing ideas of doing good, unfolding through strange twists, striking visuals and bold performances.

Paul Gainey
Mar 43 min read


Blackbird Home
Part poetry, part drama, Blackbird Hour follows Eshe, a grieving Black woman spiralling through loss, love and self-destruction. Babirye Bukilwa’s unflinching play offers a visceral exploration of mental crisis and the fragile, complicated ways others try to care.

Paul Gainey
Feb 273 min read


How To Win Against History
This dazzling revival of How To Win Against History brings the flamboyant life of the fifth Marquess of Anglesey to the stage in a camp, poignant musical that celebrates individuality, excess, and the courage to live unapologetically.

Paul Gainey
Feb 273 min read


Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Dazzling, extravagant, and unapologetically over-the-top, Moulin Rouge! The Musical trades the film’s grit for spectacle, delivering a whirlwind of pop mash-ups, lavish design, and high-energy performances.

Paul Gainey
Feb 273 min read


The Chaos That Has Been
Chalk Line Theatre’s electrifying production captures one wild night in Luton, blending humour, danger, and tenderness in a coming-of-age story that lays bare the pressures facing working-class youth in modern Britain.

Paul Gainey
Feb 273 min read


Paule Vézelay: Living Lines
The first major exhibition of Paule Vézelay’s work in over four decades revives the legacy of the Bristol-born surrealist, showcasing her distinctive abstract ‘living lines’ and her long-overlooked contribution to the European avant-garde.

Paul Gainey
Feb 272 min read


50 First Dates: The Musical
The stage adaptation of 50 First Dates brings Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore’s beloved rom-com to life with charm, catchy songs, and palpable chemistry, delivering a warm, feel-good story about love, memory, and community.

Paul Gainey
Feb 272 min read


Small Hotel
Ralph Fiennes closes his Theatre Royal Bath season with Small Hotel, a surreal, dreamlike play that follows a wounded TV host drifting between life and death, confronting love, loss, and memory through a series of haunting encounters.

Paul Gainey
Feb 273 min read


The musical ‘The Producers'
Who could have predicted that a musical tribute to Adolf Hitler would ever become a comedy hit on Broadway? It delivers one belly laugh after another, proving as radical and joyously subversive as when it first appeared on film in 1967

Paul Gainey
Feb 272 min read


Lost Atoms
Lost Atoms’, the latest production from physical theatre company Frantic Assembly, is an intensive two-hander with memorable performances and striking, highly physical staging.

Paul Gainey
Feb 273 min read
King Lear – Almedia
Powerful, angry performances hold together Yaël Farber’s sprawling, bleak vision of a king and his country in terminal decline in King Lear at Almeida Theatre, London.

Paul Gainey
May 29, 20252 min read


Nye Bevin – Donmar
At London’s Donmar Warehouse, Lucy Kirkwood’s The Human Body depicts the establishing of the National Health Service through the eyes of a Shropshire doctor.

Paul Gainey
May 29, 20252 min read


Bangers (BOV)
Bristol Old Vic theatre was caught in the middle of a real-life drama when the star of its latest production was injured at the start of a sell-out run of Bangers at the Weston Studio.

Paul Gainey
May 29, 20252 min read


Patriots – Noel Coward Theatre
Patriots circles around a group of high-profile dissidents, some now dead. Chief among them here is Boris Berezovsky, a talented mathematician turned businessman, and friend turned foe to Vladimir Putin.

Paul Gainey
May 28, 20253 min read


Four Season – Bristol Old Vic
Bristol Live and the Bristol Post ran my review of Bristol Old Vic's festive children's musical play, "Four Seasons".

Paul Gainey
May 28, 20251 min read


Operation Mincemeat
As proof that super shows can come in small packages, it’s a pleasure to welcome Operation Mincemeat to a West End too often characterised by musical bloating

Paul Gainey
May 28, 20252 min read


Guys and Dolls – Bridge Theatre
Astonishingly, Guys and Dolls is the Bridge Theatre’s first ever musical, but on the strength of such a vivid, vibrant triumph of a revival, I should hope not its last.

Paul Gainey
May 28, 20253 min read
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