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Read our latest Time Out theatre reviews and find out what our London theatre team made of the city's new plays, musicals and theatre shows

Andrzej Lukowski
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Andrzej Lukowski
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From huge star vehicles and massive West End musical to hip fringe shows and more, here’s the very latest London theatre reviews from the Time Out theatre team.

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  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Theatre
  • Musicals
  • Soho
  • Recommended

The last Michael Jackson musical to grace the West End was the unofficial ‘Thriller – Live’, a revue show that was almost endearingly dumb. ‘MJ the Musical’ is the real deal, however…

  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Theatre
  • Musicals
  • Soho
  • Recommended

It is, to be clear, fairly nuts that leftfield European director Ivo van Hove has been allowed to plonk what I can only describe as a leftfield European musical in a big theatre in the middle of London’s glittering West End…

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  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Theatre
  • Drama
  • Soho
  • Recommended

Tyrell Williams’s debut ‘Red Pitch’ – transferring to the West End from the Bush with a million ‘best play’ awards in its wake – is so good that it might make you like football.

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  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Theatre
  • Drama
  • Seven Dials
  • Recommended

‘Harry Clarke’ is quite possibly the blandest name for a play in written history, and Billy Crudup is one of those well-liked supporting actors who you kind of know, are happy he exists, but aren’t maybe like: ‘oh my god BILLY CRUDUP is doing a one-man-show in London!!!’. However, behind this unassuming exterior lurks a truly odd play.

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Theatre
  • Musicals
  • Tower Bridge
  • Recommended

It’s been a year since Nicholas Hytner’s impossibly rousing production of ‘Guys and Dolls’ opened at the Bridge Theatre and made standing up for a three-hour show London’s hottest ticket since the sixteenth century.

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  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Theatre
  • Drama
  • Richmond
  • Recommended

Trevor Nunn directed his first play the year The Beatles released their first single, and if you’re expecting the 84-year-old former NT and RSC boss to reinvent the wheel in the seventh decade of his career you have lost your mind.

  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Theatre
  • Drama
  • South Bank
  • Recommended

It’s understandable that playwright Tim Price and director Rufus Norris are wary of dewy-eyed hagiography when approaching ‘Nye’, a new biographical drama about Aneurin Bevan, the firebrand Labour health minister who founded the NHS.

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