The London Theatre Review

By London Theatre Review

Nick, Nick and Nancy are on hand with the latest news, honest reviews and big name interviews from the world of London theatre.

Nancy Durrant is the former Culture Editor of the Even

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December 07, 2025 Awards! Paddington! Spies! And The End of the Season!
Another season of the London Theatre Review comes to an end with a HUGE episode in which we unveil the inaugural London Theatre Review Awards: our pick of the very best shows of the year, the result of long and passionate arguments, to champion the productions, writers and performers that have stayed with us throughout the last twelve months. Find out who the deserving winners are...

As if that weren't BIG enough for the season finale, we also review Paddington the Musical, the most hotly anticipated show of the year, which has a lot to live up to given those brilliant film adaptations.

AND we take a look at the very first stage adaptation of a John Le Carré novel, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, running at @sohoplace.

Plus Nick Curtis managed to sneak in an interview with the very exciting director Jordan Fein who is taking on the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical Into the Woods.

And George Blagden answers our five questions with a great story about unfastened trousers.

Then that's it for this year. There may be a sneaky surprise Christmas drop but apart from that, you will see The London Theatre Review again in January after we have all stuffed ourselves with mince pies and sherry.
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November 30, 2025 Tom Stoppard tribute, All My Sons, David Eldridge's End, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis
More than a decade after his stupendous production of A View From The Bridge, director Ivo Van Hove returns to Arthur Miller with All My Sons starring Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean Baptiste. David Eldridge's trilogy of plays about relationships comes to an end with End at the National Theatre. And Nick Clark speaks to Éanna Hardwicke who is about to star in Playboy of the Western World by JM Synge, also at the National - although Nick seems a little more interested in the fact Éanna has just played Roy Keane in a new film, Saipan. Ruby Ashbourne Serkis answers five questions ahead of appearing in Tom Stoppard's play Indian Ink, and Tim pays tribute to Stoppard, whose death was announced this week.
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49min
November 23, 2025 Porn Play, Coven, Paapa Essiedu and Jackie Clune
A bit of a shambles this week as cancellations and illness got in the way of reviews but here, nevertheless, are reviews of the hotly anticipated new musical Coven at the Kiln Theatre about the Pendle Witch Trials and Porn Play at the Royal Court starring Ambika Mod. Paapa Essiedu chats to Nick Curtis about starring in All My Sons alongside Bryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Tom Glynn-Carney and Hayley Squires. And Jackie Clune answers five questions with a great Mamma Mia! mishap.
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39min
November 16, 2025 The Hunger Games reviewed, Saskia Reeves from Slow Horses, Toby Stephens and Fatherland
Nancy Durrant, Nick Clark, and Nick Curtis offer themselves as tributes this week to review The Hunger Games at the new and massive Troubadour Canary Wharf theatre. On the complete other end of the spectrum, and the other side of London, they take in Nancy Farino's debut play Fatherland at Hampstead Theatre's teeny downstairs studio. Nick Clark gets very excited because he talks to the wonderful Saskia Reeves, managing not to talk just about Slow Horses, but also End, David Eldridge's new play which Saskia stars in alongside Clive Owen at the National. And Toby Stephens takes a break from buckling his swash as Captain Hook in Wendy and Peter Pan at the Barbican to answer five questions.
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39min
November 09, 2025 Toby Jones and David Harewood in Othello plus Pearl Chanda and Hiran Abeysekera
Nancy’s back from her holidays to join Nick Curtis and Nick Clark for a packed episode of reviews, interviews, and theatre gossip, including their thoughts on the big reveal of the week: how the Paddington musical is creating the bear live onstage. The team tackle Tom Morris’s starry Othello at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, with David Harewood and Toby Jones, and head to the Park Theatre for Hannah Doran’s debut drama The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights. Plus Nick Curtis chats to Pearl Chanda about playing Hedda Gabler in Tanika Gupta’s bold new adaptation at the Orange Tree, and Hiran Abeysekera answers Five Questions including a brilliant worst moment on stage involving wet underpants (which seems to be becoming something of a theme in this podcast).
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November 02, 2025 Matthew Rhys wets himself? Plus Andy Nyman, Peter Pan and The Line of Beauty
With Nancy away (possibly raving in Ibiza), producer Tim Bano steps into the co-hosting chair alongside Nicks Clark and Curtis for a packed episode. The trio take flight with the RSC’s enchanting Wendy and Peter Pan at the Barbican, and dive into the glossy, satirical world of 1980s privilege in The Line of Beauty at the Almeida. Nick Curtis chats with Andy Nyman about his double West End whammy—starring in The Producers and co-creating Ghost Stories. Plus, Matthew Rhys channels Richard Burton in Five Questions ahead of his one-night-only performance at the Old Vic.
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October 26, 2025 Tamzin Outhwaite, Nicola Walker in The Unbelievers, Yerin Ha in The Maids, Jasper Talbot
This week, the team review Nicola Walker’s searing performance in Nick Payne’s The Unbelievers at the Royal Court, and Kip Williams’ dazzlingly bonkers reimagining of Jean Genet’s The Maids at the Donmar Warehouse. Nick Curtis interviews rising star Jasper Talbot about leading The Line of Beauty at the Almeida, and Tamzin Outhwaite answers five questions from backstage at the Young Vic with a fantastic/terrifying story about the worst thing that's ever happened to her onstage. Plus, a look ahead to the National Theatre’s 2026 season and a quiz about the origins of the Donmar’s name.
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43min
October 19, 2025 Munya Chawawa, Yerin Ha, Joe Locke in Clarkston, Ragdoll and more
This week, the team review Samuel D. Hunter’s Clarkston at Trafalgar Theatre, starring Heartstopper’s Joe Locke, and Katherine Moar's gripping Ragdoll at Jermyn Street Theatre based on the trial of Patty Hearst. Nick Clark chats to Kate Phillips about starring in Conor McPherson’s haunting revival of The Weir, and we hear from Munya Chawawa about his inspiring Black Boys Theatre Club. Plus, a double dose of Five Questions from Bridgerton star Yerin Ha, who's currently on stage in The Maids at the Donmar, and director Matthew Xia whose production of The Harder They Come is at Theatre Royal Stratford East.

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October 12, 2025 Hamlet at the National Theatre, Susan Sarandon in Mary Page Marlowe, David Shields in Punch
This week, the LTR gang dive into Robert Hastie’s fresh and funny Hamlet at the National Theatre, with Hiran Abeysekara as a manic, compelling Prince and Francesca Mills delivering a revelatory Ophelia. Susan Sarandon makes her UK stage debut in Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe at the Old Vic, but she's matched by Andrea Riseborough and Rosie McEwen in a starry ensemble cast. Nancy chats to David Shields about starring in James Graham’s deeply moving play Punch, now at the Apollo, and the team remember the formidable Patricia Routledge. Plus, five questions with Nathaniel Parker and a Hamlet-themed quiz.

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October 05, 2025 The Importance of Being Earnest, Entertaining Mr Sloane and Rosy McEwen
This week the gang have been to see The Importance of Being Earnest as it transfers to the West End, with Olly Alexander and Nathan Stewart Jarrett starring alongside Stephen Fry as Lady Bracknell. Plus they catch Rizzle Kicks singer Jordan Stephens in his stage debut in Entertaining Mr Sloane alongside Tamsin Outhwaite at the Young Vic. And Rosy McEwen chats to Nick Curtis about playing alongside Susan Sarandon and Andrea Riseborough in Tracy Letts's play Mary Page Marlowe at the Old Vic. Plus we put five questions to the brilliant Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, who answers them while cooking her tea.
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