Theatre Bee Reviews

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Daisy Steere in Miss I-Doll. Photo by Mariano Gobbi The bee is blissfully unaware of reality television. Or at least, it...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 Bebe Cave as Betsy Bitterly in The Screen Test. Photo by Kat Gollock There is a particular kind of theatre that sneaks up on...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 Posh Girls production image. Photo: Emily Patrick Judging by its title, Posh Girls seemed poised to deliver a blend of...

It’s February, and while some people are busy planning their Valentine’s evenings (good luck with that, truly), the bee is far more...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Cast of The Little Foxes at curtain call at the Young Vic What is a family if not a web of lies and deceit? Lillian...

No, it’s not the start of a bad joke—it’s Dr. Strangelove (rated 🍯🍯🍯 by yours truly), where nuclear apocalypse has never been so...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 Sigourney Weaver plays Prospero in The Tempest at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane. For much of the play, Sigourney...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Overview: A Snapshot of a Dying Dublin Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock immerses us in the cramped, grimy tenement...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Wolves on Road at the Bush Theatre is a production that practically vibrates with intensity. The bee was glued to its...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 Stampin’ in the Graveyard  at The Cockpit is, at its heart, a fragmented exploration of memory, love, and loss. Billed as an...

October: A Month of Power, Manipulation, and Ghostly Affairs October unfurled like a dark, twisted fable, with standout productions that...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯 If there ever was a play the bee would rather leave its readers to discover alone, it’s Waiting for Godot . How fitting...

Rated 🍯🍯 Alexander Zeldin’s The Other Place  at the National Theatre is a rivetingly complex piece, a play so steeped in ambiguity that...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Theatre Bee is abuzz with intrigue and irony after Lyndsey Turner’s starkly monumental Coriolanus at the National Theatre,...

This is part 2 of a series of reflections triggered by the musical, A Face in the Crowd, playing at the Young Vic Theatre. Less review...

This is part 1 of a series of reflections triggered by the musical, A Face in the Crowd, playing at the Young Vic Theatre. Less review...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Zinnie Harris’ adaptation of The Duchess of Malfi at the Trafalgar Theatre is a thrilling, fast-paced spectacle that...

Currently running at the Park Theatre, The Forsyte Saga unfolds in two parts, offering audiences a sweeping exploration of love, power,...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 One of the Boys by Tim Edge, currently running at The Playground Theatre, is a sharp and compact exploration of the...

October has somehow turned into the month of historical plays for the bee. Juicy period pieces on power, societal manipulation,...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 This is the final piece in a three-part series of reflections (here are Part 1 and Part 2 ) on Tom Stoppard’s The Real...

This is the second in a series of reflections on Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, which the bee recently had the pleasure of watching at...

This is the first in a series of reflections on Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, which the bee recently had the pleasure of watching at the...

This is the third essay in a three-part series of highly subjective, opinionated and personal reflections of your faithful bee on the...

This is the second in a three-part series of highly subjective, opinionated and personal reflections of your faithful bee on the...

This is the first in a three-part series of highly subjective, opinionated and personal reflections of your faithful bee on the...

Slave Play , written by Jeremy O. Harris, is a provocative exploration of race, power, and intimacy. It revolves around three interracial...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯 I Love to Fly is a play in pursuit of laughter - and something more Set in the unassuming and transitional space of an...

That thrilling, spontaneous, collective burst of appreciation that signals an extraordinary performance! Recently, the bee experienced...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 The bee recently attended a performance of People, Places, and Things at Trafalgar Theatre and found it to be an...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯 This one is the bee’s best play of the year (so far). Arthur Miller’s "A View from the Bridge" is a timeless exploration...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯 A Play within a Play within a Play The bee ventured to the Park Theatre last week to catch an intriguing production of...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 From the moment the curtain rises on "Machinal" at the Old Vic, the audience is thrust into an intensely claustrophobic...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯 A layered family drama set in the scorching summer of 1976 in Blackpool,” The Hills of California," plunges into the...

In the grand tapestry of London's theatre scene, it's not every day that one finds shows that leave you with mixed feelings—a little like...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 At its core, "Blue" stages an intense confrontation between Los Angeles Police Detective LaRhonda Parker and an officer...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Navigating the opulent corridors of the opera for the first time can feel like stepping onto an alien planet where the...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯 As the bee ventured into a spine-chilling adaptation of Franz Kafka’s novel, Metamorphosis, at Lyric Hammersmith, it...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 After a splendid evening at London's Dominion Theatre, the bee is buzzing with myriad thoughts and reflections on The King...

In an unprecedented move that's sure to send shockwaves through the corridors of the London theatre scene, the bee has splurged on a...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 In the heart of London, St. Martin-in-the-Fields church hosts an immersive experience titled 'Life'. This installation,...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 A Man, a Boy, and a Woman grapple with the abyss of loss. Themes of migration, identity, and the quest to belong come...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 Staged at the distinguished Finborough Theatre in London, The Return of Benjamin Lay made its debut last week. Despite the...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 From the very first moments, these words that’ll linger like ghosts till the day I drop down dead presents itself as a...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 A heartrending exploration of the age-old question, "what if we could predict our children's future?", the play Blueprints...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Stinkpioneer is about the chemical warfare from the trenches in World War I...and more Stinkpioneer, currently playing at...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 Aptly titled, "Snakehead" weaves a cautionary tale of naivety and exploitation set against an original musical backdrop. The...

Rated 🍯 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Spitting Image: The Musical, currently playing at the Phoenix Theatre in London, is a hilarious satirical take on...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Patriots, a play set in the tumultuous period of Russian politics in the 1990s, takes the audience on a journey through...

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Dixon and Daughters, the latest production at the National Theatre, is a captivating and emotionally charged play that...