By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Monday 18 April, booking to 1 October 2022
RUNTIME: 165 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
7 Oliviers, 3 monstas and 5 months after we 1st saw this production we return for a major cast change which sees 4 of its 5 leads depart.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 16 April, opens 27 April and runs to 18 June 2022
RUNTIME: 100 minutes (no interval)
Defence barrister Tessa Ensler revels in the certainty of the law – defendants are either convicted or acquitted, everything is either black or white, right or wrong.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
WHEN? Saturday 10 April, opens 14 April, booking to 14 May 2022 RUNTIME? 150 minutes (including 20-minute interval)
2 years ago 1 of the 1st comedies we had tickets for that was Covid-cancelled was a revival of Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love starring Rachael Stirling at this very venue.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN? matinee Sunday 3 April, runs to 8 May 2022
RUNTIME: 160 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
Conversion therapy is headline news in the UK and there seems no more apt time for this new musical based on a beloved 1999 cult film starring RuPaul and Michelle Williams to be taking its bow.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
WHEN? matinee Saturday 2 April, booking until 24 September 2022 RUNTIME: 150 minutes (including 20-minute interval)
Settle (pictued above right with Miriam-Teak Lee) sang the Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning This Is Me in Pasek and Paul‘s film The Greatest Showman and here makes her West End debut memorably.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN?: Saturday 2 April, opens 9 April, booking to Saturday 28 May 2022
RUNTIME: 157 minutes (including 15-minute interval)
‘Chameleon’ is the word best used to describe actor Bertie Carvel, the winner of 2 Oliviers and a Tony for roles including Rupert Murdoch in Ink.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Sunday 20 March 2022, booking to 17 April 2022
RUNTIME: 150 minutes (including 20-minute Interval)
There’s a lovely moment towards the end of this celebration of songwriters Stephen Sondheim, Marvin Hamlisch and Michel Legrand when its star Friedman, who worked with them all, encourages the audience to sing with the cast.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN?: Saturday 20 March (matinee), runs to 9 April 2022 RUNTIME: 70 minutes without interval
Wilson is on the phone and onstage in a rectangular box behind see-through glass in her 1st West End role since her Hedda Gabler at the National was Olivier Award-nominated in 2017.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 12 March, opens 31 March, runs to 13 August 2022
RUNTIME: 180 minutes (including 20-minute interval)
‘We can’t go on like this,’ repeats Rafe Spall’s lawyer Atticus Finch during this hard-hitting rewriting of Harper Lee’s classic 1960 novel for the stage by Aaron (The West Wing) Sorkin.
By Neil Durham
WHERE?: Ambassadors Theatre, London
WHEN?: Saturday 5 March, booking to 4 June 2022 RUNTIME: Usually 105 minutes (no interval)
We’re at the 1st preview of this Mike Bartlett revival and 90 minutes in Egerton faints onstage, a doctor is called from the audience and the curtain goes down for 40 minutes.
