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Lyric Hammersmith

July 2024

  • Imelda Staunton leads a curtain call after the opening night performance of Hello, Dolly!

    The week in theatre: Hello, Dolly!; The Hot Wing King; Fangirls – review

  • (l-r) Mary Malone, Jasmine Elcock and Miracle Chance in FANGIRLS (c) Manuel Harlan

    Fangirls review – sugar rush musical turns a teen crush criminal

June 2024

  • A Child of Science at Bristol Old Vic

    The week in theatre: A Child of Science; Wedding Band; No Love Songs – review

  • Deborah Ayorinde and David Walmsley in Wedding Band at Lyric Hammersmith.

    Wedding Band: A Love Hate Story in Black and White review – high-stakes passion in the segregated south

May 2024

  • Nina Hoss and Adeel Akhtar facing each other on stage

    The week in theatre: The Cherry Orchard; Minority Report; Laughing Boy – review

    The aged servant steals the show in a fast-paced 21st-century Chekhov, Max Webster’s dystopian sci-fi dazzles the eye, and a campaigning drama is tender and furious

April 2024

  • A vortex of sound and light … Jodie McNee and Ricardo Castro in Minority Report at Lyric Hammersmith, London.

    Minority Report review – futuristic fugitive thriller is criminally undercooked

    Max Webster and David Haig’s ambitious female-led stage version of the sci-fi thriller is overwhelmed by its own optics

March 2024

  • Raffish charisma and hollow cruelty … Declan Conlon as Frank in Faith Healer at the Lyric Hammersmith.

    Faith Healer review – Brian Friel’s classic questions everything we believe

  • ‘Everything he said was spot on’ … Michael Feast and Morgan Watkins in Saved at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, directed by Sean Holmes in 2011.

    ‘I loved every single word’: tributes to the blistering brilliance of Edward Bond

February 2024

  • Laura Donnelly's character sits at the piano talking to the younger sisters

    The week in theatre: The Hills of California; Metamorphosis; Candace Bushnell: True Tales of Sex, Success and Sex in the City – review

    Dreams of fame trap and inspire in Jez Butterworth’s female-centred, Blackpool-set new play; Lemn Sissay takes a personal approach to Kafka; and the Sex and the City creator is full of unsurprises

November 2023

  • Seeking ‘husband material’ … Emmanuel Akwafo, centre, with Meghan Treadway and Charlie Cameron in Cinderella.

    Cinderella review – pop-powered Hammersmith panto looks sharp

    Vikki Stone’s playful fairytale is staged with fabulous costumes and high-energy songs but falls short of delirious comedy

September 2023

  • Samantha Morton and Tom Cruise in the 2002 film Minority Report.

    Minority Report drama to feature in Lyric Hammersmith’s ‘really bold’ spring lineup

    Tom Cruise’s character becomes Dame Julia in a new adaptation of Minority Report, kicking off a season that, the venue’s artistic director says, will focus on communal experience
  • Amit Shah, Alex Roach, Greg Wise and Susan Wokoma in Never Have I Ever.

    The week in theatre: Never Have I Ever; God of Carnage – review

    An evening of drinking turns dangerous in the sharply funny debut play from The Guilty Feminist’s Deborah Frances-White. And the set is the star in a heavy-handed revival of Yasmina Reza’s tale of parents at loggerheads
  • Clenched-jaw aggression … Dinita Gohil as Annette and Freema Agyeman as Veronica.

    God of Carnage review – deliciously savage satire still has plenty of bite

    Some of the punches don’t land as hard as they might, but deft direction and slick performances make this a delightfully brutal take down of bourgeois manners

June 2023

  • ‘The terrible fragility of teenage friendship’ … School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, at Lyric Hammersmith.

    School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play review – clever comedy leaves a stinging afterburn

    Jocelyn Bioh’s bitingly funny and sometimes heartbreaking play transposes relatable high-school movie tropes to 1980s Ghana to explore beauty standards and colourism

April 2023

  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, at the Barbican with Amanda Hadingue in the role of Janina.

    The week in theatre: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead; Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Berlusconi – review

    Complicité’s masterly take on Olga Tokarczuk’s eco-thriller is unforgettable; Daniel Rigby excels in Fo’s all too timely classic; and Silvio Berlusconi is in dire need of some good tunes

January 2023

  • Michael Akinsulire, in the title role, and company in Othello.

    The week in theatre: Othello; The Unfriend; On the Ropes – review

    Brute force speaks volumes in Frantic Assembly’s breathtaking Othello; Steven Moffat and co flirt with farce; and the story of Windrush boxer Vernon Vanriel hits home in song

December 2022

  • From left … Jodie Comer in Prima Facie, Charlie Stemp in Crazy for You and Marie-Astrid Mence in Oklahoma!

    2022 in Culture
    The best theatre of 2022

    In a superb year for the stage, our chief critic gives 10 shows an extra round of applause. Plus, Guardian theatre reviewers each pick their 2022 standout

November 2022

  • Emmanuel Akwafo as Dame Trott in Jack and the Beanstalk at Lyric Hammersmith, London.

    Jack and the Beanstalk review – sumptuously OTT panto has a big heart

    A streetwise Jack sells his cow for a tin of baked beans in this sugar rush of a show, which is underpinned with an anti-greed moral about the collective good

August 2022

  • Ella Hunt and Jack Farthing in Closer.

    The week in theatre: Closer, The Tempest, The Darkest Part of the Night – review

    Patrick Marber’s four-way passion play still adds up; Sean Holmes takes enjoyable liberties with his party island Tempest; and the heartfelt vies with the spelled out in Zodwa Nyoni’s new work

July 2022

  • Nina Toussaint-White and Jack Farthing in Closer at the Lyric Hammersmith.

    Closer review – Patrick Marber’s daring drama turns 25

    This intimate story of four-way romantic damage gains an extra edge in Clare Lizzimore’s slick revival
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