Shows at Olivier Theatre

The Witches

A fatal car crash, generational genocide, and child mortality.

Dear England

Review
★★★
Simon Ximenez
West End
Olivier Theatre
21st Jun, 2023

Draw a Venn Diagram.

Dancing at Lughnasa

Dancing at Lughnasa is easily Brian Friel’s most widely known play thanks to the 1998 film version that starred Meryl Streep.

Standing at the Sky's Edge

Unless it has the sophistication of a Sondheim, or the renown and heritage of a Rodgers and Hammerstein, it’s rare to see a musical on a National Theatre stage.

Hex

Review
★★
Simon Ximenez
West End
Olivier Theatre
8th Dec, 2022

When you’re a child, Christmas is all about that one big day.

Jack Absolute Flies Again

Listing
West End
Olivier Theatre
15th Aug - 3rd Sep 2022

July 1940.

Under Milk Wood

A question taken from the 2020 English Literature GCSE exam that never was.

Peter Gynt

Review
★
Simon Ximenez
West End
Olivier Theatre
15th Jul, 2019

There was a time not long ago – when Facebook and Google weren’t even words – where we watched TV and learned from it, absorbing any new knowledge we discovered as fact.

Follies

Picture the scene.

Hadestown

It’s an odd checklist.

Antony & Cleopatra

Shakespeare will always be Theatre Marmite.

Exit the King

Review
★
Simon Ximenez
West End
Olivier Theatre
27th Jul, 2018

For those who pertain to be students of the Theatre of the Absurd movement prevalent in the 1950s and 60s, there is nothing of value to you in this review.

Translations

Review
★★
Simon Ximenez
West End
Olivier Theatre
6th Jun, 2018

It can’t be easy creating a programme that justifies the term National given to the theatres on London’s South Bank, when you know that your most frequent visitors of critics a…