Chris Omaweng

Week beginning 4 August 2025
- Grief Case @thehopetheatre.bsky.social
- Saving Mozart @theotherpalace.bsky.social
- Good Night, Oscar - Barbican Centre
- Grimeborn Opera: Jane Eyre @arcolatheatre.bsky.social
- The Publicist - Libra Theatre Cafe
- Choir - Minerva Theatre, Chichester

Clive - Arcola Theatre | Review People who work by themselves have been around for some time – it has been at least twenty years since I first came across a photocopier engineer who was mutt

Clive - @arcolatheatre.bsky.social

"how refreshing to find a character who picks themselves up after a critical incident and does what most of us are trying to do – live the one life we have to the best of our ability. A thoughtful and intriguing production."

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Alone, Together - Hen & Chickens Theatre | Review A cursory introduction to the working day in a secondary school is eventually accompanied by further scenes about other aspects of school life. The school in qu

Alone, Together - Hen & Chickens Theatre | Review

"Slickly presented by a committed cast, I couldn’t help noticing these must be the most stylishly dressed bunch of teachers I have ever seen."

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Out of Bounds - Jack Studio Theatre | Review A deeply personal account, combining storytelling with dramatization, Lall Lalchund (Jason Sardinha) is in some ways like most teenagers in most contexts within

Out of Bounds - Jack Studio Theatre | Review

"A confident and assured performance, delivered at pace, and maintaining the audience’s interest from start to finish."

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Inter Alia - National Theatre | Review If you like the plays you see to 'show, not tell', you had better sit this one out. The ‘stand and deliver’ moments from Jessica Parks (Rosamund Pike) were

Inter Alia - National Theatre | Review

"Rosamund Pike is a convincing tour de force, giving her central character a wide range of palpable emotions. A worthy and worthwhile experience: there’s even a bit of actor-musicianship to enjoy too."

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Sing Street - Lyric Hammersmith Theatre | Review How the world has changed from a generation ago. For a group of schoolboys to meet these days, it might well involve a WhatsApp group or some other messaging an

Sing Street - Lyric Hammersmith Theatre | Review

"A lively, feel-good coming-of-age show that captures the vibrancy and energy of youth with excellence."

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This week
- Alone, Together - Hen & Chickens Theatre
- Just for One Day - The Live Aid Musical @shaftesburytheatre.bsky.social
- Clive @arcolatheatre.bsky.social

"Read the WTF reviews"

Well, how was I supposed to know they meant 'Williamstown Theatre Festival'?

National Youth Dance Company 2025: Gravity - Sadler's Wells | Review Mainstream media has a way of portraying the younger generation as people who don’t form their words properly, wear their clothes in such a way that it expose

National Youth Dance Company 2025: Gravity @sadlerswells.bsky.social | Review

"if this is the beginning of these dancers’ journeys, the future of British contemporary dance is looking very positive indeed"

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Don't Rock the Boat - The Mill at Sonning | Review Set in the mid-1990s, parts of this play felt like it was set further back than that. John Coombes (Harry Gostelow) came across as such an old-school traditiona

Don't Rock The Boat - The Mill at Sonning | Review

"while it was pleasing to see a play that doesn’t neatly tie up various narrative ends too tightly by curtain call, there was a bit too much in the way of uncertainty"

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The Estate - National Theatre | Review This story had the potential, given talk of a patriarch’s last will and testament, and resulting arguments, proposals, rejections of proposals, contracts draf

The Estate - @nationaltheatre.org.uk | Review

"This isn’t the sort of play that challenges the populist idea that parliamentarians are ‘all the same’. No matter. It’s entertaining, engaging and energetic."

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Poor Clare - Orange Tree Theatre | Review There came a point where this play became as predictable as night follows day. Clare (Arsema Thomas), who was to become St Clare of Assisi, gives up material we

Poor Clare - @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social | Review

"this briskly paced and perceptive production does well overall to bring a centuries-old story into our supposedly more enlightened times"

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Four Play - King's Head Theatre | Review This is one of those shows that makes one wonder if one has seen it all before, and then it takes a different path. Rafe (Lewis Cornay) and Pete (Zheng Xi Yong)

Four Play - King's Head Theatre | Review

"An intense and intriguing ninety minutes."

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Spend The Night - Riverside Studios | Review Referencing the ‘wit’, inverted commas mine, of Victoria Wood didn’t in itself pique my interest in seeing this show: I remember, decades ago, watching an

Spend the Night - Riverside Studios | Review

"There are calculated risks involved in almost anything, and dating in the digital era is, going by Zephyr’s experiences, far from a safe space. A thoughtful and insightful piece of theatre."

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This week (subject to change)
- Amy Mason: Behold! @pleasance.co.uk
- Sing Street @lyrichammersmith.bsky.social
- Inter Alia @nationaltheatre.org.uk
- Ted Milligan: United - Seven Dials Playhouse
- Out of Bounds - Jack Studio Theatre
- Top Hat @chichesterft.bsky.social

Has there ever been a 'disputed' heavyweight champion of the world?

Jeremy Jordan - Royal Albert Hall I couldn’t keep up with all of the various songs Jeremy Jordan and his longtime collaborator and musical director Benjamin Rauhala had managed to cram into a concert that finished the ‘right’ side of ...

Jeremy Jordan - Royal Albert Hall

"the song choices extended far beyond the standard fare at a musical theatre concert"

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Carly Paoli and Friends - Theatre Royal Drury Lane Talk about going into a show ‘blind’ – I had never heard of Carly Paoli. There was a part of me that thought I should go for David Phelps (of which more later) and then leave. The name Carly Paoli sou...

Carly Paoli and Friends: From Hollywood to Broadway - Theatre Royal Drury Lane

"it’s not every day that I would go to something that combines opera with songs from The Greatest Showman and a finale that paid tribute to Judy Garland"

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The White Chip - Southwark Playhouse Borough | Review Steven (Ed Coleman) has already found God. Not that he had much choice, being raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka the Mormon Church).

The White Chip - Southwark Playhouse Borough | Review

"An enthusiastic, hopeful, meaningful, and compelling production."

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Till the Stars Come Down - Theatre Royal Haymarket | Review Marek (Julian Kostov) is the sort of person admired by those who like entrepreneurship and social mobility. Working his way into a position of financial securit

Till the Stars Come Down - Theatre Royal Haymarket | Review

By West End standards, some of the scene changes rattle on a bit too long, and the dramatic tension dissipates during the waiting... however, it’s a wedding like no other, for better or for worse.

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Noughts & Crosses - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre | Review I went into this play ‘blind’ – there were, as others in the press night audience helpfully pointed out, six novels and three novellas in the Noughts &amp

Noughts & Crosses - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre | Review

"A thoughtful, gripping and unsettling production, it’s worth seeing."

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Run Sister Run - Arcola Theatre | Review There are some interesting, if somewhat contrived, dynamics in this longitudinal play, which starts with Connie (Jo Herbert) and her son Jack (Charlie Beaven) h

Run Sister Run - Arcola Theatre | Review

"some energetic performances helped maintain interest in a varied and emotionally driven story"

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This week (subject to change)
Run Sister Run @arcolatheatre.bsky.social
Noughts and Crosses /Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
Till the Stars Come Down /Theatre Royal Haymarket
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical /Aldwych Theatre
The White Chip @swkplay.bsky.social
Jeremy Jordan @royalalberthall.bsky.social

Romeo & Juliet - Exeter Northcott Theatre | Review Very occasionally, this production’s use of actors in multiple roles was momentarily confusing, especially as the costumes suggested a more egalitarian societ

Romeo & Juliet - Exeter Northcott Theatre | Review

"An accessible, highly engaging and wonderfully perceptive show."

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Outside Voice - Soho Poly | Review Guy (Phil Cheadle) runs a medical podcast called Outside Voice, though for whatever reason, the audience is spared the specifics of whatever his controversial v

Outside Voice - Soho Poly | Review

"...the cast provide convincing performances in a dense and thoughtful play."

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Lost the Plot: An Improvised Musical - Omnibus Theatre | Review Improvised musicals are not exactly a new phenomenon to seasoned London theatregoers, largely thanks to Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, which has been goin

Lost the Plot: An Improvised Musical - Omnibus Theatre | Review

"A worthwhile hour of spirited and chaotic musical comedy."

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This week (subject to change)
- @mincemeatlive.bsky.social - Fortune Theatre
- Outside Voice - Soho Poly
- Assassins / Musical Theatre Cabaret - Royal Academy of Music
- Romeo & Juliet - Exeter Northcott

Intimate Apparel - Donmar Warehouse | Review A photograph of George (Kadiff Kirwan) and Esther (Samira Wiley) is shown to the audience at the end of the first half – the description above it reads, “Un

Intimate Apparel - Donmar Warehouse | Review

"The portrayal of women’s dreams and ambitions being trampled on could, frankly, have been more engaging."

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Disney's Hercules - Theatre Royal Drury Lane | Review If the era of austerity is over, as successive Chancellors of the Exchequer in recent years have said, nobody told the team behind this Disney musical productio

Disney's Hercules - Theatre Royal Drury Lane | Review

"There’s some humour in the dialogue, but the show lurches from dullness to over-stimulation and back again. But at least the variations in the production provide much conversation for the journey home."

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NT Connections 2025 - National Theatre | Review Two very different but nonetheless exploratory plays opened this year’s Connections Festival at the National Theatre. As for the refurbishment works during th

NT Connections 2025 - National Theatre | Review

"Overall, then, an edgy and disarmingly charming evening was delivered by youngsters on stage evidently enjoying themselves."

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