Paul Seven Lewis
@theatre-reviews.bsky.social
I love theatre. I review on YouTube as Theatre Reviews With Paul Seven and on my website theatre.reviews where I also round up other critics’ reviews.
Theatre reviews roundup: Paddington- 5⭐️Guardian: utterly winning; i: every detail is exquisite; LondonTheatre: pure theatre magic; Indy; Mail; Standard; WhatsOnStage. 4⭐️Stage: resistance..is futile; Telegraph: funny, feel-good; TimeOut; CityAM. More at theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
Theatre reviews roundup: Paddington The Musical
Why the London theatre critics fell in love with Paddington The Musical at the Savoy Theatre, and why it will run and run
theatre.reviews
December 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Theatre reviews roundup: Paddington- 5⭐️Guardian: utterly winning; i: every detail is exquisite; LondonTheatre: pure theatre magic; Indy; Mail; Standard; WhatsOnStage. 4⭐️Stage: resistance..is futile; Telegraph: funny, feel-good; TimeOut; CityAM. More at theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
Tom Stoppard has died. From being a Jewish child refugee, he became one of Britain’s greatest playwrights. We’ll miss his wit, intellect and theatricality
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Tom Stoppard has died. From being a Jewish child refugee, he became one of Britain’s greatest playwrights. We’ll miss his wit, intellect and theatricality
More great reviews for Ballet Shoes at the National Theatre. Straight to the top of the list of Best Value Limited Run Shows. Round up (combined with last year’s) is here theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
Theatre reviews roundup: Ballet Shoes at the National Theatre
The London theatre critics were thrilled by the return of the National Theatre’s Ballet Shoes directed by Katy Rudd
theatre.reviews
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
More great reviews for Ballet Shoes at the National Theatre. Straight to the top of the list of Best Value Limited Run Shows. Round up (combined with last year’s) is here theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
Reposted by Paul Seven Lewis
📽️ HEDDA is streaming tonight on OT On Screen!
Missed it, or want to relive it at home? Watch the full recording until Friday night 👇
orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/hed...
📷 Helen Murray
Missed it, or want to relive it at home? Watch the full recording until Friday night 👇
orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/hed...
📷 Helen Murray
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
📽️ HEDDA is streaming tonight on OT On Screen!
Missed it, or want to relive it at home? Watch the full recording until Friday night 👇
orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/hed...
📷 Helen Murray
Missed it, or want to relive it at home? Watch the full recording until Friday night 👇
orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/hed...
📷 Helen Murray
All My Sons: The finest acting by Bryan Cranston, Marianna Jean-Baptiste and Paapa Essiedu, a powerful production from Ivo van Hove and Jan Versweyveld, and a superb play by Arthur Miller, so why not 5 stars? Read my review theatre.reviews/review/all-m... or watch youtu.be/9wbkdXaafYs
Theatre review: All My Sons with Bryan Cranston
A perfectly cast West End production of Arthur Miller's play that is bold in conception, thrilling in execution, and unquestionably relevant
theatre.reviews
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
All My Sons: The finest acting by Bryan Cranston, Marianna Jean-Baptiste and Paapa Essiedu, a powerful production from Ivo van Hove and Jan Versweyveld, and a superb play by Arthur Miller, so why not 5 stars? Read my review theatre.reviews/review/all-m... or watch youtu.be/9wbkdXaafYs
I admire the optimism of the producers of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage in announcing that performances will begin on 16 October 2026, when right now the Capital Theatre at Westfield London is still being built. Tickets will be on sale from 1 December at dirtydancingonstage.co.uk
Dirty Dancing | The Classic Story on Stage
Returning to the West End for a Limited Season 21 Jan - 29 Apr 2023. Book now for the time of your life!
dirtydancingonstage.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I admire the optimism of the producers of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage in announcing that performances will begin on 16 October 2026, when right now the Capital Theatre at Westfield London is still being built. Tickets will be on sale from 1 December at dirtydancingonstage.co.uk
Theatre reviews roundup: All My Sons- 5⭐️TimeOut: Bryan Cranston and Paapa Essiedu..offer two of the best stage performances of 2025; Guardian; Standard; BroadwayWorld; Indy; i. 4⭐️Times: seriously well staged; Stage; WhatsOnStage; Mail; Telegraph. More at theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
Theatre reviews roundup: Bryan Cranston in All My Sons
The London theatre critics lavish praise on Ivo van Hove's production of Miller's play, also starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Paapa Essiedu
theatre.reviews
November 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Theatre reviews roundup: All My Sons- 5⭐️TimeOut: Bryan Cranston and Paapa Essiedu..offer two of the best stage performances of 2025; Guardian; Standard; BroadwayWorld; Indy; i. 4⭐️Times: seriously well staged; Stage; WhatsOnStage; Mail; Telegraph. More at theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
Celebrity Traitors go see The Importance of Being Earnest and meet up with Stephen Fry who plays Lady Bracknell. Photo: Piers Allardyce
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Celebrity Traitors go see The Importance of Being Earnest and meet up with Stephen Fry who plays Lady Bracknell. Photo: Piers Allardyce
Following his success with Oedipus, Robert Icke will be directing Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe in Romeo & Juliet from 16 March at Harold Pinter Theatre.
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Following his success with Oedipus, Robert Icke will be directing Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe in Romeo & Juliet from 16 March at Harold Pinter Theatre.
Theatre reviews roundup: Porn Play with Ambika Mod- 4⭐️Guardian: ambitious..tragedy, horror and comedy; Standard:harrowing central performance; Indy; LondonTheatre. 3⭐️Telegraph:uncompromising, uncomfortable..unsubtle; Stage:dialogue zings; Times;TimeOut; BroadwayWorld. theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
Theatre reviews roundup: Porn Play at the Royal Court
What did the London theatre critics think of Ambika Mod‘s performance as a woman addicted to violent pornography?
theatre.reviews
November 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Theatre reviews roundup: Porn Play with Ambika Mod- 4⭐️Guardian: ambitious..tragedy, horror and comedy; Standard:harrowing central performance; Indy; LondonTheatre. 3⭐️Telegraph:uncompromising, uncomfortable..unsubtle; Stage:dialogue zings; Times;TimeOut; BroadwayWorld. theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
Porn Play at Royal Court theatre features an extraordinary performance by Ambika Mod as a woman addicted to violent pornography. My review is in writing here theatre.reviews/review/porn-... and on YouTube youtu.be/bGH7ypgVvXY
Theatre review: Porn Play at the Royal Court at Royal Court Theatre
A study of the effect of pornography on a woman's sex and relationships elicits an outstanding performance by Ambika Mod
theatre.reviews
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Porn Play at Royal Court theatre features an extraordinary performance by Ambika Mod as a woman addicted to violent pornography. My review is in writing here theatre.reviews/review/porn-... and on YouTube youtu.be/bGH7ypgVvXY
Theatre reviews roundup: Hunger Games- 4⭐️Stage: plenty to impress. 3⭐️Indy: dazzling; Guardian: spectacle above emotion; BroadwayWorld: soulless incarnation; Mail; TimeOut; WhatsOnStage. 2⭐️LondonTheatre: damp squib; i: underwhelming trudge; Telegraph; Times. More at theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
Theatre reviews roundup: The Hunger Games: The Stage Show
What did the London theatre critics think of the stage version of the Jennifer Lawrence film in the new custom built Canary Wharf venue?
theatre.reviews
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Theatre reviews roundup: Hunger Games- 4⭐️Stage: plenty to impress. 3⭐️Indy: dazzling; Guardian: spectacle above emotion; BroadwayWorld: soulless incarnation; Mail; TimeOut; WhatsOnStage. 2⭐️LondonTheatre: damp squib; i: underwhelming trudge; Telegraph; Times. More at theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
Five stars from me for Othello at Theatre Royal Haymarket. David Harewood conveys his character’s contradictions with subtlety and passion. Toby Jones plays a convincing chilling Iago. Caitlin Fitzgerald is a refreshingly strong Desdemona. Here’s my YouTube review youtu.be/-CRh16NfZFM
David Harewood as Othello with Toby Jones & Caitlin FitzGerald - review
YouTube video by Theatre.Reviews with Paul Seven
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Five stars from me for Othello at Theatre Royal Haymarket. David Harewood conveys his character’s contradictions with subtlety and passion. Toby Jones plays a convincing chilling Iago. Caitlin Fitzgerald is a refreshingly strong Desdemona. Here’s my YouTube review youtu.be/-CRh16NfZFM
I normally avoid horror stories but I’m tempted to make an exception for Paranormal Activity directed by Felix Barrett, the genius behind Punchdrunk productions like The Burnt City and Sleep No More. It opens at The Ambassadors on 5 December and the run has just been extended to 28 March.
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I normally avoid horror stories but I’m tempted to make an exception for Paranormal Activity directed by Felix Barrett, the genius behind Punchdrunk productions like The Burnt City and Sleep No More. It opens at The Ambassadors on 5 December and the run has just been extended to 28 March.
Nicola Walker gives a powerful performance in The Unbelievers but Nick Payne’s play left me dissatisfied. My review is on YouTube youtu.be/CR4g9aOhjgU
Review: Nicola Walker in The Unbelievers
YouTube video by Theatre.Reviews with Paul Seven
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Nicola Walker gives a powerful performance in The Unbelievers but Nick Payne’s play left me dissatisfied. My review is on YouTube youtu.be/CR4g9aOhjgU
Theatre reviews roundup: Othello- 4⭐️Telegraph: (David Harewood) a great under-sung Shakespearean; Mail. 3⭐️TimeOut: (Toby Jones) thoroughly entertaining; Standard: humdrum; Guardian; Indy; LondonTheatre; Times. 2⭐️WhatsOnStage: superficial. More at theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
Theatre reviews roundup: David Harewood & Toby Jones in Othello
What did the critics' think of the new West End production of Shakespeare's Othello with David Harewood, Toby Jones and Caitlin FitzGerald?
theatre.reviews
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Theatre reviews roundup: Othello- 4⭐️Telegraph: (David Harewood) a great under-sung Shakespearean; Mail. 3⭐️TimeOut: (Toby Jones) thoroughly entertaining; Standard: humdrum; Guardian; Indy; LondonTheatre; Times. 2⭐️WhatsOnStage: superficial. More at theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
Funny, deep, dazzling. Here’s my 5 star review of The Maids at Donmar Warehouse. youtu.be/pckybBtz22w
5 stars for The Maids
YouTube video by Theatre.Reviews with Paul Seven
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Funny, deep, dazzling. Here’s my 5 star review of The Maids at Donmar Warehouse. youtu.be/pckybBtz22w
The Old Vic will revive Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece Arcadia 24 Jan-21 March. On sale noon Friday
October 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Old Vic will revive Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece Arcadia 24 Jan-21 March. On sale noon Friday
For the whole of 2026, the Royal Court Theatre will be celebrating its 70th birthday with plays from past present and future. Treats include Gary Oldman in Krapp's Last Tape, Tilda Swinton in Man To Man, and a new play from Ryan Calais Cameron. On sale 4 November
October 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
For the whole of 2026, the Royal Court Theatre will be celebrating its 70th birthday with plays from past present and future. Treats include Gary Oldman in Krapp's Last Tape, Tilda Swinton in Man To Man, and a new play from Ryan Calais Cameron. On sale 4 November
Alexandra Burke will be playing Chaka Khan in I’m Every Woman. The musical tells the life story of the music great. 5-28 March at the Peacock Theatre.
October 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Alexandra Burke will be playing Chaka Khan in I’m Every Woman. The musical tells the life story of the music great. 5-28 March at the Peacock Theatre.
With his brilliant version of The Lady From The Lake still running at The Bridge, Simon Stone is already planning his next production there- an update of Chekhov’s Ivanov starring Chris Pine no less. 14 July-19 Sept. Now on sale.
October 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
With his brilliant version of The Lady From The Lake still running at The Bridge, Simon Stone is already planning his next production there- an update of Chekhov’s Ivanov starring Chris Pine no less. 14 July-19 Sept. Now on sale.
Theatre reviews roundup: The Maids (Donmar)- 5⭐️ Stage: brilliant. 4⭐️ BroadwayWorld: hugely strong play; Standard; Guardian. 3⭐️ TimeOut: looks incredible; WhatsOnStage; LondonTheatre; Times. 2⭐️Telegraph: borderline unwatchable; Indy. 1⭐️ Express: exhausting. More at theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
Theatre reviews roundup: The Maids at the Donmar Warehouse
The London theatre critics were split by Kip Williams visceral updated version of Jean Genet's story of two murderous maids
theatre.reviews
October 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Theatre reviews roundup: The Maids (Donmar)- 5⭐️ Stage: brilliant. 4⭐️ BroadwayWorld: hugely strong play; Standard; Guardian. 3⭐️ TimeOut: looks incredible; WhatsOnStage; LondonTheatre; Times. 2⭐️Telegraph: borderline unwatchable; Indy. 1⭐️ Express: exhausting. More at theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
Theatre reviews roundup: Nicola Walker in The Unbelievers- 4⭐️ i: performance of blistering potency; TimeOut. 3⭐️ Telegraph: bravura lead performance; Stage: an air of contrivance; WhatsOnStage; Standard; LondonTheatre. 2⭐️ Guardian: flatness of tone; Times. More at theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
Theatre reviews roundup: The Unbelievers - Theatre Reviews with Paul Seven
The London theatre critics agreed that Nicola Walker gave one her best performances as a mother coping with the disappearance of her son.
theatre.reviews
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Theatre reviews roundup: Nicola Walker in The Unbelievers- 4⭐️ i: performance of blistering potency; TimeOut. 3⭐️ Telegraph: bravura lead performance; Stage: an air of contrivance; WhatsOnStage; Standard; LondonTheatre. 2⭐️ Guardian: flatness of tone; Times. More at theatre.reviews/reviews-roun...
If you kicked yourself for missing Rosamund Pike in Inter Alia at the National, you’ve got a second chance to see this highly rated legal drama by Prima Facie writer Suzie Miller. It’s transferring to Wyndham’s Theatre 19 March-20 June. Tickets on sale Friday.
October 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
If you kicked yourself for missing Rosamund Pike in Inter Alia at the National, you’ve got a second chance to see this highly rated legal drama by Prima Facie writer Suzie Miller. It’s transferring to Wyndham’s Theatre 19 March-20 June. Tickets on sale Friday.
The Producers at the Garrick is no longer my Top Rated (by the critics) Limited Run West End Show. Its run has been extended to 19 Sept 26, so it’s moved to my list of Long Running Shows, where it’s again the best rated production, alongside Cabaret & My Neighbour Totoro
theatre.reviews
theatre.reviews
Theatre review roundups of Plays and Musicals on stage in London
Review roundups of the latest London stage shows plus Best Value West End Shows & Critics’ Average Ratings. And theatre reviews by Paul Seven
theatre.reviews
October 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The Producers at the Garrick is no longer my Top Rated (by the critics) Limited Run West End Show. Its run has been extended to 19 Sept 26, so it’s moved to my list of Long Running Shows, where it’s again the best rated production, alongside Cabaret & My Neighbour Totoro
theatre.reviews
theatre.reviews