Nick, Nick and Nancy are on hand with the latest news, honest reviews and big name interviews from the world of London theatre.
Nancy Durrant is the former Culture Editor of the Evening Standard and before that an arts editor at The Times for many years. She is the creator of The London Culture Edit on Substack and writes across culture for The Times, Sunday Times, Observer, W Magazine, Opera Now and more, and appears regularly on Times Radio and BBC Radio 4 Front Row.
Nick Clark was Head of Culture at The London Standard, covering the cultural landscape in the capital, and was previously features editor of The Stage and the arts correspondent of The Independent.
Nick Curtis is Chief Theatre Critic of The London Standard and has written about theatre since 1989. Also a feature writer, editor and an award-winning interviewer, his work has appeared in most major British newspapers, as well as Radio Times, GQ, Harpers & Queen and Tatler, among others.
Produced by Tim Bano
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The Cherry Orchard, Some Woman, Pearl Mackie, Maria Friedman and Theatre Peckham
This week, Nick, Nick and Nancy head to the Harold Pinter Theatre for The Cherry Orchard, starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan. Conor McPherson and Ian Rickson give Chekhov’s crumbling aristocrats a good shake, while Nick Clark makes a confession: he’s somehow never seen a Chekhov play before. Will this one get him hooked?
Then Nancy and Nick Curtis review Some Woman at the National Theatre’s Dorfman. Anne-Marie Duff stars in Helen Edmundson’s play about a woman whose confrontation with a boy on a railway platform spirals horribly out of control. It leaves Nancy thoroughly shaken, and Nick feeling rather bad about his gender.
Plus, Nick Curtis talks to Doctor Who and The Diplomat star Pearl Mackie about returning to her Brixton birthplace for Baby at Brixton House. Clean Break’s solo show follows a woman fighting to be reunited with her daughter after prison, and Mackie explains how making it has reignited her love of theatre.
Nancy talks to Theatre Peckham’s artistic director Suzann McLean about its 40th anniversary, championing young Black voices and why access to the arts matters far beyond the stage.
And musical theatre royalty Maria Friedman answers our five questions as Kimberly Akimbo extends its run at Hampstead Theatre. Expect Sondheim, Angela Lansbury and an unfortunate encounter with a horse’s bottom...
Our Marquee TV watch party continues with Uncle Vanya starring Toby Jones. Watch it, then send your thoughts to thelondontheatrereview@gmail.com (mailto:thelondontheatrereview@gmail.com) or via Instagram for our special review episode on 4 November. Get one month free at marquee.tv/ltr (https://marquee.tv/ltr) or use the code LTR at checkout. And catch up with our first watch party episode on Macbeth with David Tennant and Cush Jumbo.
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14 Oct 2026
Watch party: Macbeth starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo
Welcome to a special edition of the London Theatre Review in association with Marquee TV, the expert curated streaming platform for arts and culture. This is our first ever watch party in which we pick a production from Marquee TV's huge catalogue, watch it, and discuss along with your thoughts.
What better way to start than with one of the greatest plays of all time, starring two of our country's finest actors? Macbeth was at the Donmar Warehouse in London in 2023 starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo. How well does the jump from stage to screen work?
Don't forget you can get a month's free access to Marquee TV at marquee.tv/ltr, or just use the code LTR at the checkout.
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11 Oct 2026
RENT, Stranger Things's Linnea Berthelsen, James Graham's new play, Jamael Westman
This week, the gang gets to grips with economics, ballet and the Bloomsbury set as James Graham’s new play The Standard of Living comes to the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Rory Kinnear plays John Maynard Keynes, with star ballerina Natalia Osipova as his wife Lydia Lopokova. Producer Tim joins Nancy and Nick Curtis for the review, but does it all add up?
Then it’s back to nineties New York for Rent at the Tom Stoppard Theatre, 30 years on from Jonathan Larson’s musical taking Broadway by storm. Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo stars, with Paddington director Luke Sheppard bringing the show to life.
Nick Curtis talks to another Stranger Things star, Linnea Berthelsen, about making her stage debut in Darkling at the Bush Theatre, a one-woman show set around the Bhopal disaster. They discuss leaving drama school for a Netflix phenomenon, giving everything on stage and having an emotional climax interrupted by a packet of crisps.
And Jamel Westman answers our five questions as he stars in Table 17 at the Kiln, including what happens when you forget your words in Hamilton and have to improvise...
Our first Marquee TV watch party is coming on Wednesday and it's the Donmar’s Macbeth with David Tennant and Cush Jumbo. Keep an eye out on the feed. There are more watch parties to come: get one month free at marquee.tv/ltr (https://marquee.tv/ltr) or use the code LTR at checkout.
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