Please Please Me continues at the Kiln Theatre, London until 29 May 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ See another side to the band whose artistic and cultural impact remains unsurpassed 60 years on. Flawed but fab.
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Manic Street Creature – Kiln Theatre
Manic Street Creature continues at the Kiln Theatre, London until 28 March 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Maimuna Memon triumphs in articulating a tale of true despair and hope.
Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2025
We have asked Musical Theatre Review’s brilliantly talented team of expert critics, based across the UK, to name one particular show that made the biggest impression on them during the last 12 months.
Coven – Kiln Theatre
Coven continues at the Kiln Theatre, London until 17 January 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ One comes away believing that Brewer and Chute have nailed why the story is so relevant, but Coven, for all its attempts to do so, cannot decide how it wants to tell that story, or who it really wants to centre.
UK Theatre Awards 2025 winners announced – Jesus Christ Superstar is named Best Musical Production
The winners of the UK Theatre Awards 2025 have been announced at a ceremony hosted by Faye Tozer. Jesus Christ Superstar at the Watermill Theatre production won for Best Musical Production.
Five Questions With: Allyson Ava-Brown
Actress and singer ALLYSON AVA-BROWN is playing playing Nell/Elizabeth in the forthcoming world premiere of new musical Coven at London’s Kiln Theatre from 31 October to 20 December 2025. Written by Grammy Award-winning Daisy Chute and Rebecca Brewer and staged by Olivier Award-winning director Miranda Cromwell, Coven is a bold new musical reimagining the infamous Pendle Witch […]
The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs – Kiln Theatre, London
The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs continues at the Kiln Theatre, London until 12 July 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It does feel like a powerful statement – not just for lesbians, but for all LGBTQ+ people.
Musical about Pendle Witch Trials to premiere at Kiln Theatre
London’s Kiln Theatre will present the world premiere of new musical Coven as part of the venue’s 2025/2026 season.
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) transfers to the West End after a record-breaking run at the Kiln Theatre
New British musical Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), starring Sam Tutty and Dujonna Gift, will transfer to the West End’s Criterion Theatre from 4 April to 14 July 2024, following a record-breaking run at Kiln Theatre.
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) – Kiln Theatre
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) continues at the Kiln Theatre, London until 20 January 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Kiln Theatre announces cast for Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)
Dujonna Gift and Sam Tutty will co-star in Kiln’s Theatre’s new production of 2018 Stiles + Drewe Mentorship award winners Jim Barne and Kit Buchan’s musical Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York).
Black Love – Kiln Theatre
Black Love continues at the Kiln Theatre, London until 23 April 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Black Love is a musical exploration and celebration of its namesake written and directed by Chinonyerem Odimba. Odimba was inspired to make this piece after overhearing two men discussing Black women disparagingly in a supermarket, […]
Cast announced for Black Love at the Kiln Theatre
Casting has been confirmed for Chinonyerem Odimba’s critically-acclaimed Black Love – the opening production of the 2022 season at London’s Kiln Theatre. Written by playwright Odimba, who also directs, the London-set family drama featuring music by Ben and Max Ringham will star Nicholle Cherrie (Jesus Christ Superstar, Regent’s Park Open Air), Beth Elliott (All the […]
Kiln Theatre’s 2022 season to open with Black Love
Chinonyerem Odimba’s critically-acclaimed Black Love will be the opening production of the 2022 season at London’s Kiln Theatre. Following a successful tour as part of Paines Plough’s Roundabout Season earlier this year, Black Love will begin previews from 28 March 2022 ahead of an opening night on 1 April 2022. The run will end on […]
Open letter to theatre and performance makers
Just hours before the first meeting of the Government’s new recreation and leisure taskforce, a wide-range of companies and venues signed an open letter to theatre and performance makers urging them to become part of a new industry-led freelancers’ task force. Amid warnings that over 1,000 theatres across the country will be closed permanently by […]
‘In theatre, anything can happen’: Clive Rowe chats Blues in the Night, being a grande Dame & the infinite possibilities of theatre
CLIVE ROWE – MBE and Olivier Award winner – is one of the UK’s most recognisable and best-loved performers. A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he won critical acclaim early in his career for playing Enoch Snow in Nicholas Hytner’s sold-out revival of Carousel at the National Theatre, for which he received […]
Blues in the Night – Kiln Theatre
Blues in the Night continues at the Kiln Theatre, London – until 7 September 2019. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ There is much about Blues in the Night to remind one of Ain’t Misbehavin’, the Fats Waller musical revue that recently ran at the Southwark Playhouse. Both revolve around songs of Depression-era America, a time when the blues music […]
Revival of Blues in the Night and musical re-telling of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth to feature in Kiln Theatre’s first season
A major revival of Sheldon Epps’ musical revue Blues in the Night will feature in the first season for the newly refurbished London venue, the Kiln Theatre. Running from 22 July to 7 September 2019, Blues in the Night will be directed by Susie McKenna with a cast that will include Sharon D Clarke and […]
