Lyn Gardner

Lyn Gardner brings her insight and passion to highlight the best of West End and fringe theatre, sharing her picks, opinions and commentary.

It reunites director Ian Rickson and Kristin Scott Thomas, who worked together on a legendary rev...

22 Jul, 2026 | By Lyn Gardner

The unlikely collaboration between Andrew Lloyd Webber and TS Eliot became one of the West End’s ...

20 Jul, 2026 | By Lyn Gardner

When director Nadia Fall offered Tamzin Outhwaite the chance to play Beverly, the monstrous hoste...

17 Jul, 2026 | By Lyn Gardner

In Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare’s Globe), four earnest young men set up a women-free zone in...

13 Jul, 2026 | By Lyn Gardner

In 1906 a 19-year-old actress called Tilly Newes was given the role of Lulu in a Vienna productio...

9 Jul, 2026 | By Lyn Gardner

Heathers is the cult musical that refuses to fade away. First seen in the West End in 2018, it re...

6 Jul, 2026 | By Lyn Gardner

When director Lynette Linton is watching her production of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind at @soh...

30 Jun, 2026 | By Lyn Gardner