Matilda the Musical

The Arts Desk“A feast for ears and eyes...” This Matilda is a cunning combination of gross cartoon, pitch-perfect professionalism and endearing feel-good factor, wrapped in a profoundly positive message for this digitalised, quick-fix age: books are the gateway to life...

The Stage“An outstanding ensemble of all ages...” This much-anticipated RSC production could easily have been a disappointment, with expectations high after its triumphant Stratford-upon-Avon opening last year and the stream of awards that followed. It is nothing of the sort...

Financial Times“Above all, it transmits a great passion for literature...” A show that appeals to children with its monsters and mess, and to adults with its message that reading is cool. Dennis Kelly's script is witty and acerbic, Tim Minchin's songs cheeky, stirring and touching by turns...

Daily Mail“A fabulous family fizzer...” It all ends with the audience uncertain whether or not to blur or cheer. You might even do both...

The Telegraph“Hilarious, moving and magical production...” The show has now finally arrived in the West End, where I suspect it will delight audiences for years to come, as well as crossing the Atlantic to conquer Broadway, too. It is the best new British musical since Billy Elliot...

Whatsonstage.com“It’s a good stomping, syncopated score...” After its cascade of rave reviews in Stratford-upon-Avon last December, I was expecting to really enjoy the RSC’s musical version of Roald Dahl’s brilliant children’s story. And I did...

The Observer“You'd be a nitwit to miss this hit show...” Comedian Tim Minchin and writer Dennis Kelly, authors of the music/lyrics and book respectively, evidently had a blast adapting it – the stage fizzes with naughtiness and classic Dahl putdowns...

Evening Standard“It seems set to run and run - and deservedly so...” This is true family entertainment. Children will enjoy its blissful mix of fantasy and irreverence and adults will savour it for these same reasons as well as a host of different ones...

Guardian“If anything, it is actually richer than Dahl's novel.” Writer Dennis Kelly and composer and lyricist Tim Minchin go to the top of the class with this anarchically joyous, gleefully nasty and ingenious musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's story about a girl...