On the Town - Paperweight Magazine

Review: Digger

★★☆☆☆ | Tom Cruise on thin ice in trite tycoon satire

By Alex Rees

/ 18 Oct 2026

Review: RENT

Jonathan Larson's most renowned work returns to the West End.

By Cal Roscow

/ 17 Oct 2026

The despot’s guide to running a book club

Spin the wheel, not-that-young professional! Too feeble for rock climbing? Too ugly for podcasting in the ‘everything is clips’ age? Not single enough, despite these facts, for run

By Greg Barradale

/ 11 Oct 2026

The despot’s guide to running a book club

Review: Into the Woods

★★★★★ | Sondheim and Lapine's enchanting show is given everlasting life in Jordan Fein's transfer to the West End

By Anya Ryan

/ 11 Oct 2026

Review: Bad Apples

★★★★☆ | Toe-curling tension in Saoirse Ronan’s teacher thriller

By Alex Rees

/ 3 Oct 2026

Restaurant review: Lady of the Grapes London Bridge

★★★★☆ | Unfussy French food, in a contemporary restaurant setting, with an unbeatable wine list

By Cal Roscow

/ 26 Sep 2026

Restaurant review: Lady of the Grapes London Bridge

Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

★★★★☆ | Flesh and fluids flourish in Jane Schoenbrun’s mise-en-abyme pastiche horror

By Alex Rees

/ 19 Sep 2026

Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Review: Those People

★★★★☆ | Lara Ciulli and Riana White offer up an immensely watchable, deep yet humorous portrait of queer female companionship

By Anya Ryan

/ 2 Sep 2026

Review: Selina Mosinski: Puss in Boots – A Working Class Fairy Tale

★★★★☆ | Mosinski's bawdy one-hander is the vehicle for a punchy autobiographical story worth telling

By Cal Roscow

/ 25 Aug 2026

Review: Selina Mosinski: Puss in Boots – A Working Class Fairy Tale

Restaurant review: Piggs

★★★★☆ | Cal Roscow takes a trip to Bruntsfield to try the tapas at an institution for the insatiable

By Cal Roscow

/ 23 Aug 2026

Review: Elf Lyons is The Woman on the Edge

★★★★☆ | Elf Lyons brings the audience into her psyche through this powerfully personal, yet wonderfully weird, high-concept show

By Anya Ryan

/ 23 Aug 2026

Review: Elf Lyons is The Woman on the Edge

Review: Sam Eley is Basil Crumbwick

★★★★★ | With flashes of The League of Gentlemen, this sad, bitter man is on course to be one of the comedy greats

By Anya Ryan

/ 18 Aug 2026