★★★ HERCULES, THEATRE ROYAL Show aimed at a family audience delivers enough, but no more Big West End crowdpleaser lacks punch and poignancy with join-the-dots plotting and cookie-cutter characters Many years ago, reviewing pantomime for the first time, I recall looking around in the stalls. My brain was saying, "This is terrible, the jokes are lame, the acting execrable and the set garish." My e…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:18PM on June 27, 2025