Overview
- The West End revival is now playing at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London and is scheduled through 29 August 2026.
- Original Broadway director Jason Moore returns with a staging that keeps puppeteers in full view as they voice and animate the felt characters.
- Critics single out the production’s polish, noting Rick Lyon’s expressive puppets, Anna Louizos’s cartoonish New York set, and standout performances by Emily Benjamin, Noah Harrison, Charlie McCullagh, Amelia Kinu Muus and Dionne Ward-Anderson.
- The show doubles down on adult satire, with graphic puppet sex and songs like The Internet Is for Porn and Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist that land laughs but also provoke discomfort.
- Several reviews say parts of the material feel out of time today, pointing to the Gary Coleman character and some race gags, even after light updates that drop in ChatGPT and Donald Trump.