Soho Theatre Reviews Summary

Seating

Pros:

• "The seating area is pretty good and I think everyone will get a good view of the stage from any angle, no blind spots."
• "An accessible location with seating on 3 sides and close to the stage, lending itself to an intimate experience."
• "Our seating was good and was a nice view of the stage!"
• "It is a really intimate theatre where you feel like you can connect to the actors so well!"
• "Great size of venue (quite intimate but still big enough for a good crowd)."
• "The seats aren't the comfiest but the actors more than make up for it."
• "Nice theatre although rather cosy with little leg room."

Cons:

• "Weird bench seating means sharing a seat with the person next to you so awkward sometimes letting people past."
• "The seats are squeezed to one another, so I had nowhere to put my legs and my knee hurt after the show."
• "If you sit in the front row downstairs, your legs knees will be touching the stage and you will have to sit at an angle, other than that."
• "The basement sitting arrangement were literally sitting on the metal chairs - can be very painful for long shows."
• "The seating was really cramped. We had a table seat next to the stage and I was rubbing shoulders with the table next to me."
• "The chairs around the central tables are not the most comfortable, you'll start to feel it if you're watching a longer show."
• "The chairs in the downstairs room are incredibly uncomfortable."

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "The staff are unfailingly friendly."
• "I found the bar staff to be very friendly and helpful."
• "Firstly the staff were really friendly and polite, which is so important."
• "Staff are so friendly and helpful..look like they genuinely love working there."
• "Staff pleasant & friendly."
• "Nice theatre staff were very nice and helpful and friendly."
• "The staff were friendly and the surrounding area is brimming with bars and places to eat."

Cons:

• "Loses a star for some of the rather grumpy bar staff who won't even look at you even if you try and make conversation."
• "The staff does not greet you when you show up with friendly at the reception, they roughly command: 'Name !'."
• "Then a really poor follow up in which they tried to blame us all for their mistakes, not a word of apology."
• "The staff working in this particular theatre are quite rough and unfriendly the way they treat guests."
• "Other bar staff is flat out rude and offended at the idea that you order a drink."
• "It would be nice if the staff serving behind the bar could actually crack a smile....or perhaps I am being too picky!"
• "The most unhelpful staff member propping up the door today."

Bar and Drinks

Pros:

• "Great place to stop for a drink with friends."
• "Bar is excellent with a great choice of draft and bottled beers."
• "A really cool bar! Full of artists and art lovers from plays to comedy."
• "A great venue with a really nice bar to get a drink in whilst you wait for your comedian or show or after."
• "The bar staff here are so lovely, I always end up stopping by here."
• "There's a cool bar on the ground floor where you can enjoy a drink while wait for your show to start."
• "The bar drink range seems reasonable for London."

Cons:

• "The main bar gets a bit rammed just before a show and the food is not up to much."
• "Only thing to prepare for is that Ubers are a bit hard to get post-show."
• "The bar is quite small for the number of people who are visiting."
• "VERY steep drink prices (£7+ pints, £12 Aperol spritz), a crowded bar area."
• "The bar is very very busy. I found it too congested, with a lot of foot fall from different patrons coming and going out of the various theatre rooms."
• "But the pricing is horrible, at the bar a glass of red large was £9 but then at there down below comedy room suddenly it costs £12, it irks me."
• "Bar is EXPENSIVE AF."

Venue and Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Great theatre tucked away in Soho."
• "Three theatres in one venue, thus offering a good selection of interesting, often new, work that you will want to watch."
• "Great for comics and intimate theatre production of up and coming work."
• "This is the best place to see upcoming talent and even sometimes people that are already well known."
• "Theatre is small and intimate place has a buzzing atmosphere with a nice bar."
• "Soho Theatre is such a great venue - super comfortable, well-stocked bar, helpful staff and intimate theatre auditoriums."
• "One of London's best venues for alternative theatre and comedy (especially drag) with a consistently great line-up."

Cons:

• "Even there was no social distance, strangers sitting in the same seat next to you because surprisingly one seat is for two people never seen that before…First and last experience I had never going back there."
• "The bar also doesn’t serve any food so you would have to go elsewhere for that but there’s a great atmosphere overall!"
• "Not sure why you now have to go through the bar to enter and exit the performance spaces - just slows things down and makes the bar even more crammed."
• "Same for the theatre halls, it's very small and has simple chairs with tiny tables."
• "Very crowded and busy, not much space to sit at all."
• "They sent us to the wrong theatre then caused us to miss the first 10 minutes of the play we had actually paid to see."
• "The 'festival-like' free seating is chaotic because they don't have space for a reasonable queue to form."