Operation Mincemeat Reviews
Operation Mincemeat is the Olivier Award-winning musical now making its highly anticipated Broadway debut in New York! After a wildly successful run in the UK, where it received 74 five-star reviews (and counting) and was named Best New Musical at the Olivier Awards. This fast-paced, hilarious show is bringing its unique blend of comedy and history to the Big Apple.
Following opening night on March 20th 2025, tickets are on sale now. Don’t miss your chance to experience this critically acclaimed production live on Broadway!
Operation Mincemeat reviews for the Broadway debut are rolling in. In the meantime, read the glowing reviews from its hit UK run below as it makes its way to New York, including: Variety, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Sun and The Washington Post.
Discover why critics love the show as Operation Mincemeat heads to Broadway in 2025 with the original West End cast!
“One of the season’s most exhilarating new musicals. In the spirit of 'Austin Powers,' 'Monty Python' and the high-concept farce of Alan Ayckbourn, Operation Mincemeat is both unabashedly goofy and exceptionally smart.”
THE WASHINGTON POST
“Now this yarn is a self-aware and droll Broadway musical, a five-character London hit hoping that its very British signature blend of Monty Python and 'Goon Show'-like humor, 'Billy Elliot'-like music, 'Hamilton'-like rhythms and a hip, post-modern staging will tickle the American fancy.”
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“A laugh-out-loud musical that's part spy thriller, part wartime spoof and endlessly entertaining.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“The Brits have made the year’s funniest musical…Against the odds, the “Operation Mincemeat” gang has found its way to the big time.”
PETER MARKS
“Help! I’ve been to see Operation Mincemeat 12 times…There are very few works of art that are successfully coded to appeal to conservative and liberal sensibilities, but this is...Both will appreciate the very British theme of fairness, along with the musical’s surprisingly deep heart."
SEBASTIAN PAYNE
“Mincemeat is a triumphant blend of slapstick, farce, intricate plotting, deceptively simple characterizations, terrific music and deliciously energetic performances that recall the best of The Play That Goes Wrong franchise, One Man, Two Guvnors and all the other clockwork-comedy descendants of Noises Off.”
DEADLINE
“Too British? Not if you want to laugh uproariously — and perhaps even unexpectedly shed a tear or two.”
VARIETY
"The little show that roared in the face of bloated blockbusters has executed a flawless transition to mainstream triumph.”
STEFAN KYRIAZIS
“My far-and-away favorite production—and a complete surprise to me—was the musical “Operation Mincemeat… a comedy that has been cheerfully dismantling jingoism builds a stirring vision of real fellowship in its place.”
HELEN SHAW
“LAUGHING so hard I could barely breathe is not what I expected for a musical about a World War II top-secret plan.…the perfect invasion of the West End. Long may they occupy it.”
THEA JACOBS
"Part Mel Brooks, part SIX, part Hamilton with a side order of One Man, Two Guvnors.”
NEIL NORMAN
“Despite all that Hollywood firepower, my top pick was a homegrown musical about the UK’s role in World War II”
SARAH RAPPAPORT
"There are strong echoes of the social satire of Monty Python in its prime, as well as the shape-shifting theatricality of Patrick Barlow’s The 39 Steps.”
BOB VERNI
“Is the quite splendid “Operation Mincemeat” ridiculously clever or cleverly ridiculous? Both…this is the musical you didn’t know you needed”
DAVID BENEDICT
"Before curtain I talked to a fan seeing this for the seventh time. I wondered why anyone would see the same show seven times. Now I know.”
NEIL ARMSTRONG
“Unfortunately five stars is the limit, I would happily give many more.”
KATERINA PARTOLINA SCHWARTZ
“Pure theatrical serotonin”
HUGH MONTGOMERY
