In a review of the play, Lyn Gardner of The Guardian wrote: "Watching Emma Reeves's serviceable and largely enjoyable adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel, it seems improbable that any modern miss would take the March girls as role models. If the novel speaks to us at all, it is as a piece of romantic fiction, and in Reeves's version it is the pairings off that have you on the edge of your seat, not the way the girls subdue and conquer themselves to become Good Wives."
Little Women, directed by Andrew Loudon, is scheduled to officially open in the West End on October 13.