Gary Naylor - Page 45

Gary Naylor sees a confident and technically accomplished adaptation of a classic that provides classy entertainment as an alternative to panto.

Gary Naylor sees the work of three Kings of Broadway, their gifts to fans of musical theatre as valuable as any gold, frankincense and myrrh.

Gary Naylor sees a show full of good songs and good singing that would be improved by the links that bring polish to a fine cabaret performance.

Gary Naylor sees a fine tribute to an all-time great of musical theatre and film only slightly let down by failing to give such majestic songs their full due.

Gary Naylor sees a show that has its flaws but has the audience laughing out loud with silly gags, appalling stereotypes and witty songs.

Gary Naylor sees a remarkable adaptation of Medea, one that allows the children to tell the story of their tragic fate.

Gary Naylor sees two plays by Terence Rattigan, the first delving into the darker elements of the soul and the second provoking plenty of laughs.

Gary Naylor sees a star-studded production of The Winter's Tale that doesn't quite convince in overcoming the problems of one of Shakespeare's problem plays.

Gary Naylor sees a fine new musical that takes impressive base material and creates a musical that raises the emotional stakes even higher.

Gary Naylor sees a spectacular revival of Eugene O'Neill's hardboiled story of a hardcase who just can't fit into a world that doesn't really want him.

Gary Naylor sees the European premiere of a play that has plenty to interest the audience, but not quite enough to engage it.

Gary Naylor sees the revival of an old favourite from Saturday night television in the years long before it was captured by Simon Cowell and his clones - for whom no number of raspberries can be too many!

Gary Naylor sees a fine selection of Sondheim's extraordinary songs delivered by an all-star cast for two very good causes in the magnificent setting of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Gary Naylor sees an innovative take on Romeo and Juliet which gets plenty of laughs early on before a descent to murder and suicide.

Gary Naylor sees a scaled-back adaptation of Sondheim's A Little Night Music that manages to capture all (well, almost all) of the appeal of the West End show.

Gary Naylor sees a scaled back but utterly compelling version of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, that makes the occasional compromise with the stories, but none at all with the quality of the singing nor the sets.

Gary Naylor sees a scaled back Werther that still packs an impressive punch, as two lives fall apart caught between love and duty.

Gary Naylor sees a brilliant revival of Tooting Arts Club's 2012 production of Barrie Keeffe's three mid-70s plays about lads growing up slowly in the mean streets of a London in the throes of huge social changes.

Gary Naylor sees a demanding, but rewarding, cinema presentation of Mozart's enduring comic opera, The Marriage of Figaro.

Gary Naylor revels in an extraordinary day at the theatre, an epic presentation of Shakespeare's account of what his royal family, the Tudors, inherited from the chaotic rule of the Houses of York and Lancaster.