BWW Review: BRIAN AND ROGER, Menier Chocolate Factory
The stage version of the successful comedy podcast flounders on the transition from the everyday to the absurd
Gary Naylor - Page 23
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Not for the purists but beautiful to behold, this Pinafore updates the humour while respecting the music.
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Richard Norton-Taylor and Nicholas Kent have fashioned a play from statements at the Grenfell Inquiry that leads a horrified audience to specific and more general conclusions and the siren call that 'this must never happen again'.
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This new play raises interesting questions about father-son relationships in a world in which middle-aged men can struggle to find a role, but its lack of detail prevents its potential being realised fully
BWW Review: YELLOWFIN, Southwark Playhouse
Marek Horn's blistering satire hits plenty of marks as he gets a tune out of a fine cast obsessing about tuna
BWW Review: THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Theatre Royal Windsor
Francesca Annis is in show-stealing form in Chekhov's masterpiece of changing times in a Windsor I last saw on television coverage of Harry and Meghan's wedding - appropriately enough.
BWW Review: THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, Almeida Theatre
Saoirse Ronan provides a much needed opportunity to listen and learn from Shakespeare's tale of ambition's dangers amidst much wailing and gnashing of teeth
BWW Review: THE WOMAN WHO TURNED INTO A TREE, Jacksons Lane Theatre
This Swedish satire on loneliness in the city hits its marks but is undermined a little by the method of its creation
BWW Review: A PLACE FOR WE, Park Theatre
Archie Maddocks' new play treads some familiar ground, but updates it for the 21st century, as identities are forged and fractured in the contested spaces of gentrifying London.
BWW Review: THE IDEA, Jack Studio Theatre
Irrational Theatre resurrect a long neglected work from the early days of the celebrated composer and find plenty of parallels with 20th century comedy and 21st century politics.
BWW Review: METAMORPHOSES, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Ambitious and never less than interesting, the 90 minutes all-through running time turns already gruesome material into a tougher watch that it need be.
BWW Review: ROMEO AND JULIET, Royal Opera House
Real-life partners Francesca Hayward and Cesar Corrales turn star-crossed lovers in Kenneth MacMillan's definitive staging of Sergey Prokofiev's ballet
BWW Review: GODSPELL, Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
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When Charlie joins Jimmy and Cazza's acting agency, things go badly and well all at the same time in an absurdist comedy
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Barbra Streisand and Joan Rivers kvetch (a lot) and kvell (a little) before and after they become two of the biggest stars in the USA
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