BWW Reviews: SASHA REGAN'S ALL-MALE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, Richmond Theatre, April 15 2015
Gary Naylor enjoys an unorthodox version of one of British Theatre's most performed shows - and finds it as modern and majorly entertaining as ever!
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BWW Reviews: RUMPY PUMPY, Landor Theatre, April 14 2015
Gary Naylor sees a debut musical that has great songs and an important message, but needs to get more from its cast in order to reach its potential.
BWW Reviews: THRILL ME - THE LEOPOLD AND LOEB STORY, Greenwich Theatre, April 9 2015
Gary Naylor sees a scary, shocking, sordid evocation of a murder now 90 years in the past, but still capable of making one stop and think about whether we're really all that different from the psychopaths portrayed.
BWW Reviews: DEAD SHEEP, Park Theatre, April 2 2015
Gary Naylor enjoys a funny, and very scary, play that imagines just what may have happened to see off Margaret Thatcher, one of two politicians to win a secure majority in a UK election in the last 45 years.
BWW Interviews: Sasha Regan, Director of All-Male PIRATES OF PENZANCE
Gary Naylor talks to Sasha Regan ahead of the UK Tour of her All Male Pirates of Penzance.
BWW Reviews: SPEND SPEND SPEND, Union Theatre, March 28 2015
Gary Naylor sees a musical adaptation of one of the icons of British 20th-century tabloid media, Viv Nicholson, who won the pools, lost a husband (or five) and gained the wisdom of late middle age - and survived.
BWW Reviews: CREDITORS, Brockley Jack Theatre, March 26 2015
Gary Naylor sees a claustrophobic examination of personalities on the edge of cracking, incapable of occupying the same space, yet lost without each other.
BWW Reviews: RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET, New Wimbledon Theatre, March 23 2015
Gary Naylor sees a 25th Anniversary Show of a classic musical that, even after all those performances, still has the feel of a first draft in need of a tidying-up.
BWW Reviews: SWEENEY TODD, Harrington's Pie and Mash Shop, 39-45 Shaftesbury Avenue, March 20 2015
The Demon Barber is back! With the seal approval of the highest authority in musical theatre, Tooting Arts Club have transported their pie shop from SW17 to W1 to recreate one of 2014's smash hits.
BWW Reviews: MET OPERA - LA DONNA DEL LAGO, Cineworld Wandsworth, March 14 2015
Gary Naylor is left awed by the performances, the spectacle and the sensory overload of the penultimate show in the New York Met's season of operas broadcast to cinemas around the world.
BWW Reviews: SHRAPNEL: 34 FRAGMENTS OF A MASSACRE, Arcola Theatre, March 16 2015
Gary Naylor sees a fierce condemnation of the multi-faceted situation that led to 34 men, many of them teenagers, losing their lives on a mountain pass between Turkey and Iraq.
BWW Reviews: ENGLISH TOURING OPERA - LA BOHEME, Hackney Empire, March 13 2015
Gary Naylor sees a tremendously impassioned production of Puccini's masterpiece, its power given full rein by musicians and singers who can fill a large theatre with this magical opera.
BWW Reviews: ENGLISH TOURING OPERA - THE WILD MAN OF THE WEST INDIES, Hackney Empire, March 12 2015
Gary Naylor sees a rare revival of one of Gaetano Donizetti's many works and finds it lovely to listen to and as packed with emotion as one has come to expect from Italian opera.
BWW Reviews: LET IT BE, Garrick Theatre, March 11 2015
Gary Naylor sees a show that goes straight to the crowdpleasing mega-hits dispensing with any plot and lets the songs stand, magnificently, on their own two feet.
BWW Reviews: ROMEO AND JULIET, Peacock Theatre, March 10 2015
Gary Naylor sees a ballet version of Romeo and Juliet that builds the story through scenes drawing on a wide range of music and dance.
BWW Reviews: THE 10th ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN BALLET ICONS GALA, London Coliseum, March 8 2015
Gary Naylor enjoys an extraordinary evening of vignettes by ultra-talented dancers that underlines, again, that balance, grace and technique lie at the heart of what pleases the eye in any physical endeavour.
BWW Reviews: THE SIEGE OF CALAIS, Hackney Empire, March 7 2015
Gary Naylor sees a reminder of the persistence of the brutality of war sung wonderfully well with the power of an orchestra in the pit and a libretto that does not flinch in the face of horror.
BWW Reviews: YARICO, London Theatre Workshop, March 6 2015
Gary Naylor sees a show full of great songs and strong performances and the professional debut of Liberty Buckland - a name to remember.
BWW Reviews: MARK LITTLE'S #SECRETMEETINGS, Museum of Comedy, March 5 2015
Gary Naylor sees a show that isn't quite stand-up, but isn't quite experimental theatre either, delivered by an 80s and 90s icon who is channeling his energies into a call to action.
BWW Reviews: ROMEO + JULIET, Rose Theatre Kingston, March 4 2015
Gary Naylor sees a Romeo and Juliet that boldly goes into territory often left dormant by more orthodox directorial decisions.
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