BWW Reviews: PACIFIC OVERTURES, Union Theatre, July 4 2014
Gary Naylor sees a revival of Stephen Sondheim's strange 1970s musical about 1850s Japan, production that borrows from a variety of theatrical styles without ever fully establishing its own.
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BWW Reviews: ABOUT MISS JULIE, King's Head Theatre, July 3 2014
Gary Naylor sees a perfectly realised adaptation of August Strindbeg's Miss Julie, packed with dramatic tension, big ideas and superb acting.
BWW Reviews: RICHARD III, St Paul's Church, Covent Garden, June 30 2014
Gary Naylor sees a open air promenade production that exhausts cast and audience with its relentless spectacle and cruelty - but believes it was all worth it for such a splendid production.
BWW Reviews: MY GIRL 2, The Old Red Lion Theatre, June 29 2014
Gary Naylor sees a kitchen sink drama for our times that captures the sense of claustrophobia of Britain's (especially London's) debt culture and the swirling social ills that flow in and around inner city's sink estates.
BWW Reviews: ARTHUR PITA: THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOW, Greenwich Dance Academy, June 28 2014
Gary Naylor sees a piece of dance-theatre that covers the familiar ground of the Depression-era US dancing marathons that cruelly manipulated both competitors and audiences with ruthless cruelty.
BWW Reviews: TWELFTH NIGHT RE-IMAGINED FOR EVERYONE AGED SIX AND OVER, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, June 28 2014
Gary Naylor sees a magnificently accessible production of Twelfth Night, brimming with charm, music and laughter, aimed at kids, but suitable - recommended - for everyone!
BWW Reviews: FASHION VICTIM - THE MUSICAL, The Cinema Museum, June 26 2014
Gary Naylor has a lot of fun with Fashion Victim, a satire on popular culture with songs, dance, some terrible plotting and some good jokes, but is left wondering if it shouldn't be a lot more.
BWW Reviews: CATCH 22, Richmond Theatre, June 24 2014
Gary Naylor sees a long, but rewarding adaptation of Joseph Heller's notoriously unadaptable anti-war novel, Catch 22.
BWW Reviews: 20TH CENTURY BOY, New Wimbledon Theatre, June 23 2014
Gary Naylor sees an evocation of a Seventies superstar in a jukebox musical that delivers all the crowdpleasing moments one could hope for, if ultimately feeling a little light on dramatic tension.
BWW Reviews: MATA HARI, St James Theatre Studio, June 17 2014
Gary Naylor sees a beautiful but sad cabaret based on the life of Mata Hari the woman shot by the French Army for spying whose short life contained more dramas than a hundred others.
BWW Reviews: ENDURING SONG, Southwark Playhouse, June 13 2014
Gary Naylor sees a play overly determined by its length and its extreme loudness, a victim of the ambition of a young company that will come back stronger and wiser for the experience.
BWW Reviews: PUNCHING JANE, The Courtyard, June 11 2014
Gary Naylor sees a slice of London's Victorian underbelly brought back to life in a play that packs less punch than it might do despite some committed performances and a fascinating set-up.
BWW Reviews: TRISTRAM SHANDY: CONCEPTION, COCK AND BULL, St James Theatre, June 9 2014
Gary Naylor sees a delightful resurrection of one of English comedy's founding fathers - the coarse, warm, funny Tristram Shandy, the creation of Irish clergyman Laurence Sterne.
BWW Reviews: THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA, King's Head Theatre, June 8 2014
Gary Naylor sees a terrifyingly uncompromising play about women held away from their hopes, their dreams, their desires, distinguished by some brilliant acting and fine use of the venue's tiny, oppressive, space.
BWW Reviews: LEAR, Union Theatre, June 7 2014
Gary Naylor sees a Lear who walks among us as her (yes, this Lear is a woman) mind comes and goes and her daughters squabble over the prizes she so foolishly has allocated.
BWW Reviews: AN AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY LARK, Rose Theatre Kingston, June 4 2014
Gary Naylor sees a new play, with lots of music, dancing and singing, set in a traditional Lancashire village as love blossoms, war looms and everyone pays a price.
BWW Reviews: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, Shakespeare's Globe, May 29 2014
Gary Naylor sees an epic production of Antony and Cleopatra dominated by the two lead actors and the extraordinary, unique, chilly Globe Theatre, down by the Thames, somewhere about 1606 - or so it feels.
BWW Reviews: SPOKESONG, Finborough Theatre, May 26 2014
Gary Naylor sees a production of a play about what the United Kingdom means to its peoples, the first London production for 37 years, but timely in 2014 when such questions arise again, albeit in a completely different context.
BWW Reviews: JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, Southwark Playhouse, May 23 2014
Gary Naylor sees a timely revival of Bradley Rand Smith's adaptation of Dalton Trumbo's cri-de-coeur novel centred on a soldier left with just a mind and a torso by a shell on the battlefield of 1918.
BWW Reviews: BRING UP THE BODIES, Aldwych Theatre, May 17 2014
Gary Naylor sees an ambitious, clever and tremendously rewarding adaptation of Hilary Mantel's award-winning historical novels, transferred from the RSC's Stratford-upon-Avon home to the West End for a summer season.
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