Gary Naylor is chief London reviewer for BroadwayWorld (https://www.broadwayworld.com/author/Gary-Naylor) and feels privileged to see so much of his home city's theatre. He writes about cricket for The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/gary-naylor) and is a lead commentator at Guerilla Cricket (https://www.guerillacricket.com/). He podcasts on 80s and 90s football at https://www.nessundormapod.com/. He writes on films at Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/garynaylor999/. He tweets at https://twitter.com/garynaylor85.
Favorite Stories:
February 18, 2017
Ventoux captures two very different men going mano a mano against each other, against the Tour de France's most fearsome mountain and, ultimately, against history's insistence that they pay a full price for their sins.
February 16, 2017
Intense and focused, this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's celebrated novel ratchets up the tension without losing the material's intellectual heft.
February 12, 2017
Anyone Can Whistle is a rare combination of a well-deserved flop and a must-see show. Swallow the myriad flaws, and its an entertaining, sharp and eerily prophetic show.
February 11, 2017
The show has bags of potential, passion to burn and excellent singing, but is let down by a pedestrian book and sprawling subplots.
February 10, 2017
This one-off cinema presentation is a great way to see Newsies The Broadway Musical and get a feel for what it's like to be in a big New York audience.
February 8, 2017
Run The Beast Down creates a world collapsing psychologically and socially as the foxes, real and metaphorical, close in on Charlie.
February 7, 2017
Contemporary and hard-hitting, Alex MacKeith's debut, School Play, doesn't quite add up to the sum of its parts.
February 4, 2017
Impressively designed in a wonderful space, Theatre Lab Company's Salome isn't quite compelling enough as entertainment nor thought-provoking enough as polemic.
February 6, 2017
Gary Naylor traces five years in which a show playing to 32 customers in a rundown shop on a back street in distant district of South London made it first to the West End and now to New York.
February 2, 2017
Gary Naylor sees a new adaptation of an old favourite that hits the mark with broad appeal, plenty of laughs and fine songs.
January 31, 2017
Gary Naylor sees a play that examines the failures of the social experiment of Skelmersdale, a 60s council mega estate stuck between Liverpool and Wigan
January 26, 2017
Gary Naylor sees an award-winning show get a deserved transfer to the West End where it bubbles with laughs and some hard edged observations of how we live today.
January 23, 2017
Gary Naylor sees an extraordinary hour of storytelling that releases the human spirit from its physical incarceration.
January 18, 2017
Gary Naylor sees a comedy that lacks the pace and focus it needs to realise its potential.
January 18, 2017
Gary Naylor sees a wonderfully funny farce blessed with strong performances and a script that packs a punch along with the punchlines.
January 17, 2017
Gary Naylor enjoys a treat for eyes and ears with music and singing and love and hate coming together in opera's unique alchemy.
January 14, 2017
Gary Naylor sees a play with a tricksy structure and a vagueness in its script that leaves the actors with few places to go.
January 14, 2017
Gary Naylor sees a funny, contemporary comedy blessed with an Ayckbournesque script and some very fine acting.
January 13, 2017
Gary Naylor sees La La Land, a film that hits you as hard in the heart as it does in the head. He doubts if he'll see a better movie in 2017.
January 12, 2017
Gary Naylor sees a show that generates laughs and shows potential, but doesn't make the most of the setup before the punchline arrives too soon.
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