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BWW Review: ALL OF IT, Royal Court Theatre
Kate O'Flynn is in award-winning form as the baby who grows into a girl and then a woman before her life's span is through in Alistair McDowall's clattering monologue....
BWW Review: RETURN TO HEAVEN, Tobacco Factory Theatres Bristol
A post-apocalyptic road warrior, an astronaut and a shark walk into a bara??...
BWW Review: THE CROFT, Perth Theatre
Sometimes we just want to get away. We all have our reasons for wanting a bit of peace and quiet in the middle of nowhere but being cut off from the rest of the world isn't necessarily a solution to life's problems. Ali Milles' new thriller The Croft follows two stories across multiple timelines th...
BWW Review: RENDEZVOUS WITH MARLENE, St. George's, Bristol
Rendezvous with Marlene started with a letter. A young Ute Lemper explodes onto the French stage playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret and the next day the French press proclaimed her, a?oeLa nouvelle Marlene!a??....
BWW Review: PERSONA, Riverside Studios
Persona transfers somewhat uneasily from screen to stage in Paul Schoolman's new adaptation, but retains its intellectual heft and eerily subversive quality....
BWW Review: ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS, Bristol Old Vic
When Romantics Anonymous originally premiered at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2017, it received wonderful reviews and there was such a joyful buzz surrounding this show that I unfortunately didn't get to experience for myself.
How lucky then, that the collaboration between Wise Children and Plush...
BWW Review: THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF SMACK AND CRACK, Bristol Old Vic
In large part, Ed Edwards' class A drug odyssey The Political History of Smack and Crack does what it says on the tin. Steeped in social and political commentary, Edwards' piece steers us through the bumpy ride of addiction, from hospital room to street corner via a constitutional polemic that ai...
BWW Review: THE CANARY AND THE CROW, Arcola Theatre
Daniel Ward's autobiographical tale, told as gig theatre, has plenty to say and says it well - we would be wise to listen....
BWW Review: FADING INTO NOTHINGNESS, Merlin Theatre, Sheffield
An assured and emotional debut from writer Theo Griffiths deals with a family in turmoil....
BWW Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Jack Studio Theatre
This no frills Twelfth Night rattles through Shakey's comedy getting laughs along the way, but includes some artistic decisions that didn't quite land as clearly as they were, perhaps, intended to....
BWW Review: ONCE, Ashcroft Playhouse Fairfield Halls
Once shows all its crowdpleasing credentials in this new touring production with a tremendous cast doing full justice to its score and carrying a somewhat corny plot to a standing ovation curtain....
BWW Review: TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS, Union Theatre
The Union Theatre's Essential Classics season kicks off with Phil Willmott's updating of a classic with much to say about England in 2020....
BWW Review: GUYS AND DOLLS, Crucible, Sheffield
The Crucible takes us to New York's bustling backstreets in this joyous revival....
BWW Review: CINDERELLA, Fairfield Halls
Cinderella delivers a true family pantomime that mixes spectacular sets and costumes with plenty of laughs in a show that doesn't push back any boundaries, but delivers what its audience wants at Christmas....
BWW Review: CINDERELLA, Lyceum, Sheffield
The latest Sheffield Theatres panto hits all the traditional panto beats....
BWW Review: WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND, Union Theatre
Sasha Regan revisits her 2015 production of the 1996 musical to deliver a splendid show for Christmas, with a relevance and harder edge that was missing a little four long years ago....
BWW Review: DICK WHITTINGTON, Bristol Hippodrome
When on song, panto can be monumentally brilliant. An unpretentious form of theatre that can delight old and young alike. It's a shame then that this latest effort from panto behemoth Qdos is so tone deaf it makes your toes curl....
BWW Review: RAVENS: SPASSKY VS FISCHER, Hampstead Theatre
Ravens: Spassky vs Fischer takes us to Iceland in 1974 for the World Chess Championship, a clash between two very different men and two very different systems but with much that is not so different to the politics of today....
BWW Review: UNCLE VANYA, Old Red Lion Theatre
This production pares back Chekhov's original text and foregrounds key themes with just a hint that Vanya even has something to say about the key political issue of the day....
BWW Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Bridge House Theatre
Scrooge, the ghosts and a very Tiny Tim just an arm's length away in a fine adaptation of Dickens' timeless tale....
BWW Review: HUNGER, Arcola Theatre
Hunger, adapted from controversial Norwegian, Knut Hamsun's, early career novel, brings us a man alienated from an uncaring world - as much a fixture on the fringes of our city some 130 years since the book was published....
BWW Review: PETER PAN GOES WRONG, Theatre Royal Brighton
All it takes are some happy thoughts and fairy dusta??that's how the boy who never grows up is able to fly, at least. In Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Mischief Theatre's take on the JM Barrie classic certainly lifts your spirits, but mainly because not everything quite goes to plan for the young performers...
BWW Review: FUNNY GIRL, Théâtre Marigny, Paris
The feeling you don't conform to the mould that society expects, is a feeling familiar to most of us in our lives at some point or another. Perhaps that is what makes Funny Girl endure and continue to pack out theatres....
BWW Review: WHAT'S IN A NAME?, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
We all know that you should never judge a book by its cover a?' but should you ever judge a person by their name? This is the question posed to us in What's In A Name?, which has landed at Nuffield Southampton Theatres at the end of its first-ever UK tour....
BWW Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Wilton's Music Hall
Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory have a lot of fun with their London transfer of Shakespeare's battle of the sexes, but not every decision pays off and they need to be more sympathetic to the unique pros and cons of this remarkable venue....
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