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BWW Review: MY MOTHER SAID I NEVER SHOULD, Crucible Studio, Sheffield
Sheffield Theatres and Fingersmiths reinvent Charlotte Keatley's classic play about the lives of four women in one family....
BWW Review: THE WOMAN IN BLACK, York Theatre Royal
The theatrical phenomenon that is The Woman In Black began in 1987, when Stephen Mallatratt adapted Susan Hill's spine-chilling work of gothic fiction for the stage. Over thirty years and countless terrified audiences later the production is still going strong....
BWW Review: THE MATCH BOX, Omnibus Theatre
Frank McGuinness's play is never less than engaging, Angela Murray tremendous as the woman left alone after her daughter is shot, but it's an unrelenting and demanding watch...
BWW Review: I DO! I DO! Upstairs at the Gatehouse
I Do! I Do! even with this updated book, is an old-fashioned two-hander musical that never fails to please, without ever challenging the traditional approach to the union between a man and a woman....
BWW Review: TOAST, Theatre Royal Brighton
Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger is a best-selling memoir novel from the renowned Observer food columnist, Nigel Slater. It was adapted into a film in 2010 and has now been reworked for the stage, premiering at The Lowry in Manchester in 2018. The show is currently running at the Theatre Royal in ...
BWW Review: EDRED, THE VAMPYRE, The Old Red Lion Theatre
Edred, The Vampyre is a lot of fun with its fair quotient of chills thrown in and a fine example of how to stage horror, a tricky genre for theatres....
BWW Review: A MUSEUM IN BAGHDAD, Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon
Hannah Khalil's new play grapples with some big issues for over two hours, but the biggest issue of all for any play - the drama between the characters - is absent for much of that time....
BWW Review: FRIENDSICAL, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
This year, the ever-popular sitcom Friends turns 25 years old; and what better way to celebrate than by seeing it memorialised on stage in musical form?...
BWW Review: THE ENTERTAINER, Theatre Royal Brighton
Roll up, roll up, it's a revival of John Osbourne's The Entertainer. Shane Ritchie takes the mic as washed-up entertainer, Archie Rice. Osbourne's play shows the drama of his life a?" both on- and off-stage back home....
BWW Review: FLEDGLINGS, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
Change can be tricky - not least when you're a teenage girl going through puberty, loss, and friendship trouble. Written by Tamsin Daisy Rees, directed by Emily Collins, and produced by Holly Mitchell, Fledglings is a touching tale of birds, best friendships and blossoming young women....
BWW Review: OUT OF SORTS, Theatre503
Danusia Samal's award-winning play packs plenty of issues, perhaps too many, into its drama but says important things about the way young Muslim women are expected to behave, as they navigate the first generation immigrant experience....
BWW Review: ASSASSINS, Watermill Theatre
Assassins is never less than engaging and interesting, for all its structural flaws. Worth the ticket price just to see the virtuosity of this super-talented cast....
BWW Review: SH*T-FACED SHAKESPEARE: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream doesn't really need an introduction. It's a magical, mystical, mirthful favourite....
BWW Review: EXTRAORDINARY WALL (OF SILENCE), Bristol Old Vic
1880 was something of a watershed moment in the history of the Deaf community. It was during a conference in Milan that it was decreed the oral method of instruction for the deaf was the way forward thereby setting in stone a method that would last for nearly 100 years and define what it was to be d...
BWW Review: MAME, Hope Mill Theatre
Hope Mill Theatre is known for its excellent musical theatre revivals, and the current production of MAME is no exception. In 1969, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's production graced the West End, starring Ginger Rogers; 50 years on, MAME has become one of the lesser-known musicals....
BWW Review: FRIENDSICAL, Worthing Pavilion Theatre
It's been 25 years since a certain coffee shop-loving troupe appeared on our TV screens. FRIENDSICAL: A Parody Musical About Friends, written and directed by Miranda Larson, is a love letter to that sitcom series so many know and love. After debuting at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, it is m...
BWW Review: THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, Crucible, Sheffield
This adaptation of Giles Foden's novel takes us into the heart of Idi Amin's regime...
BWW Review: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
If any show proves that physical comedy is timeless, it's One Man, Two Guvnors, which brings a subversive 18th-century Italian comedy onto the 21st-century stage, and then promptly pushes it down the stairs to uproarious laughter....
BWW Review: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, Nelson Mandela Primary School and RSC Swan Theatre
This Merchant of Venice is aimed at schoolchildren and it's a fantastic experience for them. It's also pretty good for anyone, whether a 100+ Shakespeares veteran like me or a first-timer....
BWW Review: AMELIE THE MUSICAL, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
Almost twenty years after she charmed hearts on the big screen, Amélie is taking to the stage in a bid to change lives and spread joy in the smallest of ways, with the biggest of hearts....
BWW Review: MACBETH, Royal Exchange Theatre
It's a story of love, war and one of the greatest tragedies ever told. Macbeth has returned to Manchester for a run at the Royal Exchange Theatre. However, there is a slight difference: Macbeth is played by a woman....
BWW Review: ANDY PARSONS: HEALING THE NATION, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
At a time of confusion, uncertainty and political chaos, never has there been more to talk about; and never has our country needed more reason for light relief and laughter. Fresh in its first week, Andy Parsons brings his Healing the Nation tour to Nuffield Southampton Theatres....
BWW Review: KING JOHN, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
King John's themes are horribly present in today's febrile political climate making it exactly the right time to revive one on Shakespeare's less performed plays....
BWW Review: A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, York Theatre Royal
Arthur Miller's modern classic A View from the Bridge is faithfully revived in this co-production between York Theatre Royal and Royal & Derngate, Northampton....
BWW Review: ONCE UPON A TIME, Tobacco Factory Theatres
Once upon a time there lived two storytelling brothers, their younger sister and a very silly story. This hilarious and nonsensical fairy tale adventure, bursting with absurd jokes and physical comedy, was brought to the Spielman Theatre of the Bristol Tobacco Factory by Gonzo Moose, known best for ...
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