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BWW Review: OKLAHOMA!, Chichester Festival Theatre
Oklahoma! stands at the very start of musical theatre's post-war re-invention on Broadway, Rodgers and Hammerstein's template for storytelling on show for two wonderful hours. However, this production raises some unexpected questions....
BWW Review: OUR CHURCH, Watermill Theatre
Our Church looks at how a moral dilemma impacts on a small community and at how pain can vibrate through decades before re-surfacing - and it avoids the glibness of a resolution founded in easy answers....
BWW Review: LIFE OF PI, Crucible, Sheffield
This stunning new adaptation of Yann Martel's much loved novel is a must-see....
BWW Review: DEAD DOG IN A SUITCASE (AND OTHER LOVE SONGS), Bristol Old Vic
'Bring it down, bring it all down' is the anarchic cry from Macheath in Kneehigh's take on The Beggar's Opera. John Gray's original is given the full Kneehigh treatment- the original is not a constraint but a jumping off point. Perhaps the slide in the middle of Michael Vale's set is the physical ma...
BWW Review: ONE GIANT LEAP, Jack Studio Theatre
One Giant Leap takes a good set up - a failing sci-fi show asked to fake the moon landings - but loses its way amongst predictable stereotypes and laughs that come few and far between....
BWW Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Shakespeare's Rose Theatre, York
Staging a production in an open-air Elizabethan-style theatre such as Shakespeare's Rose is a feat rife with both challenges and potential. Joyce Branagh's jubilant adaptation of Twelfth Night fulfils that potential and then some, in a triumphant production that pulses with brightness and energy fro...
BWW Review: THE TEMPEST, Shakespeare's Rose Theatre, York
Philip Franks' take on The Tempest is one of four productions playing in rep at the theatre over the summer (the others being Hamlet, Twelfth Night and Henry V). Franks builds on the magic and mystery at the heart of The Tempest in a production which takes a while to find its groove but is not witho...
BWW Review: MEASURE FOR MEASURE, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
'Measure still for measure': justice is still a tricky concept. Gregory Doran's insightful realisation of Shakespeare's notorious 'problem play' highlights Measure for Measure's enduring, perhaps even increasing, relevance....
BWW Review: SUMMER ROLLS, Park Theatre
Summer Rolls takes us into the heart of a British Vietnamese family that is struggling to deal with the present, a consequence of the long shadow cast by the past....
BWW Review: CROOKED DANCES, The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon
Crooked Dances takes us deep into the French forest and deep into the mysteries of the occult, as go-getting journalist, Katy, learns more than she would like about reclusive pianist Silvia and her obsession with the music of Erik Satie....
BWW Review: A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
More than a decade after Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel was published, the same much-adored story has taken to the stage....
BWW Review: ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI, Bristol Old Vic
It's 1964 and Cassius Clay has just beaten the odds to become Heavyweight Champion of the World. But, instead of celebrating on the town, he's in a hotel room star NFL running back Jim Brown, soul icon Sam Cooke and Muslim minister and activist Malcolm X....
BWW Review: THE POPE, Royal and Derngate, Northampton
The world premiere of Anthony McCarten's (The Theory of Everything, Bohemian Rhapsody, Darkest Hour) play The Pope at Royal and Derngate looks at a turning point moment in the Catholic Church - the retirement of Pope Benedict XVI and his replacement with Pope Francis. Two popes living, but more than...
BWW Review: PLENTY, Chichester Festival Theatre
The one-time highly controversial David Hare play still packs a punch and a message that seems, if anything, even more insistent in these Austerity / Brexit days....
BWW Review: DRIVING MISS DAISY, York Theatre Royal
Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer-winning 1987 play made famous by a 1989 film adaptation starring Morgan Freeman, is brought back to the stage in a new production by York Theatre Royal....
BWW Review: BREXIT, King's Head Theatre
Brexit looks at, well, Brexit and finds comedy in the twists and turns it forces upon the new Prime Minister, Adam Masters - but the jokes could be funnier and the satire more biting....
BWW Review: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, Grand Opera House York
Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show has had audiences worldwide shivering in 'antici...pation!' for more than 40 years, and shows no sign of stopping with its 2019 world tour....
BWW Review: FORCE OF NATURE NATALIA, Curzon Mayfair
Force Of Nature gives us an unprecedented up close and personal insight of the work of Royal Ballet Principal, Natalia Osipova, but leaves us wanting to know more about the woman who animates the dancer....
BWW Review: BLACK TEETH AND A BRILLIANT SMILE, The Ambassador Bradford
Adapted by Freedom Studios from Adelle Stripe's critically acclaimed novel of the same name, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile is a fictionalised account of Dunbar's brief but turbulent life. Adapted by screenwriter Lisa Holdsworth and directed by Kash Arshad, the play is performed by an entirely fe...
BWW Review: VENICE PRESERVED, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Prasanna Puwanarajah's revival of Venice Preserved brings the look of the show right up to date - its narrative is very 21st century, so needed nothing....
BWW Review: THE AUDIENCE, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
As the United Kingdom waits to see who will be the next prime minister, a production focusing on the relationship between PM and the Queen could not be more perfectly timed....
BWW Review: USER NOT FOUND, The CoffeeWorks Project, Battersea Power Station
USER NOT FOUND plunges us into the very contemporary and very real issues concerning one's digital legacy. Do you hit the big red button and kill ?that person again? Or do you let them live on, haunting ever diminishing spaces in the digital world?...
BWW Review: RICHARD III, Royal and Derngate
Held together by a mesmerising performance by Tom Mothersdale, Headlong's production of Richard III races along at such a pace that it's only after it stops that you realise exactly how much ground they have managed to cover. In John Haidar's hands, one of the very longest of Shakespeare's plays is ...
BWW Review: HAPPY JACK, Jack Studio Theatre
Happy Jack is an early play by John Godber full of working class warmth tempered with a hard edge of social criticism....
BWW Review: UTE LEMPER: RENDEZVOUS WITH MARLENE, Arcola Theatre
Ute Lemper: Rendezvous with Marlene sees a living legend portraying a now lost legend - up close and personal and a privilege to see....
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