BWW Review: DIETRICH: NATURAL DUTY, Wilton's Music Hall
Peter Groom brings a legendary figure of 20th century culture to life in this affectionate and beautifully observed show.
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Peter Groom brings a legendary figure of 20th century culture to life in this affectionate and beautifully observed show.
We are all familiar with the tale of the six wives of Henry VIII.
If you're looking for a funny play concerning a heist, this is the show for you.
'Some would say change is inevitable' and nowhere more so than Clybourne Park, a street in Chicago in the 1950s where the first black family are about to move in.
Brass brings the Great War's generation to life in a way that educates and entertains - real people emerging from the seemingly endless roll call of The Fallen.
Creation Theatre update Poe's classic tale adding ballsy, badass attitude, but losing the fear and dread en route.
When you can see Lorca, you should - as this brilliantly realised production proves.
Sweet Like Chocolate Boy tells the tales of Bounty and Mars, growing up black in different generations with different issues to address, the play grounded in the language and music of contemporary London.
Sexy Laundry looks at middle class hopes and fears in a two handed comedy that must have felt a little old-fashioned when first staged in Canada in 2002.
"You want fame? Well fame costs.
John Logan's Red, which debuted at the Donmar Warehouse in 2009, enjoyed a belated West End run at the beginning of this year.
Jukebox musicals are tricky things to get right.
The Animals and Children Took To The Streets twists together retro imagery and animation with cabaret and mime for some elegantly sinister storytelling.
This new Sheffield Theatres / Out of Joint production offers a dynamic, inventive and thought-provoking look at young women soldiers serving on the front line.
Adam Kay is a writer, comedian and former junior doctor.
The music is magical, with all its coloratura, patter, and character from the principals, male chorus, and orchestra magnificently managed by Tomaš Hanus, but there's still some magic amiss in this staging from Welsh National Opera.
Northern Ballet's take on the Three Musketeers is beautiful to watch, with a fantastic score and some delightful fight scenes.
This revival of Kenneth MacMillan's Manon is a visual and aural delight that should melt the heart of even the most reluctant ballet sceptic.
Robert Icke's updating of The Wild Duck gains in contemporary relevance, but loses a little of its heart en route.
Premiering at London's Bush Theatre in 1993, and inspiring a film adaptation three years later that became a cult classic, Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing is currently playing at Bristol's Tobacco Factory Theatres.
Quietly gives us two men, deep in middle age, looking back to the irreversible actions they took as 16 year-olds during The Troubles in an electrifying conversation.
Ross MacGregor's Dracula needs a transfusion of narrative pace if it is to achieve its considerable (and laudable) ambition.
'If music be the food of love, play on'… and play Wils Wilson does with Shakespeare's chaotic, sharp-witted comedy.
Fup: A Modern Fable brings Jim Dodge's novel from the page and onto the stage.
A tremendous re-imagining of a novel that has not been more relevant at any point in the 82 years since its writing - a wonderfully realised piece of theatre.
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