UK REGIONAL THEATER REVIEWS

Gary Naylor sees a tremendous show full of great songs wonderfully well sung with the added bonus of great dancing too!...

Gary Naylor sees a serious but rewarding take on one of Shakespeare's late plays that raises questions about power and control....

Whilst Simon Russell Beale's return to the Royal Shakespeare Company after a twenty year long absence has been met with justified excitement, the most hotly anticipated aspect of Gregory Doran's new production of The Tempest is the innovative use of digital technology. ...

Gary Naylor sees a piece of new theatre that has its roots in farce but gives it a contemporary twist with a young cast and first time creatives....

Stephen Mallatratt's ghoulish adaptation of Susan Hill's infamous ghost story has been frightening London audiences for over twenty-five years and embarked on a UK tour in September. Whilst on its travels the classic play has taken up residence for a spell of haunting at Exeter's Northcott Theatre t...

This story of teenage friendship is a funny and touching new play with three fantastic performances from talented young actors....

Gary Naylor sees a young cast attack a classic play to update for today's world, a venture that succeeds partially, and is never less than interesting....

Gary Naylor sees a show about, and I can hardly believe what I'm writing here, the 45th President of the United States of America....

Gary Naylor sees an impassioned production of Bach's St John Passion, by and for, the people under the guidance of English Touring Opera...

Former Birmingham Royal Ballet and Rambert dancer Alexander Whitley continues an ongoing investigation into relationship between dance and modern technology with Pattern Recognition, seen at Dance Xchange in Birmingham. Performed by two dancers, Julia Sanz Fernandez and David Ledger, Pattern Recogni...

Gary Naylor sees an accomplished, eerie play about a remote Scottish community that doesn't quite have the courage of its convictions....

An exciting new partnership between Sadler's Wells, Birmingham Hippodrome and the Lowry Salford is bringing international dance companies to the UK for the very first time, offering financial and creative support to artists who may not otherwise have been able to make the journey. Vamos Cuba, from t...

Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap truly is a theatrical phenomenon. The enduring popularity of this classic whodunnit story is unprecedented; its mixture of drama, horror, comedy and farce appealing to audiences of all generations, despite changing social conditions and artistic trends. Now a tourist ...

Gary Naylor sees a revival of a show that deserves, and gets, the full 'Big Musical' production treatment....

When its most devoted audience is known to shout expletives towards its stage, it takes a certain kind of understanding of The Rocky Horror Picture Show to be able to work its magic....

Gary Naylor sees a showbiz monument and finds that it's still as entertaining and as relevant as ever....

Gary Naylor sees an ambitious production that runs parallel storylines but doesn't solve the considerable problems so caused....

Lennon: Through A Glass Onion is a part-biographical, part-concert whistle stop journey into the mind of international musical icon, John Lennon. Featuring 31 hits including his solo work, the show has enjoyed great success all over the world but most recently in Lennon's birthplace in Liverpool....

Gary Naylor sees a lovely show packed with great songs and imaginative staging....

Gary Naylor sees an enthusiastic revival of Moby Dick The Musical that rather loses the wind from its sails in the second half....

Gary Naylor sees a play from Europe that can't quite decide what it wants to be but raises interesting questions all the same....

2 Faced Dance Company's Run is an evening of dance presented by three female choreographers, featuring three new works from the company's artistic director Tamsin Fitzgerald, Prague-based Lenka Vagnerova and the first BENCH commission recipient Rebecca Evans. All three pieces - danced by 2 Faced Dan...

Gary Naylor sees a spectacular and thought-provoking revival of Cavalli's 17th century opera of gods, myths and mortals....

Gary Naylor sees a well performed and funny satire on Donald Trump that struggles to be more outrageous than the real thing....

It seems as though every popular musician has been the subject of a jukebox musical, and so it is not surprising that the story of Buddy Holly has been explored in Buddy. Touring the UK and seen at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, this musical follows passionate, impulsive Buddy on his struggle to br...