UK REGIONAL THEATER REVIEWS

Gary Naylor sees a revival that invites comparisons between the Britain of the 1930s and 2010s, but runs out of narrative energy and character credibility...

Gary Naylor sees a beautifully staged revival of a 1991 musical that's great on music, but not so good on making God likeable....

Gary Naylor sees Zola's tale of lust and murder brilliantly staged and performed....

Actor-musician Simon David revives his sell-out show, 'Simon David: Virgin' for the Camden Fringe Festival....

Gary Naylor sees a show that had been forgotten, but is thrillingly brought to the London stage for the first time...

Based on the 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Sister Act premiered onstage in the West End in 2009 starring Patina Miller as Deloris Van Cartier and Sheila Hancock as the Mother Superior. The lavish production opened at the London Palladium to critical acclaim and has enjoyed many revivals across...

The 1939 play, written specifically by Noel Coward to create a tailormade part to showcase his own talent, is perhaps not one of his strongest pieces of work, needing a strong cast to carry it off - which thankfully this revival does have...

The award-winning new play from Charlene James is a vibrant and engaging piece that shines a light on the horrors of FGM as experienced through the eyes of two teenagers....

Sheffield People's Theatre present a fantastical fun take on Shakespeare... set in a hospital!...

Gary Naylor sees an unblinking, fearless adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's often censored story, delivered with panache and menace by Greg Hicks....

Gary Naylor sees an adaptation of a classic play that packs plenty of punch despite some less than satisfactory casting....

Gary Naylor sees a powerful, important play that speaks to a 2016 audience explicitly about the defining issue of our times....

Mike Bartlett's taught and darkly-black workplace satire is an assured directorial debut for Lisa Blair, with two commanding lead performances....

Gary Naylor sees a production that has much to commend it, bringing a little of Athens wooded peace to the hurly-burly of London....

In the mid-west American town of Bomont, a small tight knit community are suspicious of any new-comer, and especially streetwise Chicago teenager Ren McCormack. Ren has moved from Chicago with his mother Ethel after the sudden departure of his dad. Eager to move on from his recent loss and keen to s...

Every year, the Birmingham Hippodrome bring a blockbuster West End musical to the UK's second city; a brilliant tradition eclipsed only in size and scale by their annual pantomime. Their 2016 offering is Mamma Mia, bringing the azure blue skies of Greece to the typically grey British summer in Birmi...

Songs Unseen is a performance that aims to create opportunities for Scottish and Scottish-based composers to have their work seen and ideas developed....

Prior to their run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer, White Slate Theatre are currently previewing their new show Captured. A two-hander, the writing by Jenna May Hobbs focuses on Isaac and Sophie - estranged five years ago but drawn back to one another in the present. Suzanna Ward direct...

A National Youth Theatre ensemble shines in a specially adapted TEMPEST at Royal and Derngate, Northampton....

Gary Naylor sees a unique and completely delightful production of one of Shakespeare's sillier comedies in an environment that could have been made for it....

Gary Naylor sees a fine comedy by Moliere brought to the stage in English and French by a company dedicated to resurrecting rarely performed Francophone plays....

Gary Naylor sees a courageous and demanding production of Maxim Gorky's play about a family and society breaking apart as authority oversteps itself....

Gary Naylor sees a new comedy that takes aim at the power of supermarket multinational companies and skewers them like a £3.99 kebab from the delicatessen counter....

Gary Naylor sees an close-up, no holds barred production of Howard Barker's sexy, sweary, sinful take on Hamlet and tries not to think of Sid James's laugh....

To celebrate their 70th anniversary, Welsh National Opera returns to the Birmingham Hippodrome to perform Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci; the same operas the company performed for their debut performance. A novice opera-goer, I was intrigued to experience the opulence and spectacle of the WNO...