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BWW Review: LA BOHÈME, King's Head Theatre, 5 September 2016
Gary Naylor sees another triumphant boutique opera at the genre's spiritual home with all the thrills of operatic voices at close quarters and plenty of laughter and tears too....
BWW Review: HOME CHAT, Finborough Theatre, 1 September 2016
Gary Naylor sees a beautifully delivered comedy of manners performed for the first time in almost 90 years....
BWW Review: GIANNI SCHICCHI / PAGLIACCI, Arcola Theatre, 31 August 2016
Gary Naylor sees two short operas from Irrational Theatre that provide wonderful value for money and a fine introduction to the form....
BWW Review: THE ROUNDABOUT, Park Theatre, 25 August 2016
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...
BWW Review: CHILDREN OF EDEN, Union Theatre, 16 August 2016
Gary Naylor sees a beautifully staged revival of a 1991 musical that's great on music, but not so good on making God likeable....
BWW Review: THERÈSE RAQUIN, Southwark Playhouse, 15 August 2016
Gary Naylor sees Zola's tale of lust and murder brilliantly staged and performed....
BWW Review: SIMON DAVID: VIRGIN, Hen and Chickens Theatre
Actor-musician Simon David revives his sell-out show, 'Simon David: Virgin' for the Camden Fringe Festival....
BWW Review: ALLEGRO, Southwark Playhouse, 12 August 2016
Gary Naylor sees a show that had been forgotten, but is thrillingly brought to the London stage for the first time...
BWW Review: SISTER ACT, Curve Theatre Leicester, 11 August 2016
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...
BWW Review: PRESENT LAUGHTER, Richmond Theatre, 1 August 2016
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...
BWW Review: CUTTIN' IT, Crucible Studio, Sheffield, 20 July 2016
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....
BWW Review: A DREAM, Crucible, Sheffield, 13 July 2016
Sheffield People's Theatre present a fantastical fun take on Shakespeare... set in a hospital!...
BWW Review: THE KREUTZER SONATA, Arcola Theatre, 12 July 2016
Gary Naylor sees an unblinking, fearless adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's often censored story, delivered with panache and menace by Greg Hicks....
BWW Review: AFTER MISS JULIE, Richmond Theatre, 11 July 2016
Gary Naylor sees an adaptation of a classic play that packs plenty of punch despite some less than satisfactory casting....
BWW Review: CARGO, Arcola Theatre, 8 July 2016
Gary Naylor sees a powerful, important play that speaks to a 2016 audience explicitly about the defining issue of our times....
BWW Review: CONTRACTIONS, Crucible Studio, Sheffield, 5 July 2016
Mike Bartlett's taught and darkly-black workplace satire is an assured directorial debut for Lisa Blair, with two commanding lead performances....
BWW Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Brockley Jack Theatre, 7 July 2016
Gary Naylor sees a production that has much to commend it, bringing a little of Athens wooded peace to the hurly-burly of London....
BWW Review: FOOTLOOSE, New Alexandra Theatre, 4 July 2016
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...
BWW Review: MAMMA MIA, Birmingham Hippodrome, 30 June 2016
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...
BWW Review: SONGS UNSEEN, Oran Mor, July 1 2016
Songs Unseen is a performance that aims to create opportunities for Scottish and Scottish-based composers to have their work seen and ideas developed....
BWW Review: CAPTURED, Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham, June 30 2016
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...
BWW Review: THE TEMPEST, Royal and Derngate, June 30
A National Youth Theatre ensemble shines in a specially adapted TEMPEST at Royal and Derngate, Northampton....
BWW Review: AS YOU LIKE IT, The Savill Garden Open Air Theatre, June 24 2016
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....
BWW Review: THE DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF, Drayton Arms Theatre, June 23 2016
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....
BWW Review: VASSA ZHELEZNOVA, Southwark Playhouse, June 17 2016
Gary Naylor sees a courageous and demanding production of Maxim Gorky's play about a family and society breaking apart as authority oversteps itself....
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