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BWW Interview: Director Samir Bhamra on BRING ON THE BOLLYWOOD
With the rise of shows like Bombay Dreams and the smash-hit West End musical Bend It Like Beckham ushering in a new dawn for the British musical, the nation's appetite for Bollywood spectacle shows no signs of slowing. It is from this rich cinematic culture that life-long Bollywood fan and Theatre D...
BWW Review: CLOCKS 1888: THE GREENER, Hackney Empire, April 20 2016
Gary Naylor sees an occasionally brilliant, occasionally confused new opera about life lived against the clock in the 19th century East End of London....
BWW Review: GATSBY, Union Theatre, April 19 2016
Gary Naylor sees a production that loses its way as a result of forgetting that the most important things to get right in musical theatre are the voices....
BWW Review: DARKNET, Southwark Playhouse, April 18 2016
Gary Naylor sees an ambitious and, at times, genuinely interesting play that ultimately fails to achieve its potential....
BWW Review: OUT OF THIS WORLD, Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, April 15 2016
Gary Naylor sees a very strange revival of a 1950s Broadway show saved by some fine singing and sensational songs....
BWW Review: LEGALLY BLONDE, Curve Theatre Leicester, April 14 2016
Legally Blonde the Musical has had an array of productions all over the world since its 2007 Broadway opening. Based on the 2001 film starring Reese Witherspoon, the story of love, faith and pushing past stereotypes has being capturing the hearts of theatregoers ever since. Famous for its outstandin...
BWW Review: TIME OF MY LIFE, Brockley Jack Theatre, April 14 2016
Gary Naylor sees a smart revival of a Nineties Ayckbourn comedy that gets through some tricky theatrical challenges to deliver a funny and thought-provoking play....
BWW Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Birmingham Rep, April 12 2016
Devised at breakneck speed in just ten days by a company renowned for anarchic, divisive work, Filter's Twelfth Night was always destined to be a curious beast. Indeed, from the second the audience steps into the Birmingham Rep, it is clear this is going to be no ordinary Shakespeare. We appear to h...
BWW Review: TO KILL A MACHINE, King's Head Theatre, April 12 2016
Gary Naylor sees a new take on the stroy of Alan Turing, the war hero and computer scientist whose sexuality led the state to bring him down....
BWW Review: AMERICAN IDIOT, Manchester Palace Theatre, April 5 2016
Green Day's American Idiot had the punk rock band's fans out in force for the band's rock opera - even if the staged version of the 2004 concept album was a little less than the sum of its parts....
BWW Reviews: KING LEAR, Royal and Derngate, April 5
Michael Pennington takes on KING LEAR at Northampton's Royal and Derngate, ahead of a UK tour. Verity Wilde was there for BroadwayWorld.com...
BWW Review: DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, Theatre N16, April 4 2016
Gary naylor sees a play that understands that people can change bu also that finding the person who catalyses that reaction is much harder than it looks....
BWW Review: A FLEA IN HER EAR, Tabard Theatre, March 31 2016
Gary Naylor sees a traditional farce in a new translation that succeeds, but might work better if a little shorter and a little slower....
BWW Review: HENRY V, Middle Temple Hall, March 30 2016
Gary Naylor sees a wonderful production crowned by a masterful Henry in a unique and evocative venue....
BWW Review: RIGHT NOW, Bush Theatre, March 29 2016
Right now, in the heart of Shepherds Bush, there is a rare opportunity to see a Quebecois play by award-winning playwright Catherin-Anne Toupin....
BWW Review: THE PERFECT MURDER, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, March 29 2016
Back in February 2014, I watched the first touring production of Peter James' novel The Perfect Murder starring Les Dennis and Claire Goose as unhappily married couple Victor and Joan Smiley. Following this, Dead Simple - another of James' books - was adapted for the stage; here testament to his app...
BWW Review: BAR MITZVAH BOY, Upstairs at the Gatehouse, March 25 2016
Gary Naylor sees a show that has plenty of great songs and feelgood family fun, but topples into schmaltz showing its 40 years in Act Two....
BWW Review: GREG WOHEAD: COMEBACK SPECIAL, Shoreditch Town Hall, March 24 2016
Gary Naylor sees a one-man show that is more Performance Art than theatre and finds it track to maintain concentration on lines repeated over and over and over again....
BWW Review: ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN, Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, March 24, 2016
Robert Gould reviews the Simon Greiff-helmed revue of Stiles and Drewe songs, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN, at Cardiff's Sherman Theatre for BWW....
BWW Review: DON'T SLEEP THERE ARE SNAKES, Park Theatre, March 23 2016
Gary Naylor sees a strange play that never quite decides on what it wants to be and finishes just when the drama is getting started....
BWW Review: THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR, Birmingham Rep Theatre, March 23 2016
With an original publication date back in 1836, Nikolai Gogol's satirical play The Government Inspector is certainly not new writing. Some 180 years on, the text centring on greed and political anarchy in Russia is still being performed. The storyline has had a wealth of incarnations over the years ...
BWW Review: WITCHES OF EASTWICK, Old Rep Theatre Birmingham, March 19 2016
Stage musical Witches of Eastwick was adapted from John Updike's novel of the same name thirteen years after the film was released in 1987- starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer. The show opened in London to mixed reviews but since then has been performed internationall...
BWW Review: THE NAP, The Crucible, Sheffield, Mar 15 2016
Finally - a play about snooker at The Crucible! Richard Bean's new comedy is a fun night out celebrating the theatre and the game....
BWW Review: BU21, Theatre 503, March 18 2016
Gary Naylor sees a play that shows humanity at its best and worst and plenty of points in between, driven by a brilliant script by one of Britain's best young playwrights....
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