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BWW Reviews: BRAZOUKA, New Wimbledon Theatre, September 16 2014
Gary Naylor sees a show that makes up for its lack of any real story with energy, spectacle and a real connection with an audience who went off into the London night dreaming of Rio....
BWW Reviews: PROPAGANDA SWING, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, September 16 2014
Propaganda Swing is a co-production between the Belgrade Theatre and Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company and is written by Peter Arnott. The writing is based upon a true story at the commencement of World War II in Berlin. Billy Constant, an American CBS journalist, narrates the proceedings and is ...
BWW Reviews: GHOST FROM A PERFECT PLACE, Arcola Theatre, September 15 2014
Gary Naylor sees a twentieth anniversary production of a play that caused outrage in the mid-90s but feels overly familiar and overtaken by events in the mid-teens....
BWW Reviews: MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, September 12 2014
Gary Naylor sees a bold and ambitious, and demanding, production of Brecht's classic anti-war play set in the unique and spectacular grounds of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich....
BWW Reviews: THE DREAMING, Union Theatre, September 10 2014
Gary Naylor sees a musical that captures the charm of its inspiration, A Midsummer Night's Dream, but is slightly let down by inconsistent singing....
BWW Reviews: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, New Wimbledon Theatre, September 9 2014
Gary Naylor sees an old-fashioned crowdpleaser of a musical, stuffed with the clever, catchy songs of all-time Broadway great Irving Berlin. There is indeed no business like show business....
BWW Reviews: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES, New Wimbledon Theatre Studio, September 4 2014
Gary Naylor sees a musical brimming with ambition and confidence flawed only by a slight weakness in its storytelling, the complexities of the great 19th century novel a little lost in the adaptation....
BWW Reviews: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Rose Theatre Kingston, September 5 2014
Gary Nayor sees a production of Shakespeare's most loved comedy brimming with the traditional charm and wit one has come to expect from the Globe Theatre, about to tour the Far East....
BWW Reviews: GROUNDED, Birmingham Rep, September 4 2014
Grounded had its UK premiere at the Gate Theatre Notting Hill last year to critical acclaim, following achieving the 2012 Smith Prize from the National New Play Network in America and a 2013 Fringe First award. George Brant's play is a fast paced monologue delivered by a female F16 fighter pilot who...
BWW Reviews: ROMEO AND JULIET, Temple Church, September 1 2014
Gary Naylor sees a unique production of Romeo and Juliet set in the nave of the extraordinary Temple Church, resting place of the legendary Knights Templar....
BWW Reviews: THE BLANK CANVAS, King's Head Theatre, August 31 2014
Gary Naylor sees the winner of OperaUpClose's new writing competition, an opera that may be confined to a small performing space, but one unafraid to ask some difficult questions and unafraid to be defined by challenging, but ultimately rewarding, music and sensational singing....
BWW Reviews: EYE OF A NEEDLE, Southwark Playhouse, August 29 2014
Gary Naylor sees a new play set in the Kafkaesque world of the UK's Border Agency as a young idealist butts up against an old hand when a charismatic political activist shakes up the system....
BWW Reviews: DRAG KING RICHARD III, Riverside Studios, July 31 2014
Gary Naylor sees a play about a person's transition from female to male and how that impacts on her best friend - and himself. Though the context is historical, the lessons are as relevant today as ever....
BWW Reviews: HOLES, Arcola Tent, July 22 2014
A new comedy by Tom Basden, set after a plane crash in a post-cold war dystopia....
BWW Reviews: HORRIBLE HISTORIES: BARMY BRITAIN, Lyceum, Sheffield, July 17 2014
Anarchic fun for all in this stage version of the popular children's book series....
BWW Reviews: THE SHEFFIELD MYSTERIES, Crucible, Sheffield 15 July 2014
The new, Sheffield-themed, take on the Mystery Plays makes the most of its huge cast of locals....
BWW Reviews: BLACK COFFEE, New Alexandra Theatre Birmingham, July 7 2014
Black Coffee is the first play that Agatha Christie wrote for the stage back in 1929, when the show is set. Sir Claud Amory summons the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and his trusted friend Captain Hastings to his London house to investigate who has stolen a formula from his safe. Upon ar...
BWW Reviews: ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, July 3 2014
This production of Entertaining Mr Sloane is the latest submission from London Classic Theatre. Joe Orton wrote the play in 1963 and the show had its first performance the following year at the New Arts Theatre in London, followed by an opening in New York in 1965. His writing has both comedic and p...
BWW Reviews: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, New Alexandra Theatre Birmingham, July 2 2014
Annie Get Your Gun premiered on Broadway nearly 70 years ago and many productions have graced stages across the world ever since then, plus a major MGM film in 1950 starring Betty Hutton. There has been a wide array of leading ladies who have played Annie Oakley including Ethel Merman, Dolores Gray,...
BWW Reviews: KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, Studio Theatre, Sheffield, July 1, 2014
Sheffield Theatres, current UK Regional Theatre of the Year (The Stage Awards), pushes its own desire to lead with the best home grown talent as it presents British icon Richard Wilson in Krapp's Last Tape, a play that explores the past through a series of memories and tape recordings....
BWW Reviews: 20TH CENTURY BOY, Wolverhampton Grand, June 30 2014
I was fortunate enough to see 20th Century Boy on its debut outing at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry back in September 2012 and it was probably the best show I had seen that year. The production is the perfect balance between a jukebox musical and a biography detailing Marc Bolan's rise to fame unti...
BWW Reviews: PACIFIC OVERTURES, Union Theatre, July 4 2014
Gary Naylor sees a revival of Stephen Sondheim's strange 1970s musical about 1850s Japan, production that borrows from a variety of theatrical styles without ever fully establishing its own....
BWW Reviews: ABOUT MISS JULIE, King's Head Theatre, July 3 2014
Gary Naylor sees a perfectly realised adaptation of August Strindbeg's Miss Julie, packed with dramatic tension, big ideas and superb acting. If there's a more satisfying 80 minutes anywhere on the London stage today, I'd be surprised....
BWW Reviews: MY GIRL 2, The Old Red Lion Theatre, June 29 2014
Gary Naylor sees a kitchen sink drama for our times that captures the sense of claustrophobia of Britain's (especially London's) debt culture and the swirling social ills that flow in and around inner city's sink estates....
BWW Reviews: ARTHUR PITA: THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOW, Greenwich Dance Academy, June 28 2014
Gary Naylor sees a piece of dance-theatre that covers the familiar ground of the Depression-era US dancing marathons that cruelly manipulated both competitors and audiences with ruthless cruelty....
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