BWW Reviews: ENDURING SONG, Southwark Playhouse, June 13 2014
Gary Naylor sees a play overly determined by its length and its extreme loudness, a victim of the ambition of a young company that will come back stronger and wiser for the experience.
UK Regional Theater Reviews
The latest reviews and critic recommendations from UK Regional.
BWW Reviews: TRISTRAM SHANDY: CONCEPTION, COCK AND BULL, St James Theatre, June 9 2014
Gary Naylor sees a delightful resurrection of one of English comedy's founding fathers - the coarse, warm, funny Tristram Shandy, the creation of Irish clergyman Laurence Sterne.
BWW Reviews: THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA, King's Head Theatre, June 8 2014
Gary Naylor sees a terrifyingly uncompromising play about women held away from their hopes, their dreams, their desires, distinguished by some brilliant acting and fine use of the venue's tiny, oppressive, space.
BWW Reviews: THE LOVE PROJECT Crucible Studio, Sheffield 2 June 2014
Every Day theatre company's The Love Project, which has recently completed its tour across the UK, is an hour-long one-act production that explores different attitudes to love.
BWW Reviews: LEAR, Union Theatre, June 7 2014
Gary Naylor sees a Lear who walks among us as her (yes, this Lear is a woman) mind comes and goes and her daughters squabble over the prizes she so foolishly has allocated.
BWW Reviews: AN AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY LARK, Rose Theatre Kingston, June 4 2014
Gary Naylor sees a new play, with lots of music, dancing and singing, set in a traditional Lancashire village as love blossoms, war looms and everyone pays a price.
BWW Reviews: SPOKESONG, Finborough Theatre, May 26 2014
Gary Naylor sees a production of a play about what the United Kingdom means to its peoples, the first London production for 37 years, but timely in 2014 when such questions arise again, albeit in a completely different context.
BWW Reviews: JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, Southwark Playhouse, May 23 2014
Gary Naylor sees a timely revival of Bradley Rand Smith's adaptation of Dalton Trumbo's cri-de-coeur novel centred on a soldier left with just a mind and a torso by a shell on the battlefield of 1918.
BWW Reviews: SIZWE BANZI IS DEAD, Crucible Studio, Sheffield, May 20, 2014
Eclipse Theatre Company's production of the Tony Award-winning Sizwe Banzi is Dead is currently on a brief national tour after its Young Vic run.
BWW Reviews: CATCH 22, Birmingham Rep, May 20 2014
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller has been dubbed one of the greatest literary works of the 20th Century.
BWW Reviews: BOEING BOEING, Crucible, Sheffield, 19 May 2014
It makes a change for a farce to take centre stage at the Crucible, but Sheffield Theatres are celebrating this summer with their take on Boeing Boeing, Marc Camoletti's classic comedy about a man trying to keep up three relationships with air hostesses
BWW Reviews: BUDDY, Wolverhampton Grand, May 19 2014
Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story - has been seen by over 22 million people worldwide and has since been dubbed 'the world's most successful rock'n'roll musical'.
BWW Reviews: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS, Lyceum, Sheffield 15 May 2014
The National Theatre's production of One Man, Two Guvnors is currently on an extensive tour of the country.
BWW Reviews: IN THE HEIGHTS,The Southwark Playhouse, May 15 2014
Possibly today's coolest show in London, Lin Manuel-Miranda and Quiara Alegria Hudes's stunning rap musical inpires a generation to learn rumba break dancing.
BWW Reviews: DESDEMONA: A PLAY ABOUT A HANDKERCHIEF, Park Theatre, May 15 2014
Gary Naylor sees one of Shakespeare's greatest plays told from the perspective of the women and finds that they are rather different when talking amongst themselves than when they speak to their menfolk.
Aletia Upstairs Presents MATA HARI at Brighton Fringe 2014, May 10-12
Aletia Upstairs presents MATA HARI.
BWW Reviews: BRASSED OFF, Lyceum, Sheffield, 7 May 2014
30 years since the miners' strikes, this touring production of Brassed Off offers the audience much to laugh at, much to ponder and a good dollop of brass band music.
BWW Reviews: NOEL COWARD'S ACE OF CLUBS, Union Theatre, May 9 2014
Gary Naylor sees one of Sir Noel Coward's less performed works staged in exactly the right venue for its mix of light comedy, gentle suspense and tremendously witty songs.
BWW Reviews: DEAD AT LAST, NO MORE AIR, Camden People's Theatre, May 7 2014
Gary Naylor sees a German play that provokes thought, disgust and a certain admiration, but proves very hard work with such an uncompromising script and such committed performances.
BWW Reviews: FOREPLAY, The King's Head Theatre, May 2 2014
Gary Naylor sees a play about thinkers thinking about sex and finds that it fails to reach a climax.
BWW Reviews: HAMLET FIRST QUARTO, Courtyard Theatre, May 1 2014
Gary Naylor sees a rarely performed version of Hamlet and finds it set four or five years in the future and not 450 years in the past
BWW Reviews: ROBIN COUSINS' ICE, Bristol Hippodrome, April 30 2014
I have spent a lot of time at the Bristol Hippodrome in the last couple of years and have seen a range of productions there, but never one on ice.
BWW Reviews: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Wolverhampton Grand, April 29 2014
A play within a play is already a difficult concept - but a play within a play that goes wrong (in this case catastrophically so!) is ridiculously difficult to get your head around - but only from massive admiration for the actors who have to deliver such material.
BWW Reviews: AVENUE Q, Greenwich Theatre, April 28 2014
Gary Naylor enjoys the multi-award winning show from the co-creator of The Book of Mormon set on a New York street populated by people (and puppets).
BWW Reviews: BEST OF FRIENDS, Landor Theatre, April 26 2014
Gary Naylor sees a show with a troubled history hit some high points but also fail to live up to its full potential.
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GETTING REKT (The Evening Star) The Union Theatre (9/21-9/24) |
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Beethoven's The Creatures of Prometheus Barbican (6/24-6/24) |
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Luther UK Victoria Theatre Halifax (11/15-11/15) |
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Albert's Boy Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds (2/26-3/20) |
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Caroline: a new musical On Demand New Wolsey Theatre (7/13-9/19) |
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The Go-Between Chelmsford Theatre (9/08-9/08) |
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Magic at the Gatehouse Upstairs at the Gatehouse (10/12-10/12) |
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Slik takler du idiotene på jobben! 2 Fana kulturhus (2/15-2/15) |
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West End Divas: The Leading Ladies of Musical Theatre Victoria Theatre Halifax (9/27-9/27) |
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Dracula's Guest Upstairs at the Gatehouse (10/13-10/13) |