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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. The superstar male professor is often the object of bright young things' desires....
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. The gentle sounds of Arctic winds met me as I entered the auditorium, and I felt instantly relaxed and ready for an evening of entertainment....
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. In the early 90s, Mike and Jim were inseparable mates, living the dream in a band, but the band was going nowhere....
BWW Reviews: BLUES IN THE NIGHT, Hackney Empire, April 25 2014
Gary Naylor sees a show filled with songs from some of the last century's greatest singers - given full due by some of the West End's finest vocalists....
BWW Reviews: ROMEO AND JULIET, Pleasance Theatre, April 24 2014
Gary Naylor sees a stripped-down version of Shakespeare's enduring tragedy that gets plenty right and little wrong. What will the Daily Mail make of it? Underage sex, gang murders, drugs... and poetry....
BWW Reviews: TRANSLATIONS, Rose Theatre Kingston, April 22 2014
Gary Naylor sees a serious play about serious stuff that seems a little too locked in its time to reach successfully across the decades. Much has happened since Brian Friel wrote Translations (continuing at The Rose Theatre until 3 May...
BWW Reviews: TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, April 15 2014
The Birmingham Stage Company is held in fond regard by families across the country for their high standard of productions suitable for all ages. Their latest show, nearing the conclusion of its national tour, is Tom's Midnight Garden which I had the pleasure of seeing at the Belgrade Theatre in Cove...
BWW Reviews: ONCE WE LIVED HERE, King's Head Theatre, April 4 2014
Gary Naylor sees a musical very much set in its location in terms of its plot, but not in terms of its staging. As generations of English cricketers have discovered, Australia is a hostile environment....
BWW Reviews: KES, Crucible, Sheffield, 31 March 2014
Jonathan Watkins' moving dance adaptation of the Yorkshire classic soars in Sheffield....
BWW Reviews: A LIFE OF GALILEO, Rose Theatre Kingston, March 25 2014
Gary Naylor sees a classy production of Brecht's didactic play about politics, power and priests, that still has much to say in 2014....
BWW Reviews: DIRTY DANCING, Bristol Hippodrome, March 19 2014
Dirty Dancing is billed as being 'the classic story on stage', and it doesn't disappoint in its promise, bringing the characters of the ever-popular 1980s film to life for audiences across the UK. Highbrow theatre this is not. However, if you're looking for a fun night out at a show which doesn't ta...
BWW Reviews: TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT, New Wimbledon Theatre, March 17 2014
Gary Naylor sees a script by Ben Elton and songs by Rod Stewart give a old school night's entertainment with Tonight's the Night....
BWW Reviews: KING LEAR, Cockpit Theatre, March 14 2014
It's hard to watch - it really is. David Ryall, now approaching 80, who plays the King who is losing his mind, is a real-life majestic actor who is, post chemotherapy, losing his memory - his reliance on a black book with the text highlighted may be a necessity, but it's a poignant reminder that Sha...
BWW Reviews: THE MAN INSIDE, Landor Theatre, March 13 2014
Is there room for another re-working of 'The Strange case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde'? I'd have said no. But Tony Rees and Gary Young thought otherwise and the result is 'The Man Inside', a musical delivered all through with the cast cut to the doctor/devil and two women who also represent opp...
BWW Reviews: ORDINARY DAYS, London Theatre Workshop, March 12 2014
Thanks to director Ray Rackham's gentle, uncluttered approach, a bouncy score played wonderfully by musical director Thomas Lees and a small but strikingly talented cast of four, this brisk 80-minute soujourn to the Big Apple is consistently and undeniably enjoyable....
BWW Reviews: RICHARD AND ADAM, Cadogan Hall, March 12 2014
Gary Naylor sees the Jedward de nos jours (well, not really - they're much batter than them) sing classics and charm old and young alike....
BWW Reviews: HAIRSPRAY, Curve Theatre Leicester, March 10 2014
Hairspray seems to have been doing the rounds in the UK since it closed in the West End in 2010. It is a very popular show among audiences and although the last national tour is still fresh in our mind, the Curve's Artistic Director Paul Kerryson has decided his venue would do a brand new production...
BWW Reviews: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - PROPELLER, Rose Theatre Kingston, March 11 2014
Gary Naylor sees a very individual all-male production of Shakespeare's multi-layered comedy....
BWW Reviews: ENGLISH TOURING OPERA - THE MAGIC FLUTE, Hackney Empire, March 8 2014
Gary Naylor sees Mozart's most popular opera stop in downtown Hackney on its national tour in rep with King Priam and Paul Bunyan....
BWW Reviews: BUKOWSKI'S CASS, The Vaults, March 4 2014
Gary Naylor sees a strange concoction of dance, drama, opera, poetry and music set on the seedier side of California - Bukowskiland, as it were....
BWW Reviews: MOON TIGER, Rose Theatre Kingston, February 25 2014
Gary Naylor sees a technically impressive but strangely distant adaptation of Penelope Lively's Booker Prize winning novel of 1987....
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