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.
UK Regional Theater Reviews
The latest reviews and critic recommendations from UK Regional.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BWW Reviews: THE YOUNG WIFE AND DIDO AND AENEAS, King's Head Theatre, February 24 2014
Gary Naylor sees two operas (for the price of one) with plenty in common (and plenty not) in another highly innovative presentation from OperaUpClose.
BWW Reviews: THE PERFECT MURDER, Belgrade Theatre, February 24 2014
Adapted from crime thriller novelist Peter James' incredibly successful book, The Perfect Murder has already taken over £1 million at the box office.
BWW Reviews: DONKEYS' YEARS, Rose Theatre Kingston, February 18 2014
Gary Naylor sees a technically perfect farce that gets plenty of laughs but leaves him a little cold
BWW Reviews: TRANSLATIONS, Crucible, Sheffield, February 17 2014
The centrepiece of Sheffield Theatres' Brian Friel season is a thoughtful and sensitive take on his classic play about language and culture.
BWW Reviews: SUPERIOR DONUTS, Southwark Playhouse, February 17 2014
Gary Naylor enjoys a slice of life from cold Chicago and is grateful for the sentimentality being reined in just sufficiently to get him through the play.
BWW Reviews: HMS PINAFORE, Hackney Empire, February 15 2014
Gary Naylor finds that this bulked up, buffed up HMS Pinafore, currently voyaging around the country, is even more fun than when it launched from the Union Theatre last Autumn.
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