UK REGIONAL THEATER REVIEWS

You are the target of state security services in this version of Kafka's nightmarish novel in Retz's impressive immersive experience....

Gary Naylor finally discovers what all the fuss is about about all the fuss about the great white whale....

Gary Naylor enjoys an examination of the ethics of war and writing about war....

Gary Naylor enjoys four well-judged performances in a comedy with a message....

Last night, Starlight Express was celebrating 29 years to the day when it opened at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in the West End. Since ending an incredibly successful 18-year run in London, the production has not been very far from our stages. With one of the most impressive set designs in a residen...

Having initially been performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, this production is the first London airing of Janice Okoh's Three Birds. All in all, this is a great production of a vibrant new work. Three Birds runs at the Bush Theatre until April 20 2013 and is unsuitable for a young audience....

50 years after Oliver! composer Lionel Bart began writing the score and book, this Hunchback of Notre Dame musical finally gets its world premiere....

How does one write about a work of art? Cameron Macintosh's touring production of The Phantom of the Opera is exactly that and brought the house down at the Birmingham Hippodrome last night. The 19th March is apt for the final press night of the current tour as the show is also marking it's 11,000th...

Fuel Presents 'Ring' Battersea Arts Theatre, Wednesday 13th March...

Gary Naylor sees an interactive event that hasn't quite found its feet....

Based on August Strindberg's 1888 play Miss Julie, Mies Julie transfers the action from a Count's estate in Sweden to a powerful (unseen) white farmer's house in modern-day post-apartheid South Africa. The bulk of proceedings concerns his daughter Julie (Hilda Cronje) and John (Bongile Mantsai), a y...

Gary Naylor sees a lesson in the dangers of pride and ambition....

The director and designer of last year's award-winning Democracy return to the Crucible with this warm and witty adaptation of a DH Lawrence play....

Gary Naylor enjoys a damn good night out....

During the standard photography and mobile phone announcement at the beginning of the show, there was an additional message for audience members to place any large wigs under the seat in front. This show had the audience laughing before the curtain even went up and this continued until the end....

Gary Naylor sees outrageous silliness from the masterly Mozart....

Gary Naylor enjoys a trip to a less than merry old land of Oz....

The 2013 national tour celebrating 40 years of Rocky proves that this musical is showing no signs of old age....

Gary Naylor catches up with Elwood and Jake and finds that little has changed - but that's no bad thing....

Gary Naylor sees an old favourite updated and performed with panache.there...

Mike Bartlett's new one-act play, Bull, deals with a very contemporary problem - when redundancies have to be made, how far would you go to save your skin?...

Gary Naylor sees a trilogy that skewers big finance....

Arguably Shakespeare's darkest and most powerful play, 'Macbeth' is selling out in Guildford, and with good reason....

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, or the 'Trocks', have just started their 2013 UK tour. Back by popular demand, this ballet company provides an alternate view of classical ballet and features an entire company of men performing roles traditionally danced by women. Their comic approach to the a...

Gary Naylor sees a slice of classic ruthlessness as selfish cunning trumps innocent trust....