UK REGIONAL THEATER REVIEWS

A weird and wonderful show; Boy in a Dress does impress....

Michael Elm reviews the show that not that many are people are talking about - not yet anyway- Unmythable. ...

Noise and energy were present in equally large measures as THE BLIND launches at the Edinburgh festival....

Michael Elm reviews a preview of Celia Pacquola's upcoming Edinburgh show and compares it to a cup of tea....

Peter Arnott's new play takes its name from the Woody Guthrie song, and tells the story of the 'Bonus Expeditionary Force': 25,000 world war one veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 to seek promised payments from the US government. Instead of a grateful welcome in recognition of their sacrific...

Gary Naylor sees a topical comedy in the Olympic City....

Gary Naylor sees a shameful episode of Olympics history exposed and explained....

Gary Naylor sees a new kind of show and is impressed....

Gary Naylor has to remind himself that the actors and musicians are teenagers!...

Gary Naylor sees suburbia shattered...

Mrs Wire runs her shabby New Orleans boarding house with Basil Fawlty's arch sense of misplaced morality and a similar contempt for guests that spills over, literally at one point, into violence....

"Nobody puts Baby in the corner" and "I carried a watermelon" are probably two of the most iconic phrases in the history of film, and are ones that were welcomed with a rapturous response at the press night of Dirty Dancing at the Birmingham Hippodrome last night....

St Paul's Church on the west side of Covent Garden piazza is known as 'The Actor's Church', apt as it sits nestled in buzzing theatreland. Iris Theatre's bold and inventive production of one of the Bard's best comedies is based in the gardens of the church....

Gary Naylor sees an innovative, at times extraordinary, work that sits somewhere between theatre and performance art....

We should forget our differences and all get along. That's the basic message of Pixar's latest film, BRAVE, a coming of age story set in a magical medieval Scottish kingdom. Unfortunately, the film's list of differences includes feminism....

Gary Naylor sees an intense production of an intense play....

Gary Naylor sees political ambition thwarted and theatrical ambition achieved....

Forced Entertainment bring avant-garde back to the BAC...

Gary Naylor sees an unlikely marriage succeed....

Gary Naylor sees one of his literary heroes sit in the centre of a gentle love story....

Sexposition, the technique of making boring dialogue interesting by putting characters in a sexual situation, is subverted in an interesting way for one of the scenes of Either Way, an Icelanic film making its UK Premiere this week at the Edinburgh International Film Festival....

Gary Naylor sees a fine production of Alan Bennett's bittersweet comedy....

Gary Naylor sees a darkly funny portrayal of country life. ...

Gary Naylor sees a sexy, sung show called Spinach....

Gary Naylor swaps the metaphorical jungle of South London for the real jungle of Central America...