UK REGIONAL THEATER REVIEWS

A simple love story between a librarian and a young English teacher is the excuse for a twenty minute jukebox opera, inflicted on unsuspecting Edinburgh library goers all this week. The show will be performed in various Edinburgh City Libraries and the Scottish Poetry Library until Saturday the 16th...

Gary Naylor is reminded of the terror (and the joy) of adolescence....

Gary Naylor enjoys a drag act that is anything but a drag....

Gary Naylor enjoys a poetic take on love's mystery...

Ever since its publication in 1950, the first Chronicles of Narnia book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has enchanted children with its magical characters and mystical setting. Though many film, stage and TV adaptations have already been attempted, threesixty Theatre bring the tale to life af...

Gary Naylor is won over by the sheer joie-de-vivre of the convent crowdpleaser...

Porgy and Bess is an opera which, in the past, has predominantly been set in the 'Deep South', or more specifically South Carolina; highlighting African-American life in the 1920's. Cape Town Opera (CTO), on the other hand, have chosen a different approach and decided that strong parallels could be ...

I Dreamed A Dream: The Susan Boyle Musical...I've slept on it and sat for a while now trying to pick fault with this production, but it is proving impossible....

Gary Naylor is immersed in the fog of war, as he is made to feel N-N-N-N-Nineteen again....

Chol Theatre and Sheffield Theatres offer an interesting take on the 2012 Olympics....

Gary Naylor sees a curate's egg of a show from Cartoon de Salvo...

Jo Whytock reviews the revamped 25th anniversary touring production...

Gary Naylor sees one of Arnold Wesker's lesser performed plays in the cauldron of the King's Head Theatre....

Wonderful Town is the Tony Award winning musical with a big heart. With music by the wonderful Leonard Bernstein, this production ticks almost every box for a sure fire hit even before entering the theatre. Having taken a variety of different forms over the last decade, Wonderful Town started out as...

Pinter's classic play opens at Sheffield Crucible with a star cast....

Gary Naylor sees a brutal and ambitious version of a classic tale....

Gary Naylor sees a legendary musical still years away from hitting the buffers....

Gary Naylor enjoys the third of Isango Ensemble's productions every bit as much as the others....

Gary Naylor sees a legendary novel brought to the stage....

As the crowd traipses through the gates of Caledonian Park, their babble mingles with performers' voices, welcoming us with murmurs of "tonight's the night". This confusion between audience and performers is at the heart of Babel, a massive immersive enterprise and rare collaboration between theatre...

Gary Naylor sees a show for which only that old solecism 'very unique' will do....

Gary Naylor sees a deserving target skewered by a masterly monologue....

Gary Naylor sees a slice of 2012 that reminds him of a slice of 1980....

Gary Naylor sees a version of Antigone for teens that pulls no punches....

Gary Naylor sees a good and bad work about bad and good works....