UK Regional Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 16

BWW Review: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, The Tobacco Factory
by Alice Cope - February 29, 2020

There is something perversely voyeuristic about this play, watching the self-destruction of these four individuals, and in particular the complex and antagonistic relationships....

BWW Review: NOT I, CATASTROPHE AND ROCKABY, Brockley Jack Theatre
by Gary Naylor - February 28, 2020

Angel Theatre Company bring Beckett to Brockley and leave this first time viewer looking forward to more....

BWW Review: THE WHIP, Swan Theatre
by Gary Naylor - February 27, 2020

The Whip packs so much into its near three hour running time that its issues, anger and need to educate drowns its dramatic potential and we're left with something that fails to reach its considerable potential....

BWW Review: BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL, Bristol Hippodrome
by Alice Cope - February 26, 2020

It would be really quite difficult to watch this musical and not leave with a smile on your face. Whether or not you're a big fan of Carole King's own singing career, you'll find great joy in the way that the range of pop songs from her songwriting era - which are peppered throughout - are performed...

BWW Review: MICHAEL BALL AND ALFIE BOE: BACK TOGETHER, SSE Hydro, Glasgow
by Fiona Scott - February 22, 2020

Michael Ball and Alfie Boe recently shared the Gielgud Theatre stage as Javert and Jean Valjean respectively in Les Miserables: The Staged Concert. They now return to the stage, in their third UK tour as a double act and launched their 10-date tour in Glasgow this evening....

BWW Review: THE LARAMIE PROJECT, Bristol Old Vic
by Alice Cope - February 22, 2020

Welcome to Laramie, Wyoming - population 26,687. Here we find a small town shaken by a shocking event which impacted almost everyone who lived there. Although this play was first performed 20 years ago, it still feels so current and real for the world we live in today....

BWW Review: MADAM BUTTERFLY, Bristol Old Vic
by Kerrie Nicholson - February 17, 2020

Founded in 2009, OperaUpClose's mission is to create 'innovatively staged, unintimidating, and crucially high quality English Chamber re-imaginings of well known work and premieres of new operas'. With 29 operas to date, a mix of classics and contemporary work, and an Olivier Award in 2011, there's ...

BWW Review: A MONSTER CALLS, Chichester Festival Theatre
by Jo Fisher - February 16, 2020

Produced by The Old Vic, in association with Bristol Old Vic, Oliver award-winning A Monster Calls is making its way around the UK on tour, and has just closed its appearance at Chichester Festival Theatre....

BWW Review: ALONE IN BERLIN, Royal and Derngate
by Verity Wilde - February 15, 2020

Given the turbulent times that we live in, a new stage adaptation of Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin would seem like a smart choice for an ambitious theatre (or theatres, as this is a co-production with York Theatre Royal, in association with Oxford Playhouse)....

BWW Review: FLIGHTS, Omnibus Theatre
by Gary Naylor - February 14, 2020

Flights looks into the hearts of three men whose lives in rural Ireland are not working out as they once hoped....

BWW Review: ALL OF IT, Royal Court Theatre
by Gary Naylor - February 11, 2020

Kate O'Flynn is in award-winning form as the baby who grows into a girl and then a woman before her life's span is through in Alistair McDowall's clattering monologue....

BWW Review: RETURN TO HEAVEN, Tobacco Factory Theatres Bristol
by Shane Morgan - February 06, 2020

A post-apocalyptic road warrior, an astronaut and a shark walk into a bara??...

BWW Review: THE CROFT, Perth Theatre
by Fiona Scott - February 05, 2020

Sometimes we just want to get away. We all have our reasons for wanting a bit of peace and quiet in the middle of nowhere but being cut off from the rest of the world isn't necessarily a solution to life's problems. Ali Milles' new thriller The Croft follows two stories across multiple timelines tha...

BWW Review: RENDEZVOUS WITH MARLENE, St. George's, Bristol
by Shane Morgan - January 31, 2020

Rendezvous with Marlene started with a letter. A young Ute Lemper explodes onto the French stage playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret and the next day the French press proclaimed her, a?oeLa nouvelle Marlene!a??....

BWW Review: PERSONA, Riverside Studios
by Gary Naylor - January 30, 2020

Persona transfers somewhat uneasily from screen to stage in Paul Schoolman's new adaptation, but retains its intellectual heft and eerily subversive quality....

BWW Review: ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS, Bristol Old Vic
by Kerrie Nicholson - January 24, 2020

When Romantics Anonymous originally premiered at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2017, it received wonderful reviews and there was such a joyful buzz surrounding this show that I unfortunately didn't get to experience for myself. How lucky then, that the collaboration between Wise Children and Plush...

BWW Review: THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF SMACK AND CRACK, Bristol Old Vic
by Shane Morgan - January 23, 2020

In large part, Ed Edwards' class A drug odyssey The Political History of Smack and Crack does what it says on the tin. Steeped in social and political commentary, Edwards' piece steers us through the bumpy ride of addiction, from hospital room to street corner via a constitutional polemic that aims ...

BWW Review: THE CANARY AND THE CROW, Arcola Theatre
by Gary Naylor - January 21, 2020

Daniel Ward's autobiographical tale, told as gig theatre, has plenty to say and says it well - we would be wise to listen....

BWW Review: FADING INTO NOTHINGNESS, Merlin Theatre, Sheffield
by Ruth Deller - January 18, 2020

An assured and emotional debut from writer Theo Griffiths deals with a family in turmoil....

BWW Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Jack Studio Theatre
by Gary Naylor - January 17, 2020

This no frills Twelfth Night rattles through Shakey's comedy getting laughs along the way, but includes some artistic decisions that didn't quite land as clearly as they were, perhaps, intended to....

BWW Review: ONCE, Ashcroft Playhouse Fairfield Halls
by Gary Naylor - January 10, 2020

Once shows all its crowdpleasing credentials in this new touring production with a tremendous cast doing full justice to its score and carrying a somewhat corny plot to a standing ovation curtain....

BWW Review: TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS, Union Theatre
by Gary Naylor - January 09, 2020

The Union Theatre's Essential Classics season kicks off with Phil Willmott's updating of a classic with much to say about England in 2020....

BWW Review: GUYS AND DOLLS, Crucible, Sheffield
by Ruth Deller - December 14, 2019

The Crucible takes us to New York's bustling backstreets in this joyous revival....

BWW Review: CINDERELLA, Fairfield Halls
by Gary Naylor - December 13, 2019

Cinderella delivers a true family pantomime that mixes spectacular sets and costumes with plenty of laughs in a show that doesn't push back any boundaries, but delivers what its audience wants at Christmas....

BWW Review: CINDERELLA, Lyceum, Sheffield
by Ruth Deller - December 12, 2019

The latest Sheffield Theatres panto hits all the traditional panto beats....