UK Regional Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 61

BWW Reviews: THE DREAMING at International Youth Arts Festival, Rose Theatre Kingston, July 17 2012
by Gary Naylor - July 18, 2012

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

BWW Reviews: MR KOLPERT, Kings Head Theatre, July 16 2012
by Gary Naylor - July 16, 2012

Gary Naylor sees suburbia shattered...

BWW Reviews: VIEUX CARRÉ, Kings Head Theatre, July 13 2012
by Gary Naylor - July 14, 2012

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....

BWW Reviews: DIRTY DANCING, Birmingham Hippodrome, July 10 2012
by Jenny Antill - July 11, 2012

"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....

BWW Reviews: AS YOU LIKE IT, The Actor's Church, July 2012
by Lucy Thackray - July 04, 2012

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....

BWW Reviews: BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES, Unicorn Theatre, June 30 2012
by Gary Naylor - July 02, 2012

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

BWW Reviews: Pixar's BRAVE at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
by James T Harding - June 29, 2012

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....

BWW Reviews: EQUUS, Greenwich Theatre, June 27 2012
by Gary Naylor - June 29, 2012

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

BWW Reviews: THE FIX, Union Theatre, June 26 2012
by Gary Naylor - June 27, 2012

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

BWW Reviews: A COMING STORM, Battersea Arts Centre, June 2012
by Kate Finburg - June 26, 2012

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

BWW Reviews: AGAINST TIME, New Wimbledon Theatre, June 23 2012
by Gary Naylor - June 25, 2012

Gary Naylor sees an unlikely marriage succeed....

BWW Reviews: BORGES AND I, New Diorama Theatre, June 22 2012
by Gary Naylor - June 23, 2012

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

BWW Reviews: EITHER WAY (Á annan veg), Edinburgh International Film Festival
by James T Harding - June 22, 2012

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....

BWW Reviews: THE HISTORY BOYS, Greenwich Theatre, June 18 2012
by Gary Naylor - June 19, 2012

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

BWW Reviews: BUD, The Kings Head Theatre, June 17 2012
by Gary Naylor - June 18, 2012

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

BWW Reviews: SPINACH, The Kings Head Theatre, June 15 2012
by Gary Naylor - June 16, 2012

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

BWW Reviews: BE GOOD REVOLUTIONARIES, Ovalhouse, June 14 2012
by Gary Naylor - June 15, 2012

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

BWW Reviews: EIF's LOVE IN A LIBRARY Guerrilla Opera Focuses on the Music
by James T Harding - June 11, 2012

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...

BWW Reviews: OPERATION GREENFIELD, Battersea Arts Centre, June 8 2012
by Gary Naylor - June 09, 2012

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

BWW Reviews: DOROTHY SQUIRES MRS ROGER MOORE, White Bear Theatre, June 7 2012
by Gary Naylor - June 08, 2012

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

BWW Reviews: BEAST, White Bear Theatre, June 7 2012
by Gary Naylor - June 08, 2012

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

BWW Reviews: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, Kensington Gardens, June 7 2012
by Lucy Thackray - June 08, 2012

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...

BWW Reviews: SISTER ACT, New Wimbledon Theatre, June 6 2012
by Gary Naylor - June 07, 2012

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

BWW Reviews: PORGY AND BESS, Birmingham Hippodrome, June 6 2012
by Jenny Antill - June 07, 2012

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 ...

BWW Reviews: I DREAMED A DREAM, Birmingham Hippodrome, May 29 2012
by Jenny Antill - May 30, 2012

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....