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BWW Review: NO PARTICULAR ORDER, Theatre 503
A new play on the disintegration of civil society is well-timed, but too bitty in its structure to engage fully with its material or its audience...
BWW Review: BEFORE I WAS A BEAR, Soho Theatre
Cally's life is turned upside down when she embarks on an affair with her childhood crush...
BWW Review: GECKO: THE WEDDING, Barbican
“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher.” Socrates may not have actually said those words but, even apocryphally, they express a cynicism about marriage that pervades through history to the modern day....
BWW Review: SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, Birmingham Hippodrome
Often cited as one of the best movie musicals ever made, the 1952 romantic comedy Singin’ In The Rain, starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, has a special place in many people's hearts. It was first adapted for the West End stage in 1983 and since then there have been multiple ...
BWW Review: THE HAUNTING OF SUSAN A, King's Head Theatre
It’s been a while since Mark Ravenhill’s had a show on in London. After The Cane premiered to stellar reviews at the Royal Court in 2018 and the musical adaptation of The Boy in the Dress (for which Ravenhill wrote the book) opened in Stratford-upon-Avon the year after, The Haunting of Susan A i...
BWW Review: NOISES OFF, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Forty years on from its debut at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in London in 1982, Michael Fryan’s farce-within-a-farce, Noises Off, returns to Pitlochry Festival Theatre as part of their 2022 summer season. The comedy was last performed in Pitlochry in 2010 and this marks the first professional ve...
BWW Review: SAMSON ET DALILA, Royal Opera House
Richard Jones' new production drips with bacchanalian flare. But something is missing from the allure....
BWW Review: DICTATING TO THE ESTATE, Maxilla Social Club
Though flawed in its structure, this passionate new play has an important role to play in a scandal that continues to stain our city and our country...
BWW Review: THE COLLAB, The Space
This new play brings the issue of mediating relationships in a changing, hybrid world to the fore without losing drama's essential components of character, plot and pace....
BWW Review: TRISTAN AND ISOLDE at the Coronet Theatre
Richard Wagner had many strong ideas when it came to music, especially his operas. Reducing the runtime to a mere 60 minutes and concentrating on excerpts that focus on the love story between the titular characters, is Japanese choreographer and dancer Saburo Teshigawara’s adaptation a success?...
BWW Review: SUNSHINE ON LEITH, PITLOCHRY FESTIVAL THEATRE
The sun is certainly shining on Perthshire, as Pitlochry Festival Theatres celebrates the opening of its recently renovated building. A cheery actor-musician revival of The Proclaimers’ jukebox musical Sunshine on Leith opens their 2022 summer season, a co-production in collaboration with Capital ...
BWW Review: MACHINE DE CIRQUE, Peacock Theatre
Looking for something endlessly inventive, ridiculously energetic, child-friendly yet racier than an MP's browsing history? Machine de Cirque has it all....
BWW Review: BLEAK EXPECTATIONS, The Watermill Theatre
The main thing to know about this production is it is very, very funny. Silly, sure; but cheek-achingly funny. From the moment Nicholas Murchie's begins his high-energy rendition of 19th century everyman Sir Philip Bin, Bleak Expectations is a laugh-a-minute tumble through this naturally dramatic er...
BWW Review: BRITANNICUS, Lyric Hammersmith
Blood and guts in Ancient Rome, Atri Banerjee’s production of Jean Racine’s historical tragedy is no Roman Holiday....
BWW Review: THE DANCE OF DEATH, Theatre Royal Bath
Lindsay Duncan is magnetic in this revival of Strindberg's black comedy. Read our BWW critic's review. ...
BWW Review: EUGENE ONEGIN, Opera Holland Park
On a summer night in West London, a blazing fire of a Russian opera did battle with the chill night air. The opera won (albeit on points)....
BWW Review: THE GLASS MENAGERIE, Duke Of York's Theatre
Whether it’s all a big scheme to get bums on seats or these actors are all of a sudden genuinely interested in being in plays, it’s working. The West End is swarming with film and tv stars at the minute and patrons are flocking to see them. Read our BWW critic's review. ...
BWW Review: WE WILL ROCK YOU, New Wimbledon Theatre
The Queen musical is not entirely at ease with being brought into the social media age, but is nonetheless an evening of riotous good fun that is sure to delight audience members with even the most limited knowledge of the band's work. Read our critic's review....
BWW Review: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING - IN CONCERT, Royal Albert Hall
See what our critic thought of seeing the popular film accompanied by a big orchestra....
BWW Review: APHIEMI, Golden Goose Theatre
Vicki Berwick's new play has its roots in Classical Greece, but is gripping in its embrace of contemporary concerns...
BWW Review: GIRL ON AN ALTAR, Kiln Theatre
The Greeks seem to be trending at the moment. Last year TikTok went mad for Madeline Miller’s book Song of Achilles, Ivo van Hove brought his mash-up of myths to the Barbican at the start of the month, and the Almeida’s latest project is being compared to a Greek masterpiece. London seems to be ...
BWW Review: HENRY VIII, Shakespeare's Globe
As the most notorious monarch in British history, Henry VIII's rule was tyrannous and imposing. Known for his colossal physique and consort of six unlucky wives, Henry Tudor has long stood as an example of the damage done by brutish men with excessive power. His reputation as a prolific abuser of wo...
BWW Review: ANY ATTEMPT WILL END IN CRUSHED BODIES AND SHATTERED BONES, Sadler's Wells
any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones is most definitely not for the faint-hearted. For his latest production at Sadler’s Wells, Flemish choreographer Jan Martens has created in ways which will shock any sane person to their core a highly engaging and provocative piece of po...
BWW Review: LEGALLY BLONDE, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
When Legally Blonde came out in 2001, its main character Elle Woods became an instant icon. Witty comebacks in hot pink stilettos, she tore down stereotypes and validated blondes across the world. She probably also inspired generations to pursue a law degree and not be intimidated to hide the multi-...
BWW Review: LOTUS BEAUTY, Hampstead Theatre Downstairs
Satinder Chohan's new play has plenty of comedy and tragedy, but struggles to catch the right tone consistently, packing in more themes than its plot can comfortably sustain...
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