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BWW Review: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, Richmond Theatre
Not to be confused with the 2002 film of the same name, Catch Me If You Can is a small ensemble thriller that debuted on Broadway in 1965. Based on a French play by Robert Thomas, this American version, written by Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, is a potentially entertaining evening, but fails t...
BWW Review: THE HANDMAID'S TALE, English National Opera
Poul Ruder's 1998 operatic take on The Handmaid's Tale takes flight once again at the English National Opera featuring a new production and the West End debut of Camille Cottin (Killing Eve, Call My Agent)....
BWW Review: JEFF WAYNE'S THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, O2 Arena
See what the BWW critic thought. Aliens live among us in the latest reincarnation of the world-famous Rock Opera....
BWW Review: RICHARD II, The Vaults
“For heaven’s sake, let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings” Richard II famously says. The first part in Shakespeare’s Henriad follows a king who’s quite poetic, vain, and adores adulation....
BWW Review: THE 47TH, The Old Vic
One for the money, two for the show. The second play written by Mike Bartlett has now opened in London. With a revival of Cock running at the Ambassadors and Scandaltown opening in Hammersmith next week, the playwright is quite the rarity, one of the very few to’ve had multiple productions on at t...
BWW Review: LAVA, Soho Theatre
When Lava was first staged, at the Nottingham Playhouse in 2018, its central plot point of an asteroid hitting North London and causing thousands of casualties may have seemed implausible - over-dramatic, even. Now remounted at the Soho Theatre as we move out of a global pandemic, these themes of lo...
BWW Review: STRING V SPITTA, Soho Theatre
String v SPITTA might sound like a court case but is, instead, something far more serious: a battle between two children’s entertainers for supremacy of the London scene....
BWW Review: SAY YES TO TESS - A NEW MUSICAL, Camden People's Theatre
Tess Seddon mines her own General Election campaign of 2017 for an amusing and punchy musical...
BWW Review: FOR BLACK BOYS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE HUE GETS TOO HEAVY, Royal Court
Deconstructing modern black masculinity, 'For Black Boys Who have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy' is a poetic meditation on the discord between expectations of black men and their reality....
BWW Review: 'DADDY', Almeida Theatre
An expansive luxurious pool dominates the Almeida stage, and a dripping wet young man stands in nothing but a speedo. A little more than drunk, he looks around at his current setting, taking in the grandeur of this beautiful home. Decorated with luxury art, it’s the home of collector Andre, a 40-s...
BWW Review: SAD, Omnibus theatre
There is certainly a gap in the representation of middle-aged women who are confronting ageing and complicated relationships on stage. Victoria Willing’s new play SAD has the potential to fill that hole by exploring a woman-of-a-certain-age’s messy experiences of love, grief and isolation, but f...
BWW Review: PROJECT DICTATOR, New Diorama Theatre
A clowning cocktail of Orwell, Beckett, and Kundera, Project Dictator pokes fun at the overdone 'State of the Nation' play, instead crafting something far more unique, intelligent, and disturbing....
BWW Review: ANYONE CAN WHISTLE, Southwark Playhouse
Stephen Sondheim's and Arthur Laurents 1964 political satire is given a modern spin by director Georgie Rankom in this high-energy production. Let's see what BWW's critic had to say......
BWW Review: A MONSTER CALLS, Rose Theatre
Patrick Ness’ novel A Monster Calls is a sharp and poignant look at loss in childhood and how death is approached by adults and children. First seen at the Bristol Old Vic in 2018, Sally Cookson’s heart-breaking stage production tries to make sense of illness and grief and how lying to children ...
BWW Review: LA TRAVIATA, Royal Opera House
Eyre’s take on La Traviata quite rightly deserves to be seen as a jewel in ROH’s crown but Angel Blue lifts it to a new level. Read our critic's review. ...
BWW Review: THE FEVER SYNDROME, Hampstead Theatre
Richard Myers has helped thousands of people achieve their dream of becoming parents. The IVF pioneer is now receiving a lifetime achievement award, and his own family have gathered around him to celebrate their patriarch....
BWW Review: EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE, New Wimbledon Theatre
Back in 2017, few could have imagined the success of a show about a teenage drag queen. Ever since it blasted its way onto the stage in 2017, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie has been a sensation here and as far away as Japan. Now on a nationwide tour, the true-life story of a 16-year-old wannabe d...
BWW Review: TRANSPOSE JOY: PIT PARTY, Barbican
Go down to the very bottom floor of the Barbican theatre and you'll find the Pit, where performers Mzz Kimberley, Felix Mufti and Ebony Rose Dark are celebrating the creativity of trans artists using dance, rap and theatre. ...
BWW Review: THE FORSYTHE EVENING, Sadler's Wells
Just under a year ago, English National Ballet debuted one of the first post-COVID programmes of new work entitled Reunion. It was a delight to be back in the theatre even if it was socially distanced and we were all masked up and tested within an inch of our lives, as a result it was lovely but san...
BWW Review: LE BAL DE PARIS, Barbican Centre
In a world where the metaverse is starting to take over our everyday lives from professional meetings to social gatherings, it’s only fair that theatre and dance also get an update. While “hanging out” online isn’t a new thing, with forums and social platforms having existed now since the ea...
BWW Review: TELETHON, Shoreditch Town Hall
Talkshow's ambitious satire gets plenty right, but fails to cohere as a whole, just too much going on for the audience to follow...
BWW Review: BLACK LOVE, Kiln Theatre
There is a sense of anticipation in the air as we take our seats for Black Love, which comes to the Kiln for a strictly limited run this month.
As Aurora (Nicholle Cherrie) slinks into the stage set of white boxes, surrounded on all sides by the audience, she brings with her a stylised version o...
BWW Review: BRILLIANT TRACES, White Bear Theatre
An odd couple find themselves holed up in an Alaskan whiteout with plenty of issues to work through...
BWW Review: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Gielgud Theatre
Aaron Sorkin’s hit Broadway adaptation of Harper Lee’s seminal 1960 novel has finally reached us, following Covid delays and a few real-life legal dramas. Lee’s estate sued Sorkin for making changes to the characters, while the since publicly disgraced (and removed) Mockingbird producer Scot...
BWW Review: NOTHING IN A BUTTERFLY, Omnibus Theatre
A visceral deep dive into the nature of addiction and violence, 'Nothing in a Butterfly' is one man's odyssey from the depths of the penal system to the dizzying heights of excess in Dubai....
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