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BWW Review: DANCE, Sadler's Wells
This rare revival of Dance is the epitome of Philip Glass' artistic ethos, combining minimalism and layered music with huge projections and skilful dancing....
BWW Review: FIJI, Omnibus Theatre
The concept behind Fiji really shouldn’t work. A black comedy about the incongruous combination of online dating and consensual cannibalism was well-received when it ran for a few performances back in 2019. This unlikely premise, inspired by the 1991 case of the 'Rotenburg Cannibal', sparks a surp...
BWW Review: MARIA FRIEDMAN & FRIENDS - LEGACY, Menier Chocolate Factory
Among the many reflections on the legacy of the late, great Stephen Sondheim, here comes a touchingly personal one from his frequent collaborator Maria Friedman, who also pays tribute to two other dearly departed composers: Marvin Hamlisch and Michel LeGrand....
BWW Review: MORENO, Theatre 503
An imbalance between thematic exposition and dramatic tension means that a promising play fails to reach its full potential...
BWW Review: CLUEDO, Richmond Theatre
Was it Professor Plum in the library with the dagger? To many of us, the board game Cluedo is a family staple, but director Mark Bell’s play takes more of its influence from the 1985 American film Clue. The play retains the characters, weapons and location of a spooky manor house and turn it into ...
BWW Review: THE WOODS, Southwark Playhouse
David Mamet's 1977 play, exploring and exposing gender differences, is given its first London Revival in 25 years....
BWW Review: BRIDGERTON BALL, Secret Cinema
Secret Cinema never shy away from the challenge - but transforming a warehouse in Wembley into a 19th Century Ballroom may be their most impressive feat yet....
BWW Review: BEAUTIFUL - THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL, Leicester Curve
At one point in Beautiful - The Carole King Musical, Carole declines a request to sing with a band, because she can't imagine anyone would want 'to hear a normal person sing'. As it turns out, millions of people want exactly that, and the show starts and ends with Carole performing her smash-hit alb...
BWW Review: BLOODY DIFFICULT WOMEN, Riverside Studios
Let’s rewind to 2016. The fires of Brexit are being stoked left and right and the discourse is rife everywhere, the news swarm with opinions and facts. Theresa May is about to go from Home Secretary to Prime Minister. Kenneth Clarke is being interviewed by Sky and he’s passing judgement on the c...
BWW Review: SHEDDING A SKIN, Soho Theatre
Myah is in her thirties, recently single, homeless, now unemployed, and agonizingly uncomfortable in her own skin. After a tense weekend at her parents it's time to get her life together... again....
BWW Review: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
The Merchant of Venice is vastly considered to be Shakespeare’s most controversial and problematic play and director Abigail Graham does not shy away from the tough antisemitic and racist themes covered in the bard’s text....
BWW Review: SMALL ISLAND, National Theatre
Rufus Norris’ stage production of Andrea Levy’s Small Island was hailed as a triumph on its debut in 2019. The epic story of race, friendship and betrayal set among the Windrush generation was a welcome distraction when streamed during lockdown and now makes an exultant return to the grandeur of...
BWW Review: AFTER THE END, Theatre Royal Stratford East
The theatre gods work in mysterious ways. Right when Putin is wreaking havoc in Ukraine, threatening to start a nuclear world war, a show set in a fallout shelter opens at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Dennis Kelly’s After The End is a play about power and displays scenes of spine-chilling violenc...
BWW Review: PERSUASION, Rose Theatre
First seen back in 2017 at Manchester’s Royal Exchange, Jeff James and James Yeatman’s boldly modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s last novel Persuasion now makes a triumphant entrance at the Rose Theatre. It is often cited that Austen was ahead of her time and this adaptation throws away the co...
BWW Review: HENRY V, Donmar Warehouse
What a time to be opening a play about war, nationalism, and power. Max Webster’s new production of Henry V is now running at the Donmar Warehouse, and offers us a ringside seat to the harsh realities of warfare, both medieval and modern....
BWW Review: OUR GENERATION, National Theatre
An epic sweep of the millennials' generation told through verbatim theatre, maximising all the opportunities (and problems) that format brings...
BWW Review: WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN, The Coronet Theatre
The Norwegian Ibsen Company return to London with Ibsen’s swansong. After bringing us a mesmerising The Lady From The Sea in 2019, When We Dead Awaken fits well in the emotional panorama of the world with the regretful and melancholic atmosphere of its story. At a time when we might have lost hope...
BWW Review: SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, Peacock Theatre
After a couple of years of staying at home and catching up on all the boxsets and films you never got round to watching, it appears the West End has had a similar idea; Saturday Night Fever is the latest movie-based musical to hit the stage, joining the likes of Dirty Dancing, Back to the Future, Pr...
BWW Review: MIMMA, Cadogan Hall
When it comes to a topic as over-saturated in theatre as the Second World War, there is something to be said for productions that take a new approach. New musical Mimma puts Italian resistance members who came to London before the war front and centre in its depiction of people caught between allegi...
BWW Review: AN HOUR AND A HALF LATE, Richmond Theatre
Retirement concerns and empty-nest syndrome will be familiar issues to many and are ripe for both exploration and satire. Despite these juicy subjects, Belinda Lang’s adaptation of Gérald Sibleyras and Jean Dell’s comedy An Hour And A Half Late, has amusing moments, but fails to make a lasting ...
BWW Review: THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, Hampstead Theatre
A complicated family of four and their therapist struggle to find a common ground, as they sit, talk, debate and argue throughout the course of six messy group sessions. United in pain and their desire to heal from it, Ruby Thomas’ play attempts to investigate how miscommunication can lead to blam...
BWW Review: RICHARD II, Jack Studio Theatre
A boutique Shakespeare, some of the religious aspects of the play are sacrificed for a version that proves to be an accessible, psychological political thriller....
BWW Review: THE COLLABORATION, Young Vic
Public fascination with unexpected celebrity pairings is not a new thing; before 50 Cent and Bette Midler buddied up, two very different artists were thrown together in the hope that some extraordinary work would be produced - what resulted was a genuine connection and a friendship that would endure...
BWW Review: UNCANNY VALLEY, Battersea Arts Centre
We’ve been saying it for decades, robots are going to take over the world. While it’s obvious now that there are many jobs that can be undertaken by more efficient metal arms and the lot, for a while we latched on to the reassurance that there are some things that they simply cannot do - being e...
BWW Review: SHROUD, Playground Theatre
We never go too long without learning new details of the heinous crimes committed by the Catholic Church. Just earlier this year, Pope Emeritus Joseph Ratzinger apologised for turning a blind eye to clerical pedophelia back when he was Archbishop of the dioceses of Munich and Freising. He’s not th...
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