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BWW Review: A NUMBER, Old Vic
Marking twenty years since its premiere, Caryl Churchill’s sci-fi masterpiece A Number returns to the London stage. The hotly anticipated production stars Lennie James as a grief-stricken father who opts to clone his deceased son with the mindset of reattempting parenthood and making up for past m...
BWW Review: HAMLET, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
As if the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse wasn’t already atmospheric enough, it feels like a special treat to witness their first candlelit Hamlet. After directing the colourful A Midsummer Night’s Dream just across the courtyard at the Globe, Sean Holmes goes darker and moodier with our favourite reven...
BWW Review: WUTHERING HEIGHTS, National Theatre
“I am Heathcliff – he’s always, always in my mind.” Wise Children’s latest production – an ambitious adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights – has finally made its way to the National Theatre, following COVID delays and a rearranged tour, starting at the Bristol Old Vic last y...
BWW Review: COULD IT BE MAGIC?, Wilton's Music Hall
Comedy and magic show with scope to explore its format more fully...
BWW Review: PURPLE SNOWFLAKES AND TITTY WANKS, Royal Court
What do nuns, granola bars and a string of pearls all have in common? It sounds like the start of a bad joke but really, they’re all part of Sarah Hanly’s vibrant one-woman show, Purple Snowflakes and Titty Wanks....
BWW Review: LA BOHÈME, London Coliseum
Another revival of a beautifully realised crowdpleaser that works perfectly in the difficult days of February 2022....
BWW Review: JARMAN, Greenwich Theatre
Derek Jarman, a seminal figure in British culture, is given a 21st century voice in this one-man show...
BWW Review: SAVING MOZART (CONCEPT ALBUM), Spotify
Since Hamilton debuted in 2015, the biographical musical genre has been at an all-time high. People love them, look at Six! Charlie Eglinton has now released a concept album for a new one based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s life. Peter Shaffer gave us an imaginary account of the lives of the Salzbu...
BWW Review: THE NATIONAL LOTTERY'S BIG NIGHT OF MUSICALS, BBC1
Finally – a major theatrical event in a prime-time slot on a Saturday night. Not since Andrew Lloyd Webber’s array of reality shows have we seen musical theatre put front and centre on a mainstream channel, and after years of The Olivier Awards broadcast being relegated to a truncated late night...
BWW Review: THE WINSTON MACHINE, New Diorama Theatre
Ambitious new play that examines the iniquitous effect of nostalgia requires greater clarity in its storytelling...
BWW Review: THE GLOW, Royal Court
Beautifully executed production is let down by a dud script...
BWW Review: DR SEMMELWEIS, Bristol Old Vic
'Doctors must not carry their ghosts,' advises Johann Klein to his impatient assistant Dr Ignaz Semmelweis, a 19th-century obstetrics doctor. But Semmelweis is troubled: he feels it is only by carrying those ghosts that progress can be made....
BWW Review: AVA: THE SECRET CONVERSATIONS, Riverside Studios
One star recreates another, but we learn more about Ava's men than about Ava herself...
BWW Review: BARELY METHODICAL TROUPE - KIN, Peacock Theatre
KIN at Sadler's Well Peacock Theater. Barely Methodical Troupe's Director, Ben Duke, together with 6 brilliantly talented performers, and a crack technical team have created magic with almost nothing and turn the nearly-empty stage into the arena for one of the most breathtaking theatrical events th...
BWW Review: DOUBT: A PARABLE, Chichester Festival Theatre
John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Doubt: A Parable, is a court room built to question your understanding of integrity. Chichester Festival Theatre's offering is equally sharp and profound, echoing the vast ambiguity and loss of faith hidden within a pursuit of righteousness....
Gary Naylor's Nominations For The 2021 BroadwayWorld UK Awards
One of our reviewers shares his top picks!...
BWW Review: ROMEO & JULIET, Southwark Playhouse
Nicky Allpress puts Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in the midst of an 80s Brixton feud....
BWW Review: FREUD'S LAST SESSION, King's Head Theatre
Great minds meet at symposiums, state dinners, in literary circles, in the theatre. They get together and discuss their theories, arguing and tearing each other apart in dramatic fashion. What happens when two of the most famous men of their time clash in a small Hampstead office at the doors of the...
BWW Review: MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL, Piccadilly Theatre
There can be few shows that have been quite so pushed from pillar to post by Covid. The West End version of Moulin Rouge! The Musical has stuttered, started and stopped a dizzying number of times. After winning 10 Tony awards on Broadway, the long-awaited adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s extravagant 2...
BWW Review: RAYMONDA, London Coliseum
Tamara Rojo doesn't go far enough in re-inventing Raymonda, its new story lacking the boldness of its new setting in the Crimean War....
BWW Review: CONUNDRUM, Young Vic
“I know who I am”, Fidel’s mantra echoes throughout Paul Anthony Morris’s play. But he doesn’t. Nor does the play itself. Conundrum is crowded with glaring themes. It’s about memories, identity, and racism. But it’s also about unlearning societal dogmas and healing your inner child, if...
BWW Review: BONNIE & CLYDE IN CONCERT, Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Theatre Royal Drury Lane has allowed its show-stopping hit Frozen to take a short break, making way for an explosive and dynamic concert production of Bonnie & Clyde....
BWW Review: THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD & LOEB STORY, Jermyn Street Theatre
In Chicago, 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb each receive life, plus 99 years, for the despicable murder and kidnapping of 14-year-old Bobby Franks....
BWW Review: BAT OUT OF HELL, New Wimbledon Theatre
The songs of Meat Loaf and J.M Barrie’s story of Peter Pan are not an immediately obvious combination, but Bat Out Of Hell attempts to fuse these elements with hints of West Side Story, Rock Of Ages and Wagner-esque unrestrained theatricality....
BWW Review: THE 4TH COUNTRY, Park Theatre
Irish politics is, usually, abundant with stereotypes according to British theatre. From gun-toting IRA members to peasants desperately fighting for the right to retain their mother tongue, it’s easy to get carried away with whiskey and a jolly dance. But there won’t be any leprechauns or Riverd...
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