BWW Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, Laurence Batley Theatre Online
The Importance of Being Earnest is probably Oscar Wilde’s best-known play.
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BWW Review: OUTSIDE, Orange Tree Theatre Online
Following on from the Orange Tree’s successful debut into the world of theatrical streaming with Inside, comes Outside: a premiere of three plays from new and established artists.
BWW Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, SHAKE Festival Online
With spring quickly approaching and lockdown measures slowly easing, there probably isn’t a better piece of theatre to accompany the warmer weather and cheerier moods than A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
BWW Review: ROMEO & JULIET, Sky Arts
Simon Godwin’s much-hyped version of Romeo & Juliet at the National Theatre was originally slated for summer 2020.
BWW Review: BLACK MATTER, Online
In his Olivier Award-winning performance as Aaron Burr in Hamilton, Giles Terera asks Alexander Hamilton, “Why do you write like you’re running out of time?”.
BWW Review: REMEMBERING THE OSCARS, Online
Strictly Come Dancing’s golden couple, Aljaz Skorjanec and Janette Manrara, return for a socially distanced iteration of their latest big budget production.
BWW Review: INSIDE, Orange Tree Theatre Online
Over a year since the lights went out, the Orange Tree Theatre is now entering the realm of live streaming with a new concept: Inside/Outside.
BWW Review: BKLYN - THE MUSICAL
After making its UK debut in 2019, BKLYN - The Musical returns in an online revival with new cast and creatives at the helm.
BWW Review: GOBSTOPPERS, Vimeo online
We're tight close-up on a pair of eyes that become many pairs of eyes as single, spat out verbs tell us the emotions such eyes transmit.
BWW Review: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, Online
Adapting classic works for the modern day is a double-edged sword.
BWW Review: DREAM, Royal Shakespeare Company Online
As it is now a year since theatres went dark, it seems appropriate for one of the country’s most eminent theatre companies to now produce one of the most innovative and inventive productions seen since the pandemic began.
BWW Feature: THE BIRTHDAY MONTH / SONDHEIM 1 - Five productions that we won't forget
Last week, we acknowledged the forthcoming birthday of Andrew Lloyd Webber via a look back at five defining London stagings of his work.
BWW Feature: THE BIRTHDAY MONTH / LLOYD WEBBER 1 - Five productions that we won't forget
March is the month in which both Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim celebrate their birthdays and on the same date (March 22), albeit 18 years apart.
BWW Review: THIRST TRAP, Fuel Theatre
Theatre reviews do not often start with a cardboard package, delivered late at night by a black lycra-clad bike courier.
BWW Review: DEAR TOMORROW - HOPE FROM HOME, Actors Touring Company and Northern Stage Online
This past week saw the release of Dear Tomorrow – Hope From Home, an exciting collaboration by Actors Touring Company and Northern Stage.
BWW Review: THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE at Southwark Playhouse
Filmed at Southwark Playhouse and now streaming online, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice updates and elaborates a classic poem to create a family-friendly musical.
BWW Review: SHARON 'N' BARRY DO 'ROMEO & JULIET', Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, Online
Sharon and Barry have been married for years.
BWW Review: SHERLOCK HOLMES: AN ONLINE ADVENTURE, Les Enfants Terribles
Have you ever found yourself reading or watching one of Sherlock Holmes' adventures and wanted to get involved in the action itself? Now you can.
BWW Review: TYPICAL, Soho Theatre On Demand
Thoughtful, poignant and insightful, Ryan Calais Cameron’s play, Typical, debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe before transferring to the Soho Theatre in 2019.
BWW Feature: WE SAW THEM FIRST / THE MUSICAL ACTRESSES - Five Musicals Whose Female Performers Later Became Stars
Our monthlong series culling some of the early London theatrical triumphs of stars before they became known to the world at large draws to a close with our look back at a brilliant quintet of actresses who commanded attention in one musical (sometimes several) before broader renown came to call.
BWW Review: THEATRE CHANNEL EPISODE 5
Themed around Broadway classics, it stars Freddie Fox, Bonnie Langford, Marisha Wallace, Mazz Murray and Gary Wilmot, as well as series regulars the Café Four.
BWW Review: HYMN at Almeida Theatre (online)
Two men meet at a funeral in Lolita Chakrabarti's intense and uncompromising new play, which proves a lively yet thoughtful piece on family and friendship and features her husband, Adrian Lester, in the cast.
BWW Review: THE COLOR PURPLE - AT HOME, Curve@Home Online
Reviewing the Curve Theatre’s gorgeous concert revival of The Color Purple feels timely in more ways than one: not only is it an apt choice of programming during Black History Month, but tonight’s press night is the same day as the conclusion of a long and drawn-out employment tribunal linked to
BWW Review: ALL ON HER OWN, Stream.Theatre
Isolation and loneliness are certainly aspects of the human experience that more of us have felt of late.
BWW Review: ROMEO AND JULIET, Online
As a very different Valentines Day looms for people in the UK, Metcalfe Gordon Productions have created a unique digital version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, directed by Nick Evans.
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