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BWW Review: THE FUTURE IS MENTAL, VAULT Festival

BWW Review: THE FUTURE IS MENTAL, VAULT Festival

by Cindy Marcolina — February 22, 2020

This year, Network Theatre Company take their audience to an unspecified futuristic time with The Future is Mental, an anthology of six short plays that are heavily recalling of Black Mirror.

BWW Review: SWAN LAKE, Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema

BWW Review: SWAN LAKE, Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema

by Aliya Al-Hassan — February 24, 2020

As part of the 243rd season of the iconic ballet company, several productions by the Bolshoi Ballet are again being broadcast on cinema screens across sixty countries.

BWW Review: PASS OVER, Kiln Theatre

BWW Review: PASS OVER, Kiln Theatre

by Anthony Walker-Cook — February 20, 2020

After you have seen Antoinette Nwandu's Pass Over, you might give a second thought to the next street beggar you see and, probably, ignore.

BWW Review: ACOSTA DANZA UP CLOSE, Royal Opera House

BWW Review: ACOSTA DANZA UP CLOSE, Royal Opera House

by Gary Naylor — February 20, 2020

This show, by the company of ex-Principal dancer at The Royal Ballet, Carlos Acosta, gives the audience a mixed bill, as up close as the title suggests, with as much Cuba as you would find in a hand-rolled cigar.

BWW Review: NOTCH, VAULT Festival

BWW Review: NOTCH, VAULT Festival

by Cindy Marcolina — February 20, 2020

Croatian writer and performer Danaja Wass brings her latest project Notch to VAULT Festival directed by Madelaine Moore.

BWW Review: MADAME OVARY, VAULT Festival

BWW Review: MADAME OVARY, VAULT Festival

by Cindy Marcolina — February 20, 2020

After a triumphant presence at Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year, Rosa Hesmondhalgh has taken Madame Ovary back to London for what's looking like another bewilderingly successful run.

BWW Review: CYRANO DE BERGERAC, NT Live

BWW Review: CYRANO DE BERGERAC, NT Live

by Aliya Al-Hassan — February 21, 2020

Martin Crimp's blisteringly raw version of Cyrano de Bergerac has been a great success so far during its run at The Playhouse Theatre in London's West End.

BWW Review: A NUMBER, Bridge Theatre

BWW Review: A NUMBER, Bridge Theatre

by Debbie Gilpin — February 20, 2020

Back in 2002, when Caryl Churchill's A Number premiered at the Royal Court, genetics was the hot new topic.

BWW Review: THE UPSTART CROW, Gielgud Theatre

BWW Review: THE UPSTART CROW, Gielgud Theatre

by Cindy Marcolina — February 17, 2020

Born out of the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 2016, Ben Elton's sit-com Upstart Crow went on to have three series and multiple Christmas specials.

BWW Review: CROOKS 1926, King William IV

BWW Review: CROOKS 1926, King William IV

by Cindy Marcolina — February 17, 2020

COLAB Theatre have woven another thrilling adventure: the company strikes gold with the Peaky Blinder infused Crooks 1926.

BWW Review: MADAM BUTTERFLY, Bristol Old Vic

BWW Review: MADAM BUTTERFLY, Bristol Old Vic

by Kerrie Nicholson — February 17, 2020

Founded in 2009, OperaUpClose's mission is to create 'innovatively staged, unintimidating, and crucially high quality English Chamber re-imaginings of well known work and premieres of new operas'.

BWW Review: A MONSTER CALLS, Chichester Festival Theatre

BWW Review: A MONSTER CALLS, Chichester Festival Theatre

by Jo Fisher — February 16, 2020

Produced by The Old Vic, in association with Bristol Old Vic, Oliver award-winning A Monster Calls is making its way around the UK on tour, and has just closed its appearance at Chichester Festival Theatre.

BWW Review: ROLE PLAY GOURMET, VAULT Festival

BWW Review: ROLE PLAY GOURMET, VAULT Festival

by Cindy Marcolina — February 16, 2020

Mixing theatre and food has become a bit of a craze in the past couple of years, so it was only a matter of time before shows involving food were introduced in festivals.

BWW Review: STICKY DOOR, VAULT Festival

BWW Review: STICKY DOOR, VAULT Festival

by Cindy Marcolina — February 16, 2020

Katie Arnstein returns to VAULT Festival after Bicycles and Fish and Sexy Lamp to complete her It's a Girl! trilogy presenting Sticky Door directed by Ellen Howard.

BWW Review: ALONE IN BERLIN, Royal and Derngate

BWW Review: ALONE IN BERLIN, Royal and Derngate

by Verity Wilde — February 15, 2020

Given the turbulent times that we live in, a new stage adaptation of Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin would seem like a smart choice for an ambitious theatre (or theatres, as this is a co-production with York Theatre Royal, in association with Oxford Playhouse).

BWW Review: THE HIGH TABLE, Bush Theatre

BWW Review: THE HIGH TABLE, Bush Theatre

by Anthony Walker-Cook — February 15, 2020

Love was in the air at the Bush Theatre this Valentine's Day with the opening of Temi Wilkey's new play The High Table.

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