BWW Review: ASK ME ANYTHING, VAULT Festival
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BWW Review: FLIGHTS, Omnibus Theatre
Flights looks into the hearts of three men whose lives in rural Ireland are not working out as they once hoped.
BWW Review: THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII, King's Head Theatre
After the press murders their Richard III and everything seems lost, Stu McLoughlin notices that Howard Coggins looks like Henry VIII.
BWW Review: THE DOG WALKER, Jermyn Street Theatre
A world premiere of a play is always an exciting thing; a potential opportunity to witness one of the very first performances of a future classic.
BWW Review: LEOPOLDSTADT, Wyndham's Theatre
Tom Stoppard's latest - and possibly final - play has few of the dramatic hallmarks you might expect from him: the dazzling linguistic flourishes, the formal trickery, the knotty metaphors and giddy metatheatricality.
BWW Review: LUISA MILLER, London Coliseum
There must have been a two-for-one offer on the day director Barbora Horakova visited the Regietheater prop-store to kit out her Luisa Miller for English National Opera.
BWW Review: THE VISIT, National Theatre
Three years after the National's enthralling revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, the playwright returns with his new adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's tragicomic 1956 parable a?' which has also been turned into an Ingrid Bergman-starring film and a Kander and Ebb musical.
BWW Review: BLUEBEARD, Sadler's Wells
If every marriage is a duel, then those of Bluebeard are full-on battles.
BWW Review: FAR AWAY, Donmar Warehouse
In just 45 minutes, Caryl Churchill's Far Away walks a tightrope between tricksy surrealism and dystopian warning but stays upright due to its sheer theatricality.
BWW Review: RHUBARB GHETTO, VAULT Festival
Billy (Damian Lynch) and Scarlet (Izabella Urbanowicz) meet in a damp underpass covered in graffiti.
BWW Review: RAWTRANSPORT™, VAULT Festival
Electrick Village brings technology to VAULT Festival, creating an all-encompassing 360 adventure that - quite literally - transports the audience to another dimension.
BWW Review: MONOLOG 3, Chickenshed Theatre
monolog 3 presents a range of plays that explore life as it's lived today through the voices of single performers drawing on Chickenshed's uniquely inclusive approach to theatre.
BWW Review: THE FIRST, VAULT Festival
Rose and Simeon are approaching Mars while, back on Earth, Alisha and Marcus are hired as speech writers.
BWW Review: NORA: A DOLL'S HOUSE, Young Vic
Three distinct doorways separate three different time periods.
BWW Review: ALL OF IT, Royal Court Theatre
Kate O'Flynn is in award-winning form as the baby who grows into a girl and then a woman before her life's span is through in Alistair McDowall's clattering monologue.
BWW Review: OPERA UNDONE: TOSCA & LA BOHEME, Trafalgar Studios
In yet another attempt to democratise opera, Opera Undone, the new strand of Islington's King's Head Theatre's celebrated opera offering, brings two radical interpretations of Puccini's Tosca and La bohème to the Trafalgar Studios.
BWW Review: TRYST, Chiswick Playhouse
First seen in the West End over 20 years ago, titled The Mysterious Mr Love, Karoline Leach's Tryst is the final show of the Chiswick Playhouse's inaugural season; a melodramatic mixture of psychological thriller and slightly awkward love story.
BWW Review: BLITZ!, Union Theatre
Revival Blitz! forms part of Phil Wilmott's Essential Classics season, which commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day.
BWW Review: TUNA, VAULT Festival
In a small village, a girl is on her last police warning.
BWW Review: AFTER(S), White Bear Theatre
The promotional poster promises us the greatest afterparty of our lives.
BWW Review: MIGHTY, VAULT Festival
With a loop pedal and tonnes of personality, Jack AG Britton addresses a strikingly under-explored subject: heightism.
BWW Review: MONSTER, VAULT Festival
As Joe is asked to prepare for a play about domestic assault based on Shakespeare's toxic males, his own relationships start to change.
BWW Review: LABELS, VAULT Festival
We all attach labels to people.
BWW Review: COLLAPSIBLE, Bush Theatre
The Bush Theatre's studio feels like a perfect place for this play, as it demands close proximity between the audience and actor.
BWW Review: WHAT THE DOLLS SAW, VAULT Festival
The world's greatest dollmaker has just died and his family have come together to mourn the death of their father and husband.
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