BWW Review: WHAT GIRLS ARE MADE OF, Soho Theatre
Following its most recent run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Cora Bissett's autobiographical musical What Girls Are Made Of has transferred to London.
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BWW Review: THE KING OF HELL'S PALACE, Hampstead Theatre
It's been a week of new Artistic Director's kicking off their debut seasons.
Ten Years As A BWW Reviewer - A Personal Reflection
Gary Naylor reflects on ten years as a BroadwayWorld reviewer.
BWW Review: ASTANA BALLET, Royal Opera House
It is always exciting to witness a ballet company unseen in the UK.
BWW Review: 9 TO 5, The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham
Dolly Parton's iconic song, 9 to 5, is so recognisable from the first few notes so what better way to open her musical comedy stage adaptation.
BWW Review: LIT, Hightide Festival, Aldeburgh
Lit is an astonishing debut play from Sophie Ellerby telling the tale of Bex, a teen adrift in a world full of threats with wit, wisdom and overwhelming humanity.
BWW Review: A DOLL'S HOUSE, Lyric Hammersmith
The simple act of deception that opens Ibsen's A Doll's House never ceases to amaze me.
BWW Review: MALORY TOWERS, York Theatre Royal
After a sparkling debut last year with an adaptation of Angela Carter's Wise Children, Emma Rice's company of the same name returns for its second outing with another literary classic - Malory Towers.
BWW Review: RUST, Hightide Festival, Aldeburgh
Rust takes us into the lives - the other lives - of Daniel and Nadia, having an affair, but not quite able to leave their real homes at home.
BWW Review: AMSTERDAM, Orange Tree Theatre
In our turbulent modern times, the issue of intolerance for foreigners, immigrants and being 'the other' is a much-debated and controversial topic.
BWW Review: HEDDA TESMAN, Minerva Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre
Hedda Tesman transports one of theatre's great roles into the present day, but Cordelia Lynn's script never quite lands.
BWW Review: UNTIL THE FLOOD, Arcola Theatre
Using the 2014 shooting of 18-year-old African American Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson as its starting point but not its only focus, Dael Orlandersmith's Until The Flood bring into sharp relief the racial history and tensions in a divided America.
BWW Review: CHIAROSCURO, Bush Theatre
In an explosive blend of live music, spoken word and theatre, Jackie Kay's 1986 provocation is breathed a new life under Lynette Linton's hand.
BWW Review: TORCH SONG, Turbine Theatre
It's an exciting time for London theatre at the moment, and never more so than when a brand new theatre opens, leaving us brimming with anticipation at the potential to come.
BWW Review: FOR SERVICES RENDERED, Jermyn Street Theatre
Somerset Maugham's For Services Rendered opens Jermyn Street Theatre's new season, which celebrates the establishment's 25th anniversary since its opening and is aptly called the Memories Season.
BWW Review: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATRE, Sadler's Wells
Thriving dance troupe Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre return to Sadler's Wells for the first time in three years with a varied set of programmes, contrasting challenging themes of new work with joyful signature piece Revelations.
BWW Review: TWO TRAINS RUNNING, Royal And Derngate
A slice-of-African-American-life in 1960s Pittsburgh comes to life at Royal and Derngate
BWW Review: TOTAL IMMEDIATE COLLECTIVE IMMINENT TERRESTRIAL SALVATION, Royal Court
In an inventive blend of text, illustration, live performance and audience awareness, Tim Crouch's new offering - that arrives straight from Edinburgh International Fringe a?" takes its followers to the end of the world, whilst also preparing them for the start of a new one.
BWW Review: HOW LOVE IS SPELT, Southwark Playhouse
So many of us flock to London in search of life, love and adventure and these are the motivations of Peta (Larner Wallace-Taylor), who is new in town and ready for whatever the big smoke has to throw at her, or is she? Set in 2004, How Love Is Spelt also premiered in the same year at the Bush Theatr
BWW Review: STRIPPED, King's Head Theatre
According to their website, 'Bitter Pill believes the only way to tackle any subject is to first entertain in order to engage.
BWW Review: A VERY EXPENSIVE POISON, Old Vic
How theatre should, or should not, be addressing Brexit is a constant topic of conversation.
BWW Review: THE STRANGE CASE OF JEKYLL & HYDE, Jack Studio Theatre
This take on the familiar tale brings out many of the subtleties of its source material and has much to say about today's world.
BWW Review: ANAHERA, Finborough Theatre
Harry Hunter is missing.
BWW Review: THE FISHERMEN, Trafalgar Studios
After a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe and a sold-out run at the Arcola at the end of last year, Gbolahan Obisesan's adaptation of Chigozie Obioma's novel The Fishermen is now at the Trafalgar Studios.
BWW Review: FALSETTOS, The Other Palace
In many ways, when William Finn and James Lapine's musical Falsettos premiered on Broadway in the early 90s it was ahead of its time.
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