BWW Review: THE VIEW UPSTAIRS, Soho Theatre
The View Upstairs tells the story of the 1973 arson attack on a gay bar in New Orleans, through the lens of a time-travelling millennial who exists as part of the modern day LGBTQ+ community.
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BWW Review: JEAN PAUL GAULTIER: FASHION FREAK SHOW, Southbank Centre
Straight from a clamorously successful run in the City of Lights (and capital of style), Jean Paul Gaultier: Fashion Freak Show comes to London to celebrate fashion's most renowned enfant terrible.
BWW Review: DAPHNE, TOMMY, THE COLONEL AND PHIL, Union Theatre
An aged couple discover that their seemingly perfect marriage is not all it appears to be and as the past comes back to haunt them, secrets surface and their lives are changed forever in this slightly surreal domestic comedy But is farce back in fashion or does it fall flat here?
BWW Review: THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, Menier Chocolate Factory
While the beginning of a heatwave raged outside the Menier Chocolate Factory, attendees of the UK premiere production of The Bridges of Madison County, directed by Trevor Nunn, were transported to a hot summer of a different kind in Iowa in the 1960s.
BWW Review: PARENTHOOD, The Space
Having children is stressful.
BWW Review: WAR AND PEACE, Royal Opera House
This epic WNO production captures the scale of Prokofiev's ambition with a chorus that, like the Russian winter, just keeps coming.
BWW Review: OKLAHOMA!, Chichester Festival Theatre
Oklahoma! stands at the very start of musical theatre's post-war re-invention on Broadway, Rodgers and Hammerstein's template for storytelling on show for two wonderful hours.
BWW Review: THE ILLUSIONISTS, Shaftesbury Theatre
It's tricky to find the words to describe this show, seeing as the majority of the positive ones have probably been used before.
BWW Review: PROM 6: THE RITE OF SPRING, Royal Albert Hall
a?oeParisians hiss new balleta?? read The New York Times upon the première of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (with choreography from the renowned Vaslav Nijinsky) back in 1913; it supposedly sparked riots as the audience reacted badly to this daring piece of music, though it's thought that th
BWW Review: JETTE PARKER YOUNG ARTISTS SUMMER PERFORMANCE, Royal Opera House
Evolving artists with differing amounts of stage experience formed a variably green, prepared and overworked ensemble in this summer showcase of the Royal Opera's young roster singers.
BWW Review: GINGERLINE CHAMBERS_, Secret London Location
Immersive dining experiences continue to be a huge trend, especially in the capital.
BWW Review: LEA SALONGA IN CONCERT, London Palladium
Theatre royalty Lea Salonga concluded her tour with a spectacular last night at the London Palladium.
BWW Review: PROM 2: BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, Royal Albert Hall
*****#JakubHrusa builds a wondrous labyrinth of melodies with @bambergsymphony and @JoshuaBellMusic in the original #BohemianRhapsody @BBCProms
BWW Review: 80 DAYS: A REAL-WORLD ADVENTURE, Underbelly Festival
Baron Pendleton and the (Semi) Reform Club pin teams against one other in the coolest feats in London.
BWW Review: THE ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE, Park Theatre
The newly launched theatre company 3 hearts canvas take what's supposed to be a caustic look at the world of entertainment assembling an array of Christopher Durang's short plays directed by Lydia Parker.
BWW Review: PROM 4: THE PLANETS, Royal Albert Hall
You must have been living under a rock or watching too much Love Island if you have missed the 50th anniversary of the first manned mission to land on the Moon.
BWW Review: THE FALCON'S MALTESER, The Vaults
First seen touring in 2014, Anthony Horowitz's comic mystery The Falcon's Maltester was a hit at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival and now comes to London's The Vaults for a run that's ideal entertainment for the kids' summer holidays.
BWW Review: STARVED, The Hope Theatre
In a pitiful bedsit in one of the roughest estates in Hull, Lad and Lass are found surviving on a diet of vodka and cigarettes.
BWW Review: OUR CHURCH, Watermill Theatre
Our Church looks at how a moral dilemma impacts on a small community and at how pain can vibrate through decades before re-surfacing - and it avoids the glibness of a resolution founded in easy answers.
BWW Review: GAMES FOR LOVERS, The Vaults
Written by Ryan Craig, Games for Lovers centres on four individuals looking for sex, love and a well-located flat and so begins a match of rivalry, seduction and one-upmanship.
BWW Review: THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, Noel Coward Theatre
In Tahiti in 1940, a penniless Tennessee Williams lay in a hammock beside another writer also despairing of ever finding success, both binge-drinking rum-cocos and welcoming the dramatic storms that temporarily eclipsed their melancholy.
BWW Review: LUNATIC 19'S, Finborough Theatre
Finborough Theatre hosts the world premiere of Tegan McLeod's first full length play, Lunatic 19's.
BWW Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, London Palladium
Oh Lord! The second Biblical Andrew Lloyd Webber opening of the week (taking his current London production total up to a whopping five from next month) is his early collaboration with Tim Rice, celebrating 50 years since its original concept album, and back home at the Palladium.
BWW Review: JELLYFISH, National Theatre
Jellyfish is a wonderful piece of writing brilliantly brought to life by a marvellous cast in which Sarah Gordy shines.
BWW Review: CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN, Harold Pinter Theatre
The Second World War is about to break out, but the inhabitants of the Greek island Cephelonia, the 'bridge between the human and the eternal', think themselves too far from the war.
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