BWW Review: GILDED BUTTERFLIES, The Hope Theatre
Tormented Casserole's Gilded Butterflies comes back on stage after successful runs around the UK in their first Off-West end production at The Hope Theatre.
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BWW Review: SWEET LIKE CHOCOLATE BOY, Jack Studio Theatre
Sweet Like Chocolate Boy tells the tales of Bounty and Mars, growing up black in different generations with different issues to address, the play grounded in the language and music of contemporary London.
BWW Review: SEXY LAUNDRY, Tabard Theatre
Sexy Laundry looks at middle class hopes and fears in a two handed comedy that must have felt a little old-fashioned when first staged in Canada in 2002.
BWW Review: ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING, Bush Theatre
This is a really brilliant production, full of life, energy, exuberance, and joy.
BWW Review: HEARD, Camden People's Theatre
Amana and Hafizah share a love for life and too many dreams to count.
BWW Review: DON CARLOS, Rose Theatre
Back in 2005, Friedrich Schiller's 18th century offering Don Carlos won rapturous reviews when it transferred to the Gieldgud from Sheffield's Crucible.
BWW Review: WHITE TEETH, Kiln Theatre
A few protestors might be doggedly hanging on outside the Kiln (was Tricycle) Theatre, but their complaints are firmly refuted by its current show: a vibrant adaptation of Zadie Smith's award-winning novel that is not just about but firmly rooted in the diverse, complex 'melting pot' of north-west L
BWW Review: FAME, Theatre Royal Brighton
"You want fame? Well fame costs.
BWW Review: ROMEO AND JULIET, Barbican
Grounded in the text with clear intentions from the director and actors, Erica Whyman's Romeo and Juliet feels like you're hearing the play anew.
BWW Review: PICKLE JAR, Soho Theatre
How do you keep everything together, when everything around you is falling apart? Life's complicated - that's for sure - and for our central character in this story, balancing teaching, romance and adulthood is just a bit too much to handle.
BWW Review: A PUPIL, Park Theatre
When seventeen-year-old Simona (Flora Spencer-Longhurst) shows up at Ye's (Lucy Sheen) North London flat with an attitude and a talent for the violin, the aging musician is forced to take a hard look at how success and greatness affect the artistic side of life.
BWW Review: RED, Broadcast In Cinemas
John Logan's Red, which debuted at the Donmar Warehouse in 2009, enjoyed a belated West End run at the beginning of this year.
BWW Review: MOMMA GOLDA, King's Head Theatre
Put simply, Ruby's caricaturistic portrayal of Golda Meir, the former Prime Minister of Israel, does great injustice to the source material, and blends comedy and melodrama so unevenly as almost to be making fun of Mrs Meir and the country she led through war.
BWW Review: VICTORIA'S KNICKERS, Soho Theatre
The second offering in this year's National Youth Theatre REP Season is just as brilliant as the earlier reviewed Consensual.
BWW Review: GIRLFRIENDS, Bishopsgate Institute
Now, the London Musical Theatre Orchestra have added their own spin, mounting Girlfriends as a concert with only minimal narration, rather than a fully produced musical.
BWW Review: CONTAGION, British Library
The British Library isn't the most obvious place to stage a dance installation but in the case of choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh's Contagion, (which has toured to other non-theatre spaces around the country) the mezzanine floor of the main auditorium of the library takes on the ambience of a dedica
BWW Review: LA BAYADÈRE, Royal Opera House
Ballet narratives have always used their artistic license rather liberally, and stories don't come much sillier than that of La Bayadere - or Swan Lake with ghosts as I prefer to think of it.
BWW Review: BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR, Jermyn Street Theatre
Proud Haddock remembers the centenary of the Armistice at Jermyn Street Theatre with the dynamic and heartbreaking tale of Canadian war hero Billy Bishop.
BWW Review: STILL NO IDEA, Royal Court
In 2010, Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spence created a show called No Idea based entirely on what the general public said they should make a piece of theatre about.
BWW Review: AMADEUS LIVE, Royal Albert Hall
If there was ever a film to screen with a live orchestra and choir, it would be Peter Shaffer's multi-award-winning Amadeus.
BWW Review: ear for eye, Royal Court
A 16-strong ensemble storms the Royal Court stage in debbie tucker green's latest play, which shows snapshots of black British and African American experiences in our contemporary day.
BWW Review: BURY THE DEAD, Finborough Theatre
Finborough Theatre end their series dedicated to the Great War by bringing back Irwin Shaw's Bury The Dead.
BWW Review: JERSEY BOYS, Bristol Hippodrome
Jukebox musicals are tricky things to get right.
BWW Review: NOT ABOUT HEROES, Wilton's Music Hall
Director Tim Baker concludes his national tour of Stephen Macdonald's Not About Heroes at Wilton's Music Hall.
BWW Review: HONOUR, Park Theatre
Joanna Murray-Smith's play Honour has enjoyed a run on Broadway and was first staged at the National Theatre in 2003 before it was revived again in 2006 at the Wyndham's Theatre.
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