BWW Review: THE DISTANCE YOU HAVE COME, The Cockpit
Scott Alan premieres his new musical The Distance You Have Come in the intimate The Cockpit.
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BWW Review: BEING A PLAYWRIGHT: A CAREER GUIDE FOR WRITERS, Chris Foxon & George Turvey
How do you become a playwright? How do you behave as a playwright? When are you officially a playwright? Papatango's Chris Foxon and George Turvey answer all budding playwrights' answers and take the immeasurable task of giving advice by the horns in their first venture, Being a Playwright - A Caree
BWW Review: TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Troilus and Cressida begins with a thunder of drums that knocks the programme out of your hands.
BWW Review: A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK, Trafalgar Studios
Teddy (Clifford Samuel) meets Jeremy (Douglas Booth) at the bar of a shabby hotel in Amsterdam, he asks if he wants to join him in his room and he agrees.
BWW Review: QUIETLY, Omnibus Theatre
Quietly gives us two men, deep in middle age, looking back to the irreversible actions they took as 16 year-olds during The Troubles in an electrifying conversation.
BWW Review: DRACULA, Jack Studio Theatre
Ross MacGregor's Dracula needs a transfusion of narrative pace if it is to achieve its considerable (and laudable) ambition.
BWW Review: STORIES, National Theatre
Last year, Nina Raine had a National Theatre hit with Consent, which grilled deceit and empathy in both the legal system and relationships.
BWW Review: WISE CHILDREN, Old Vic
Emma Rice is back after her kerfuffle with Shakespeare's Globe, debuting her brand new company with an adaptation of Angela Carter's novel of the same name.
BWW Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Bristol Old Vic
'If music be the food of love, play on'… and play Wils Wilson does with Shakespeare's chaotic, sharp-witted comedy.
BWW Review: ONE NIGHT WITH... CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER AND JODIE STEELE, Studio 88
Studio 88 launches a new series featuring some of the most well-known stars of London's West End.
BWW Review: FUP: A MODERN FABLE, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
Fup: A Modern Fable brings Jim Dodge's novel from the page and onto the stage.
BWW Review: THE TRENCH, Southwark Playhouse
The Trench, in trying to do so much, forgets to let us into the lives of the soldiers whose ordeal lies at the heart of the story it tells.
BWW Review: COMPANY, Gielgud Theatre
Phone rings, door chimes, in comes Marianne Elliott, ushering in a new age of adaptation with her.
BWW Review: MAYERLING, Royal Opera House
t's never easy to debut in a role when half the audience bought tickets to see someone else, but this was the situation Ryoichi Hirano faced last week as announcement of Edward Watson's injury was made.
BWW Review: THE INHERITANCE, Noel Coward Theatre
Set a generation after the AIDS crisis, Matthew Lopez's two part world premiere checks in with gay men living today.
BWW Review: THE HABIT OF ART, Richmond Theatre
The Habit of Art is a wonderfully funny and deeply moving revival of Alan Bennett's fantastic 2009 follow up to The History Boys.
BWW Review: PORGY AND BESS, London Coliseum
After a disappointing start to the new season with the bizarre Salome, the ENO fights back with a towering production of the Gershwin brothers' Porgy and Bess.
BWW Review: THE WIDER EARTH, Natural History Museum
The National History Museum unveils a brand new theatre in the Jerwood Gallery with Trish Wadley Productions and Dead Puppet Society's The Wider Earth.
BWW Review: MEASURE FOR MEASURE, Donmar Warehouse
It's a #MeToo-era Measure for Measure over at the Donmar, with Josie Rourke conducting a fascinating experiment: abridging Shakespeare's problem play to just over an hour and running it twice, once in period, once in modern dress.
BWW Review: SOLOMON, Royal Opera House
Solomon provides a transcendent sensory experience and more than a few lessons for today;s rulers.
BWW Review: WAR WITH THE NEWTS, The Bunker Theatre
A tremendous re-imagining of a novel that has not been more relevant at any point in the 82 years since its writing - a wonderfully realised piece of theatre.
BWW Review: MEDUSA, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
The ancient Greek gorgon, Medusa, has been reimagined and reincarnated as a feisty and foul-mouthed rock star in a new, creative production at Nuffield Southampton Theatres.
BWW Review: SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, Theatre Royal Bath
Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard's Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love was first adapted for the stage in 2014, and hailed as a triumph on the West End.
BWW Review: OTHELLOMACBETH, Lyric Hammersmith
'But men are men.
BWW Review: YOU DON'T PAY? WE WON'T PAY!, York Theatre Royal
Developed in partnership with York Theatre Royal, Fo's farcical comedy follows two working class women who take advantage of a riot at a local supermarket to stock up their cupboards, and the chaos that ensues as they concoct increasingly outlandish plans to hide their crime from their straight-lace
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