BWW Review: THREE SISTERS, Tobacco Factory Theatres
RashDash's Three Sisters, after Chekhov is thrillingly irreverent: to rules, to theatrical form, and even to reviews, but it's their irreverence that's so deserving of reverence.
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BWW Review: MACHINAL, Almeida Theatre
Machinal, written by Sophie Treadwell, is based on the sensational 1927 trial of Ruth Snyder, a housewife who murdered her husband.
BWW Review: 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD, Richmond Theatre
In an age of Instant Messenger, Snapchat and Twitter, many of us may have never experienced the quiet thrill of receiving a handwritten, personal letter.
BWW Review: OKLAHOMA!, West Horsley Place
Oh, what a beautiful evening in West Horsley! Grange Park Opera open their 2018 summer festival season with Rogers and Hammerstein's vintage musical (the first of its kind in 1943), set in the farming heartlands of America.
BWW Review: THE UNBUILT CITY, King's Head Theatre
Jonah (Jonathan Chambers) has been sent on a mission to convince wealthy Claudia (Sandra Dickinson) to sell her huge art collection to a university archive.
BWW Review: JULIE, National Theatre
Polly Stenham's updating of Strindberg's Miss Julie moves the action to contemporary London, and finds both contempt and sympathy for this new version of the idle rich.
BWW Review: THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, Arcola Theatre
The Daughter-in-Law bristles with working class reality buoyed by dialect and accent rooted in the Nottinghamshire pits - but the characters never emerge from that backdrop and the play leaves one with an unsatisfying sense of disbelief.
BWW Review: MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON, Bridge Theatre
In her West End debut, Laura Linney proves that she is one of the greatest actresses in the theatre industry today.
BWW Review: SANCHO - AN ACT OF REMEMBRANCE, Wilton's Music Hall
Paterson Joseph's homage to a forgotten person, indeed, a forgotten people, has its moments but ultimately falls short of the drama required for it to really fly.
BWW Review: THE STRANGE DEATH OF JOHN DOE, Hampstead Theatre
A timely and important new play that blends movement, comedy and pathos into a compelling mix that says much about how we value life in 2018.
BWW Review: JOYCE DIDONATO AND ANTONIO PAPPANO IN CONCERT, Royal Opera House
In the space of just a brief recital, Joyce DiDonato brings World History to Covent Garden (and makes some).
BWW Review: KILLER JOE, Trafalgar Studios
After spending several months as the Trafalgar Fair, a Texas trailer park takes root at Trafalgar Studios as a new production of Tracy Letts' Killer Joe begins its run.
BWW Review: UTILITY, Orange Tree Theatre
In many ways, the timing of the European premiere of American playwright Emily Schwend's award-winning play Utility could not be more prescient.
BWW Review: STAR TREK IN CONCERT, Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is about a month into its inaugural Festival of Science - a range of talks, screenings, concerts and comedy events that are taking enthusiasts of all ages on an exploration of space, both factual and fictional.
BWW Review: STITCHERS, Jermyn Street Theatre
Lady Anne Tree thought she had a brilliant idea to help convicts.
BWW Review: FATHERLAND, Lyric Hammersmith
"What's the earliest memory you have of your father?" This is the question, among many, that sets off a process of enquiry into the state of the nation's masculinity and its concerns through the prism of fatherhood in the verbatim play Fatherland.
BWW Review: LEAVE TAKING, Bush Theatre
The Guardian described Winsome Pinnock as the 'godmother of black British playwrights'.
BWW Review: THE CHALK GARDEN, Chichester Festival Theatre
The Chalk Garden takes place in the summer of 1955 in the garden room of Mrs St Maugham's house in a seaside village in Sussex.
BWW Review: CIRCOLOMBIA, Underbelly Festival Southbank
There's a definite sense of excitement when you walk into the Underbelly Festival right now.
BWW Review: BLUEBERRY TOAST, Soho Theatre
Everything seems perfect in this cute little suburban town.
BWW Review: TRANSLATIONS, National Theatre
It begins with deep breathing, in order to access words that hold unimaginable power.
BWW Review: CONSENT, Harold Pinter Theatre
Nina Raine's Consent first premiered last year at the National Theatre, before the #MeToo movement happened and the change that it has brought about in society.
BWW Review: THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, Shakespeare's Globe
Third in line in Michelle Terry's first season as Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe is The Two Noble Kinsmen.
BWW Review: CRAZY FOR YOU, Theatre Royal Brighton
George and Ira Gershwin have written some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.
BWW Review: TARTUFFE, Theatre Royal Haymarket
The Royal Haymarket Theatre's new production of Tartuffe reimagines the classic Moliere comedy in the West End's first ever dual-language production.
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