BWW Review: OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD, Sheffield Crucible
Ramps on the Moon and Nottingham Playhouse present a powerful, creative and timely take on Timberlake Wertenbaker's play.
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BWW Review: RED, Wyndham's Theatre
It's easy to imagine that a play that explores the meaning of art could become bogged down in artistic pretention.
BWW Review: EFFIGIES OF WICKEDNESS (SONGS BANNED BY THE NAZIS), Gate Theatre
Weimar Cabaret delivered with talent, humour and fear to burn!
BWW Review: IOLANTHE, Richmond Theatre
Iolanthe is arguably one of Gilbert and Sullivan's finest works.
BWW Review: GREAT BRITISH MYSTERIES?, Soho Theatre
Will Close and Rose Robinson explore monsters, myths, and Scotland in their exhilarating Great British Mysteries?.
BWW Review: WEST END LIVE LOUNGE, The Other Palace
Set up by Shaun McCourt and Leigh Lothian, West End Live Lounge continues to go from strength to strength.
BWW Review: COAT, Brighthelm Centre
Yomi Sode is a writer and performer, born in Nigeria but who's lived in Britain most of his life.
BWW Review: SOAP, Underbelly Festival Southbank
The clue for what this play entails lies within the title.
BWW Review: SHOW, Lyric Hammersmith
The programme notes that accompany celebrated choreographer Hofesh Shechter's latest production, Show, are just as sparse as the title is nondescript.
BWW Review: ADAM, Theatre Royal Brighton
The journey of an asylum seeker is a harrowing one, especially if it's your family and old identity you are fleeing.
BWW Review: LIFE AND FATE, Theatre Royal Haymarket
Vasily Gossman's novel Life and Fate lands on the Theatre Royal Haymarket's stage in all its glory.
BWW Review: DESCRIBE THE NIGHT, Hampstead Theatre
American playwright Rajiv Joseph's latest certainly doesn't lack for ambition, spanning 90 years, three countries, and mixing history and fiction in its form to make a point about, well, mixing history and fiction.
BWW Review: NIGHTFALL, Bridge Theatre
Part of the inaugural season at the Bridge Theatre, Laurie Sansom directs Nightfall.
BWW Review: WORTH A FLUTTER, The Hope Theatre
A slice of working class life that tickles the funny bone and pulls at the heartstrings, but never quite resolves its structural issues.
BWW Review: A HOUSE REPEATED, Brighton Dome
Those of us who have played strategy computer games will be familiar with the frustration of coming across locked doors, retracing our steps and getting lost in a virtual world.
BWW Review: THE WINSLOW BOY, Richmond Theatre
On the face of it, a play based upon a 13-year-old boy being expelled from his naval college for allegedly stealing a five-shilling postal order does not sound like the stuff of captivating drama.
BWW Review: THE SWALLOW, Cervantes Theatre
Guillem Clua's new play is a serious examination of how love finds expression differently, beautifully translated and acted with great sensitivity - a thought-provoking and ultimately uplifting production.
BWW Review: WEST END DOES THE MAGIC OF ANIMATION, Cadogan Hall
The Magic of Animation was a wonderful celebration of music from animated films and the debut concert for new company West End Does.
BWW Review: AN IDEAL HUSBAND, Vaudeville Theatre
Classic Spring's third Oscar Wilde production gains extra piquancy from Amber Rudd's resignation - dealing, as it does, with political scandal and social hypocrisy.
BWW Review: Little Shop of Horrors, Cumbernauld Theatre
Cumbernauld Musical Theatre Society bring their first staged musical to Cumbernauld Theatre only a year after the Society's inception.
BWW Review: THE FALL, Southwark Playhouse
Commissioned as part of National Youth Theatre's 60th anniversary in 2016, James Fritz's The Fall takes a candid look at young people's relationship to their elders mixing humour with a deeper contemplation of life and death.
BWW Review: OTHELLO, Liverpool Everyman
For their third production this season, the Everyman company tackles Shakespeare's enduring tragedy based upon lies, jealously and power.
Review: MOOD MUSIC, Old Vic
Gendered power dynamics, the commodification of art, and abuse in the creative industries: Joe Penhall's new play certainly feels of the moment, and there's a particular frisson in seeing such subject matter explored at the Old Vic, which is dealing with the legacy of Kevin Spacey.
BWW Review: WHY IS THE SKY BLUE?, Southwark Playhouse
10,000 interviews from young people aged between 6-22 have been strung together, to create a piece of verbatim theatre that holds nothing back.
BWW Review: CHESS, London Coliseum
Chess, by Tim Rice and ABBA's Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, hasn't had a major West End revival since its Eighties heyday, but it's back with a bang in a semi-staged production that features aerial silk acrobatics, cheerleading stunts and drunken Cossack dancing.
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