BWW Review: BAT OUT OF HELL, Dominion Theatre
After a run at the London Coliseum last year and a subsequent tenure in Toronto, Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell is back in town - and it puts rock well and truly back into the West End.
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BWW Review: THE GOLDEN F**KING YEARS, Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
The Golden F**king Years is a beautifully observed and acted farce that finds plenty of comedy in the tedium of ageing and the sudden opportunity of a bit of excitement - and the consequences that inevitably follow.
BWW Review: EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION, Shoreditch Town Hall
Every now and then you see a piece of theatre that lights a fire under you.
BWW Review: CHICAGO, Phoenix Theatre
Chicago's hit West End revival - which featured a constant revolving door of big names - closed in 2012 after almost 15 years.
BWW Review: GAUHAR JAAN - THE DATIA INCIDENT, Omnibus Theatre
A play and accompanying exhibition about a renowned Indian singer, the eponymous Gauhar Jaan, and 'an incident' that gained infamy across India in the early 20th century.
BWW Review: SON OF A PREACHER MAN, Theatre Royal Brighton
The premise sounds promising: a brand new jukebox musical featuring the music of Dusty Springfield.
BWW Review: INSTRUCTIONS FOR CORRECT ASSEMBLY, Royal Court
Let's face it, we never turn into the person our parents hope we'll be.
BWW Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Rose Theatre
To kick off its 10th anniversary season, the Rose Theatre turns to Shakespeare to give it a needed boost.
BWW Review: THE BAND, Bristol Hippodrome
Pop music and musicals make good bedfellows for two main reasons.
BWW Review: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, Bristol Old Vic
Tennessee Williams' 1947 classic A Streetcar Named Desire explores the visceral side of human nature: violence, desire, power, loneliness and guilt.
BWW Review: TINA, Aldwych Theatre
Following several years of development, Tina, the new musical about Tina Turner, has opened at the West End's newly restored Aldwych Theatre.
BWW Review: OBSIDIAN TEAR/MARGUERITE & ARMAND/ELITE SYNCOPATIONS, Royal Opera House
The Royal Ballet's latest offering is a rather curious mixed bill containing contemporary, classical and carnivalesque works from three of its resident choreographers.
BWW Review: English National Ballet's VOICES OF AMERICA, Sadler's Wells
Emerging from a winter of traditional crowd-pleasers featuring Nutcracker and La Sylphide, the dancers of English National Ballet were finally allowed to cut loose in this new mixed bill - thanks to some eerie swamp monsters and a new and unexpected club banger from William Forsythe.
BWW Review: SEX/CRIME, The Glory
For those that are unaware of this venue, The Glory is a popular and welcoming pub in Haggerston, East London.
BWW Review: JOHN BARROWMAN, Leicester Square Theatre
The term 'all-round entertainer' is often used to describe John Barrowman.
BWW Review: THE MODERATE SOPRANO, Duke Of York's Theatre
After its momentous success at the Hampstead Theatre, David Hare's sweet love story transfers to the West End.
BWW Review: THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY, Criterion Theatre
The Comedy About a Bank Robbery celebrate their second birthday amidst a tsunami of laughter.
BWW Review: BOOM FOR REAL: THE LATE TEENAGE YEARS OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, East End Film Festival
Amongst the explosion of interest in Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sara Driver's film locates his emerging genius in a beautifully rendered time and place - late 70s New York City.
BWW Review: AN EVENING WITH JASON ROBERT BROWN, London Palladium
Jason Robert Brown's concert at the London Palladium was a wonderful mix of familiar and new songs sung by Brown himself, Betsy Wolfe, Norm Lewis, and Rachel Tucker.
BWW Review: QUIZ, Noel Coward Theatre
By any standard, playwright James Graham is having quite a week.
BWW Review: THE ACT, Yard Theatre
Following on from their stunning creation Brainstorm (a play I absolutely loved and wouldn't stop talking about), Company Three return to the Yard in this production performed by a cast of teenagers.
BWW Review: FLASHDANCE, Theatre Royal Brighton
What a feeling! What an evening! The 80s film-musical adaption trend is alive and well.
BWW Album Review: WORKING Hard For Its Money
Joining the ranks of the thoroughly-revised musicals is Working, whose latest cast recording debuted from its recent London cast.
BWW Review: PERICLES, PRINCE DE TYR, Barbican
Cheek by Jowl began life in 1981, first producing plays in English before branching out to other languages; their current production of Shakespeare's Pericles is performed in French, which has recently embarked on a tour that includes Oxford, Naples, Madrid, and several venues in France, stopping fo
BWW Review: PLASTIC, Old Red Lion Theatre
Ah secondary school - the most important time in any persons life.
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