BWW Review: THE TEMPEST, Barbican
It's a brave new world for the RSC, collaborating with Intel and Andy Serkis's Imaginarium Studios on a notably high-tech Tempest.
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BWW Review: TORN APART (DISSOLUTION), The Hope Theatre
Set in three bedrooms, the same emotional world under three different roofs in time, Torn Apart (Dissolution) is an intimately powerful play.
BWW Review: TRISTAN & YSEULT, Bristol Old Vic
We've all been members of 'The Club of the Unloved' where tales of unrequited love and broken hearts are the norm.
BWW Review: INSTRUCTIONS FOR AMERICAN SERVICEMEN IN BRITAIN, Jermyn Street Theatre
In 1942, the American War Office issued a pamphlet titled 'Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain' to prepare the nation's soldiers to a life abroad defeating the Nazis.
BWW Review: TRIBES, Crucible Studio, Sheffield
How do families work? What happens when adult children flee the nest? And what happens when you're born deaf into a hearing family? Nina Raine's funny and frank portrait of a family grappling with these issues makes its regional debut.
BWW Review: THE MENTOR, Vaudeville Theatre
Bath's Ustinov Studio has become something of a European hub.
BWW Review: KING KONG (A COMEDY), The Vaults
King Kong (A Comedy) tries a little too hard for laughs, but captures some of the pathos of its 1933 movie inspiration in a breathless 80 minutes show.
BWW Review: SH*T-FACED SHOWTIME: THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, Leicester Square Theatre
The world of musical theatre is being shaken up once again, as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz gets the Sh*t-faced Showtime treatment.
BWW Review: ROMEO AND JULIET, Norfolk Square Gardens
Shakespeare in the Squares returns after a successful introduction in 2016 with Much Ado About Nothing, this time taking on a tragedy that has been another popular choice this year - Daniel Kramer's controversial production has almost finished its run at Shakespeare's Globe, for one.
BWW Review: THE VIEW FROM NOWHERE, Park Theatre
After exploring themes of vanity and corporate culture in Marius Von Mayerburg's The Ugly One, Park90 now turns its attentions towards science and the environment with Chuck Anderson's brand new play The View From Nowhere.
BWW Review: SUPERHERO, Southwark Playhouse
Premiering at Southwark Playhouse, Superhero is a bittersweet, funny and genuinely moving musical about a dad fighting for custody of his daughter.
BWW Review: MACBETH, St Paul's Church, Covent Garden
A Macbeth that stays true to the 17th century origin of the play, yet feels bang up to date with plenty for teenage fans of Game of Thrones and Shakespeare veterans to enjoy.
BWW Review: THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, London Palladium
Hot on the heels of the success of the reworked Half a Sixpence, Stiles & Drewe team up with Julian Fellowes once more to adapt a well-loved children's book for the stage.
BWW Review: RACING DEMON, Theatre Royal Bath
On the face of it, David Hare's state-of-the-nation play Racing Demon should be fruit ripe for the picking.
BWW Review: BLONDEL THE MUSICAL, Union Theatre
Blondel The Musical has elements of pantomime and elements of the real punch of musical theatre in a show that works well only intermittently.
BWW Review: LORNA DALLAS: HOME AGAIN, Live At Zédel
After a 20-year absence, acclaimed American singer Lorna Dallas returns to cabaret with Home Again, a music medley that pairs classics by celebrated composers with less well-known, personal favourites chosen by Dallas herself.
BWW Review: INK, Almeida Theatre
James Graham's portrait of Seventies politics, This House, recently enjoyed a West End outing, and his latest epic venture into Britain's past may well follow suit.
BWW Review: JANE EYRE, Wales Millennium Centre
Originally staged at Bristol Old Vic in 2014, Jane Eyre then transferred to London's National Theatre and toured in 2015.
BWW Review: LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL, Wyndham's Theatre
One American great inhabits another in this superior cabaret, as the Broadway legend Audra McDonald slips into the skin - and unforgettable voice - of jazz icon Billie Holiday.
BWW Review: MR GILLIE, Finborough Theatre
James Bridie's Mr Gillie comes to the London stage after more than 60 years.
BWW Review: TERROR, Lyric Hammersmith
With searingly topical timing, this summer sees the Lyric Hammersmith presenting the UK premiere of Terror, a tense courtroom drama by German lawyer and writer Ferdinand von Schirach which has become something of a worldwide hit.
BWW Review: FOOD, Finborough Theatre
Owners of a passed-down takeaway joint on an Australian highway, sisters Elma (Emma Playfair) and Nancy's (Lily Newbury-Freeman) unstable relationship is challenged on a daily basis between running the shop and dealing with their past.
BWW Review: BAT OUT OF HELL, London Coliseum
As London temperatures soar, Bat Out Of Hell - a scorching hot new musical - has opened at the ENO London Coliseum following its recent premier in Manchester.
BWW Review: GLORIA, Hampstead Theatre
American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins asserts that the nightmarish workplace depicted in Gloria bears little resemblance to his time at the New Yorker, but that tension between truth and imagination adds a nicely meta layer to this spiky portrait of the ways in which we appropriate, fictionalis
BWW Review: EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE: THE YORK SUFFRAGETTES, York Theatre Royal
Set in early 20th-century York, Everything Is Possible tells the moving story of Annie Seymour-Pearson, a local housewife who risked her life to fight for the right to vote.
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