BWW Review: NELL GWYNN, King's Theatre, Edinburgh
Jessica Swale's play about the unlikely heroine who went from lowly orange seller to national treasure features a stand-out titular performance by Laura Pitt-Pulford.
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BWW Review: WHISPER HOUSE, The Other Palace
Whisper House comprises some lovely songs beautifully sung, but lacks the narrative drive one expects in musical theatre.
BWW Review: THREADS, The Hope Theatre
After breaking up five years prior, Charlie (Samuel Lawrence) writes a quite melodramatic letter to Vic (Katharine Davenport), his ex-girlfriend, confessing how he is dead inside, and how he almost feels as if he were rotting away.
BWW Review: 2 BECOME 1, King's Head Theatre
It's back to the 90s at the King's Head for a show brimming with that decade's biggest hits sung wonderfully well.
BWW Review: AUDRA MCDONALD, Leicester Square Theatre
Six-time Tony winner and reigning Queen of Broadway - plus 'Olivier Award presenter', jokes partner-in-crime Seth Rudetsky in his introduction (though surely that's just a matter of time, with her Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill coming to Wyndham's this summer) - lauded actress and singer Audra
BWW Review: CAROUSEL, London Coliseum
The English National Opera (ENO) have been criticised in recent years for their staging of musicals.
BWW Review: THE CRUCIBLE, Richmond Theatre
Arthur Miller's The Crucible was written in response to the McCarthy-era in America, as an allegory for the witch hunts against supposed communists.
BWW Review: 46 BEACON, Trafalgar Studios
Bill Rosenfield premieres his play 46 Beacon in the United Kingdom with director Alexander Lass at the helm.
On the Red Carpet and Behind the Scenes at the Olivier Awards 2017
The sun and stars were out at the same time this afternoon as London's theatre community descended upon the Royal Albert Hall for this year's Olivier Awards.
BWW Review: MACBETH, Jack Studio Theatre
Macbeth's grim pursuit of power, with his Lady prompting and then agonising in the background, is brought to life in this low budget, committed production.
BWW Review: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, King's Theatre, Edinburgh
Edinburgh Music Theatre's return to the King's Theatre doesn't disappoint, with Bock's music and Harnick's lyrics portrayed clearly and passionately.
BWW Review: THE WINTER'S TALE, Barbican
In the Barbican's vast space, Cheek by Jowl presents their formidable, modern-dress take on Shakespeare's account of blind jealousy, suspicion, abandonment, loss, and young love.
BWW Review: SISTER ACT, Edinburgh Playhouse
Alexandra Burke leads a strong ensemble in director Craig Revel Horwood's re-imagining of the hit West End and Broadway musical, which features a tuneful score by Alan Menken.
BWW Review: THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA?, Theatre Royal Haymarket
The late, great Edward Albee is certainly having a West End 'moment', but it rather places this particular revival at a disadvantage, comparing unfavourably as it does with the shattering, unforgettable Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? a few streets away.
BWW Review: THE HYPOCRITE, Swan Theatre
"You'd let everyone have the vote? Imagine what idiots would get elected then" is one of many knowing jokes from Richard Bean's latest farce The Hypocrite.
BWW Review: EXPENSIVE SHIT, Soho Theatre
Written and directed by Adura Onashile, Expensive Shit is not afraid to show an uncomfortable truth.
BWW Review: MATTHEW BOURNE'S EARLY ADVENTURES, Sadler's Wells
If Matthew Bourne had set out to produce a dance show to express the sentiments of Brexit, he couldn't have done it more effectively than this.
BWW Review: CONSENT, National Theatre
Amidst the middle-class small talk between two couples, one reeling from the arrival of a new baby, comes a shocking confession: 'I've been raping pensioners.
BWW Review: 42ND STREET, Theatre Royal Drury Lane
The curtain rises just high enough to reveal a long line of tapping feet: a thoroughly appropriate intro, as those feet are the real stars of the show.
BWW Review: POSH, Pleasance Theatre
When Laura Wade's Posh premiered at the Royal Court in 2010, its dark promise that these destructive student toffs - members of the Riot Club, a loosely fictional version of Oxford's Bullington - would one day run the country had a timely frisson: former club members David Cameron, George Osborne a
BWW Review: CASTE, Finborough Theatre
Celebrating the 150th year from its first production, Caste at Finborough Theatre is an underwhelming classist act with a polyester feel.
BWW Review: JEWELS, Royal Opera House
It's plain to see why Jewels, Balanchine's work that marks it's half century this year, has an enduring appeal.
BWW Review: THE LOTTERY OF LOVE, Orange Tree Theatre
Love and disguise are the order of the day as the Orange Tree's 2016-17 programme continues with a new John Fowles translation of Pierre Marivaux's The Lottery of Love.
BWW Review: ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Condensing the political and military strife of ten years into a tightly concentrated 3 hours, Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra is a beguiling, overwhelming mixture of tragedy, history, comedy and romance.
BWW Review: HONK!, Union Theatre
Honk! is a musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling with an important message about bullying gently sugar-coated with musical numbers and light comedy.
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