BWW Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Young Vic
'The course of true love never did run smooth.
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BWW Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, National Theatre
Suffused with grief and unrequited love, Twelfth Night is often played as an anti-comedy - more melancholy than mirthful.
BWW Review: FLEW THE COOP, New Diorama Tristan Bates Theatre
Gary Naylor sees an energetic, loud and often charming tale of love in a wartime POW Camp.
BWW Review: THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Arcola Theatre
The Cherry Orchard retains its power to reach across decades and tell us harsh truths about a changing world.
BWW Review: TITANIC, King's Theatre, Edinburgh
Edinburgh's Southern Light Opera Company rises to the challenge of staging Maury Yeston's award-winning musical, in an ambitious production with a cast of 90 and orchestra of 27.
BWW Review: THE COMMITMENTS, Bristol Hippodrome
We're in Dublin and it's 1986.
BWW Review: THE SORROWS OF SATAN, Tristan Bates Theatre
The Sorrows of Satan delights from beginning to end, packing in witty songs, wonderful performances and a laughs per minute ratio as high as any in the West End.
BWW Review: OTHELLO, Tobacco Factory, Bristol
This seasons offering from Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory is a story of politics, love and being an outsider in a world that mistrusts you.
BWW Review: THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
The 2012 National Theatre adaptation of Mark Haddon's best-selling novel embarks on its second UK tour, and is compelling, thought-provoking and exceptionally well-performed.
BWW Review: THE GIRLS, Phoenix Theatre
Tim Firth can't keep away from the Calendar Girls.
BWW Review: THE UNDERSTUDY, Canal Café Theatre
Directed by Russell Lucas and brilliantly presented in the round in a room that isn't really designed for a production as such, The Understudy sees a brilliant U.
BWW Review: WHO SHOT WAYNE SLEEP?, The Vaults
Deep in the belly of the Vault Festival, among the dark red lights, tinsel, and old, dirty vaudeville atmosphere Who Shot Wayne Sleep? finds fertile ground to shine too dimly to be relevant.
BWW Review: THE WILD PARTY, The Other Palace
The Wild Party is plenty wild enough, but its overly ambitious book and parade of cookie-cutter characters means that it never lands a knockout punch - or song.
BWW Review: LOW LEVEL PANIC, Orange Tree Theatre
It is 30 years since Clare McIntyre's Low Level Panic premiered at the Royal Court.
Community Spirit and a Great Show at the WhatsOnStage Awards
Awards season is in full swing now, so this weekend was the turn of the 17th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards.
BWW Review: LA RONDE, The Bunker
Max Gill's clever adaptation of this classic play brings it right up to date, into the world of Tinder and Grindr and fluid sexual identities.
BWW Review: VENTOUX, Vault Festival
Ventoux captures two very different men going mano a mano against each other, against the Tour de France's most fearsome mountain and, ultimately, against history's insistence that they pay a full price for their sins.
BWW Review: SEE ME NOW, Young Vic
'See Me Now' is a one act performance piece that leads us through the lives of sex workers of all sexualities, genders and ages and explains how they each came to be part of the industry.
BWW Review: TRAVESTIES, Apollo Theatre
'What did you do during the war, Dada?' Somewhere underneath the relentless punning and the pastiche, the whistle-stop wit and the whirling theoretical debate, there's a seriousness to Tom Stoppard's 1974 Travesties that feels horribly prescient.
BWW Review: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, Park Theatre
Action To The Word are celebrating what would have been Anthony Burgess' 100th birthday with the London return of their production of the notorious A Clockwork Orange.
BWW Review: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, Jack Studio Theatre
Intense and focused, this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's celebrated novel ratchets up the tension without losing the material's intellectual heft.
BWW Review: THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, New Alexandra Theatre
It's 1922, and young Millie Dillmount arrives in New York from a small town in Kansas, ready to take control of her destiny and make her fortune by marrying well.
BWW Review: EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE, Crucible, Sheffield
This new musical from Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae fizzes with energy and warmth - a must-see!
BWW Review: THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, London Coliseum
It is no secret that acclaimed film director Mike Leigh has a passion for Gilbert and Sullivan; his 1999 film Topsy-Turvy was an outright celebration of them and their music.
BWW Review: ANYONE CAN WHISTLE, Union Theatre
Anyone Can Whistle is a rare combination of a well-deserved flop and a must-see show.
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