BWW Review: STRICTLY COME DANCING LIVE!, Wembley Arena
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BWW Review: MY LAND'S SHORE, Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
The show has bags of potential, passion to burn and excellent singing, but is let down by a pedestrian book and sprawling subplots.
BWW Review: MASURCA FOGO, Sadler's Wells
For anyone who had been wondering, seven and a half years on from the demise of Pina Bausch, what was the point of her company's continued trawl through her back-catalogue, this visit is reason enough.
BWW Review: THE RED SHOES, Birmingham Hippodrome
Based on the 1948 film of the same name, starring Moira Shearer, Matthew Bourne's production of The Red Shoes tells the story of ballerina Victoria Page and her tragic struggle between love and duty.
BWW Review: NEWSIES THE BROADWAY MUSICAL, Selected cinemas, 19 February only
This one-off cinema presentation is a great way to see Newsies The Broadway Musical and get a feel for what it's like to be in a big New York audience.
BWW Review: THE BOYS IN THE BAND, Vaudeville Theatre
Following a stint at London's Park Theatre and a UK tour, the revival production of Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band has a brief run on the West End; it takes over from Dead Funny in the Vaudeville prior to Stepping Out.
BWW Review: SEX WITH STRANGERS, Hampstead Theatre
This is pure titular titillation - a strategy that backfires with this dated, laboured and distinctly unsexy piece.
BWW Review: RUN THE BEAST DOWN, Finborough Theatre
Run The Beast Down creates a world collapsing psychologically and socially as the foxes, real and metaphorical, close in on Charlie.
BWW Review: SILVER LINING, Rose Theatre
It's a common complaint that as you get older, you start to become invisible to others.
BWW Review: DRAKE'S DREAM Original London Cast Recording
Drake's Dream enjoyed a limited run at London's Shaftesbury Theatre in the late 1970's following its earlier opening at the Connaught Theatre in Worthing.
BWW Review: SCHOOL PLAY, Southwark Playhouse
Contemporary and hard-hitting, Alex MacKeith's debut, School Play, doesn't quite add up to the sum of its parts.
BWW Review: DUBAILAND, Finborough Theatre
Out goes the American Dream, and in its place is the Arabian Dream - but is everything as perfect as it seems? Carmen Nasr's Dubailand, currently playing in rep with Run The Beast at Finborough Theatre, attempts to look behind the glossy brochures at the human stories behind the city of Dubai.
BWW Review: THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, King's Theatre, Glasgow
Winner of six Tony Awards, including best musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie is the delightful smash hit comedy set in New York in 1922, and based on the award-winning film.
BWW Review: SALOME, Hoxton Hall
Impressively designed in a wonderful space, Theatre Lab Company's Salome isn't quite compelling enough as entertainment nor thought-provoking enough as polemic.
BWW Review: HENRY V, Southwark Cathedral
With an established tradition for producing plays set in memorable venues, Antic Disposition returns with its production of Henry V, performed in eight cathedrals around the country.
BWW Review: THE GLASS MENAGERIE, Duke of York's Theatre
'I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion,' declares Tom Wingfield, the narrator of Tennessee Williams's exquisite memory play.
BWW Review: THE PITCHFORK DISNEY, Shoreditch Town Hall
Philip Ridley's widely acclaimed 1991 play has been revived by Jamie Lloyd, and is back in its native East End for a limited run in conjunction with its partner production Killer.
BWW Review: RIGOLETTO, London Coliseum
The return of Jonathan Miller's brilliant Mafioso take on Verdi's Rigoletto is incredibly welcome after the awkward and confusing version that last appeared at the ENO in 2014.
BWW Review: ROALD DAHL'S FANTASTIC MR FOX, Lyric Hammersmith
Gary Naylor sees a new adaptation of an old favourite that hits the mark with broad appeal, plenty of laughs and fine songs.
BWW Review: WHAT'S IN A NAME, Birmingham Rep
Set in a trendy warehouse flat in Peckham, What's In A Name follows the ups and downs of a friendly dinner party.
BWW Review: CAUTIONARY TALES FOR DAUGHTERS, Jermyn Street Theatre
Once again, the tiny Jermyn Street Theatre is home to a scarily relevant production.
BWW Review: THE WHITE DEVIL, Shakespeare's Globe
John Webster is not what you could ever describe as a subtle writer.
BWW Review: YEARS OF SUNLIGHT, Theatre503
Gary Naylor sees a play that examines the failures of the social experiment of Skelmersdale, a 60s council mega estate stuck between Liverpool and Wigan
BWW Review: DIRTY GREAT LOVE STORY, Arts Theatre
Gary Naylor sees an award-winning show get a deserved transfer to the West End where it bubbles with laughs and some hard edged observations of how we live today.
BWW Review: DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY, Charing Cross Theatre
Maury Yeston, Peter Stone & Thomas Meehan's latest show to hit the stage, continuing Thom Southerland's season at Charing Cross, is a musical adaptation of the old Italian play La Morte In Vacanza.
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