BWW Review: CYMBELINE, Barbican, 3 November 2016
Over the next six years, the RSC aims to produce every single Shakespeare play.
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BWW Review: VAMOS CUBA, Birmingham Hippodrome, 1 November 2016
An exciting new partnership between Sadler's Wells, Birmingham Hippodrome and the Lowry Salford is bringing international dance companies to the UK for the very first time, offering financial and creative support to artists who may not otherwise have been able to make the journey.
BWW Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS, St James Theatre, 2 November 2016
Gary Naylor sees a slick romcom musical about 90s New Yorkers that impresses but leaves him just a little cold.
BWW Review: THE MOUSETRAP, New Alexandra Theatre, 31 October 2016
Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap truly is a theatrical phenomenon.
BWW Review: COMUS, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, 1 November 2016
Hot on the heels of the hugely successful summer season comes 'Wonder Noir', Emma Rice's first winter season at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and with it an opening production of John Milton's masque, Comus.
BWW Review: FOOL FOR LOVE, Found 111, 31 October 2016
Gary Naylor sees a play that builds atmosphere rather than narrative and now feels of its time - 33 years ago
BWW Review: THE INTELLIGENT HOMOSEXUAL'S GUIDE..., Hampstead Theatre
It's not just the title that's daunting in Tony Kushner's exhaustive three-and-a-half-hour epic, which tackles everything from socialist history, belief systems and family dysfunction to maternity strap-ons and meta jokes about cell phones at the theatre.
BWW Review: THE WEIR, Tobacco Factory Theatres, 28 October 2016
It's almost 20 years since THE WEIR had its premiere at the Royal Court and Conor McPherson's heart-warming tale about a close knit community feels just as relevant today.
THE TEMPEST, Orange Tree Theatre, 27 October 2016
Kelly Hunter, a Royal Shakespeare Company actress, began working with autistic children in 2002.
BWW Review: Stephanie Martin's APRIL SNOW Album
Stephanie Martin is a Canadian born singer-songwriter who has enjoyed a varied career, but most notably in musical theatre.
BWW Review: SIDE SHOW, Southwark Playhouse
Gary Naylor sees a revival of a show that deserves, and gets, the full 'Big Musical' production treatment.
BWW Review: AMADEUS, National Theatre, 26 October 2016
Jealousy stalks this seminal work by the late Peter Schaffer, making a triumphant return to the theatre where it debuted in 1979.
BWW Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC, New Wimbledon Theatre, 25 October 2016
Gary Naylor sees a showbiz monument and finds that it's still as entertaining and as relevant as ever.
BWW Review: DISNEY'S BROADWAY HITS, Royal Albert Hall, 23 October 2016
Celebrating over 20 years of successful Disney shows on Broadway, the West End and around the World, including smash hits such as Mary Poppins, The Lion King and Aladdin, as well as shorter-running productions, King David, Tarzan and Aida, an all-star cast brought the magic of the movies to the stag
BWW Review: AFTER THREE SISTERS, Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, 21 October 2016
Gary Naylor sees an ambitious production that runs parallel storylines but doesn't solve the considerable problems so caused.
BWW Review: LENNON: THROUGH A GLASS ONION, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, 21 October 2016
Lennon: Through A Glass Onion is a part-biographical, part-concert whistle stop journey into the mind of international musical icon, John Lennon.
BWW Review: PUPPETRY OF THE PENIS, New Wimbledon Theatre, 20 October 2016
It is an unusual way to earn a living; manipulating your genitals on stage for the entertainment of others.
BWW Review: THE NOSE, Royal Opera House, 20 October 2016
Composed when Shostakovich was just 21 years old, fresh from the conservatoire and still high on the success of his First Symphony, The Nose is a piece of musical rebellion - a fantasy of abrasive, rule-breaking joie de vivre whose absurd, anarchic rompings and musical shape-shiftings conceal a poli
BWW Review: WONDERFUL TOWN, Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, 19 October 2016
Gary Naylor sees a lovely show packed with great songs and imaginative staging.
BWW Review: A PACIFIST'S GUIDE TO THE WAR ON CANCER, National Theatre, 19 October 2016
How do you make a musical about cancer? This latest work from Bryony Kimmings isn't just theatre, but metatheatre.
BWW Review: THE PEARL FISHERS, London Coliseum, 19 October 2016
You have to get through an awful lot of shell to even glimpse the jewel at the core of The Pearl Fishers.
BWW Review: MOBY DICK THE MUSICAL, Union Theatre, 18 October 2016
Gary Naylor sees an enthusiastic revival of Moby Dick The Musical that rather loses the wind from its sails in the second half.
BWW Review: BLUE HEART, Orange Tree Theatre, 18 October 2016
Carol Churchill is one of our greatest playwrights; gems such as Top Girls and Far Away have challenged the concepts of theatrical writing in wonderful and exciting ways.
BWW Review: RAGTIME, Charing Cross Theatre
Gary Naylor sees a magnificently realised revival of a show that has never been more relevant since the novel was published in 1975.
BWW Review: THE RED BARN, National Theatre, 17 October 2016
It was a dark and stormy night.
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