BWW Review: OIL, Almeida Theatre, 14 October 2016
You have to admire the grand scope of Ella Hickson's long-gestating new play, which grapples with urgent ideas about this vital but declining resource amidst audacious magic realist time travel.
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BWW Review: POKER FACE, King's Head Theatre, 16 October 2016
Gary Naylor sees a play from Europe that can't quite decide what it wants to be but raises interesting questions all the same.
BWW Review: RUN, 2 FACED DANCE, Dance Xchange, 14 October 2016
2 Faced Dance Company's Run is an evening of dance presented by three female choreographers, featuring three new works from the company's artistic director Tamsin Fitzgerald, Prague-based Lenka Vagnerova and the first BENCH commission recipient Rebecca Evans.
BWW Review: ULYSSES' HOMECOMING, Hackney Empire, 15 October 2016
Gary Naylor sees an opera dating from its earliest period that brims with emotional energy, if a lacking a little in 21st century pace.
BWW Review: ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI, Donmar Warehouse, 13 October 2016
'I shook up the world.
BWW Review: LA CALISTO, Hackney Empire, 14 October 2016
Gary Naylor sees a spectacular and thought-provoking revival of Cavalli's 17th century opera of gods, myths and mortals.
BWW Review: FORCE OF TRUMP, Brockley Jack Theatre, 12 October 2016
Gary Naylor sees a well performed and funny satire on Donald Trump that struggles to be more outrageous than the real thing.
BWW Review: THE DRESSER, Duke of York's Theatre, 13 October 2016
In the theatre it is well known that; no matter what, the show must go on.
BWW Review: SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, New Wimbledon Studio, 12 October 2016
Somewhere in England is a piece of 1940s war-time nostalgia with a big heart, brought to life in the cosy surroundings of New Wimbledon Studio this week.
BWW Review: LUNCH AND THE BOW OF ULYSSES, Trafalgar Studios 2, 10 October 2016
Gary Naylor sees a relationship swell and suffer over 20 years in two plays lit up by linguistic excess.
BWW Review: MADDIE 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition London Cast Album
Further empowering their ethos of preserving 'lost' British theatre, Stage Door Records are releasing their latest cast album, Maddie, with a 20th Anniversary Deluxe edition bumper pack of a CD.
BWW Review: MURDER BALLAD, Arts Theatre, 5 October 2016
Following a brief Off-Broadway foray in 2013, Murder Ballad makes its UK premiere at the Arts Theatre featuring an all-star cast of seasoned musical theatre performers.
BWW Review: THE TEMPEST, Birmingham Royal Ballet, 4 October 2016
As the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death draw to a close, the Birmingham Royal Ballet present the anticipated new creation from David Bintley, The Tempest.
BWW Review: XERXES, Hackney Empire, 8 October 2016
Gary Naylor sees a brilliantly realised updating of Handel's Xerxes set in the Battle of Britain and featuring an astonishing countertenor voice.
BWW Review: CONFESSIONAL, Southwark Playhouse, 7 October 2016
Gary Naylor sees Southend pitch up in Southwark as Tramp Theatre revive a Tennessee Williams slice of life on the margin.
BWW Review: THIS LITTLE LIFE OF MINE, Park Theatre
Gary Naylor sees a show that bristles with wit, warmth and wonderful songs and speaks directly to Londoners in 2016.
BWW Review: THE BOYS IN THE BAND, Park Theatre, 2 October 2016
When Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band premiered Off Broadway in 1968, a year before the Stonewall Riots, it was groundbreaking in its depiction of a community of gay men.
BWW Review: TRAVESTIES, Menier Chocolate Factory, 4 October 2016
Wilde, Joyce, Shakespeare, Lenin, memory, the morality of war, social systems, and the meaning and purpose of art: Stoppard's dazzlingly intellectual 1974 play really is a life, the universe and everything affair.
BWW Review: LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER, Crucible Studio, Sheffield, 1 October 2016
The English Touring Theatre/Sheffield Theatres adaptation of DH Lawrence's classic is a tender adaptation with an atmospheric soundscape.
BWW Review: TOSCA, London Coliseum, 3 October 2016
When Catherine Malfitano's Tosca debuted in 2010, English National Opera finally had a production of Puccini's classic to rival Jonathan Kent's long-serving version up the road at Covent Garden.
BWW Review: GIRLS, Soho Theatre, 1 October 2016
Theresa Ikoko's brilliant debut play, Girls, is a visceral portrayal of life for three young girls, kidnapped and held captive by Islamic extremists somewhere in West Africa.
BWW Review: DON GIOVANNI, London Coliseum, 30 September 2016
English National Opera has been having a hard time with Don Giovanni lately.
BWW Review: ADDING MACHINE: A MUSICAL, Finborough Theatre, 30 September 2016
Gary Naylor sees an award-winning musical that provides few catchy tunes, but revels in a marriage of music and vocals that lays feelings bare and says much about life today.
BWW Review: TOY SOLDIER, Brockley Jack Theatre, 29 September 2016
Gary Naylor sees a play that wears its heart on its sleeve, but suffers as a result of ill-conceived staging and characterisation.
BWW Review: FLOYD COLLINS, Wilton's Music Hall
Gary Naylor sees a remarkable tour-de-force that produces the definitive version of a tricky but utterly compelling piece of musical theatre.
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