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Gary Naylor

Gary Naylor

Gary Naylor is chief London reviewer for BroadwayWorld (https://www.broadwayworld.com/author/Gary-Naylor) and feels privileged to see so much of his home city's theatre. He writes about cricket for The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/gary-naylor) and is a lead commentator at Guerilla Cricket (https://www.guerillacricket.com/). He podcasts on 80s and 90s football at https://www.nessundormapod.com/. He writes on films at Letterboxd  https://letterboxd.com/garynaylor999/. He tweets at https://twitter.com/garynaylor85. 






MOST POPULAR ARTICLES

Review: THE DIARY OF A PROVINCIAL LADY, Bridge House Theatre
Review: THE DIARY OF A PROVINCIAL LADY, Bridge House Theatre
November 7, 2025

Lovely intimate adaptation of immensely popular novel is a pleasing diversion in these troubled times

Review: THE SEA HORSE, Golden Goose Theatre
Review: THE SEA HORSE, Golden Goose Theatre
November 6, 2025

Recently, on the north coast of Ireland, I had lunch in a seaside bar. Outside, the wind howled, sunshine and rain were locked in a battle for supremacy and the sky was too big. I knew that feeling, as I had grown up by the sea with sandhills at the top of the road. It was ‘other’ to the adult version of me, but familiar to the childhood person. I’ve always understood that these edges are liminal spaces in which things change quickly and much (too much) is contingent.

Review: DEAD MAN WALKING, London Coliseum
Review: DEAD MAN WALKING, London Coliseum
November 6, 2025

A confession. It’s a guilty pleasure of mine to read the death notices on Wikipedia - I am my mother’s son after all and, without the columns of classifieds in the Liverpool Echo, where else is there to look?

Review: JULIUS CAESAR, Omnibus Theatre
Review: JULIUS CAESAR, Omnibus Theatre
October 31, 2025

Afro-Caribbean theatre company lend their own flavour to a universal tale of the dangers of political misjudgement and hubris

An Englishman Abroad - Gary Naylor Goes To Glasgow
An Englishman Abroad - Gary Naylor Goes To Glasgow
October 27, 2025

Theatre beyond London proves varied and interesting

Review: ARLINGTON, Tron Theatre
Review: ARLINGTON, Tron Theatre
October 24, 2025

Bleak, yet hopeful, drama/dance hybrid gives food for thought

Review: BOOGIE ON THE BONES, Omnibus Theatre
Review: BOOGIE ON THE BONES, Omnibus Theatre
October 20, 2025

Song, dance and colours light up the grim USSR

Review: THE TENANT'S REPUBLIC, Jack Studio Theatre
Review: THE TENANT'S REPUBLIC, Jack Studio Theatre
October 18, 2025

Looking for a New England? Here's Dondonia

Review: THE FLOWERS OF SREBRENICA, Jacksons Lane
Review: THE FLOWERS OF SREBRENICA, Jacksons Lane
October 16, 2025

A shameful event in Eurpean history is recalled and set within its tragic context

Review: THE MAGIC FLUTE, Royal Ballet and Opera
Review: THE MAGIC FLUTE, Royal Ballet and Opera
October 13, 2025

Technically unsurpassed, but is there a chill where its soul should be?

Review: CYRANO DE BERGERAC starring Adrian Lester, RSC Swan Theatre
Review: CYRANO DE BERGERAC starring Adrian Lester, RSC Swan Theatre
October 12, 2025

Adrian Lester is an astonishing presence in a new version of an enduring tale

Review: CARMEN, London Coliseum
Review: CARMEN, London Coliseum
October 9, 2025

If you liked Evita at the Palladium, you'll like Carmen at the Coliseum

Review: LIFERS, Southwark Playhouse
Review: LIFERS, Southwark Playhouse
October 7, 2025

Synergy Theatre Projectt's commission hits hard, but will it hit the right people?

Review: SCENES FROM THE CLIMATE ERA, Playground Theatre
Review: SCENES FROM THE CLIMATE ERA, Playground Theatre
October 4, 2025

Fragmented and frightening, the commitment of the work carries the production

Review: PUNCH by James Graham, Apollo Theatre
Review: PUNCH by James Graham, Apollo Theatre
September 27, 2025

A true crime story that offers hope as well as tragedy

Review: LACRIMA, Barbican Theatre
Review: LACRIMA, Barbican Theatre
September 26, 2025

Caroline Guiela Nguyen and her cast and creatives have made something very special indeed

Review: HAMLET, starring Giles Terera, Chichester Festival Theatre
Review: HAMLET, starring Giles Terera, Chichester Festival Theatre
September 19, 2025

A Hamlet shorn of gimmicks allows its power to come through

Review: EH UP, ME OLD FLOWERS!, White Bear Theatre
Review: EH UP, ME OLD FLOWERS!, White Bear Theatre
September 13, 2025

Chris England's warm show is funny and clever and unafraid to pose some difficult questions

Review: TOSCA, Starring Anna Netrebko, Royal Ballet and Opera
Review: TOSCA, Starring Anna Netrebko, Royal Ballet and Opera
September 12, 2025

If you come to opera via film musicals and, later, stage shows, Tosca is amongst the most accessible. The story of the lovers and the evil apparatchik is told at a furious pace, trauma after trauma piling up as the emotional heft becomes all but unbearable. There’s no standing about for twenty minutes while someone sings stage left, no mythical dwarves hiding gold, no magical toymaker. Nor, as early critics were quick to point out, is there a whole lot of poetry either in Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa adaptation of Victorien Sardou’s sensational play. However, there are compensations…

Review: SEAGULL: TRUE STORY, Marylebone Theatre
Review: SEAGULL: TRUE STORY, Marylebone Theatre
September 10, 2025

Putin, Chekhov, Trump, art, principles, punishment, love, hate and that iconic, topless-on-a-horse photo of Mad Vlad. And much, much, more.



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