Frankenstein, likes its eponymous anti-hero, is often brilliant but flounders on its ambition.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:54AMPicking out the best of UK theatre over the past 12 months is a curious task - akin to judging avocado pears against conference pears, we're comparing like with like only in the broadest sen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMGary Naylor sees another opera up close from the award-winning OperaUpClose, this time lacking a little in the clarity that has characterised previous productions.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04AMA timely revival for one of Jack Rosenthal's celebrated TV plays of the 70s with much to say about the age of the Uber.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:54AMBritney Spears The Cabaret entertains and provokes with the story of the pop princess's life told through Christie Whelan Browne's comic cuts and wonderful singing.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:56PMDeadline Day has echoes of The Likely Lads in its humour, drawn from the clashing of cultures as a boy wonder footballer and his go-getting agent travel to London to sign for Chelsea.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PMSalad Days is easy to dismiss is the lightest of light entertainment, but has plenty of political punch under its joyous exterior.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMDirector, Amy Draper, packs plenty into realising writer Daniel Winder's ambitious take on the Grimm fairytale, but the show needs to be edited back to two hours maximum running time to succ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:09PMThe Cunning Little Vixen is a opera favourite but no less fascinating for that, especially in this innovative and engaging production.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PMLong a star of Wicked, Willemijn Verkaik delivers a splendid one-off concert to her adoring fans.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24AMThe Marriage of Kim K is an innovative melding of musical genres, as three couples find life together more difficult than expected, their lives revealed in a very 21st century style.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMI Loved Lucy returns to the West End with a change in tone, but retaining its charm and its pathos with another incandescent star performance from Sandra Dickinson.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMLa Voix Humaine, Poulenc's one act, one soprano opera based on a play by Jean Cocteau, is a visceral, demanding, rewarding evening, ferociously up to date in every sense.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:09AMKing Kong A Comedy tries a little too hard for laughs, but captures some of the pathos of its 1933 movie inspiration in a breathless 80 minutes show..
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMA Macbeth that stays true to the 17th century origin of the play, yet feels bang up to date with plenty for teenage fans of Game of Thrones and Shakespeare veterans to enjoy.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36AMBlondel The Musical has elements of pantomime and elements of the real punch of musical theatre in a show that works well only intermittently.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMThese Tress Are Made Of Blood tells the story of Argentina's Dirty War using cabaret as a vehicle to describe the horrors and the politics that drove it.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36AMLa Strada, adapted from the Fellini movie is a play with music that captures the style and ethics of a classic movie, indeed the Neo-Realism style.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:14PMVixen updates Leos Janacek's opera for the victims of Generation Rent moving the action into the big city of 2017 with hi tech and great singing.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:26AMAnnie Get Your Gun delivers wonderful, uncynical entertainment, the romance studded with some of the finest songs ever written for the theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48AMJam, Matt Parvin's first play, shows promise but cannot overcome its structural and narrative problems to deliver its full potential.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:46AMThe Mikado is as much as ever in this all male version that showcases the great songs with some fine voices.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PMContinuing our series of favourite musical theatre songs is Carol Channing's version of 'Hello, Dolly'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42AMOthello's extraordinary tapestry of human vulnerabilities, brilliantly woven in Richard Twyman's brutal production, remains as relevant today as ever.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36AMTeeth 'n' Smiles is an early work by Sir David Hare, tracking a punk band's disastrous night playing Jesus College Cambridge's 1978 May Ball.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:44PMGreg Hicks' Richard III twists and turns his evil until he's left with nobody to hate, screaming for a horse and escape.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:33AM110 In The Shade is both old-fashioned and bang up to date, full of pleasing songs, fine performances and a heartwarming message of love and hope.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:54AMOccupational Hazards portrays the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq through the eyes of Rory Stewart, who was there and who tried.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMCosmic Trigger The Play is an exhilarating event that entertains and educates, full of fun but never losing the serious dimension to Robert Anton Wilson's work.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:34AMVoices From Chernobyl reminds us of a largely forgotten disaster and the terrible human cost, a price still being paid today.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06PMHome Truths nine plays paint a picture of chaotic and cruel housing policies that have shafted the poor for decades with little sign of any change coming - and it's also funny, warm and clev…
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