The Sorrows of Satan delights from beginning to end, packing in witty songs, wonderful performances and a laughs per minute ratio as high as any in the West End.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:14AMThe Wild Party is plenty wild enough, but its overly ambitious book and parade of cookie-cutter characters means that it never lands a knockout punch - or song.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:33AMHas theatre come to terms with 21st century women Or are female characters too frequently there to help the men drive the plot from curtain to curtain
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44AMMax Gill's clever adaptation of this classic play brings it right up to date, into the world of Tinder and Grindr and fluid sexual identities.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:35PMVentoux captures two very different men going mano a mano against each other, against the Tour de France's most fearsome mountain and, ultimately, against history's insistence that they pay …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:53AMIntense and focused, this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's celebrated novel ratchets up the tension without losing the material's intellectual heft.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:38AMAnyone Can Whistle is a rare combination of a well-deserved flop and a must-see show. Swallow the myriad flaws, and its an entertaining, sharp and eerily prophetic show.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:33AMThe show has bags of potential, passion to burn and excellent singing, but is let down by a pedestrian book and sprawling subplots.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:27AMThis 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.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:01AMRun The Beast Down creates a world collapsing psychologically and socially as the foxes, real and metaphorical, close in on Charlie.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25AMContemporary and hard-hitting, Alex MacKeith's debut, School Play, doesn't quite add up to the some of its parts.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:29AMGary Naylor traces five years in which a show playing to 32 customers in a rundown shop on a back street in distant district of South London made it first to the West End and now to New York.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMImpressively designed in a wonderful space, Theatre Lab Company's Salome isn't quite compelling enough as entertainment nor thought-provoking enough as polemic.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:34AMGary Naylor sees a new adaptation of an old favourite that hits the mark with broad appeal, plenty of laughs and fine songs.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35AMGary Naylor sees a play that examines the failures of the social experiment of Skelmersdale, a 60s council mega estate stuck between Liverpool and Wigan
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:28AMGary 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.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:14AMGary Naylor sees an extraordinary hour of storytelling that releases the human spirit from its physical incarceration.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:08AMGary Naylor sees a comedy that lacks the pace and focus it needs to realise its potential.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMGary Naylor sees a wonderfully funny farce blessed with strong performances and a script that packs a punch along with the punchlines.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:40AMGary Naylor enjoys a treat for eyes and ears with music and singing and love and hate coming together in opera's unique alchemy.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:39AMGary Naylor sees a play with a tricksy structure and a vagueness in its script that leaves the actors with few places to go.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PMGary Naylor sees a funny, contemporary comedy blessed with an Ayckbournesque script and some very fine acting.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:25AMGary Naylor sees La La Land, a film that hits you as hard in the heart as it does in the head. He doubts if he'll see a better movie in 2017.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMGary Naylor sees a show that generates laughs and shows potential, but doesn't make the most of the setup before the punchline arrives too soon.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:43AMGary Naylor sees an adaptation of the celebrated novel, The Kite Runner, that loses some of its epic quality in transition to stage and ends up just a bit too generic for his tastes.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21AMGary Naylor sees a play that rewards repeated viewing, as relevant today as ever and, in this version, performed with subtlety and grace by an excellent cast.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:45AMGary Naylor looks back on 148 shows reviewed in 2016 and picks his Christmas turkeys and Christmas crackers.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03AMGary Naylor sees a show sure to enchant all the family, a theatrical production every bit as good as its celebrated animated predecessor.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:57PMGary Naylor sees a loyal, committed adaptation of CS Lewis's once celebrated novel that fails to ignite fully as drama, but works well as polemic.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:40PMGary Naylor sees a show that delivers traditional Christmas laughs and spectacle from the modern master of the form, writer Eric Potts.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34PMGary Naylor sees a new play about an old problem turning up in new forms - loneliness. This time in the 21st century.
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