Sunday, March 19, 2017
Threesome is often crude, sometimes boldly empowering and occasionally shows a glimpse of something more sophisticated emerging, but ultimately falls a little short on laughs.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMSaturday, March 18, 2017
Extraordinary, astonishing, unmissable five star production that brings three of Shakespeare's plays up to date in an electrifying production that should not be missed.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:32AMThursday, March 16, 2017
After Party sees tensions, long since buried, bubble to the surface, as one of the old gang returns from prison to settle old scores and reclaim what he believes to be his.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:45PMWednesday, March 15, 2017
Seventeen captures a cathartic moment in young people's lives - the last day at school - but does not reach its potential due to a largely lacklustre script.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMTuesday, March 14, 2017
Limehouse focuses on the events concerning the founding of the Social Democratic Party the SDP and the drafting of the Limehouse Declaration that led to it. Many, many parallels with today's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AMMonday, March 13, 2017
Daniel and Laura Curtis showcase their current album, Overture, and give us a glimpse or two of emerging work, the songs belted out by A list West End performers.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMThursday, March 9, 2017
Wisdom of a Fool resurrects the much loved Norman Wisdom in Jack Lane's respectful and entertaining show that charts his rags-to-riches story.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:26AMWednesday, March 8, 2017
Handbagged imagines what was said by Mrs Thatcher and The Queen in their weekly meetings to hilarious effect in Moira Buffini's award-winning satire.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:48AMTuesday, March 7, 2017
Three short plays introduce the writing of BS Johnson, a revered man of English letters whose influence resonates through the last 50 years.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:59AMSunday, March 5, 2017
Ionesco's absurd theatre brought to life in a handsome production that is full of wit and humour, but never loses its avant garde character.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12AMThursday, March 2, 2017
Swifties examines the obsessive nature of fandom, as dress-up and role play turns into something much more sinister in this reinvention of Jean Genet's The Maids.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:39AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
Hamlet anew in this technology infused but oh so human production of Shakespeare's great tragedy in which Andrew Scott gives us a warm, flawed, and eventually mad Prince.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:23AMThursday, February 23, 2017
Gary Naylor sees an energetic, loud and often charming tale of love in a wartime POW Camp.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:23PMThe Cherry Orchard retains its power to reach across decades and tell us harsh truths about a changing world.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06PMWednesday, February 22, 2017
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 04:14AMTuesday, February 21, 2017
The 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 04:33AMMonday, February 20, 2017
Has 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 03:44AMSaturday, February 18, 2017
Max 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 05:53AMThursday, February 16, 2017
Intense and focused, this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's celebrated novel ratchets up the tension without losing the material's intellectual heft.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:38AMSunday, February 12, 2017
Anyone 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 07:33AMSaturday, February 11, 2017
The 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 07:27AMFriday, February 10, 2017
This 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 05:01AMWednesday, February 8, 2017
Run The Beast Down creates a world collapsing psychologically and socially as the foxes, real and metaphorical, close in on Charlie.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25AMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Contemporary and hard-hitting, Alex MacKeith's debut, School Play, doesn't quite add up to the some of its parts.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:29AMMonday, February 6, 2017
Gary 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 12:19PMSaturday, February 4, 2017
Impressively 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 04:34AMThursday, February 2, 2017
Gary 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 03:35AMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Gary 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 08:28AMThursday, January 26, 2017
Gary 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 04:14AM 
