Sunday, 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 04:14AMSaturday, January 21, 2017
Gary Naylor sees an extraordinary hour of storytelling that releases the human spirit from its physical incarceration.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:08AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Gary 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 04:40AMTuesday, January 17, 2017
Gary 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 08:39AMSaturday, January 14, 2017
Gary 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 05:25AMFriday, January 13, 2017
Gary 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 11:42AMThursday, January 12, 2017
Gary 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 03:43AMWednesday, January 11, 2017
Gary 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 09:21AMSaturday, January 7, 2017
Gary 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 06:45AM 
