Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Isango Ensemble's SS Mendi Dancing the Death Drill is a sad lament for needlessly lost lives and a celebration of the cultures from which the men had sprung. And it's ever so emotional.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:09AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2019
Night of the Living Dead Live pays homage to its inspiration, the George A. Romero cult classic movie, while generating laughs and shocks aplenty
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:52AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2019
Mike Bodie and Mari McGinlay talk about the comedyhorror play, Night of the Living Dead LIVE and their roles in this movie homage.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:33AM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2019
There are many Beatles shows around the world, but few will be as successful as this one, the orchestral arrangements complementing the accomplished band up front.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2019
Isango Ensemble bring their unique storytelling skills to show us the life of a Somali boy, alone and running away to a place that barely differs from the hell he leaves behind.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:22AM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2019
The Marvelous Wonderettes is a jukebox musical that does exactly what it says on the tin - the four singers vocally splendid in front of a fine band.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:23AM[SHARE]BWW's Chief London Reviewer spent a morning at the National Theatre with 12-14 year olds finding out about how studying STEM Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics subjects can hel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:04AM[SHARE]Queen of the Mist is a curious musical about the nearly forgotten woman who was first to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and who lived to tell her story - the problem was that few wanted t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2019
The Noises traps us in a room with Luna, as she tells us her story from puppy to dog bodyguard while the world disintegrates outside. Her journey is one faced by many neglected kids - a key …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2019
John Godber's Brexity flavoured two-hander examines loneliness in late middle-age with warmth, humour and no little insight - a gem.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 6, 2019
Recreating the political tensions that swirled around John and Yoko's Bed-In protest of 50 years ago, this play with music strives for a radical approach to its material, but forgets some th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2019
Berenice is something of a forgotten delight, its tortuous plotting more than offset by its splendid arias and delightful characters, with plenty of contemporary resonance on hand if you nee…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2019
The White Crow focuses on Rudolf Nureyev's life from birth until his sensational defection at the age of 23.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36PM[SHARE]Wolfie glows with the energy and hope of youth, even as it paints a grim picture of a world stacked against it by the alienating forces of a society retreating from its obligations to its ch…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2019
John Godber talks about his life in theatre and about his Brexit flavoured play, Scary Bikers, running at Trafalgar Studios in April.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32PM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2019
I Is A Strange Loop pits X against Y as the world described mathematically butts up against the world described theatrically - and they discover that each needs the other to be whole.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2019
Othello remains as relevant today as ever it were, Phil Willmott's adaptation setting it in the Raj of 1919, but it's as much in the White House and Palace of Westminster of 2019.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2019
A bold and often beautifully staged production that makes women men and men women to throw light on the often brutal text. What emerges is plenty of new insight, but the nagging doubt persis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2019
The Crown Dual piles laughs upon laughs in a madcap parody of the Netflix show that you don't even need to have seen in order to enjoy this hilarious two-hander.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2019
The Faction's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's dazzling novel, The Talented Mr Ripley, goes back its roots to find a man as complicated, seductive and relevant as ever.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2019
The Gershwins' sublime music and lyrics rescue a show hamstrung by a confused and clumsy book and some very familiar characters.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Philip Bretherton talks about his role as Tony Benn in TONY'S LAST TAPE, revived at the Clapham Omnibus Theatre in April.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11AM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2019
The Project is set in an in-between space in history, not freedom, but not yet the death camps, but its fails to explore the possibilities that environment suggests, lost in too many words a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2019
Seen for the first time in 35 years, Athol Fugard's play loses none of its relevance as two men and one woman fall apart under the strain of living under the Apartheid regime.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Let's Dance International Frontiers - LDIF19 - launches on April 29th - International Dance Day - and focuses on diversity in dance by showcasing new work from emerging local talent and inte…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:05AM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2019
An often beautiful, sometimes confusing, work that uses dance and technology to move from the rigid certainties of three dimensions into the threats and opportunities of the fourth.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 28, 2019
Stephen Adly Guirgis's play is as relevant today as ever, its coruscating examination of the nature of American justice and religious redemption losing none of its power a generation on from…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Cheating Death fails to solve the considerable problems of writing and staging farce in an ambitious show that falls well short of expectations.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 19, 2019
The Paper Man starts off with the story of Austria's 1930s football hero Matthias Sindelar but swiftly dummies the Nazis and nutmegs for a narrative about the construction of narratives - an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:14AM[SHARE]Friday, February 15, 2019
Phil Willmott tries to rescue two shows with the plot of a third, but his show also never quite coheres, for all the energy expended by the hard-working cast.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2019
The King's Head pulls off another re-imagining of a classic opera that packs plenty of punch and is a joy for newbies and old hands alike.
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