Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Whisper House comprises some lovely songs beautifully sung, but lacks the narrative drive one expects in musical theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 13, 2017
It's back to the 90s at the King's Head for a show brimming with that decade's biggest hits sung wonderfully well.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 9, 2017
Macbeth's grim pursuit of power, with his Lady prompting and then agonising in the background, is brought to life in this low budget, committed production.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 2, 2017
Honk is a musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling with an important message about bullying gently sugar-coated with musical numbers and light comedy.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:02AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 1, 2017
The Mutant Man is a fractured, multi-layered telling of a true story of a man who was born as a woman and how his treatment at the hands of an exploitative, unenlightened society led to trag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 30, 2017
The Life is the story of two women living in New York in the 70s, one keen to get out of the sex workers' life, the other keen to get on, told through wonderful songs, beautifully sung.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Adam amp Eve... and Steve has a bit of panto, a bit of the Edinburgh FRinge and a whole lot of great songs, but not quite the musical chops to reach its full potential.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 28, 2017
The Wipers Times tells the story of an underground magazine, written on the Western Front by soldiers for soldiers, the articles packed with good humour and a touch of irreverence.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 23, 2017
Philip Ridley's dystopian nightmare has moments of poetry and humour but is ultimately just too relentlessly grim and must be endured rather than enjoyed.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AM[SHARE]Monday, March 20, 2017
Naples is brought to London, as we track the extraordinary lives of Lila and Lenu in an adaptation of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels that overreaches itself.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PM[SHARE]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 02:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 03:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 08:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 11:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 09:42AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 08:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 06:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 06:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 03:59AM[SHARE]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 02:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 03:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 05:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2017
Gary Naylor sees an energetic, loud and often charming tale of love in a wartime POW Camp.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:23PM[SHARE]The Cherry Orchard retains its power to reach across decades and tell us harsh truths about a changing world.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 04:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 04:33AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 03:44AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 04:35PM[SHARE]Ventoux 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 05:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2017
Intense and focused, this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's celebrated novel ratchets up the tension without losing the material's intellectual heft.
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