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.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:38AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 07:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 07:27AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 05:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 02:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 04:29AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 04:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 03:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 08:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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[SHARE]Saturday, January 21, 2017
Gary Naylor sees an extraordinary hour of storytelling that releases the human spirit from its physical incarceration.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Gary Naylor sees a comedy that lacks the pace and focus it needs to realise its potential.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PM[SHARE]Gary Naylor sees a wonderfully funny farce blessed with strong performances and a script that packs a punch along with the punchlines.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 08:39AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 02:42PM[SHARE]Gary Naylor sees a funny, contemporary comedy blessed with an Ayckbournesque script and some very fine acting.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:25AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 11:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 03:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 09:21AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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[SHARE]Monday, December 19, 2016
Gary Naylor looks back on 148 shows reviewed in 2016 and picks his Christmas turkeys and Christmas crackers.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Gary 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 04:57PM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2016
Gary 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 05:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2016
Gary Naylor sees a show that delivers traditional Christmas laughs and spectacle from the modern master of the form, writer Eric Potts.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Gary Naylor sees a new play about an old problem turning up in new forms - loneliness. This time in the 21st century.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:49PM[SHARE]Gary Naylor sees an innovative and thought-provoking play from South America that has plenty to say about fathers, and about theatre too.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 4, 2016
Gary Naylor sees a show soar, like Peter, beyond expectations - a delight for all the family.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:10AM[SHARE]Friday, December 2, 2016
Gary Naylor sees a long-running West End haunted house mystery and revels in its unabashed theatricality
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2016
Gary Naylor sees a magical Christmas show that sets up the festive season even for an old Bah Humbug man like him.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Gary Naylor sees a show that he should like more than he does, possibly because it's owes more to performance art than it does to theatre.
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