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Gary Naylor

Gary Naylor

Gary Naylor is chief London reviewer for BroadwayWorld (https://www.broadwayworld.com/author/Gary-Naylor) and feels privileged to see so much of his home city's theatre. He writes about cricket for The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/gary-naylor) and is a lead commentator at Guerilla Cricket (https://www.guerillacricket.com/). He podcasts on 80s and 90s football at https://www.nessundormapod.com/. He writes on films at Letterboxd  https://letterboxd.com/garynaylor999/. He tweets at https://twitter.com/garynaylor85. 






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Review: PAN, Chickenshed Theatre
Review: PAN, Chickenshed Theatre
December 20, 2024

Pan is back with songs and spectacle and a lesson about what really matters in life

Review: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, Almeida Theatre
Review: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, Almeida Theatre
December 18, 2024

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Kingsley Ben-Adir lead a fine cast in an impressive, if gruelling, examination of the destructive power of mendacity

Review: CARLOS ACOSTA'S NUTCRACKER IN HAVANA, Southbank Centre
Review: CARLOS ACOSTA'S NUTCRACKER IN HAVANA, Southbank Centre
December 12, 2024

Carlos Acosta's touring show is a delightful Christmassy treat

Review: THE MASSIVE TRAGEDY OF MADAME BOVARY, Southwark Playhouse
Review: THE MASSIVE TRAGEDY OF MADAME BOVARY, Southwark Playhouse
December 11, 2024

A valiant effort, but too long and too ambitious to achieve its aim of transforming Flaubert's tragic heroine into a comic lead

Review: BETTE AND JOAN, Park Theatre
Review: BETTE AND JOAN, Park Theatre
December 9, 2024

Greta Scacchi and Felicity Dean are gruesomely grotesque but also wonderfully warm as the fading titans of the Golden Age of Hollywood

Interview: Actor Producer Charlie MacGechan of Run At It SHOUTING
Interview: Actor Producer Charlie MacGechan of Run At It SHOUTING
December 9, 2024

An Actor / Producer / Executive talks about how he got started, what he's done and what the future might hold.

Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Orange Tree Theatre
Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Orange Tree Theatre
December 1, 2024

Superb performances from a cast entirely at ease with themselves and their director make this show a must-see

Review: MAZZ MURRAY: THE MUSIC OF DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, Adelphi Theatre
Review: MAZZ MURRAY: THE MUSIC OF DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, Adelphi Theatre
November 27, 2024

Mazz Murray delivers a classy spectacular, but do we need all those phones in the front two rows?

Review: THE UNSEEN, Riverside Studios
Review: THE UNSEEN, Riverside Studios
November 22, 2024

Prisoners not the only victims of tyranny's dehumanisation of body and soul

Review: THE RED SHOES, Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Review: THE RED SHOES, Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
November 21, 2024

Lovely to look at, but horrid to contemplate

Review: WOLVES ON ROAD, Bush Theatre
Review: WOLVES ON ROAD, Bush Theatre
November 17, 2024

Director, Daniel Bailey, follows up his hit Red Pitch with a play that cannot locate the detail it needs to step out of a generic plot

Review: THE SOUND VOICE PROJECT, Royal Ballet and Opera
Review: THE SOUND VOICE PROJECT, Royal Ballet and Opera
November 15, 2024

Words run out, as The Voice is lost and recovered

Review: MACBETH, The Actors' Church
Review: MACBETH, The Actors' Church
November 14, 2024

Confusing take on Macbeth packs too much innovation into its 90 minutes runtime

Review: GOING FOR GOLD, Park Theatre
Review: GOING FOR GOLD, Park Theatre
November 13, 2024

Lisa Lintott's debut play sheds light on Britain in the 70s and leaves us with much to ponder as to whether we've progressed far enough

Review: THE TALES OF HOFFMANN, Royal Ballet and Opera
Review: THE TALES OF HOFFMANN, Royal Ballet and Opera
November 8, 2024

Damiano Michieletto brings plenty of pizzazz to Offenbach's crowdpleaser, but wastes some of his on-stage talents

Review: OTHELLO, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Review: OTHELLO, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
November 1, 2024

Intellectually stimulating, if somewhat bloodless, version of a tragedy born of racism, jealousy and naivety

Review: DR. STRANGELOVE, Noel Coward Theatre
Review: DR. STRANGELOVE, Noel Coward Theatre
October 30, 2024

New stage version of Stanley Kubrick's black comedy lands with as much force today as it did in cinemas 60 years ago

Review: AMAZE, Criterion Theatre
Review: AMAZE, Criterion Theatre
October 23, 2024

A personal show with plenty of 'Wow!' and a nice counterpoint to the gods of magic who deliver miracles from on high.

Review: TATTOOER, Charing Cross Theatre
Review: TATTOOER, Charing Cross Theatre
October 18, 2024

Incomprehensible drama fails to breach the cultural gap between Japan and England.






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