Gary Naylor - Page 17

Real-life partners Francesca Hayward and Cesar Corrales turn star-crossed lovers in Kenneth MacMillan's definitive staging of Sergey Prokofiev's ballet

CR8TRACT Theatre's production of Godspell makes the most of the excellent songs but cannot escape the straitjacket of the show's dated structure.

So called 'Tokyo Rose' Iva Toguri's struggle for a post-war pardon is given life by Burnt Lemon Theatre in a musical that has many echoes of Hamilton

This new opera, adapted by Tamsin Collison from Michael Palin's play, is both funny and wonderful to hear, Scott Stroman's score swinging as much as the characters are stuck

Joe Strummer, legendary lead singer of The Clash, seeks his hero, Federico Garcia Lorca, and tells us much about his life, and ours, along the way

Men who have behaved badly fail to communicate in Conor McPherson's reflection on guilt, emotional intelligence and a kind of redemption

When Charlie joins Jimmy and Cazza's acting agency, things go badly and well all at the same time in an absurdist comedy

Barbra Streisand and Joan Rivers kvetch (a lot) and kvell (a little) before and after they become two of the biggest stars in the USA

Rigoletto delves deep into the human psyche to ask questions both through its subject matter and its melding of music and voices

Escapist, dated nonsense, but such fun and beautifully done.

Bruce Graham's new play reaches back 20 years to find an explanation (well, a partial explanation) for this new, unhappy, divided USA that has not gone away with the election of Joe Biden

This landmark play in Anglo-Irish drama gets a superb revival in a space that could have been designed exactly for its claustrophobic tale of familial obligations and missed opportunities

Phil Willmott brings his years of experience to bear on the familiar story and pulls a fantastic set of performances from his totally committed cast

Hot button topics keep coming, but the drama gets lost a little in Alys Metcalf's new play

The Grimeborn Festival presents two short operas concerning love failing to land as required, leading to tragic consequences

If life is 'what happens when you're making other plans' what if you actually act on those other plans - at 60 years of age?

Set in Tunisia in 1942, this new play sparkles with wit, but its exploration of the undercurrent of antisemitism that flows through even the most cosmopolitan of societies tells us much about today.

For much of the last 18 months, we've thought 'What would I be doing now - if only I could?' Things don't always turn out that way though, as Nick Payne's warm, funny and poignant play shows.

State of the nation stuff at the National Theatre.

The Grimeborn Festival scales up for the second part of Wagner's Ring Cycle and gains in music what it loses in intimacy.