Gary Naylor - Page 57

Gary Naylor sees Sharon Sexton's fabulous performance that brought Liza Minnelli to London in spirit, if not in person, after her cancellation of a summer tour. Well worth spending some of the refund at the Landor Theatre.

Gary Naylor sees one of Sir Noel Coward's less performed works staged in exactly the right venue for its mix of light comedy, gentle suspense and tremendously witty songs.

Gary Naylor sees a German play that provokes thought, disgust and a certain admiration, but proves very hard work with such an uncompromising script and such committed performances.

Gary Naylor sees an extraordinarily powerful performance of extracts of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis that successfully place Wilde the Man back at the centre of his story.

Gary Naylor chats with Douglas Rintoul, director of 1001 Nights, about how he came to choose and devise the piece, about the nature of making theatre for young people and about how kids can best get involved in doing it for themselves.

Gary Naylor sees a play about thinkers thinking about sex and finds that it fails to reach a climax. The superstar male professor is often the object of bright young things' desires.

Gary Naylor sees a rarely performed version of Hamlet and finds it set four or five years in the future and not 450 years in the past

Gary Naylor enjoys the multi-award winning show from the co-creator of The Book of Mormon set on a New York street populated by people (and puppets).

Gary Naylor looks forward to the coming month in London's theatres, both West End and Fringe.

Gary Naylor sees a show with a troubled history hit some high points but also fail to live up to its full potential. In the early 90s, Mike and Jim were inseparable mates, living the dream in a band, but the band was going nowhere.

Gary Naylor sees a show filled with songs from some of the last century's greatest singers - given full due by some of the West End's finest vocalists.

Gary Naylor sees a stripped-down version of Shakespeare's enduring tragedy that gets plenty right and little wrong. What will the Daily Mail make of it? Underage sex, gang murders, drugs... and poetry.

Gary Naylor sees a splendid adaptation of Wodehouse delivered with style and no little skill. The words that PG Wodehouse wrote simply leap off the page - the sparkling wit, the shimmering similes, the warm generosity

Gary Naylor sees a serious play about serious stuff that seems a little too locked in its time to reach successfully across the decades. Much has happened since Brian Friel wrote Translations (continuing at The Rose Theatre until 3 May

A Spoonful? It's rather more than that - 90 years more! But if you're feeling exhausted by the long haul from January 1 to April 18 for a day off work, A Spoonful of Sherman (back at St James Theatre Studio until 22 April) will certainly help the medicine to go down.

Gary Naylor spends a couple of hours on the Covent Garden cobbles watching the pre-show and the big screen feed of first half of the Oliviers 2014. On a perfect spring evening, Covent Garden was buzzing more than ever as I pushed past the men doing that 'hover above the pavement' trick you see in all capital cities and the statue-still spray-painted street 'entertainers' to pitch up at the Piazza for the big stage and big screens of the Oliviers 2014.

Gary Naylor sees a play that has that touch of Marmite about it - you'll love it or you won't! It's hard to get a grip on the Constitution of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - Brits may have written plenty of constitutions around the world, but they didn't write one for themselves.

To The Garrick Club where, in one of its opulent rooms ('It's like Downton Abbey,' I overheard one overawed guest remark), Dame Gillian Lynne told us of her secret to a long life. Turns out that if you want to look like you're in your mid-fifties when you're in you're mid-80s, exercise is the key!

Gary Naylor sees Chekhov's classic updated, but diminished, saved by wonderful performances and the Russian's genius.

Gary Naylor sees a musical very much set in its location in terms of its plot, but not in terms of its staging. As generations of English cricketers have discovered, Australia is a hostile environment.