UK Regional Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 12

BWW Review: A MONSTER CALLS, Chichester Festival Theatre
by Jo Fisher - February 16, 2020

Produced by The Old Vic, in association with Bristol Old Vic, Oliver award-winning A Monster Calls is making its way around the UK on tour, and has just closed its appearance at Chichester Festival Theatre....

BWW Review: ALONE IN BERLIN, Royal and Derngate
by Verity Wilde - February 15, 2020

Given the turbulent times that we live in, a new stage adaptation of Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin would seem like a smart choice for an ambitious theatre (or theatres, as this is a co-production with York Theatre Royal, in association with Oxford Playhouse)....

BWW Review: FLIGHTS, Omnibus Theatre
by Gary Naylor - February 14, 2020

Flights looks into the hearts of three men whose lives in rural Ireland are not working out as they once hoped....

BWW Review: ALL OF IT, Royal Court Theatre
by Gary Naylor - February 11, 2020

Kate O'Flynn is in award-winning form as the baby who grows into a girl and then a woman before her life's span is through in Alistair McDowall's clattering monologue....

BWW Review: RETURN TO HEAVEN, Tobacco Factory Theatres Bristol
by Shane Morgan - February 06, 2020

A post-apocalyptic road warrior, an astronaut and a shark walk into a bara??...

BWW Review: THE CROFT, Perth Theatre
by Fiona Scott - February 05, 2020

Sometimes we just want to get away. We all have our reasons for wanting a bit of peace and quiet in the middle of nowhere but being cut off from the rest of the world isn't necessarily a solution to life's problems. Ali Milles' new thriller The Croft follows two stories across multiple timelines tha...

BWW Review: RENDEZVOUS WITH MARLENE, St. George's, Bristol
by Shane Morgan - January 31, 2020

Rendezvous with Marlene started with a letter. A young Ute Lemper explodes onto the French stage playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret and the next day the French press proclaimed her, a?oeLa nouvelle Marlene!a??....

BWW Review: PERSONA, Riverside Studios
by Gary Naylor - January 30, 2020

Persona transfers somewhat uneasily from screen to stage in Paul Schoolman's new adaptation, but retains its intellectual heft and eerily subversive quality....

BWW Review: ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS, Bristol Old Vic
by Kerrie Nicholson - January 24, 2020

When Romantics Anonymous originally premiered at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2017, it received wonderful reviews and there was such a joyful buzz surrounding this show that I unfortunately didn't get to experience for myself. How lucky then, that the collaboration between Wise Children and Plush...

BWW Review: THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF SMACK AND CRACK, Bristol Old Vic
by Shane Morgan - January 23, 2020

In large part, Ed Edwards' class A drug odyssey The Political History of Smack and Crack does what it says on the tin. Steeped in social and political commentary, Edwards' piece steers us through the bumpy ride of addiction, from hospital room to street corner via a constitutional polemic that aims ...

BWW Review: THE CANARY AND THE CROW, Arcola Theatre
by Gary Naylor - January 21, 2020

Daniel Ward's autobiographical tale, told as gig theatre, has plenty to say and says it well - we would be wise to listen....

BWW Review: FADING INTO NOTHINGNESS, Merlin Theatre, Sheffield
by Ruth Deller - January 18, 2020

An assured and emotional debut from writer Theo Griffiths deals with a family in turmoil....

BWW Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Jack Studio Theatre
by Gary Naylor - January 17, 2020

This no frills Twelfth Night rattles through Shakey's comedy getting laughs along the way, but includes some artistic decisions that didn't quite land as clearly as they were, perhaps, intended to....

BWW Review: ONCE, Ashcroft Playhouse Fairfield Halls
by Gary Naylor - January 10, 2020

Once shows all its crowdpleasing credentials in this new touring production with a tremendous cast doing full justice to its score and carrying a somewhat corny plot to a standing ovation curtain....

BWW Review: TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS, Union Theatre
by Gary Naylor - January 09, 2020

The Union Theatre's Essential Classics season kicks off with Phil Willmott's updating of a classic with much to say about England in 2020....

BWW Review: GUYS AND DOLLS, Crucible, Sheffield
by Ruth Deller - December 14, 2019

The Crucible takes us to New York's bustling backstreets in this joyous revival....

BWW Review: CINDERELLA, Fairfield Halls
by Gary Naylor - December 13, 2019

Cinderella delivers a true family pantomime that mixes spectacular sets and costumes with plenty of laughs in a show that doesn't push back any boundaries, but delivers what its audience wants at Christmas....

BWW Review: CINDERELLA, Lyceum, Sheffield
by Ruth Deller - December 12, 2019

The latest Sheffield Theatres panto hits all the traditional panto beats....

BWW Review: WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND, Union Theatre
by Gary Naylor - December 11, 2019

Sasha Regan revisits her 2015 production of the 1996 musical to deliver a splendid show for Christmas, with a relevance and harder edge that was missing a little four long years ago....

BWW Review: DICK WHITTINGTON, Bristol Hippodrome
by Tim Wright - December 11, 2019

When on song, panto can be monumentally brilliant. An unpretentious form of theatre that can delight old and young alike. It's a shame then that this latest effort from panto behemoth Qdos is so tone deaf it makes your toes curl....

BWW Review: RAVENS: SPASSKY VS FISCHER, Hampstead Theatre
by Gary Naylor - December 06, 2019

Ravens: Spassky vs Fischer takes us to Iceland in 1974 for the World Chess Championship, a clash between two very different men and two very different systems but with much that is not so different to the politics of today....

BWW Review: UNCLE VANYA, Old Red Lion Theatre
by Gary Naylor - December 05, 2019

This production pares back Chekhov's original text and foregrounds key themes with just a hint that Vanya even has something to say about the key political issue of the day....

BWW Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Bridge House Theatre
by Gary Naylor - November 28, 2019

Scrooge, the ghosts and a very Tiny Tim just an arm's length away in a fine adaptation of Dickens' timeless tale....

BWW Review: HUNGER, Arcola Theatre
by Gary Naylor - November 26, 2019

Hunger, adapted from controversial Norwegian, Knut Hamsun's, early career novel, brings us a man alienated from an uncaring world - as much a fixture on the fringes of our city some 130 years since the book was published....

BWW Review: PETER PAN GOES WRONG, Theatre Royal Brighton
by Fiona Scott - November 20, 2019

All it takes are some happy thoughts and fairy dusta??that's how the boy who never grows up is able to fly, at least. In Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Mischief Theatre's take on the JM Barrie classic certainly lifts your spirits, but mainly because not everything quite goes to plan for the young performers!...