Touring
I’d Be Lost Without It by Wet Picnic
4****
Stratford Circus Arts Centre (Short walk from Stratford Circus)
1 hour, no interval

Veronica Stein, 19th March, 2018

Discomforting comfort in a wild ride

Nottingham/Touring.

DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE: David Edgar.
Theatre Royal: Tkts 0115 989 5555 www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.uk.
3***
Runs: 2h 20m: one interval: till 15th October.
Performance times: 7.30pm, (Matinees 2.00pm Weds and 2.30pm Sat).
Review: Alan Geary: 20th March 2018.

Not without its problems. But watchable.

Nottingham/Touring.

THIS HOUSE: James Graham.
4Stars****

Theatre Royal: Tkts 0115 989 5555 www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.uk.
Runs: 2h 50m: one interval: till 14th April.
Performance times: 7.30pm, (Matinees 2.00pm Weds and 2.30pm Sat).
Review: Alan Geary: 10th April 2018.

A brilliant production.

EXETER & TOURING
THE NORTHCOTT THEATRE – TILL 12 MAY
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare
4****
RUNNING TIME – 2HOURS 10 MINUTES – NO INTERVAL
Northcott Box Office – 01392 726363
www.exeternorthcott.co.uk

REVIEW: CORMAC RICHARDS – 8 MAY 2018

MIDSUMMER MADNESS – ONE CRAZY NIGHT!

Birmingham and Touring
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (Credits below)
4 Star****

Birmingham Hippodrome to 20 May
Tour into August (see below)
Runs: 2h 45m, one interval
Tickets (Hippodrome): 0844 338 5000
Info: www.birminghamhippodrome.com
Tour Dates and Tickets (Touring into August, additional dates may be added)
www.kenwright.com/microsite/la-cage-aux-folles/#home

Revie: Rod Dungate 16 May 2017, Birmingham Hippodrome

@Rod_Dungate

@ReviewsGate

Life can be glamorous when it's a drag

Birmingham
TOMMY: Music & Lyrics Pete Townsend, Book Pete Townsend & Des McAnon
Birmingham Rep: The House, and Touring
5Star*****

Runs 2h 40m, on interval. To 27 May (B'ham Rep) and Touring
BO: 0121 236 4455
www.birmingham-rep.co.uk
www.tommythemusical.co.uk

Review: Rod Dungate 2o May, 2017

@Rod_Dungate

@ReviewsGate

I didn't want it to stop.

Birmingham and touring
My Country; a work in progress (Credits below)
4 Star ****

Birmingham Repertory Theatre to 20th May
Tour until July (See below)
Runs: 1h 30m, no interval
Tickets: Birmingham Repertory Theatre: 0121 236 4455
Info: https://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/about-us/how-to-book.html
Tour Dates and Ticketing Info: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/my-country
Review: Samuel James Crawford 16th May 2017, Birmingham Repertory Theatre

@Sam19743294

@ReviewsGate

Open your ears

London
LIE OF GALILEO
By Bertolt Brecht
Translated by John Willett
4 stars****

Young Vic until July 1
Three Hours, with one interval.

Review: Tom Aitken, 19 May 2017

I really enjoyed this.

Nottingham/Touring.

SHIRLEY VALENTINE: Willy Russell.
4Stars****

Theatre Royal: Tkts 0115 989 5555 www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.uk.
Runs: 2h: one interval: till 27th May.
Performance times: 7.30pm, matinees 2.00pm Wed and 2.30pm Sat.
Review: Alan Geary: 22nd May 2017.

<An excellent performance in a well-crafted play.

London
SAND IN THE SANBDWICHES
by Hugh Whitemore.
4 Stars ****

Theatre Royal Haymarket 7.30pm until 3 Jun 2017 and then on tour.
Tour dates – Cambridge Arts theatre 6-10 June; Malvern Theatre 13-15 June; New Victoria, Woking 16-17 June; Theatre Royal, Brighton 27 June 1 July; Theatre Royal Bath 11 – 15 July.

Runs 2 hr One interval.

TICKETS: 020 7930 8800
www.trh.co.uk

Tour tickets: www.sandinthesandwiches.com

Review: William Russell 31 May.

An evening of pleasures, poems and memories

London.
IL MASTRIMONIO SEGRETO
composed by Domenico Cimarosa
libretto by Giovanni Bertati
based on The Clandestine Marriage by George Colman & David Garrick,
4 Stars ****
The Brunel Shaft, Railway Avenue, Rotherhithe, London SE16 4LF on 6 July and subsequently on tour to 30 July 2017.
Performances 7.30pm
Runs 2hr 30 mins One interval.
TICKETS: www.popupopera.co.uk
Review: William Russell 6 July.

A scintillating and tuneful evening

Touring
THE ADAMS FAMILY, THE MUSICAL. Marshall Brickmn, Rick Elice, Andrew Lippa
4 Star****
Touring till 4 November 2017
Runs: 2h 35m, one interval
Tour Dates and Tickets:
ww.theaddamsfamily.co.uk/tour/

Review Rod Dungate Birmingham Hippodrome, 10 June 2017

@Rod_Dungate

@ReviewsGate

Feel god Gothic

Birmingham and Touring
Stadium (Credits below)
2 Stars
The Main house, Birmingham Repertory Theatre to 17th June 2017. Tour
Runs: 1 hour 50 minutes, with a 20-minute interval.
Tickets: Birmingham Repertory Theatre: 0121 236 4455
Info: https://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/about-us/how-to-book.html
Review: Samuel James Crawford, 12th June 2017

One hour fifteen minutes with no interval.
Review: Samuel James Crawford,

@SamuelJamesC23

@ReviewsGate

A play that leaves you anticipating the final whistle.

Birmingham & Tour
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG: ; Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields
Birmingham Rep: The House, and Touring to 12 August 2017
4****

Runs 2h, on interval
Bham Rep BO: 0121 236 4455
www.birmingham-rep.co.uk
Information, tickets: www.theplaythatgoeswrong.com/uk-tour/tickets

Review: Rod Dungate, 19 June 2017

@Rod_Dungate

@ReviewsGate

A whopping romp, a whopping tonic for our times

Nottingham/Touring.

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields.
4Stars****

Theatre Royal:
Tkts 0115 9895555
www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.uk.
Full information: Mischief Theatre
Runs: 2h 5m: one interval: till 8th July.
Review: Alan Geary: 3rd July 2017.

Enormously funny – but the basic joke starts to wear a bit thin.

Birmingham & Tour
Jane EYRE: based on the novel by Charlotte Bronte, devised by the original company
Birmingham Rep till 16 September 2017
Bristol Old Vic & National Theatrre Touring
4****

Runs Approx 3h 15m, one interval
B’ham Rep till 16 09, then tour to 21 10
Bham Rep BO: 0121 236 4455
www.birmingham-rep.co.uk
Information: http://www.bristololdvic.org.uk/janeeyretour.html

Review: Rod Dungate, 04 September 2017

@Rod_Dungate

Multi-layered story-telling

Birmingham & Tour
MAN TO MAN: Mangred Karge, trans Alexandra Wood
4****

Runs: 1h 20, no interval
Birmingham Rep till 30 September, and touring to 28 October

Bham Rep BO: 0121 236 4455
www.birmingham-rep.co.uk
Information: http://www.uktw.co.uk/Tour/Play/Man-to-Man/T312754592/

Review: Rod Dungate, 29 September 2017

@Rod_Dungate

Poerful story of survival against the odds

Touring
SUNSET BOULEVARD: Music Andrew Lloyd Webber, Book and Lyrics: Don Black and Christopher Hampton, Based on the Billy Wilder film
5*****

Touring to 28 April 2018
Dates and Tickets:. https://uktour.sunsetboulevardthemusical.com/

Runs: 2h 30m, onet interval: to 28 April 2018

Review Rod Dungate, 30 September 2017, Curve Theatre, Leicester

Gorgeous, with something to say

London
DUET FOR ONE
by Tom Kempinski.
4****

Richmond Theatre, Little Green, Richmond TW9 1QT until 28 October 2017. Touring – King’s Theatre, Edinburgh from 30 October; Malvern Festival Theatre from 6 November; Chichester Festival Theatre from 13 November.

Mon-Sat 7.30pm. Mat Wed & Sat 2.30pmn/
Runs 2 hr One interval.

TICKETS: www.atgtickets.com
Review: William Russell 23 October.

Not the Jacqueline du Pres story