Gary Naylor - Page 29

John Savournin and the Charles Court Opera gang are back with another panto packed with innovatory storytelling and great songs, wonderfully sung @KingsHeadThtr #ButtonsPanto @charlescourt.

An Honourable Man is bold in its ambition and gets a lot of details right, but its excellent first half gives way to a theatrically disappointing conclusion.

BWW talks to Jasmine Pearce, the founder of Riff Productions, about her plans for the future.

This action packed adaptation brings Lermontov's 1840 novel into the 21st century with wit and no little elan.

Peter Groom brings a legendary figure of 20th century culture to life in this affectionate and beautifully observed show.

A traditional production of Verdi's classic opera is beautiful and terrifying in equal measures.

Brass brings the Great War's generation to life in a way that educates and entertains - real people emerging from the seemingly endless roll call of The Fallen.

Creation Theatre update Poe's classic tale adding ballsy, badass attitude, but losing the fear and dread en route.

When you can see Lorca, you should - as this brilliantly realised production proves.

Sweet Like Chocolate Boy tells the tales of Bounty and Mars, growing up black in different generations with different issues to address, the play grounded in the language and music of contemporary London.

Sexy Laundry looks at middle class hopes and fears in a two handed comedy that must have felt a little old-fashioned when first staged in Canada in 2002.

Tragedy raw in tooth and claw in this revival of the ENO's 2008 production of Lucia di Lammermoor.

This revival of Kenneth MacMillan's Manon is a visual and aural delight that should melt the heart of even the most reluctant ballet sceptic.

Robert Icke's updating of The Wild Duck gains in contemporary relevance, but loses a little of its heart en route.

Quietly gives us two men, deep in middle age, looking back to the irreversible actions they took as 16 year-olds during The Troubles in an electrifying conversation.

Ross MacGregor's Dracula needs a transfusion of narrative pace if it is to achieve its considerable (and laudable) ambition.

The Trench, in trying to do so much, forgets to let us into the lives of the soldiers whose ordeal lies at the heart of the story it tells.

Solomon provides a transcendent sensory experience and more than a few lessons for today;s rulers.

A tremendous re-imagining of a novel that has not been more relevant at any point in the 82 years since its writing - a wonderfully realised piece of theatre.

There's much promise in this play that speculates on what Sigmund Freud and Gustav Mahler may have spoken about on a walk they shared, but pedestrian writing and underdeveloped characters scupper any chance of its reaching its potential.