sun 26/10/2025

Gary Naylor

Articles By Gary Naylor

Stiletto, Charing Cross Theatre review - new musical excess

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Musical, Theatre Royal Bath review - not a screaming success

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Edward II, RSC, Swan Theatre, Stratford review - monarchs, murder and mayhem from Marlowe

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Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Theatre - Luke Thallon triumphs as the state succumbs to storms

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Three Sisters, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review - Chekhov's anatomy lesson on the human condition

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Second Best, Riverside Studios review - Asa Butterfield brings the magic

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Mrs President, Charing Cross Theatre review - Mary Todd Lincoln on her life alone

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Play On!, Lyric Hammersmith review - and give me excess of it!

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Cymbeline, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review - pagan women fight the good fight

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An Interrogation, Hampstead Theatre review - police procedural based on true crime tale fails to ring true

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The Lonely Londoners, Kiln Theatre review - Windrush Generation arrive in a London full of opportunities, but not for them

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The Maids, Jermyn Street Theatre review - new broom sweeps clean in fierce revival

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Titanique, Criterion Theatre review - musical parody sinks despite super singing

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Twelfth Night, Royal Shakespeare Theatre review - comic energy dissipates in too large a space

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Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Donmar Warehouse review - a blazingly original musical flashes into the West End

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Hansel and Gretel, Shakespeare's Globe review - too saccharine a retelling for our times

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