The stunning Anthony Welsh heads a pitch-perfect quintet in UK premiere of 2023 Off Broadway play by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins and directed once again by Eric Ting.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:10AMOur theater critics and a reporter discuss the big winner — “Sunset Boulevard” — and the rest of the honorees at Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AMIn Robert Icke’s adaptation of Parts 1 and 2 of “Henry IV,” the veteran stage actor’s performance belies his age.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06AMDominic Dromgoole directs UK premiere of Paul Grellong play, wit Julian Ovenden, 2024 Olivier nominee Giles Terera, and Michael Benz
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:31AMPaul Grellong play delivers in its final passages The Menier Chocolate Factory has made something of a habit of late out of trawling unexpected corners of the contemporary American reper…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:06AMFor him, “art played a particular role in social change,” the director Mehmet Ergen said. “Everything was political.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMPatricia Clarkson powers the latest iteration of this great, grievous American drama Memory is a confounding thing. By way of proof, just ask the Mary Tyrone who is being given unforgettable…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:54AMSheridan Smith gives it her all against near-impossible odds Is there a more purely likeable actress than Sheridan Smith, the performer who was still a teenager when she stole the show at t…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:54AMNew York isn’t the only game in town. London is continually busy, as befits a theater town that thinks not in terms of seasons but of exciting and rewarding shows throughout the year. Just…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMRachael Stirling and Dominic Rowan are in fine, aptly fruity form in April De Angelis play about the legendary British tragedienne
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:20PM30 years on from the film, Stephan Elliott's road movie is now an excuse to grab some drinks
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:54PMHenry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer bring their Mischief-inflected silliness back to London after a New York run
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 02:38PMJustine Mitchell gives a performance for the ages in superb revival of Brian Friel's onetime Broadway flop, with Nick Holder and Declan Conlon in fine form, as well
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:08AMBilly Crudup makes his West End debut in David Cale play previously seen Off Broadway
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:46AMTrevor Nunn, age 84, makes a blinding return to form "We all live here in peace and friendship," notes Telegin (David Ahmad), otherwise known as Waffles, early in Uncle Vanya, to which one …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:18AMFrancesca Mills is a first-rate Duchess, with sterling support from, amongst others, Arthur Hughes, Jamie Ballard, and Olivier Huband in Rachel Bagshaw's expert production
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:34AMBenedict Lombe returns to the site of her award-winning solo play 'Lava' with a follow-up two-hander
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:29AMLaura Donnelly once again soars in tailor-made part/s scripted by her partner Art makes for unexpected bedfellows, and so it proves in Jez Butterworth's moving if meandering The Hills of Ca…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:18PMAt last, a "King Lear" that achieves lift-off, thanks to director Yael Farber, leading men Danny Sapani, Fra Fee, and Clarke Peters, and a thrilling design team
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:08AMMatt Smith stars in heavy-handed adaptation of Ibsen's 1880s classic, here with onetime Tony nominee Paul Hilton (The Inheritance) in glowering support
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:50AMMatt Smith gives his all in unyielding adaptation of Ibsen morality play Real life is a helluva lot scarier right now than you might guess from the performative theatrics on display in the …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMA pitch-perfect Lindsay Duncan leads a large and splendid cast in Dodie Smith rediscovery Sisters are doing it for themselves, just as families as a whole are, too, on the London stage thes…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:54PMScott Graham directs this latest, language-heavy take on Franz Kafka's seminal 1915 novella, here starring Felipe Pacheco as Gregor Samsa
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:54AMRalph Davis stands out as Iago in a new Othello that casts two actors as the jealous Moor: Ken Nwosu and the excellent Ira Mandela Siobhan; Ola Ince directs.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 04:33AMNeil Simon's 1968 play allows for fun, yes, but also sadness Sarah Jessica Parker's screen renown as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City has made a London event out of the West End revival …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:48AMSophie Melville and Lucy McCormick shine in rambling if roisterous queer take on the gunslinging wild west
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:09AMCatherine Tate, David Threlfall, and Grace Molony in Angus Jackson production, whose opening was delayed by a month
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:03PMThe National Theatre fielded hit after hit, and smaller venues scored as well Wait, and your wishes are answered. That seemed to be the case during the theatre year just gone, following on f…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:02PMNathaniel Parker, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd and the splendid Nancy Carroll head director Nina Raine's rending reappraisal of Tom Stoppard's 2006 play.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:24PMWoody Harrelson marks his third London stage appearance across 21 years in London transfer of David Ireland's 2018 Edinburgh Festival success, here directed by Jeremy Herrin.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:02AMStephen Sondheim's fascinating 1976 show enriches aurally and, this time round, visually This is, by my reckoning at least, the third major London production over the years of Pacific Overt…
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