Monday, March 3, 2025
Clueless sings on the London stage, Cate Blanchett spreads her wings, and the producer of Fleabag is back for an encore - all that and James Graham not once but twice.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:13PMSunday, February 23, 2025
Cliff Curtis and Olivier Award winner Luke Treadaway in dense new play by the Oscar-nominated American writer Beau Willimon
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:13AMSaturday, February 22, 2025
Jonathan Bailey makes a petulant stage return in Shakespeare's most luxuriant play
Screen stardom is generally anointed at the box office so it's a very real delight to find the fast-rising…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:42AMFriday, February 14, 2025
Omari Douglas and Wil Johnson in baggy if big-hearted play that also stars its non-binary author, Coral Wylie
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:15AMFuturistic play is also deeply humane, and superbly served by its ensemble cast headed by Helen Schlesinger and Tim McMullan.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:50AMFriday, February 7, 2025
Brie Larson makes a brave West End debut that, alas, misfires
We live in tragic times given over to cataclysmic events that require outsized emotions in return. That may be one reason to ac…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:12AMMonday, February 3, 2025
Earl Gregory plays the Duke in inspired musical transposition of Shakespeare's buoyant comedy
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:47PMFebruary may be the shortest month but it is packed with enticing offerings on the London stage. The weeks ahead promise not one but two star-laden Sophoclean tragedies, and two comparably s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMWednesday, January 29, 2025
Nicholas Burns gets gifted with a surprise lump of excrement in Dave Florez's existential comedy
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:25PMFriday, January 24, 2025
Martina Laird and Gabrielle Brooks shine in shrewd, witty Shakespeare reappraisal
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:14AMWednesday, January 8, 2025
BEST OF 2024: THEATRE The classics reclaimed afresh, the acting often astonished
The classics were reclaimed afresh, and the acting more often than not astonished
It's the images that linge…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:42PMFriday, January 3, 2025
Some recommendations for visitors and residents who want to get the most from the city’s varied theater scene.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMThursday, January 2, 2025
January can be a sleepy time for stage activity in some cities. Not London, though, which is riding high from a wealth of high-profile, pre-Christmas holdovers, alongside a trio of dynamic i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AMSaturday, December 28, 2024
The classics were reclaimed afresh, and the acting more often than not astonished
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:35AMFriday, December 20, 2024
The veteran actress, playing Prospero in her West End debut, is strangely absent from Shakespeare’s narrative.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02AMWednesday, December 18, 2024
Tom Stoppard's dense 1997 play is dazzlingly served by director Blanche McIntyre and two formidable leading men in Matthew Tennyson and Simon Russell Beale as the younger and older AE Housma…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:46AMThursday, December 12, 2024
Relaunch of Elton John musical needs further tinkering still
It's second time only quasi-lucky for The Devil Wears Prada, the stage musical adaptation of the much-loved Meryl Streep film fr…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:02PMOur critics discuss which A-lister performances on the West End were worth the ticket price, and why so many new musicals struggled this year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36AMMonday, December 2, 2024
December may be the time of year when people switch off and embrace the holidays. But there's very little rest in the ever-busy world of London theater, which is more crowded this year than …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMFriday, November 29, 2024
A new production in London, starring Ncuti Gatwa, releases Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy from period convention and brings it stunningly into the 21st century.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMMonday, November 25, 2024
An outstanding Sule Rimi joins Emma Kingston and Jasper Britton in UK premiere of Dan McCabe's play set in Sunnyside, Queens
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:01PMFriday, November 22, 2024
Musical theatre behemoth becomes an outsized film - and this is just part one
"No one mourns the wicked," we're told during the immediately arresting beginning to Wicked, which concludes tw…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:48PMMonday, November 18, 2024
Baggy and overlong Beru Tessema play, directed by Daniel Bailey, gets a high profile guest appearance from onetime Hamilton himself, Jamael Westman
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:20AMTuesday, November 5, 2024
The 'Emily in Paris' star surrenders to cliche - or does she?
The Catalan capital has given its name to a famous number in the Stephen Sondheim musical, Company. And here it is lending geog…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:42AMFriday, November 1, 2024
A Victorian classic gets a modern-day makeover, Benjamin Button sings, and a popular superhero gets a London stage outing: Those are among the highlights of a characteristically busy month o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
John Hollingworth gives a movingly indrawn performance in new play from Richard Bean, who wrote "One Man, Two Guvnors"; Emily Burns directs.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:15AMSaturday, October 12, 2024
Adrien Brody is in magnificent form in his UK stage debut as Nick Yarris in new Lindsey Ferrentino play, directed by Justin Martin, of Prime Face renown
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:57AMThursday, October 10, 2024
Oli Forsyth play is brilliantly served by its starry cast
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:10PMThursday, October 3, 2024
Morfydd Clark and Billy Howle give blazing star turns in this Almeida double bill of onetime Royal Court classics; Diyan Zora and Atri Banerjee direct - brilliantly
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:38AMthe critic mourns the passing of a Broadway and London star gone way too soon
SOURCE: www.musicalsmagazine.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 1, 2024
An appreciation of the legendary Tony winning actress, an impassioned presence always on the London (and, sometimes, Broadway) stage
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:17PM 
