Friday, December 2, 2022
James Graham play hits the West End on the way, presumably, to Broadway
Opposition (and history) are the apparent mainstays of the ceaselessly busy James Graham, and he conjoins the two to …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:06PMTuesday, November 29, 2022
Oliver Johnstone plays a notably brutal warrior-king in this deliberately revisionist take on Shakespeare's history play
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:49PMFriday, November 25, 2022
Jasmine Naziha Jones takes the lead female role in her own debut play, which is very much a work of two different halves.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:12PMThursday, November 24, 2022
Tony-winner Owen Teale is the sixth Scrooge so far in the Old Vic's London iteration of Dickens's seasonal mainstay; Lydia White makes a notably charming Belle
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:26PMThe cushion of state money let the Hampstead and Donmar playhouses develop broad programs with international reach. Now they must find creative ways to play on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMSaturday, November 19, 2022
Beckett specialist Lisa Dwan and Oscar winner Timothy Hutton head cast of the latest from English writer-director Terry Johnson
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:34AMThursday, November 3, 2022
An adaptation of “My Neighbour Totoro” enchants audiences at the Barbican. Across town at the Harold Pinter Theater, a revival of “Good” takes viewers to darker territory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54AMThursday, October 27, 2022
A new musical about the life of the televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, composed by Elton John, makes spectacular entertainment from a righteous subject.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Theresa Heskins co-authors and directs overinsistent adaptation of the life of Neil (Nello) Baldwin, a 76-year-old Staffordshire legend, which launches a lovely new West End venue
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:09PMMonday, October 24, 2022
Rob Madge solo play comes to the West End for two weeks, directed by Luke Sheppard, of "& Juliet" fame.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:46PMThursday, October 13, 2022
Productions of “John Gabriel Borkman” and “Blues for an Alabama Sky” conjure bleak atmospheres in two playhouses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25AMMonday, October 10, 2022
Feted Broadway musical finds an apt London fit
Not much happens but, in its way, everything does in The Band's Visit, the gentle, sweet-natured musical that rather unexpectedly stormed B…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:43AMThursday, October 6, 2022
Phil Porter adapts heart-tugging memoir that was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:43AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Sophie Melville brings Gary Owen monodrama to its largest venue yet.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:41AMThursday, September 29, 2022
Royal Court verbatim theatre is both affecting - and self-flagellating
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:19AMWednesday, September 28, 2022
Dissent in the ranks in uber-timely American comedy
Can a play peak too soon? That's the quandary that attends the Old Vic airing of Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector's on-point if overextended…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:13AMThursday, September 22, 2022
“Handbagged,” a play that opened in London a day after Queen Elizabeth II died, depicts a clever, compassionate monarch. But theatrical depictions haven’t always been so reverential.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:25AMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Maynard Eziashi and Donna Berlin play husband and wife in exciting Almeida Theatre premiere from Dipo Baruwa-Etti
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:54AMMonday, September 12, 2022
Max Webster and Jo Tyabji co-direct Inua Ellams' modern-day adaptation of Sophocles tragedy.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:52AMFriday, September 9, 2022
Ivo van Hove returns to the Young Vic, where his shattering 'A View from the Bridge' was first seen in 2014
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:59AMThursday, September 1, 2022
Two productions at the London playhouse feature heroines who, reluctantly, allow transformative characters into their lives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AMThursday, August 11, 2022
While marquee productions have featured star turns from Ian McKellen and Alan Cumming, smaller shows deal with contemporary life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48AMTuesday, August 9, 2022
Shakespeare’s valedictory, to comply with the received scholarship on this climactic play of his, lands with muted force in Sean Holmes’s curate’s egg of a production – engaging and …
SOURCE: londontheatre.co.uk at 01:56PMMonday, August 8, 2022
Julian Ovenden and Joanna Ampil in Rodgers & Hammerstein classic directed by Daniel Evans, Ovenden's former castmate in Merrily We Roll Along two decades ago
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:49AMProblematic Globe production of The Tempest, starring Ferdy Roberts as a barely-clad Prospero
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:38AMTuesday, August 2, 2022
Long-aborning musical still has a leg or two further to go
There's further training, shall we say, still needed on 101 Dalmatians, the much-delayed show that marks the second consecutive mu…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:18AMMonday, August 1, 2022
Kate Fleetwood as Cruella de Vil in a show in need of further shaping
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:23PMWednesday, July 27, 2022
Joshua Harmon's Off Broadway play resurfaces in London for a shouty revival headed by newcomer Rosie Yadid
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:32AMTuesday, July 26, 2022
Scott Karim and Irfan Shamji reprise their 2019 stage partnership in a new play set between Kolkata, India, and the UK and directed by Milli Bhatia
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:52AMSaturday, July 23, 2022
Last summer's hit Cole Porter revival is itself now revived, now with Kerry Ellis as Reno Sweeney, replacing Sutton Foster
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:08AMFriday, July 22, 2022
Ella Hunt gives a breakout performance opposite Jack Farthing in patchy 25th anniversary revival of Patrick Marber's London and Broadway play.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:04AM 
