Now, it's time to cast a glance at those stage musicals in London that brought to the attention of keen-eyed playgoers various people whom the world would get to know later.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:28AMThe cumulative effect is of a lot of well-meaning performers acting into a digital void or, perhaps, delivering audition speeches for some sort of drama school panel that exists just out of …
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:42PMSam Tutty was five months into his career-making star turn on the West End in Dear Evan Hansen when the pandemic shut London theatres down last March. Far from sitting idle, the industrious …
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:06PMSince 2019, Tinuke Craig has fielded various iterations of her first-ever musical, The Color Purple, which was acclaimed in performance at Leicester's Curve Theatre and the Birmingham Hippod…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMLast week, we looked at the early stage work of a quintet of actors who have gone on to celebrated work, and a wider public, onscreen. But the same trajectory is every bit as true of Britain…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:08AMMany British screen stars may seem to have come to public attention as comparative unknowns, but not to theatre devotees. What follows is a list of five actors whom I managed to catch early …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:22AMAn ever-mutating virus has led to general uncertainty on and off the West End about the start-up of live performance. That shifting scenario in turn brings to mind some of the titles from th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:47AMThere’s been much discussion about the presence of Black actors in Regency England on the Netflix show, but performers of color have been playing historical roles in London theaters for de…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03AMFrom Andrew Lloyd Webber to Sondheim via David Tennant's West End return, London is poised for activity post-pandemic
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PM'Dick Whittington' never opened at the National but can be seen online
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:23AMOut of pandemic-driven chaos and confusion came moments of clarity - and "Blindness" "Goodbye": The single word lingered heavily in the air last March 16, as the scripted closing both of th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:54AMAndrew Lincoln invents Scrooge afresh in robust seasonal perennial As proof that you can't have too much of a good thing, consider the return of Matthew Warchus's buoyant production of A Ch…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMComic double-act reviewed the night before performances were suspended indefinitely
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:17AMThe 'Goes Wrong' team brings their irrepressible improv show to the West End
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:24PMDickens redux, noisily but with brio The twelve days of Christmas have nothing on the flotilla of Christmas Carols jostling for view this season, each of which is substantially different eno…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:12AMThe Almeida Theatre reopens for the first time since March.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:31PMTaut Pinter revival sacrifices the play's darkly comic underlay Add the Hampstead Theatre to the swelling ranks of playhouses opening its doors this month, in this case with a revival well i…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:48AMSimon Russell Beale and Patsy Ferran in fresh adaptation of Dickens
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:25PMPaul Harvard's ambitious debut play needs further focus A 35-year-old gay man has to figure out which way to turn in GHBoy, the Paul Harvard play whose connection to the chemsex world is emb…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:36AMThe first coronavirus shutdown caught playhouses unawares, but they learned lessons that stood them in good stead when the shutters came down again.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32AMOur critic looks back on 32 years with a publication he was with from its very first issue, in 1988.
SOURCE: www.theaternewsonline.com at 05:59AMInterview with MARY POPPINS leading man Charlie Stemp
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:52PMOpening and closing night were the same for vital solo show Broadway tends to be the Darwinian environment where a show's opening night can also mark its closing.
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:42AMTwo long-running immersive theater productions — “The Murdér Express” and “The Great Gatsby”— offered some much-needed merriment just before a new lockdown hit England.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18AMReview of 2020 Olivier Awards
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:10AMSparky solo play leaves you wanting yet more Call him Ishmael, and the Zimbabwe-born, UK-based writer Zodwa Nyoni has done just that. That's the name of the solo character in Nyoni's slight…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:24AMTwo young Black playwrights chronicle tales of the Nigerian diaspora in performances at the Bridge Theater, but only one digs deep.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54AMCapacious biography pins down an elusive subject "The older he got, the less he cared about self-concealment," or so it is said of Sir Tom Stoppard, somewhere deep into the 865 pages of …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:32AM'The Last Five Years' revival is itself revived at Southwark Playhouse
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 04:00PMEssential series of Alan Bennett stage pairings comes to an end Stillness works like a stealth bomb in Nights in the Garden of Spain, in which Tamsin Greig further confirms her status as on…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:54AMMasterclasses make up a mighty hour of theatre "Getting dark," or so comments Irene Ruddock (a pitch-perfect Imelda Staunton) in passing midway through A Lady of Letters, and, boy, ain't th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:24AM
