Sonnets galore also form part of another busy week amidst bizarre times Time is moving in mysterious ways at the moment. It's been possible over the last month or so to mark out the beginni…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:42PMTheatrical extravaganzas could be a long time returning. But until then, there are plenty of great plays with tiny casts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24AMSondheim's and Shakespeare's natal days feted. Plus a chance to match wits with a knight and a dame As lockdown continues, so does the ability of the theatre community to find new ways to t…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:18AMTheatre buffs have no shortage of scintillating options during our ongoing shut-in The lockdown has been extended, but here's the good news: each week whereby we are shut inside seems to br…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:24PMKara Tointon leads a concept-heavy, Victorian-era Shakespeare update Twelfth Night is rarely long-absent from the British stage and nor is it in our current climate of streaming aplenty. Th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:24AMMusical adaptation celebrates British pluck, coupled with luck 18 months or so after it opened in Chichester, Flowers for Mrs Harris launches a sequence of streamed productions from the Wes…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:18AMLondon’s playhouses have been shuttered before, by plagues and war for instance, but they have always returned as strong as ever.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMBeth Steel award-winner makes for muscular, eerily apposite fare The talk is of an “economy in ruin [with] unemployment through the roof”: a précis of Britain in lockdown? In fact, thi…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:12AMStephen Rea rivets once again in David Ireland play One of the most blistering stage performances in recent memory gets a renewed lease on life with the streaming of the 2019 screen version…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:54AMMike Bartlett's 2016 play chimes with our topsy-turvy times “The whole world is just tilting at the moment,” we’re told near the end of Wild, the Mike Bartlett play from summer 2016 …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:12AMThe composer-lyricist has left an indelible legacy Here's an irony worthy of the work of Stephen Sondheim, an artist who clearly knows a thing or two about the multiple manifestations of th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:03PMWhile the city’s theaters were still open, several plays seemed to have relevant messages for our troubled times.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AMMike Bartlett play remains as buoyant and biting as ever The Beatles lyric that gives Mike Bartlett’s terrific play its title dates to 1967, which also happens to be the year in which the…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:18AMSebastian Barry two-hander offers rich acting opportunities for two of Ireland's finest Some wondrous acting is sacrificed on the altar of an increasingly wonky plot in On Blueberry Hill, t…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:48AMDaniel Monks electrified London at the end of 2019 playing the title role at the Donmar in Teenage Dick, Chinese-American writer Mike Lew’s teasingly titled play that transposes Shakespear…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06PMPopular film romcom looks fairly icky on stage It’s not so much that Pretty Woman: The Musical isn’t much good, which it isn’t. More to the point is that this West End replica of th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:36AMThe Woman in Black, the theatrical chiller adapted from the Susan Hill novel, celebrated 30 years in the West End last summer and has recently opened to acclaim at the McKittrick Hotel off-B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:12PMThree plays consider the divisions wrought by Brexit, Britain’s surveillance state and the terror of the news cycle, with varying levels of success.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03AMAmerican theatre phenomenon pushes buttons aplenty to diminishing effect This latest musical theatre exercise in “geek chic” has been an American phenomenon: a show propelled by social …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:18AMDanny Mac dazzled followers on Strictly Come Dancing with his fancy footwork on the ever-popular BBC program, but the English performer has since made a separate name for himself in stage …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMRoger Allam and Colin Morgan refashion Caryl Churchill's contemporary classic There are any number of ways to perform A Number, Caryl Churchill’s bleak and beautiful play about a father a…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:12AMLesley Manville rises above the prevailing muddle Lesley Manville’s thrilling career ascent continues apace with The Visit, which marks American playwright Tony Kushner’s return to t…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:48AMNoah Thomas was appearing in a drama school production of Guys and Dolls when he was tapped to become the third person to star as Jamie New, an aspiring drag queen, in the hit British musica…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PMThe director Patrick Marber has knitted Tom Stoppard's putative swan song into a compelling whole It’s not uncommon for playwrights to begin their careers by writing what they know, to co…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:32AMGavin Creel has both Tony and Olivier Awards to show for his effervescent talent, so it makes sense that the New York-based Ohioan should continue crossing the Atlantic to work in the West E…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMMike Bartlett's play has deepened in accordance with our divisive times It's not been three years since Albion premiered at the Almeida Theatre, since which time Brexit has happened and, …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:18AMJosh Williams has appeared across a range of London playhouses, from the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre to the Royal Court, but only now is he in the West End and in a starring role, no le…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:18PMIn three London productions with great ensemble casts, all the actors receive their due.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03AMJon Robyns is no stranger to Les Misérables, the musical phenomenon now in its fourth decade on the London stage. The 37-year-old Englishman played Marius over 10 years ago in the West End …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PMCormac McCarthy two-hander tries an audience's patience Cormac McCarthy’s two-hander, premiered at Chicago's mighty Steppenwolf Theatre in 2006, has by this point been everything short of…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:18AMOverlong Sam Steiner play needs clarity to go with its compassion Armageddon would appear to be at the gates in Sam Steiner’s intriguing if ramshackle play, a co-production between Paines…
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