Monday, May 24, 2021
No, Jack Holden's play is not about Tom, though the film star does get referenced along the way. In fact, Cruise is a vigorously acted history lesson that doubles as a vital performance oppo…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 6, 2021
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
The fabled date is getting nearer! For months, May 17 has loomed large in the calendar of London theatreland as the signal for playhouses to reopen their doors after a five-month lockdown.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 22, 2021
Tired of reading the headlines? You can watch artistic interpretations of the stories of our era by trailing actors in a Living Newspaper production, section by section.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]Monday, April 19, 2021
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
The director Simon Godwin has offered up the most impassioned version of this play imaginable, its often unwieldy length here filleted to 90-minutes as hurtling and relentless as the very jo…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 1, 2021
Monday, March 29, 2021
Earlier this month, we marked the 91st birthday of the living legend that is Stephen Sondheim with a look back at five London productions of his work that are embedded in the memory. This we…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 18, 2021
A brave venture that by necessity feels incomplete, Dream offers a take on A Midsummer Night's Dream that may surprise even those who think they've seen everything that can be done with Shak…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 04:03PM[SHARE]Monday, March 15, 2021
Last week, we acknowledged the forthcoming birthday of Andrew Lloyd Webber via a look back at five defining London stagings of his work. This time, we do the same with Stephen Sondheim, with…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 11, 2021
Monday, March 8, 2021
London's repertoire of standout Lloyd Webber productions includes these five shows, and more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 2, 2021
At Sunday's ceremony, a whole host of British winners and nominees got their training in the theater before they made it to the screen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2021
This is the latest entertainment from Les Enfants Terribles, the adventuresome company founded in 2001 whose immersive, interactive Alice's Adventures Underground was Olivier nominated in 20…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:07PM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2021
Our monthlong series culling some of the early London theatrical triumphs of stars before they became known to the world at large draws to a close with our look back at a brilliant quintet o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AM[SHARE]Friday, February 19, 2021
Danny Sapani and Adrian Lester in new two-hander by Lester's wife, Lolita Chakrabarti, livestreaming through Sunday
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 18, 2021
The International Theater Amsterdam presented Ivo van Hove's exhilarating Shakespeare marathon in a one-off, livestreamed production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Solo plays are everywhere these days and why not? So it's not too surprising to note the renewed interest in All On Her Own, a slice of Terence Rattigan esoterica that premiered on TV in 196…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:57PM[SHARE]Monday, February 15, 2021
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 06:28AM[SHARE]Friday, February 12, 2021
The 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 07:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Sam 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 05:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Since 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 12:36PM[SHARE]Monday, February 8, 2021
Last 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 06:08AM[SHARE]Monday, February 1, 2021
Many 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 08:22AM[SHARE]Monday, January 25, 2021
An 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 08:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 21, 2021
There'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 deca…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 10, 2021
From Andrew Lloyd Webber to Sondheim via David Tennant's West End return, London is poised for activity post-pandemic
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Sunday, December 27, 2020
Out 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: The Arts Desk at 11:54AM[SHARE]Monday, December 21, 2020
Andrew 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: The Arts Desk at 08:48AM[SHARE] 
