Overlong 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…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:24AMClaire Moore was Sarah Brightman’s replacement more than three decades ago as Christine Daaé in the West End’s The Phantom of the Opera and has rarely been long absent from the London s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PMFrom the bloodbath of “The Duchess of Malfi” to the intergenerational confusion of “Snowflake,” family disputes are at the center of three plays in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06AMHeavy topics abound, but there’s still room for a laugh and a song – from an Alanis Morissette musical to a dildo-waving new play
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMNewcomers and veterans were both given chances to shine on the London stage this year. Below, listed in no particular order, are five performances for which we will have fond memories of wel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMArthur Miller may have been ubiquitous on the London stage this year, but there was no shortage of homegrown British talent—from that fearless octogenarian Caryl Churchill at the Royal C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:24AMThe classics got a shake-up, while provocative new writing came mostly from America Political dysfunction and societal distress led many amongst us to the brink this year, so where better th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:24AMLate-arrival to the West End is broad, brash - and delightful Who knew? This West End premiere of the 2007 Broadway entry from the legendary songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb (Ch…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:24PMKatie Brayben won a 2015 Olivier Award for her star-making performance as Carole King in the West End premiere of Beautiful. Since that time, she shifted genres to star in a revival of the n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:03PMMike Lew's riff on Shakespeare needs more art to go with its heart If good intentions were everything, Teenage Dick would be the play of the year. As it is, this British premiere at the Donm…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:54AMJodie Prenger came to attention as the winner of the BBC reality TV competition series I’d Do Anything in 2008, as a result of which she got to play Nancy in Oliver! in the West End for th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:54AMAs they take on more challenging themes, provocative material and divisive subjects, the capital’s theatres have never felt so vital.
SOURCE: www.standard.co.uk at 07:44AMPeriod confection in three acts could use pruning There’s slight (White Christmas, to name but one) and then there’s The Boy Friend, a period musical so unabashedly vaporous that if yo…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMJordan Belfort memoirs translate unpleasantly, even unnecessarily, to the stage Of all the groups you probably wouldn’t want to be part of, surely the hyper-adrenalised, hardscrabble popu…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:36AMSeasonal entertainment is cheerful if essentially dull Nostalgia for things that probably never were is an animating theme in politics these days.
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:06AM“Dear Evan Hansen” is the latest Broadway musical to open in the West End, along with the pop bonanza “& Juliet” and nearby, the quietly powerful “Ghost Quartet.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06AMMiriam-Teak Lee was something of an overnight sensation when she played Claire De Loone in the 2017 Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park revival of On the Town, since which time she went on to u…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMMichael Greif has shepherded Dear Evan Hansen successfully into port many times at this point, but only now is the 2017 Best Musical Tony Award winner being seen outside North America. Its W…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMIn the first part of our chat with the ever-vital Elaine Paige, the English musical theater legend spoke about making the shift into radio and the excitement that has accompanied this unexpe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:33PMElaine Paige needs scant introduction as the “first lady of the British musical theater,” a title that the veteran star of Evita, Cats, Chess and Sunset Boulevard, to name just a few of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:03PMThe stars of “The Crown” are back together in a production in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:33AMAnnie Baker's latest will divide opinion but reward devotees The National Theatre is forging its own special relationship with American playwright Annie Baker, having now produced three of h…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:36AMLondon has seen numerous Phantoms in the 33-plus years since the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera had its world premiere before going on to become a global phenomenon. Bu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18AMHigh Fidelity didn’t last long on Broadway in 2006, but the musical adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel has had plenty of airings elsewhere since that time and is now in previews at southw…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 02:59PMArinzé Kene play from 2011 packs a renewed punch Time has been not just kind but even crucial to Little Baby Jesus, the 2011 play from the multi-hyphenate talent Arinzé Kene, who since…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:24AMGorky play suffers an identity crisis in uneasily-pitched revival Even the mighty Almeida is allowed the occasional dud and it’s sure as hell got one at the moment with Vassa. Maxim Gork…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:48PMThe Lion King this month marks 20 years on the London stage, during which time it has become the sixth longest-running West End musical ever, with no end in sight. The iconic Disney musical …
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 02:08PMWhether it’s finishing what Jane Austen started, imagining the private conversations of first ladies or inserting the personal, on London stages female playwrights are mixing things up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33AMThe Tony-nominated composer/lyricist Dave Malloy of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 fame hasn’t had a London presence until this fall, when he is unexpectedly being represent…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 12:00AMThe ever-likable Mischief Theatre's latest stretches them in new if still-unfinished ways If ambition were all, Groan Ups would get an A*. Marking the first of a very welcome three-show res…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:48AMSondheim's 1990 show gets more disturbingly pertinent with every revival “Every now and then the country goes a little wrong”: so goes one of the many lyrics from the Stephen Sondheim-Jo…
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