Thursday, July 9, 2020
“Staged,” a six-episode sitcom, and “Talking Heads,” a remake of a group of vaunted monologues, show what good can come of a bereft theatrical scene in Britain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54AMThursday, July 2, 2020
Nigel Slater is back, as is Richard Nelson's Apple family for a second time via Zoom
Can this weekly lineup really now be three months old? As we move towards at least some degree of rela…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:48AMThursday, June 25, 2020
Some celeb-heavy revivals and a kids-friendly showstopper feature amongst this week's lineup
Might we be nearing light at the end of the lockdown tunnel? It definitely seems that way, with t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:06AMThursday, June 18, 2020
The state of Britain then and now gets a look-in, as do animals in human form
As lockdown continues, National Theatre at Home has announced its final sequence of plays, and several of the v…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:12AMTHEATRE LOCKDOWN SPECIAL 9: Alan Bennett revisited, and so is Oz
Some familiar titles, a 1913 rarity and a show in which the audience plays its part
The government may occupy shifting sands…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:12AMCaryl Churchill and Simon McBurney are among the British theater talents contributing to “The Lockdown Plays,” a series of new works you can listen to, but can’t see.
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Tom Hiddleston reminds us of his stage roots, as does Christopher Walken as Captain Hook
As we continue into a third month in lockdown, the arts continue to suggest ever-changing worlds beyo…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:48AMThursday, May 28, 2020
Early James Graham joins various Broadway legends, Irving Berlin and Jerry Herman amongst them
The live-ness of theatre seems further away with every passing week, but at least the art form…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:24PMThursday, May 21, 2020
A popular American star vehicle and 'Alice in Wonderland' minute-by-minute figure among the cultural bounty during the week ahead
Can we really be entering a third month in lockdown? Indeed…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:03AMThursday, May 14, 2020
From a much-traveled one-man play to a continent-spanning National Theatre premiere, the theatrical week offers plenty so savour
No one can accuse the gods of streaming of failing to cast a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:03PMThursday, May 7, 2020
In an ever-busy week, the Donmar and Finborough join the online bustle
Has anyone else noticed how fulltime this streaming thing has become? Those who were of a mind to (and who never sle…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:24AMThursday, April 30, 2020
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: The Arts Desk at 01:42PMTheatrical extravaganzas could be a long time returning. But until then, there are plenty of great plays with tiny casts.
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Sondheim'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: The Arts Desk at 08:18AMThursday, April 16, 2020
Theatre 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: The Arts Desk at 03:24PMWednesday, April 15, 2020
Kara 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: The Arts Desk at 05:24AMMonday, April 13, 2020
Musical 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: The Arts Desk at 06:18AMThursday, April 9, 2020
London’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 11:12AMWednesday, April 8, 2020
Beth 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: The Arts Desk at 03:12AMTuesday, April 7, 2020
Stephen 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: The Arts Desk at 09:54AMThursday, April 2, 2020
Mike 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: The Arts Desk at 08:12AMSunday, March 22, 2020
The 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: The Arts Desk at 12:03PMThursday, March 19, 2020
While 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 10:06AMFriday, March 13, 2020
Mike 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: The Arts Desk at 09:18AMThursday, March 12, 2020
Sebastian 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: The Arts Desk at 09:48AMFriday, March 6, 2020
Daniel 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 07:06PMTuesday, March 3, 2020
Popular 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: The Arts Desk at 03:36AMFriday, February 28, 2020
The 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 05:12PMThursday, February 27, 2020
Three 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 04:03AMMonday, February 24, 2020
American 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: The Arts Desk at 09:18AM 
