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]Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Dickens 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: The Arts Desk at 07:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 10, 2020
Taut 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: The Arts Desk at 06:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Paul 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: The Arts Desk at 06:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 26, 2020
The 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 03:32AM[SHARE]Friday, November 20, 2020
Friday, November 6, 2020
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Opening 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: The Arts Desk at 10:42AM[SHARE]Two 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 04:18AM[SHARE]Monday, October 26, 2020
Sparky 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: The Arts Desk at 06:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2020
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Capacious 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 …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Sunday, October 4, 2020
Essential 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: The Arts Desk at 05:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2020
Masterclasses 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: The Arts Desk at 05:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2020
The Bridge theater in London has resumed performances after the coronavirus shutdown with a series of monologues by David Hare and Alan Bennett.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AM[SHARE]Monday, September 21, 2020
review of Old Vic In Camera presentation of the late Brian Friel's 1979 play 'Faith Healer'
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 19, 2020
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Maureen Lipman in fearless form in Martin Sherman's discursive solo play
Solo plays and performances are, of necessity, the theatrical currency of the moment, whether across an entire seaso…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:03AM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2020
The sheer brio of the endeavour proved irresistible, and one wasn't surprised to see the performers' eyes misting over
SOURCE: inews.co.uk at 07:50PM[SHARE]C-o-n-t-a-c-t " the letters are aptly distanced to suit the times " marks the English-language premiere of an alfresco theatre piece that premiered in Paris during lockdown.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Based on the hit 1993 hit film "Sleepless in Seattle," the production is London's first fully staged indoor musical in months. Applause for that, at least.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2020
Traverse Theatre two-hander transfers well to the screen
In normal times, Edinburgh Festival audiences would now be packing into the city's invaluable Traverse Theatre, home to some of the …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 18, 2020
For one night, we were part of a full-on theatrical experience once again
A lot of rain and untold bliss: those were the takeaways from Saturday night's alfresco Opera Holland Park concert …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 13, 2020
A New York duo celebrates Sir Noël and Samuel Beckett bewitches and bewilders once again
After months spent sifting amongst the virtual, I'm pleased to report that live performance looks…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:42AM[SHARE] 
