Wednesday, June 26, 2019
The Irish star is sublimely funny - and moving, too - in Noël Coward classic
"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" can be heard pulsating through the Old Vic auditorium as the curtain rises o…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:12AMMonday, June 24, 2019
Mazz Murray (the snappy first name is short for Marianne) has lent her distinctive rock sound to such West End musical mainstays as We Will Rock You, as the Killer Queen, and Chicago. The gu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:33PMThursday, June 20, 2019
Despite the formidable presence of John Malkovich, David Mamet’s new play is as reprehensible as the predatory film tycoon at the center of it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42AMWednesday, June 19, 2019
Renée Fleming and Dove Cameron align in starry London debut for six-time Tony-winner
A Broadway show as melodically haunting and sophisticated as it is niche, The Light in the Piazza has t…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:06AMMonday, June 17, 2019
Cuban-American performer Christie Prades is headlining the London premiere of On Your Feet!, the Broadway musical about Gloria Estefan opening June 27 at the London Coliseum, following a sho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMThursday, June 13, 2019
Slice of Rattigan esoterica is useful to see even as it shows its age
Terence Rattigan completists, and count myself among them, will leap at the chance to see a rare production courtesy th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:18AMMonday, June 3, 2019
Onetime Disney Channel teen queen Dove Cameron has been spreading her theatrical wings of late. Last December the 23-year-old performer opened off-Broadway in the New Group production of the…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 04:13PMThursday, May 30, 2019
Kenneth Lonergan's Off Broadway play trades heavily on deadpan as it crosses the pond
A small-scale Off Broadway venture late in 2009, The Starry Messenger has arrived in London to mark the…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:24AMMonday, May 27, 2019
Dante or Die's latest is mirthful and mournful in turn
Who is that slithering on the floor by your foot, or coming to rest by or upon your knee? Audiences lucky enough to find themselves at…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:33PMNkeki Obi-Melekwe at only 22 has stepped into the starring role of anyone’s dreams, succeeding 2019 Olivier nominee Adrienne Warren in the title role of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical at th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Adrianna Bertola was a pintsized powerhouse in the title role of Matilda the Musical, played Gretl Von Trapp in The Sound of Music and, now age 20, has made the transition with ease to an ad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PMThursday, May 16, 2019
Troubled but tantalising Williams play doesn't entirely land this time around
Where would Tennessee Williams's onetime flop be without the British theatre to rehabilitate it on an ongoing b…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:48AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Jonathan Maitland skewers Brexit-era realpolitik and largely scores
What could have been merely a cheap and cheesy piss-take registers as considerably more robust in The Last Temptation of …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:54AMThursday, May 9, 2019
Broadway veteran and four-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn has given over the better part of the past year to London and to Trevor Nunn’s beautiful Menier Chocolate Factory revival of Fiddler o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMProductions in London of classic plays — from Chekhov to Cy Coleman — feature strong female performances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AMSaturday, May 4, 2019
Ian Rickson finds the fury and dynamism in a piece of Ibsen esoterica
The past haunts the present and looks likely to torpedo the future in Rosmersholm, the lesser-known Ibsen play now rece…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:48PMFriday, May 3, 2019
Giles Terera’s many and varied credits include Honk!, The Book of Mormon, and a revelatory National Theatre revival of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, but the versatile performer reached a new…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMTuesday, April 30, 2019
A wonderfully inventive productive balances gore, humor and pathos exceedingly well.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 07:24PMTuesday, April 23, 2019
Mamma Mia! has transformed the lives of a lot of people, not least its gifted and versatile director, Phyllida Lloyd, who came to the ABBA musical from a career in the British not-for-profit…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 03:04PMThursday, April 18, 2019
Maggie Smith tackles an impressive one-woman show at the Bridge Theater, and a British classic of the 1980s gets a new lease on life at the National.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:29AMSaturday, April 13, 2019
Kelly Mathieson grew up in Scotland and started ballet lessons when she was two. But after training at London's prestigious Royal College of Music, she forsook the world of actual opera to m…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
Ben Edelman burst onto the New York theater scene like a proverbial comet in last year’s Lincoln Center Theater production of Admissions, the fiery play about family dynamics and race from…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 04:09PMBen Edelman burst onto the New York theater scene like a proverbial comet in last year’s Lincoln Center Theater production of Admissions, the fiery play about family dynamics and race from…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:09PMFriday, March 29, 2019
Joanna Riding has won two Olivier Awards, starting with her matchless Julie Jordan in Nicholas Hytner’s landmark 1992 production of Carousel, and is now giving a career-defining performanc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:58PMThursday, March 28, 2019
A revelatory new production of “Betrayal” starring Tom Hiddleston comes after a season of the playwright’s one-act plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:47AMSaturday, March 23, 2019
Richard Fleeshman starred on the West End and Broadway opposite Caissie Levy in Ghost the Musical and was part of the British ensembles of Urinetown and The Last Ship. But it’s fai…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMFriday, March 22, 2019
Athol Fugard's seminal 1961 play hasn't lost its potency
London's impromptu mini-season devoted to the work of Athol Fugard picks up real steam with Blood Knot, Matthew Xia's transfixing ta…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:10PMThursday, March 21, 2019
Bruce Norris's ever-provocative play puts people first, labels second
"Some monsters are real," notes a retribution-minded wife (Matilda Ziegler) early in Downstate, Bruce Norris's beautiful…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:02AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
Penelope Wilton and Ophelia Lovibond face off in revival of little-known 1986 play
David Hare knows a thing or two about sustaining an onstage face-off. Skylight and The Breath of Life consi…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:27AMMonday, March 18, 2019
Rachel Tucker is known both sides of the Atlantic as an especially thrilling Elphaba in Wicked and as a singer who has enlivened various concert halls and cabaret rooms, performing both solo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:37PM 
