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Monday, March 18, 2019

London Come From Away Star Rachel Tucker on Her First Olivier Award Nomination and Why She's Through with Wicked by Matt Wolf

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

London Come From Away Star Rachel Tucker on Her First Olivier Award Nomination and Her Long History with Wicked by Matt Wolf

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

London Come From Away Star Rachel Tucker on Her First Olivier Award Nomination and Her Long History with Wicked by Matt Wolf

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: Theatre.com at 12:37PM
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Admissions, Trafalgar Studios review - topical and whiplash-smart by Matt Wolf

Alex Kingston stars in darkly comic Off Broadway transfer Joshua Harmon knows how to stir and excite an audience and does that and more with Admissions, newly arrived in the West End as par…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:32AM
Saturday, March 9, 2019

Charity Wakefield on Making Her West End Debut in Emilia and Realizing She Resembles Shakespeare by Matt Wolf

Charity Wakefield has made a name for herself both sides of the Atlantic in TV shows like Bounty Hunters and Wolf Hall but is only now making her West End debut in the transfer to the Vaudev…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM
Friday, March 8, 2019

Waitress, Adelphi Theatre review - sweet if sometimes silly musical arrives from Broadway by Matt Wolf

Tale of female emancipation gets a necessary post-interval lift There's a lovely, quietly subversive musical lurking somewhere in Waitress, and for extended passages in the second act that …

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:31AM
Thursday, March 7, 2019

London Theater Reviews: In London Theaters, Reinvention’s the Thing by Matt Wolf

Productions of Molière’s “Tartuffe,” Peter Shaffer’s “Equus” and Martin Sherman’s “Gently Down the Stream” all find something new.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:59AM
Monday, March 4, 2019

Layton Williams on How Playing Angel in Rent Prepared Him for Starring in London's Everybody’s Talking About Jamie by Matt Wolf

Layton Williams q-and-a / Matt Wolf Layton Williams wasn’t yet a teenager when in 2007 he became the first mixed-race actor to play the title role on the West End in Billy Elliot the Music…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:40PM
Friday, February 22, 2019

Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, Young Vic review - shards of power amidst much that is overwrought by Matt Wolf

★★★ JESUS HOPPED THE 'A' TRAIN, YOUNG VIC Shards of power amidst much that is overwrought Stephen Adly Guirgis play is best when most reflective An entirely electric leading performanc…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:06AM
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Shipwreck, Almeida Theatre review - Trump-inflected fantasia mixes the polemical and the poetic by Matt Wolf

★★★★ SHIPWRECK, ALMEIDA THEATRE Trump-inflected fantasia mixes polemical and poetic Anne Washburn's shape-shifting play won't be confined, nor will the man at its thematic centre J…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:38AM
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Come From Away, Phoenix Theatre review - a necessary corrective to our traumatic times by Matt Wolf

9/11-themed musical crosses the Atlantic, its capacious heart intact Against the grimmest of backdrops, generosity and even grace can be possible. That's the eternally uplifting message of C…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:06AM
Monday, February 18, 2019

9 to 5 the Musical - Dolly Parton-led film is now a witless musical by Matt Wolf

More like nein to five, as a beloved celluloid title is reduced to subpar pantoA musicals-intensive season gets off to a wan start with 9 to 5, a retooled version of a 2009 Broadway flop bas…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:42AM
Thursday, February 14, 2019

All About Eve, Noel Coward Theatre review - less a bumpy night than an erratically arresting one by Matt Wolf

Gillian Anderson and a superb Lily James headline Ivo van Hove's latest celluloid deconstructionWomen spend a lot of time gazing at themselves in the mirror in the Belgian auteur direct…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:06AM

London Theater: A Hit and a Miss for 2 Russian Productions in London by Matt Wolf

The Moscow Pushkin Drama Theater, on a short visit to Britain, impressed with Brecht’s “The Good Person of Szechwan,” but fell short with Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.”

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM
Monday, February 11, 2019

Katherine Parkinson on Playing a 1950s-Obsessed Housewife in the West End's Home, I’m Darling by Matt Wolf

A beloved name on British TV thanks to shows like The IT Crowd, Doc Martin and Humans, Katherine Parkinson makes regular, always-welcome appearances on stage and can currently be found playi…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:04PM
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Natalie McQueen on Bringing 9 to 5 to the West End in the #MeToo Era and Her Dream Trip to Dollywood by Matt Wolf

Scarcely had Natalie McQueen finished closing out the hit London engagement of Kinky Boots before she was crossing the road to co-star with Bonnie Langford and Brian Conley in the West End d…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PM
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Nine Night Playwright/Performer Natasha Gordon on Making History in the West End by Matt Wolf

Actress-playwright Natasha Gordon made history when she became the first-ever black British female dramatist to have a play commercially produced in the West End. First produced by the Natio…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:36PM
Saturday, January 26, 2019

All About Eve Star Julian Ovenden on Bringing the Classic Film to Life on the London Stage by Matt Wolf

Julian Ovenden’s lustrous singing voice has graced many a musical and concert performance both sides of the Atlantic. In recent years, though, the actor has turned his attention to pla…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24AM
Thursday, January 24, 2019

London Theater Reviews: Cate Blanchett’s S-and-M Play Is More Tiresome Than Titillating by Matt Wolf

“When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other” opened at London’s National Theater on a wave of controversy and hype. But it’s pretty boring, our critic writes.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54AM
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Caroline, or Change Star Sharon D. Clarke on Playing Americans on the London Stage & More by Matt Wolf

The English performer Sharon D. Clarke has lent her formidable presence to many an American title on the London stage, from her 2014 Olivier Award-winning performance in James Baldwin’…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PM

Coming Clean, Trafalgar Studios review - Kevin Elyot play has lost the pathos if not the plot by Matt Wolf

1982 play needs sharpening in this shallow revival of a revival Time and a transfer haven't been kind to this well-meaning but surface-thin revival of Coming Clean, the 1982 Kevin Elyot play…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:18AM
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

From Margo Channing to Tom Hiddleston: What to See in London in 2019 by Matt Wolf

A new year brings with it the promise of theatrical bounty, nowhere more so than in London where the calendar buzzes across the year. From a flotilla of musical transfers from Broadway on to…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06AM
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Pinters Five and Six, Harold Pinter Theatre review - superlatively acted esoterica by Matt Wolf

The Pinter season gallops into the home stretch, with Rupert Graves and Jane Horrocks leading the chargeThe scintillating, commercially bold season of Pinter one-acts at the theatre bearing …

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:54AM
Thursday, January 3, 2019

London Theater Reviews: On London Stages, the Atmosphere Is Tragic by Matt Wolf

There’s new writing, Shakespeare and a classic musical on offer. And the tone of them all is bleak.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54AM
Sunday, December 30, 2018

Best of 2018: Theatre by Matt Wolf

American titles were everywhere but British plays and the classics got a look-in, tooWill pride of place amongst theatre productions every year go in perpetuity to the work of Stephen Sondhe…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:36AM
Monday, December 24, 2018

2018 Wrap-Up: Best London Shows of the Year by Matt Wolf

American work was everywhere on the London stage during 2018, as it looks to be again in the year ahead when, for example, there will be five major Arthur Miller revivals within the first si…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24AM
Sunday, December 23, 2018

2018 Wrap-Up: Best London Performances of the Year by Matt Wolf

Whoever thinks actresses are getting a raw deal these days should hang out in London, where show after show during 2018 put one or another terrific female center-stage—sometimes solo, …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:32AM
Thursday, December 20, 2018

Sweat, Donmar Warehouse review - America at once fractured and fractious by Matt Wolf

Lynn Nottage Pulitzer Prize-winner emerges even more strongly in London A tremendous year for American theatre on the London stage is resoundingly capped by Sweat, the Lynn Nottage Pulitzer …

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:24AM

Best (and Worst) Theater in Europe in 2018 by Matt Wolf, Laura Cappelle and A.j. Goldmann

Our three European theater critics pick their favorite productions of the year — plus a turkey for the festive season.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04AM
Monday, December 17, 2018

The Tell-Tale Heart, National Theatre review - bloody good fun as well as bloody by Matt Wolf

Anthony Neilson's latest is a Poe-faced delightThe Tell-Tale Heart may be the title of an 1843 short story by Edgar Allen Poe, but rest assured that Anthony Neilson's adaptation of it f…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:32AM
Saturday, December 15, 2018

West End Star Bonnie Langford on Diva Behavior and Jumping from 42nd Street to 9 to 5 by Matt Wolf

here's this for next week but please run Joshua Jenkins from CURIOUS first :-) x Bonnie Langford q-and-a / Matt Wolf Bonnie Langford began her career as a child actor in such shows as th…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42AM

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