Thursday, May 9, 2019
Productions 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: The Arts Desk 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: The Arts Desk 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: The Arts Desk 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: The Arts Desk 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 12:37PMRachel 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 12:37PMRachel 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 12:37PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
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: The Arts Desk at 06:32AMSaturday, March 9, 2019
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 12:00AMFriday, March 8, 2019
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: The Arts Desk at 02:31AMThursday, March 7, 2019
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 04:59AMMonday, March 4, 2019
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 04:40PMFriday, February 22, 2019
★★★ 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: The Arts Desk at 03:06AMThursday, February 21, 2019
★★★★ 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: The Arts Desk at 03:38AMTuesday, February 19, 2019
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: The Arts Desk at 05:06AMMonday, February 18, 2019
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: The Arts Desk at 05:42AMThursday, February 14, 2019
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: The Arts Desk at 08:06AMThe 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 05:18AMMonday, February 11, 2019
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 12:04PMWednesday, February 6, 2019
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 
