Saturday, December 15, 2018
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 12:42AMThursday, December 13, 2018
It’s not easy making history twice, but that’s what Rosalie Craig has managed and within not very many years.
SOURCE: www.todaytix.com at 07:11PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Congreve's Restoration-era rarity is boisterous to a fault It's been 40 years since The Double Dealer last had a major airing (indeed, perhaps any airing) in London, so on the basis of …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:06AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
Joshua Jenkins has spent a sizable chunk of his acting life playing Christopher, the teenager at the wounding and wounded heart of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The much…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMThursday, December 6, 2018
Kit Harington and Johnny Flynn go hell for leather as savagery-prone siblingsDon't be deceived by Kit Harington's matted, slicked-back hair that is immediately visible the minute the audienc…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:36AMThree productions in London look at pairings (romantic and otherwise) that come to grief, including a retelling of the myth of Orpheus in the underworld.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMSaturday, December 1, 2018
Patsy Ferran was barely out of the prestigious London drama school, RADA, when she proved that she could steal a scene or two from none other than Angela Lansbury in the 2014 West End reviva…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06AMSaturday, November 24, 2018
Reeve Carney soared above the audience as Spider-Man in the much-chronicled Broadway musical of the same name and this time descends to the underworld as the singing, romantically smitten Or…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12AMMonday, November 19, 2018
Still only 26, Douglas Booth has been appearing on film and TV for a decade and has won screen attention in such titles as Noah, The Riot Club, Great Expectations and the experiment in paint…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:54PMFriday, November 16, 2018
Much of the success has to do with a range of artists whose own creativity isn’t tethered to the Brexit-era antics at large
SOURCE: www.standard.co.uk at 09:25AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
The Pinter season continues, this time in largely comic form The West End is specialising in two-parters of late. To Imperium and The Inheritance we can add to a growing list the latest duo …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:24PMMonday, November 12, 2018
Tim Howar has been rocking out on the London stage of late in Rock of Ages and Chess, and the Canadian performer is now donning that legendary mask to play—you guessed it—The Pha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:33PMFriday, November 9, 2018
Among a range of plays in London exploring racial tensions, an adaptation of Zadie Smith’s novel stands out for its positive view of the city’s multicultural life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18AMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Finty Williams and Chris Larkin are terrific English actors in their own right but share the fact of having a parent who is a Tony and Oscar-winning British legend—two women, in their …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PMDisability-themed two-hander suggests that little has changed in eight years To the recent spate of shows that put their own narrative-building first, we can now add Still No Idea, with the …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:36AMThursday, November 1, 2018
Jordan Luke Gage was already doing several performances a week as the ever-young Strat in the Jim Steinman-scored rock extravaganza Bat Out of Hell at the Dominion Theatre, but when original…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:32PMThursday, October 25, 2018
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Robert Icke reaches a new career plateau with his Ibsen adaptation Beware the smile that Edward Hogg wears like a shield in the opening scenes of The Wild Duck, the Ibsen play refashioned in…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:12PMFriday, October 19, 2018
Angela Carter adaptation strains to sustain its high spirits"What could possibly go wrong?" The question ends the first act of Wise Children, the debut venture from the new company birthed b…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:06AMTuesday, October 16, 2018
Shakespeare at the Donmar, in double visionShakespeare exists to be refracted and filtered through the age in which he is presented. So there's every good reason for the Donmar's artistic di…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMMonday, October 15, 2018
Jonathan Bailey’s credits range from Gavroche in Les Miz when he was a child actor to the most recent London revival of The Last Five Years, opposite Samantha Barks, and the Almeida Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMThursday, October 11, 2018
West End transfers rarely come as keenly anticipated as the upgrade currently being afforded the Young Vic production of The Inheritance, Matthew Lopez’s seven-hour, two-part play chro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PMWednesday, October 10, 2018
Florian Zeller puzzle-play benefits from two potent starsIf you're going to write a play that traffics in bafflement, it's not a bad idea to have on hand one of the most beady-eyed actresses…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:32PMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Shakespeare sings in buoyant if sometimes strenuous UK premiere What better way to celebrate a homecoming than with a party? That is the capacious-hearted thinking behind this new musical ve…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:18AMFriday, October 5, 2018
There is much to enjoy in a production of “Antony and Cleopatra” and a season of Pinter’s one-act plays in London, our critic says.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48AMMonday, October 1, 2018
Harry Reid spent three and a half years making a name for himself in the popular British TV soap opera EastEnders and now the 25-year-old performer can be seen in the crucial role of Leonard…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:18PMFriday, September 21, 2018
Fall brings with it shorter days but always more exciting nights as the London theater season kicks into gear, bringing with it the promise of excitement across the spectrum, whether on or o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMWednesday, September 19, 2018
Kirsty Bushell has played Shakespeare’s Juliet as well as Olivia in Twelfth Night and has been earning praise, and eliciting gasps, for her no-holds-barred portrayal of the venomous Re…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24AMFriday, September 14, 2018
Alexis Zegerman’s “Holy __” is a lively, if overheated, cautionary tale; while Clare Barron’s “Dance Nation” looks at troubles that come from within.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48AMOnetime fringe success flounders in West End upgradeA sizable Off West End success nearly eight years ago looks more than a little exposed in a new, scaled-up production that is one of sever…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:32AMWednesday, September 12, 2018
A year after his death, the great director was honoured by the stars at Westminster Abbey and the National TheatreSir Peter Hall had no ordinary life, as might be expected from the director …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:06AM 
