Monday, May 27, 2019
Nkeki 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 the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 01:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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: The Arts Desk at 05:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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: The Arts Desk at 07:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 re…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:48PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 car…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Tuesday, 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 03:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 03:29AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 J…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 04:09PM[SHARE]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 J…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:09PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 performance …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2019
Saturday, 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…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 01:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 06:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 05:27AM[SHARE]Monday, 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[SHARE]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[SHARE]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[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 p…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 02:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2019
Monday, 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 Musical…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:40PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 leadin…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 05:06AM[SHARE] 
