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]Monday, 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 05:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 08:06AM[SHARE]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[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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[SHARE]Thursday, January 31, 2019
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[SHARE]Saturday, January 26, 2019
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[SHARE]Thursday, January 24, 2019
"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[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2019
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[SHARE]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: The Arts Desk at 08:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 9, 2019
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[SHARE]Tuesday, January 8, 2019
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: The Arts Desk at 07:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 3, 2019
Sunday, December 30, 2018
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: The Arts Desk at 08:36AM[SHARE]Monday, December 24, 2018
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[SHARE]Sunday, December 23, 2018
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[SHARE]Thursday, December 20, 2018
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: The Arts Desk at 10:24AM[SHARE]Monday, December 17, 2018
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: The Arts Desk at 05:32AM[SHARE]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 12:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 07:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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: The Arts Desk at 07:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 02:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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: The Arts Desk at 10:36AM[SHARE]Three 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 06:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 07:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 12:12AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 03:54PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 09:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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: The Arts Desk at 12:24PM[SHARE] 
