Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are the powerhouse heart of Robert Icke's adaptation How many times does a politician survive wave after wave of attack from rivals, surf the waves of fickle …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:18PMEmma D’Arcy and Tobias Menzies lock horns in twisted and triumphant take on ‘Antigone’ Contemporary reworkings of Greek tragedy run a very particular risk, that out of context the hei…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:54AMJames McArdle is immense as Stoppard’s true romantic When it was first produced in 1982, The Real Thing was a turning point for Tom Stoppard, the play that added to the existing percep…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:24PMComplicité’s reflection on memory, connection and storytelling remains as potent as ever I’m sitting in the Olivier waiting for the show to start, comfortable in the knowledge that I’…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:18PMDenise Gough reprises her star-making performance in Duncan MacMillan’s riotous reflection on addiction and recovery It’s unusual for a play to be revived with its original director and …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:12AMPhilip K. Dick’s science fiction short story fares far better on screen Towards the end of David Haig’s new adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s 1956 science fiction short story, someone ask…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:42AMGreg Hicks shines as Dostoevsky’s defiantly optimistic dreamer Like all great literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final, eccentric, playfully wondrous short story seems to have been written …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:18AMBilly Crudup essays multiple characters as a fake Englishman abroad Is it just coincidence, or something about the post-Covid theatrical landscape, that one-person shows are becoming commonp…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:06AMJohn Logan peers behind the scenes of the film world to muse on the icky relationship between life and art It’s awards season in the film world, which means that we’re currently swamped…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:12AMHarriet Walter is a toweringly monstrous matriarch in Lorca’s tale of cruelty and repression Rebecca Frecknall opened 2023 with a youthful, visceral, and brutal Streetcar Named Desire at…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:24AMHattie Morahan returns to Ibsen, for another round of unhappy families Henrik Ibsen may well have wanted to shake things up, to rile against the social mores of his time. But his visionary c…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:12AMKristin Scott Thomas and Lily James star in misfiring drama involving divas, film execs and dead parrots Penelope Skinner’s new play is one of the most eccentric things I’ve seen in a lo…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:55AMIan McKellen and Roger Allam as the lonely men who bond over their dogs Two elderly men meet in the park while walking their dogs, and become friends. Even when friendship turns to love, the…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:07PMLauren Gunderson’s new play is timely, tantalising but doesn’t quite hit its mark With more than 20 plays under her belt, San-Francisco based Lauren Gunderson is one of the most produced…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:49AMMark Rylance conceived and stars in this stirring, but problematic drama of medical discovery hampered by prejudice As an actor, Mark Rylance specialises in outsiders and eccentrics, outlier…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:33PMRising star Lulu Raczka offers an ambitious if erratic tale of witchcraft and civil war A man in modern garb reads a tabloid newspaper and makes smarmy wisecracks about the malaise of conte…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:02AMThis annual rendering of the Dickens classic feels particularly resonant during the economic crisis It’s been five years since I saw the Old Vic’s first Christmas Carol, adapted by Jack…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:06AMSimon Russell Beale is the unapologetically corrupt banker, in Ibsen's chilly tragicomedy It always feels special when a play speaks so directly to an audience that you feel and hear the rip…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:33PMThe acclaimed Irish actor adapts his memoir into a stirring one-man show Gabriel Byrne isn’t a typical film star. From his breakthrough as the lustful and doomed Uther Pendragon in Excali…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:19AMCaroline Quentin leads a sparkling cast in Richard Bean’s latest comedy romp Can a comedy have too many jokes? That may seem an odd question, but one that applies to this latest high-octa…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:03AMRalph Fiennes plays infamous New York planner Robert Moses, in David Hare’s new play A few years ago Ralph Fiennes starred as the narcissistic, belligerently ambitious, ultimately tragic a…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:36PMEngaging recreation of one of the art world’s most intriguing partnerships At first glance, it was the most unlikely of friendships, even for the solipsistic milieu of the New York art sce…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:18PMA new translation is uproariously funny, if a little too clever for its own good By all accounts, whenever The Chairs is dusted off for a new production it manages to resonate for audience…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:12AMPlaywright Danai Gurira returns to London with her award-winning 2012 drama set in colonial Africa, starring her 'Black Panther' castmate Letitia Wright.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:30AMStephen Daldry directs Matthew Lopez's sprawling comedy-drama about gay love after the AIDS crisis, inspired by 'Howards End' and featuring Vanessa Redgrave.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:26PMLin-Manuel Miranda's Pulitzer Prize- and multi-Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon lands in London's West End, two years after it stormed Broadway.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:43PMTwo-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson returns to the stage after a quarter-century in Shakespeare's most demanding role, at an age when Lear wouldn’t be the only one thinking of putting his…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:25PMMark Strong stars as a New England lawyer dangerously drawn to the widow of his recently deceased best friend in 'The Red Barn,' David Hare's adaptation of the George Simenon novel 'La Main,…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:15PMIf one definition of Shakespeare’s problem plays is that they can’t easily be categorised in the canon, being neither tragedy nor comedy, than that issue is swept aside by this radical Y…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:20AMOne of the oldest and most striking venues in London lends itself to immersive theatrical experiences. A few years ago the Victorian interior of Wilton’s Music Hall was infused with pre-sh…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:58PMFrom the great, gasp-inducing rush of colour when the curtain opens on American Buffalo to the embrace that closes it, this revival of David Mamet’s career-making rummage through the junky…
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