Our theater critics and a reporter discuss the big winner — “Sunset Boulevard” — and the rest of the honorees at Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AMIvo van Hove’s stage adaptation of the 1977 John Cassavetes film, with music by Rufus Wainwright, turns a taut character study into a corny melodrama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42PM“For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy” and “Red Pitch” offer generous portrayals of male bonding.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMIn a stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Snook plays all the characters — with the help of screens.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMJez Butterworth’s new play explores the family dynamics of a song and dance troupe that didn’t make the big time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMThe Belgian director’s revival of “Jesus Christ Superstar” showcases some of his signature aesthetic techniques. But it’s an odd pairing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMRalph Fiennes and David Tennant take Shakespeare’s psychodrama along divergent paths in two simultaneously running shows.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:36AM“Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” a London theater show based on the Netflix series, pummels the audience with sensory overload and its lavish budget.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:12PMA London production adapted from Eliza Clark’s debut novel refuses to justify its unreliable narrator’s violence, but lacks narrative depth and complexity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:37AMIn London, transforming Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” into a one-man show is an impressive feat, but it costs the play its pathos.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:55AMIn a revival of Lucy Prebble’s play at the National Theater, in London, Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell are terrific as a couple who meet during a pharmaceutical trial.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:55AMThis year, the stronger productions in the open-to-all event were on a par with many in the more prestigious, curated Edinburgh International Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33AMIn plays from Scotland, Korea and Switzerland, theater companies explored questions of belonging, with varying degrees of success.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07AMAt the Edinburgh Festival, Geoff Sobelle presents a dinner party as a theatrical spectacle, in which silliness is the end in itself.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:49AMA revival reimagines the polarizing musical for the 21st century while a new show offers a bawdy riposte.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:13PMA new James Graham play about the soccer coach Gareth Southgate is a lively romp, but its core message about embracing male vulnerability feels soppy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:43AMA London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s partner-swapping musical is a camp amoral romp. But is this obsession really the same as romance?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:12PMThe Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s hit 2020 novel is elegant and tasteful — but also formulaic and sentimental.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMThe show, in London, skewers its protagonist through maximalist kitsch, but it comes with a tone of finger-wagging moralism that’s no fun.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMThe British experimental theater company Complicité turns the Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s novel “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” into a thought-provoking, entertaining…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24AMOn London’s West End, Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman star in a lightly dystopian comedy that succeeds as a portrait of a troubled couple, but falls short as political satire.
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