Wednesday, May 21, 2014
These two plays are a tremendous achievement to bring to the stage Hilary Mantel's "imaginings (her words) the human behind the history of Thomas Cromwell" . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:47PMSunday, May 11, 2014
an enjoyable evening by Noel Coward with some impressive talent
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:23PMLucy Ellinson gives a remarkable performance as someone caught in the grip of war and makes this 65 minutes of drama thrilling and traumatic. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:22PMMoses Raine has written this remarkable new play about people living in Moscow today.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:20PMWednesday, May 7, 2014
David Baddiel's one man show looks at the perils of being recognised and in a delightfull self deprecating way
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:48AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
John Fowles' 1985 translation of Jean-Jacques Bernard's 1922 play at The Finborough
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:45AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
Arthur Miller's classic gets the Ivo van Hove treatment at the Young Vic.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:39AMSaturday, April 19, 2014
Moira Buffini's political comedy
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:12PMTuesday, April 15, 2014
If we awarded stars, Mike Bartlett's new play would get 5 stars .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:04AMMonday, April 14, 2014
What's most remarkable about Vivienne Franzmann's play is the language
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:31AMSimon Stephens' provocative play about the vacuity of celebrity and wealth with an outstanding performance from Andrew Scott
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:30AMTuesday, April 1, 2014
Comedian Harry Hill has penned a musical comedy based on all the characters and scenarios from the popular televisual reality singing contest.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:31AMMonday, March 31, 2014
James Dearden has adapted his screenplay for the stage with a different ending. Not even the great director Trevor Nunn can get high drama out of it .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:59AMMonday, March 24, 2014
Noel Coward's script is well conceived and stands the test of time, and so does Angela Lansbury as his eccentric spiritualist Madame Arcati.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:38AMMonday, March 17, 2014
Most of the 50 minutes of dialogue had me trying to ascertain the purpose and direction of this play, I was exceedingly diverted by the pigs, without whom this would have been a tedious hour.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:57AMMonday, March 10, 2014
The new production at Shakespeare's Globe in the indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle played as a whacky comedy.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:45AMThe Park Theatre's first musical sounded more promising than it s .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:44AMDavid Lindsay-Abaire's play has landed in London, at Edward Hall's Hampstead Theatre and it's a sellout
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:41AMTuesday, March 4, 2014
Peter Gill's new play looks at the terms of the Treaty of Versailles which apportioned reparations from Germany at the end of the First World War. It is both a personal and political
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:04AMFriday, February 28, 2014
Jonathan Bate's one-man play about Shakespeare's life is an impressive biographical account, juxtaposing the informative with the dramatic as we hear how the Bard came to write his folio of …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:35AMThursday, February 27, 2014
Shelagh Delaney's 1950s play stands the test of time and of course it reminds us how far we have come in terms of attitude to her then unconventional characters. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:07AMMonday, February 24, 2014
an original and intriguing piece of physical theatre inspired by Chekhov's Three Sisters. It's a small tale with a big heart
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:06AMMonday, February 17, 2014
The Langham, the historic hotel these Tennessee Williams one-acts are set in was the real life setting for a dinner between Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:58AMn the small space of the Union Theatre where every seat has a good view of the stage, is this musical's first London professional production since its opening in London in 1947. And it's a v…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:57AMTuesday, February 11, 2014
- The problem with Abi Morgan's latest play is that the descriptions of other folks' sex life can be tedious rather than exciting or of interest
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:44PMMonday, February 10, 2014
Thank goodness we have theatres like The Finborough giving plays like this from 60 years ago space and fine productions
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:10AMSunday, December 29, 2013
I urge all who love Russian drama to see this wonderful production of Poulton's expert adaptation. There is no better drama on the London stage at present.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:48PMSunday, December 9, 2012
The trend to convert romantic films into stage musicals in London continues with Whitney Houston’s 1992 movie starring Heather Headley. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:53AMSunday, November 25, 2012
The Globe’s “original practices” production with Mark Rylance playing Olivia and well known personality Stephen Fry as Malvolio .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:09AMSunday, October 7, 2012
Directors and Editors, Vicky Featherstone and John Tiffany with author Andrew O’Hagan have the imagination and skill to have turned this mass of words into exciting theatre as they explore…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:54AMMonday, September 24, 2012
This thoroughly entertaining new collection is Caryl Churchill at her most quirky and accessible.
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