Friday, August 9, 2019
Both literal and figurative fireworks in Jamie Lloyd's innovative musical revival
Following a triumphant resurrection of Jesus Christ Superstar, now playing at the Barbican, the Park works i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Sharon D Clarke leads a steamy, soulful musical revue
It's too darn hot, BoJo is in Downing Street, and we're all going to Brexit hell " so we might as well sing the blues. Or at least take …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Trevor Nunn's busy production competes with Jason Robert Brown's exquisite score
Robert James Waller's bestselling, though critically panned, 1992 romance novel was reincarnated in the Clint…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2019
The Regent's Park revival is just as spectacular indoors
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's 1970Â musical had a heavenly resurrection at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre three years ago, wit…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:03PM[SHARE]Friday, June 28, 2019
The rhythm is gonna get you " even if the drama doesn't
This well-meaning biographical jukebox musical about icons Gloria and Emilio Estefan, which did two years on Broadway and a US tour, i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:36AM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2019
Are the family of a flamed-out prodigy at (double) fault?
"How much does she owe us?" So ponder the now estranged parents of a former tennis pro, as they calculate the very literal investmen…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2019
A decade after originating the lead role Off Broadway, Matthew Broderick returns to Kenneth Lonergan's play to make his West End debut. His devotion to the material is certainly understandab…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06PM[SHARE]Rain gushes down the front of the Lyttelton stage, a pitiless wall of water trapping and framing the Rutherfords - a clan very much defined by their environment. It's an arresting image to o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Continuing our London Theatre Guides series, we're celebrating half-term by highlighting some of the capital's most welcome and exciting venues for younger audiences.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:48AM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2019
Actor, playwright and cabaret entertainer Charles Busch's work includesDie Mommie Die,Vampire Lesbians of Sodom,Psycho Beach PartyandThe Tale of the Allergist's Wife.He's returning to London…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 26, 2019
London is never short of temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a drama about Europe to immersive Shakespeare and open-air opera, here are so…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 22, 2019
The audience plays surveillance state in this pioneering collaboration between playwright Ella Hickson and sound designers Ben and Max Ringham. We experience the action through individual se…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:01AM[SHARE]Canadian actor and singer Tim Howar's past work includesLes Miserables,The Who'sTommy,Chess, and the 10th Anniversary production of Rent. He's also in the bandMike The Mechanics. Currently, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54AM[SHARE]Friday, May 10, 2019
Seventy years on from its Broadway opening, Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell present Arthur Miller's masterpiece afresh in an inspired, shattering revival. One key change - making the 1…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 4, 2019
As politicians and pundits dissect the local election results, Duncan Macmillan serves up a blistering new adaptation of an 1886 work that feels eerily like a 2019 commentary. Move over, Jam…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:18AM[SHARE]Friday, May 3, 2019
The 2004 prize-winning novel by Andrea Levy, who sadly passed away earlier this year, has been beautifully translated to stage by adaptor Helen Edmundson and NT head honcho Rufus Norris, usi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Kelsey Grammer leads a muddled musical take on Don Quixote
The ENO continues its run of semi-staged musicals, in commercial collaboration with Grade Linnit, with a revival of this vintage od…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2019
London is never short of temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From timely plays to the beginning of open-air theatre season, here are some of th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Dancing, singing and plenty of swinging in this joyful tribute to Fats Waller
The joint is jumpin' at Southwark Playhouse, now hosting an irresistible Fats Waller-inspired, Manhattan-set …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:35PM[SHARE]London's latest foray into Arthur Miller has serious transatlantic star power, with its leading quartet of Bill Pullman, two-time Oscar-winner Sally Field, Colin Morgan and Jenna Coleman. Ho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Design dominates in Josie Rourke's farewell production
For her swansong, departing Donmar Artistic Director Josie Rourke goes Swinging Sixties in this stylish but flawed revival of the Cy C…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:12PM[SHARE]Director Rebecca Frecknall and actress Patsy Ferran recently picked up deserved Olivier Awards for their revelatory revival of Summer and Smoke. Now, they're back at the Almeida, bringing th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2019
Caryl Churchill's ground-breaking 1982 work comes to the National for the first time - and, also a first, with a full cast rather than actors doubling up, as the playwright had originally in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:41AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 31, 2019
London is never short of temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From Arthur Miller and Caryl Churchill to Don Quixote and zombie gore, here are so…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2019
Debbie Kurup's extensive musical theatre experience ranges fromChicago,West Side Story and Sister Act to originating roles inGirl from the North CountryandThe Bodyguard.She's currently playi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:01AM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2019
We are only as powerful as the stories we tell. So proclaims poet and activist Emilia Bassano, as she wrestles back her own story in Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's 2018 Globe hit its raw, feminist, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2019
Pulitzer-winner Bruce Norris once again challenges audiences with a play built around a difficult topic in this case, asking whether paedophiles are irredeemable, how they should be punished…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Jamie Lloyd locates the radical soul of a classic work
The grand finale to Jamie Lloyd's remarkable Pinter at the Pinter season is this starry production of one of the writer's greatest " an…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2019
News emerged today that Hollywood actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were among 50 wealthy people charged in a college cheating scam dumbed 'Varsity Blues', in which they allegedly…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:52PM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2019
The meticulous care of the National Theatre's production is continued in the soundtrack recording, demonstrating the collaborative brilliance of orchestrations from Jonathan Tunick and Josh …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2019
Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson's 2015 musical adaptation of Adrienne Shelly's film, about a small-town waitress who processes her feelings via her skilful baking, brings its sugar and spic…
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