Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Sophie Thompson has a diverse and distinguished list of credits ranging from the Harry Potter screen franchise to Celebrity MasterChef and the popular U.K. TV soaps, EastEnders and Coronatio…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:24PMThursday, August 16, 2018
There are hundreds of shows to see in the Edinburgh International Festival and its ancillary Fringe event. But finding the good ones can be hard work.
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Alexandra Burke has had a busy time of it in the decade since she became an overnight British sensation on X Factor. She has played Rachel Marron on the West End in The Bodyguard, a show she…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:12AMSunday, August 5, 2018
Ontroerend Goed's latest offers a cunningly immersive take on capitalismTheatre critics tend not to experience an 140 percent increase in their financial assets within 21 minutes. So on…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 08:36PMSaturday, August 4, 2018
If the theatre is buoyant and alive, we have these artists to thank Amidst ever-uncertain times, one thing is for sure: this country's ability to regenerate and renew itself theatrically rem…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 07:04AMFriday, August 3, 2018
Professional stage debuts rarely come more auspicious than the bravura turn of 23-year-old Irishman Chris Walley in the current West End revival at the Noel Coward Theatre of The Lieutenant …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:36AMWednesday, August 1, 2018
Laura Wade play needs trimming but offers a bravura acting opportunity Add Katherine Parkinson to the top rank of theatre performers in a town where talent abounds. As Judy, the retro-minded…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 08:06AMFriday, July 27, 2018
It's rare to find a Syrian actor in a starring role in London's West End, but the collective thrill surrounding the New York-bound production of The Jungle involves a multi-national,…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:18AMIan McKellen shines as King Lear in a new production of Shakespeare’s play, and Rhys Ifans also plays a beleaguered monarch in Ionesco’s “Exit the King.”
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Gerard Alessandrini's latest is smart but needs streamliningIf it's possible to have somewhat too much of a good thing, that would seem to be the case with the British premiere at the M…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 08:04AMSaturday, July 21, 2018
Collegiate-style Armageddon takes over the Court mainstage The apocalypse arrives as a series of collegiate sketches in the aptly-named Pity, the Rory Mullarkey play that may well prompt sym…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 05:12AMDavid Haig q-and-a / Matt Wolf Weather is the unlikely if potent topic of Pressure at the Ambassadors Theatre, written by and starring the protean Olivier Award-winning actor David Haig, who…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:24AMSaturday, July 14, 2018
A newly-minimalist Sam Mendes guides an expert cast to sublime heights There's surprising and then there's The Lehman Trilogy, the National Theatre premiere in which a long-established direc…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 06:48AMFriday, July 13, 2018
Lara Martins has quietly carved a slice of theatrical history by becoming the longest-running Carlotta in the storied history of The Phantom of the Opera, continuing on in its original West …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:18PMThursday, July 5, 2018
Martin McDonagh revival brings Poldark to the London stage, guns blazing Aidan Turner may not reveal those famously bronzed pecs that have made TV's Poldark box office catnip in his West End…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 06:42AMFriday, June 29, 2018
Kelli O’Hara is finally making her West End stage debut as British governess Anna Leonowens in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I, the role that brought the beloved America…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:48AMTuesday, June 26, 2018
Oliver Tompsett is a West End alum of such musicals as We Will Rock You, Wicked, Rock of Ages and Guys and Dolls. In June, he joined the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Kinky Boo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:04AMFriday, June 22, 2018
Joseph Kloska has become something of a Royal Shakespeare Company regular of late and steps up a career notch with his co-starring performance opposite Tony winner Richard McCabe (The Audien…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:32AMThursday, June 14, 2018
Familiar title is reinvigorated afresh in a startling revival Lia Williams can be said to have been in her prime ever since the double-whammy several decades ago when she appeared onstage in…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 05:48AMLaura Linney and Orlando Bloom are drawing audiences to London’s playhouses, even as theatergoers seem to be growing indifferent to who’s in the cast.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:48AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
Fondly remembered from his London and Broadway run in Alan Bennett’s Tony-winning The History Boys, Stephen Campbell Moore has since returned to the West End in Clybourne Park and Chim…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:54PMMonday, June 11, 2018
Lesser-known American classic exerts a clinical fascination The American playwright /journalist Sophie Treadwell's 1928 expressionist drama crops up every so often in order to allow a direct…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 07:32PMThis is a feisty, animated Iceman , with the magnificent Denzel Washington leading the cast.
Linked From Theater News Online at 06:04PMSaturday, June 9, 2018
Vanessa Kirby leads superfluous update that is a lot more Stenham than Strindberg It seems appropriate that an onstage blender features amidst Tom Scutt's sleak, streamlined set for Julie gi…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 07:32AMGavin Spokes is among those invaluable English performers who can do plays and musicals across both the British and American repertoire. A 2016 Olivier nominee for playing Nicely Nicely John…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:12AMWednesday, June 6, 2018
1980s Broadway flop proves an Off West End knockout Two dynamite lead performances and the chance to savour an underappreciated score give genuine charge to The Rink, a decades-old Broadwa…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 09:12AMMonday, June 4, 2018
Adam Gillen recently finished an extended and electrifying run as Mozart in the National Theatre’s glorious revival of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, only to segue from the world of Eu…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:12PMLate Shakespeare collaboration is by turns engaging and daftThose who find the Bard tough going – wasn't that one of Emma Rice's admissions back in the day? – should beat a path to The T…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 06:36AMThursday, May 31, 2018
Brian Friel's luminous play fully lands in the National's largest space What sort of physical upgrade can a play withstand? That question will have occurred to devotees of Brian Fr…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 06:36AMMichelle Terry, the playhouse’s artistic director, defines her agenda with productions of “Hamlet” and “As You Like It.”
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