Shaw's once-shocking play pairs Imelda Staunton with her real-life daughter, Bessie Carter How do you make Bernard Shaw sear the stage anew? You can trim the text, as the director Dominic Co…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:18AMGeorgina Onuorah follows on from Tony winner Alex Newell in riotously entertaining London outing of the tangy, twangy C&W show, directed as on Broadway by Jack O'Brien
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:56AMThe Irishman's first new play in over a decade is engaging but overstuffed It's one thing to be indebted to a playwright, as Tom Stoppard and Harold Pinter have been at different times to B…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:54AMThe 1952 classic lives to see another day in notably name-heavy revival The water proves newly inviting in The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Rattigan's mournful 1952 play that some while ago estab…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:06AMEmily Ling Williams' direction finds humour and levity in what could devolve into a mere history lesson, and Tommy Sim'aan's sterling solo performance is a marvel
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:13PMThe late composer bids farewell with a show made-to-order for now You don't have to be greeting the modern day with a smile unsupported by events in the wider world to have a field day at H…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:06AMTim Crouch's maverick two-hander returns, with Jessie Buckley kicking off the sequence of guests
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:18PMJohn Lithgow returns in even more devastating form in Giant, ramped up for the West End by a scorching London theatre debut from Aya Cash, replacing Romola Garai
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:58AMStephen Sondheim’s final musical reaches the National, a SIX queen flirts with the supernatural and the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye outdoors at Regent’s Park. These are just a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMStarry new writing premiere struggles to connect It's both brave and bracing to welcome new voices to the West End, but sometimes one wonders if such exposure necessarily works to the benef…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:24AMJustina Kehinde plays a dying woman with an unusual request in Neil LaBute's circular, repetitive, often contrived play, now in its UK premiere
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:51PMNikesh Patel plays Abz in a terrifc new play from 2024 Olivier nominee Mohamed-Zain Dada (Blue Mist.).
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:18AMA view from inside the Albert Hall at a ceremony at which "Benjamin Button"'s John Dagleish brought the audience to tears and Simon Lipkin's Fagin and "Fiddler"'s bottle dance prompted cheers
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 02:49PMTimes critics discuss the big winners — a new play about Roald Dahl, a “Fiddler on the Roof” revival and a folk-rock “Benjamin Button”— at London’s theater awards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMLaura Whitmore and Bryan Dick in John Donnelly play directed by Blanche McIntyre, fresh on the heels of The Invention of Love at the same address
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:24PMThere’s a spring in the step of the London theater in April, as seems appropriate, with new musicals based on classic titles jostling alongside the return of a major film star to the Londo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMJames Daly repeats his star turn as a vampy, bare-chested Count Dracula in London premiere of Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen's Off Broadway romp; Charlie Stemp, from Crazy for You, co-star…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:54AMHit French play comes to London, translated by Jeremy Sams and with a scene-stealing supporting performance from onetime Olivier winner, Nigel Harman (Shrek): Michael Fox and Jennifer Kirby …
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:16AMJulia McDermott is a solo sensation in her partner Brian Watkins's scorching solo play set amidst a world on the cusp of meltdown
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:14AMClueless sings on the London stage, Cate Blanchett spreads her wings, and the producer of Fleabag is back for an encore - all that and James Graham not once but twice.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:13PMCliff Curtis and Olivier Award winner Luke Treadaway in dense new play by the Oscar-nominated American writer Beau Willimon
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:13AMJonathan Bailey makes a petulant stage return in Shakespeare's most luxuriant play Screen stardom is generally anointed at the box office so it's a very real delight to find the fast-rising…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:42AMOmari Douglas and Wil Johnson in baggy if big-hearted play that also stars its non-binary author, Coral Wylie
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:15AMFuturistic play is also deeply humane, and superbly served by its ensemble cast headed by Helen Schlesinger and Tim McMullan.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:50AMBrie Larson makes a brave West End debut that, alas, misfires We live in tragic times given over to cataclysmic events that require outsized emotions in return. That may be one reason to ac…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:12AMEarl Gregory plays the Duke in inspired musical transposition of Shakespeare's buoyant comedy
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:47PMFebruary may be the shortest month but it is packed with enticing offerings on the London stage. The weeks ahead promise not one but two star-laden Sophoclean tragedies, and two comparably s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMNicholas Burns gets gifted with a surprise lump of excrement in Dave Florez's existential comedy
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:25PMMartina Laird and Gabrielle Brooks shine in shrewd, witty Shakespeare reappraisal
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:14AMBEST OF 2024: THEATRE The classics reclaimed afresh, the acting often astonished The classics were reclaimed afresh, and the acting more often than not astonished It's the images that linge…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:42PMSome recommendations for visitors and residents who want to get the most from the city’s varied theater scene.
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