Angela Carter adaptation strains to sustain its high spirits"What could possibly go wrong?" The question ends the first act of Wise Children, the debut venture from the new company birthed b…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 10:06AMShakespeare at the Donmar, in double visionShakespeare exists to be refracted and filtered through the age in which he is presented. So there's every good reason for the Donmar's artistic di…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMJonathan Bailey’s credits range from Gavroche in Les Miz when he was a child actor to the most recent London revival of The Last Five Years, opposite Samantha Barks, and the Almeida Th…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:48PMWest End transfers rarely come as keenly anticipated as the upgrade currently being afforded the Young Vic production of The Inheritance, Matthew Lopez’s seven-hour, two-part play chro…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:36PMFlorian Zeller puzzle-play benefits from two potent starsIf you're going to write a play that traffics in bafflement, it's not a bad idea to have on hand one of the most beady-eyed actresses…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 07:32PMShakespeare sings in buoyant if sometimes strenuous UK premiere What better way to celebrate a homecoming than with a party? That is the capacious-hearted thinking behind this new musical ve…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 07:18AMThere is much to enjoy in a production of “Antony and Cleopatra” and a season of Pinter’s one-act plays in London, our critic says.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:48AMHarry Reid spent three and a half years making a name for himself in the popular British TV soap opera EastEnders and now the 25-year-old performer can be seen in the crucial role of Leonard…
Linked From Broadway.com at 07:18PMFall brings with it shorter days but always more exciting nights as the London theater season kicks into gear, bringing with it the promise of excitement across the spectrum, whether on or o…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:48PMKirsty Bushell has played Shakespeare’s Juliet as well as Olivia in Twelfth Night and has been earning praise, and eliciting gasps, for her no-holds-barred portrayal of the venomous Re…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:24AMAlexis Zegerman’s “Holy __” is a lively, if overheated, cautionary tale; while Clare Barron’s “Dance Nation” looks at troubles that come from within.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 07:48AMOnetime fringe success flounders in West End upgradeA sizable Off West End success nearly eight years ago looks more than a little exposed in a new, scaled-up production that is one of sever…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 05:32AMA year after his death, the great director was honoured by the stars at Westminster Abbey and the National TheatreSir Peter Hall had no ordinary life, as might be expected from the director …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 06:06AMLes Miz alumna Carrie Hope Fletcher spent much of the summer headlining an in-town production of Heathers: The Musical that wasn’t open to the press: a somewhat-tweaked version of the …
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:06PMMichael James Scott has traveled far and wide with the hit Disney musical Aladdin, both on tour and in Australia, where last year he won the prestigious Helpmann Award for his performance as…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:36PMSophie 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 01:24PMThere 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.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 07:42AMAlexandra 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 12:12AMOntroerend 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 08:36PMIf 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 07:04AMProfessional 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 12:36AMLaura 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 08:06AMIt'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.”
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:48AMGerard 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 08:04AMCollegiate-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 12:24AMA 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 06:48AMLara 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 12:18PMMartin 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…
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