Thursday, July 25, 2024
Roy Alexander Weise directs UK bow of Katori Hall's baggy if brio-filled Pulitzer winner
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:54AMFriday, July 19, 2024
The veteran British actress shines in a new revival that is the musical theater highlight of the West End summer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AMAn imperfect show arrives boasting a quasi-immersive charm
The Baker's Wife closed on the way to Broadway in 1976, since which time Stephen Schwartz's stubbornly resistent if sweetly scored…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:02AMWednesday, July 17, 2024
Christopher Hampton adapts Stefan Zweig's 1922 novella, here starring Jim Corrigan, Natalie Simpson, and Nigel Hastings; Chelsea Walker directs.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:09AMWednesday, July 10, 2024
Pamela Nomvete follows on from Tony winner Phylicia Rashad in Detroit-set Dominique Morisseau play co-starring Racheal Ofori.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:43PMTuesday, July 9, 2024
Justine Mitchell shines in takeover of Kendall Feaver play whose opening was delayed by a change of leading lady
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:47AMThursday, July 4, 2024
A quarter-century on from its Salzburg premiere, Simon McBurney's mind-bending show continues to enthrall
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:01PMMonday, July 1, 2024
Plays take center stage in London this July after a musicals-heavy June, with a host of heavy-hitting American titles leading the charge. A Broadway phenomenon, Slave Play, crosses the Atlan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMAndrew Lloyd Webber's 1980s spectacular skates into a new era
The reinvigoration of Andrew Lloyd Webber continues apace. New York is now hosting a ballroom culture, drag-inflected Cats, and…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:54AMSunday, June 30, 2024
The men prevail in new play from 2023 Olivier nominee for her acting, Faith Omole
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:45AMTuesday, June 25, 2024
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Stephanie J Block delivers a knockout UK stage debut in Bart Sher staging of Cole Porter classic
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:24AMFriday, May 31, 2024
In June, New York may be in thrall to the Tonys, but life on the London stage continues apace. The month ahead promises a broad array of musicals, from a pocket-sized hit of the Edinburgh Fe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42AMThursday, May 30, 2024
★★★ ROMEO AND JULIET, DUKE OF YORK'S THEATRE Doomy and deathly, and much-hyped
Tom Holland reaches for the stars and makes it to the theatre's roof
One of Shakespeare's longest plays …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:24AMThursday, May 23, 2024
Olivier winner Cassidy Janson is the standout performer in director Hannah Chissick's production of decades-old Jerry Herman musical revue
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:23AMFriday, May 17, 2024
Danny Sapani moves on from King Lear at the Almeida to the UK premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis´s trophy-bearing play, co-starring Ayesha Antoine and Martins Inghambe.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:59AMFriday, May 10, 2024
A radiant Nina Hoss, from the film Tar, heads the splendid cast of adaptor-director Benedict Andrews's electrifying reclamation of Chekhov's final play
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:24AMThursday, May 9, 2024
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
While Broadway spends the month of May in pre-Tony Awards overdrive, the London theater continues to do what it does so well—namely, offering a broad array of shows to suit all tastes. Som…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
A gender-flipped Jodie McNee stars in visually impressive, emotionally subpar adaptation of the same Philip K Dick story that spawned the Tom Cruise film
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:43AMSaturday, April 27, 2024
Charles Edwards shines in overly tricksy, overlong Sam Adamson play tracing a friendship over time
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:52AMWednesday, April 17, 2024
The stunning Anthony Welsh heads a pitch-perfect quintet in UK premiere of 2023 Off Broadway play by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins and directed once again by Eric Ting.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:10AMMonday, April 15, 2024
Our theater critics and a reporter discuss the big winner — “Sunset Boulevard” — and the rest of the honorees at Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AMFriday, April 12, 2024
In Robert Icke’s adaptation of Parts 1 and 2 of “Henry IV,” the veteran stage actor’s performance belies his age.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06AMWednesday, April 10, 2024
Dominic Dromgoole directs UK premiere of Paul Grellong play, wit Julian Ovenden, 2024 Olivier nominee Giles Terera, and Michael Benz
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:31AMPaul Grellong play delivers in its final passages
The Menier Chocolate Factory has made something of a habit of late out of trawling unexpected corners of the contemporary American reper…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:06AMTuesday, April 9, 2024
For him, “art played a particular role in social change,” the director Mehmet Ergen said. “Everything was political.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMWednesday, April 3, 2024
Patricia Clarkson powers the latest iteration of this great, grievous American drama
Memory is a confounding thing. By way of proof, just ask the Mary Tyrone who is being given unforgettable…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:54AMTuesday, April 2, 2024
Sheridan Smith gives it her all against near-impossible odds
Is there a more purely likeable actress than Sheridan Smith, the performer who was still a teenager when she stole the show at t…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:54AMMonday, April 1, 2024
New York isn’t the only game in town. London is continually busy, as befits a theater town that thinks not in terms of seasons but of exciting and rewarding shows throughout the year. Just…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMFriday, March 29, 2024
Rachael Stirling and Dominic Rowan are in fine, aptly fruity form in April De Angelis play about the legendary British tragedienne
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:20PM 
