Saturday, May 24, 2025
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 02:18AMWednesday, May 21, 2025
Georgina 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 09:56AMMonday, May 19, 2025
The 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 04:54AMSaturday, May 17, 2025
The 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 07:06AMThursday, May 15, 2025
Emily 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 01:13PMFriday, May 9, 2025
The 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 07:06AMWednesday, May 7, 2025
Tim Crouch's maverick two-hander returns, with Jessie Buckley kicking off the sequence of guests
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:18PMFriday, May 2, 2025
John 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 05:58AMThursday, May 1, 2025
Stephen 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 08:24AMWednesday, April 23, 2025
Justina 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 01:51PMSaturday, April 12, 2025
Nikesh Patel plays Abz in a terrifc new play from 2024 Olivier nominee Mohamed-Zain Dada (Blue Mist.).
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:18AMMonday, April 7, 2025
A 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 12:32PMTuesday, April 1, 2025
Laura 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 11:32AMTuesday, March 18, 2025
James 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 11:54AMThursday, March 13, 2025
Hit 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 07:16AMWednesday, March 12, 2025
Julia 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 07:14AMMonday, March 3, 2025
Clueless 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 12:13PMSunday, February 23, 2025
Cliff Curtis and Olivier Award winner Luke Treadaway in dense new play by the Oscar-nominated American writer Beau Willimon
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:13AMSaturday, February 22, 2025
Jonathan 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 07:42AMFriday, February 14, 2025
Omari 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 07:50AMFriday, February 7, 2025
Brie 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 11:12AMMonday, February 3, 2025
Earl 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 11:42AMWednesday, January 29, 2025
Nicholas Burns gets gifted with a surprise lump of excrement in Dave Florez's existential comedy
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:25PMFriday, January 24, 2025
Martina Laird and Gabrielle Brooks shine in shrewd, witty Shakespeare reappraisal
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:14AMWednesday, January 8, 2025
BEST 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 02:42PMFriday, January 3, 2025
Some recommendations for visitors and residents who want to get the most from the city’s varied theater scene.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AM 
