London's underground queer culture comes "above ground" for deliberately formless Royal Court show
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 02:09PMTV writer Steven Moffat, of Sherlock and Doctor Who renown, crosses over to the stage in a starry production headed by the wonderful Reece Shearsmith
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:18AMAlex Edelman brings his superb Off Broadway hit back to London, where it was previously seen pre-pandemic
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:09AMIn London, the Irish actor stars as Stanley Kowalski in a deeply empathic version of Tennessee Williams’s 1947 play, “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06AMProblematic Globe production of The Tempest, starring Ferdy Roberts as a barely-clad Prospero
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:31PMPooja Ghai directs Hannah Khalil's play, a co-production between Shakespeare's Globe and Tamasha that captures in some essential way captures the zeitgeist
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:31PMLillian Hellman's prescient 1940 play is terrifically well served in a Donmar revival starring English stage veteran Patricia Hodge and a radiant UK stage debut from Caitlin FitzGerald
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:26PMIn an iffy year for new plays and musicals, a post-pandemic London stage returned to life Where were the great new plays during 2022? That question underscored weeks of playgoing that turn…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:32PMIan McKellen is Caroline Goose in a blissed-out panto joyfully directed by Cal McCrystal and co-starring the indispensable Anna-Jane Casey as Cilla Quack.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:41AMThe Times’s three European theater critics pick their favorite productions of the year — plus a turkey apiece for the festive season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMRobert Bathurst is a nightshirt-wearing Scrooge in a winning 1930s Tennessee take on the ubiquitous Dickens title
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:33PMMichael Luwoye, late of "Hamilton," has the title role in drearily hagiographic biomusical, enlivened only by its dancing
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 04:56PMTV actress Fay Ripley in misbegotten comedy set in east London's Walthamstow
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:47AMIn a freewheeling London adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel, Corrin plays a character whose emotions are as fluid as their identity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42AMJames Graham play hits the West End on the way, presumably, to Broadway Opposition (and history) are the apparent mainstays of the ceaselessly busy James Graham, and he conjoins the two to …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:06PMOliver Johnstone plays a notably brutal warrior-king in this deliberately revisionist take on Shakespeare's history play
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:49PMJasmine Naziha Jones takes the lead female role in her own debut play, which is very much a work of two different halves.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:12PMTony-winner Owen Teale is the sixth Scrooge so far in the Old Vic's London iteration of Dickens's seasonal mainstay; Lydia White makes a notably charming Belle
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:26PMThe cushion of state money let the Hampstead and Donmar playhouses develop broad programs with international reach. Now they must find creative ways to play on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMBeckett specialist Lisa Dwan and Oscar winner Timothy Hutton head cast of the latest from English writer-director Terry Johnson
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:34AMAn adaptation of “My Neighbour Totoro” enchants audiences at the Barbican. Across town at the Harold Pinter Theater, a revival of “Good” takes viewers to darker territory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54AMA new musical about the life of the televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, composed by Elton John, makes spectacular entertainment from a righteous subject.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMTheresa Heskins co-authors and directs overinsistent adaptation of the life of Neil (Nello) Baldwin, a 76-year-old Staffordshire legend, which launches a lovely new West End venue
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:09PMRob Madge solo play comes to the West End for two weeks, directed by Luke Sheppard, of "& Juliet" fame.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:46PMProductions of “John Gabriel Borkman” and “Blues for an Alabama Sky” conjure bleak atmospheres in two playhouses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25AMFeted Broadway musical finds an apt London fit Not much happens but, in its way, everything does in The Band's Visit, the gentle, sweet-natured musical that rather unexpectedly stormed B…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:43AMPhil Porter adapts heart-tugging memoir that was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:43AMSophie Melville brings Gary Owen monodrama to its largest venue yet.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:41AMRoyal Court verbatim theatre is both affecting - and self-flagellating
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:19AMDissent in the ranks in uber-timely American comedy Can a play peak too soon? That's the quandary that attends the Old Vic airing of Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector's on-point if overextended…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:13AM“Handbagged,” a play that opened in London a day after Queen Elizabeth II died, depicts a clever, compassionate monarch. But theatrical depictions haven’t always been so reverential.
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