Wednesday, 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 05:06AMThursday, January 2, 2025
January can be a sleepy time for stage activity in some cities. Not London, though, which is riding high from a wealth of high-profile, pre-Christmas holdovers, alongside a trio of dynamic i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AMSaturday, December 28, 2024
The classics were reclaimed afresh, and the acting more often than not astonished
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:35AMFriday, December 20, 2024
The veteran actress, playing Prospero in her West End debut, is strangely absent from Shakespeare’s narrative.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02AMWednesday, December 18, 2024
Tom Stoppard's dense 1997 play is dazzlingly served by director Blanche McIntyre and two formidable leading men in Matthew Tennyson and Simon Russell Beale as the younger and older AE Housma…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:46AMThursday, December 12, 2024
Relaunch of Elton John musical needs further tinkering still
It's second time only quasi-lucky for The Devil Wears Prada, the stage musical adaptation of the much-loved Meryl Streep film fr…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:02PMOur critics discuss which A-lister performances on the West End were worth the ticket price, and why so many new musicals struggled this year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36AMMonday, December 2, 2024
December may be the time of year when people switch off and embrace the holidays. But there's very little rest in the ever-busy world of London theater, which is more crowded this year than …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMFriday, November 29, 2024
A new production in London, starring Ncuti Gatwa, releases Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy from period convention and brings it stunningly into the 21st century.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMMonday, November 25, 2024
An outstanding Sule Rimi joins Emma Kingston and Jasper Britton in UK premiere of Dan McCabe's play set in Sunnyside, Queens
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:01PMFriday, November 22, 2024
Musical theatre behemoth becomes an outsized film - and this is just part one
"No one mourns the wicked," we're told during the immediately arresting beginning to Wicked, which concludes tw…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:48PMMonday, November 18, 2024
Baggy and overlong Beru Tessema play, directed by Daniel Bailey, gets a high profile guest appearance from onetime Hamilton himself, Jamael Westman
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:20AMTuesday, November 5, 2024
The 'Emily in Paris' star surrenders to cliche - or does she?
The Catalan capital has given its name to a famous number in the Stephen Sondheim musical, Company. And here it is lending geog…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:42AMFriday, November 1, 2024
A Victorian classic gets a modern-day makeover, Benjamin Button sings, and a popular superhero gets a London stage outing: Those are among the highlights of a characteristically busy month o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
John Hollingworth gives a movingly indrawn performance in new play from Richard Bean, who wrote "One Man, Two Guvnors"; Emily Burns directs.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:15AMSaturday, October 12, 2024
Adrien Brody is in magnificent form in his UK stage debut as Nick Yarris in new Lindsey Ferrentino play, directed by Justin Martin, of Prime Face renown
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:57AMThursday, October 10, 2024
Oli Forsyth play is brilliantly served by its starry cast
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:10PMThursday, October 3, 2024
Morfydd Clark and Billy Howle give blazing star turns in this Almeida double bill of onetime Royal Court classics; Diyan Zora and Atri Banerjee direct - brilliantly
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:38AMthe critic mourns the passing of a Broadway and London star gone way too soon
SOURCE: www.musicalsmagazine.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 1, 2024
An appreciation of the legendary Tony winning actress, an impassioned presence always on the London (and, sometimes, Broadway) stage
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:17PMFrom name-heavy West End revivals to bracing new dramas, October in London is giving pride of place to the play. Offerings during the month ahead include several classic titles of ongoing re…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:24AMFriday, September 27, 2024
Anne Odeke stars in her own play which has morphed from a solo endeavour into a bustling, capacious rallying cry on the Globe mainstage
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:37PMThursday, September 26, 2024
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 12:42PMThursday, September 19, 2024
Diana Vickers and Marc Antolin in thin if breezy musical send-up of Gwyneth Paltrow Utah ski trial
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:12PMMaureen Beattie stars in Stella Feehily's bioplay directed by Alice Hamilton as the opening show of the new Hampstead season
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:12PMMonday, September 2, 2024
Summer is saying its goodbyes, and with that comes the seasonal promise of exciting theater for the fall. That’s nowhere more true than in London, which offers a dizzying array of shows in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMThursday, August 29, 2024
Mary Bridget Davies brings her Tony nominated performance to London
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:25AMSunday, August 18, 2024
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan's debut play is beautifully served by its cast of two
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:14AMSaturday, August 17, 2024
Alan Cox and David Yelland head all-male cast of West End upgrade for Katherine Moar play.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:06AMThursday, August 8, 2024
French "hybrid memoir" comes blazingly alive onstage in London
The title sounds as if we ought to be in for an evening of Virginia Woolf, and, indeed, one of the astonishing women on view (…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:34AM 
