Thursday, April 27, 2023
Onetime Tony-winner Brid Brennan ("Dancing at Lughnasa") delivers bigtime as a fierce matriarch fresh out of prison
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:16AMTuesday, April 25, 2023
2019 Off Broadway musical comes to London in a powerfully sung production directed by Whitney White and starring Eleanor Worthington-Cox, a onetime Matilda
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:14PMMonday, April 24, 2023
Modern-day classic returns to the building where it was first seen in London
It's saying a lot when a production lives up to its gasp-inducing set. That's the happy case with Josie Rourke's …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:48AMThursday, April 20, 2023
Comedy classic plays up the pain that comes with pleasure
It's not often with Private Lives that you feel Amanda and Elyot are one step away from a visit to A&E. But such is the startli…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:12AMWednesday, April 5, 2023
Self-harm, lashings, child prostitution, rape: Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of the 2015 novel tests the audience’s trauma threshold.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:32PMFriday, March 24, 2023
Olivier nominee Danny Lee Wynter makes his playwriting debut in a play starring himself, Ako Mitchell, and Dyllón Burnside, from the TV series 'Pose'
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:30AMThursday, March 23, 2023
Elliott Evans takes the title role in this latest iteration of a still-problematic, slow-aborning musical, here directed by Hannah Chissick
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:01AMTuesday, March 21, 2023
Jenna Russell, in a break from her storied musicals career, plays the Scotswoman, Mill, in this fine revival of Zinnie Harris's elliptical if intriguing 2000 play, seen off Broadway in 2002
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:18PMThursday, March 16, 2023
Anne Reid inherits Lois Smith's stage and screen role as Marjorie, opposite Olivier nominee Richard Fleeshman, late of the West End "Company"
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:57AMWednesday, March 15, 2023
Nicholas Hytner’s heartbreaking ambulatory staging, at the Bridge Theater in London, finds new depths in the classic Broadway musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:39AMThursday, March 9, 2023
Willy Russell's play gets a renewed lease on life
Can lightning strike twice? Very much so, when it comes to Shirley Valentine, Willy Russell's much-revived solo play which I saw back in th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:38AMTuesday, March 7, 2023
In London, a stage show based on the popular TV series tries to capture the warmhearted appeal of the original.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:40AMFriday, March 3, 2023
The director Tinuke Craig follows up last summer's 'Jitney' with another bustling, boisterous play, this one a premiere from the Nigerian-British writer Diana Nneka Atuona; Sarah Parish star…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:08AMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Sergo Vares and John Lightbody head the cast in Shakespeare's late Romance, which utilises both stages at the Globe for the first time.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:31AMThursday, February 23, 2023
Lydia Leonard, late of "Oslo," leads the cast of young writer Lulu Raczka's Jacobean mash-up, directed for the Almeida by the busy Rupert Goold.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:29PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
New productions of “Medea” and “Phaedra” feature outstanding performances from Sophie Okonedo and Janet McTeer as women pushed to the edge.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PMFriday, February 17, 2023
Sabrina Wu, recently seen in "The Doctor," graduates to the solo part in critic-turned-playwright Ava Wong Davies's anatomy of love and loss
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:35PMThursday, February 16, 2023
The art form needs to make room for lesser-known names, to refresh and enlarge the talent pool, our critic writes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:55AMThursday, February 9, 2023
Hadley Fraser leads adroit new cast in third separate London showing of Ben Power's five-time Tony-winning play.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:54PMMonday, February 6, 2023
Onetime Girls Aloud pop star Cheryl makes a terrific West End debut in newly apposite thriller from Danny Robins
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:05AMFriday, February 3, 2023
Katy Stephens is a magnificent, maleficent Titus in Jude Christian's all-female production in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, complete with original songs
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:27PMThursday, January 26, 2023
London's underground queer culture comes "above ground" for deliberately formless Royal Court show
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 02:05PMFriday, January 20, 2023
TV 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 11:10AMAlex Edelman brings his superb Off Broadway hit back to London, where it was previously seen pre-pandemic
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:45AMFriday, January 13, 2023
In 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 08:20AMWednesday, January 11, 2023
Lillian 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 12:38PMTuesday, December 27, 2022
In 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 02:32PMWednesday, December 21, 2022
Pooja 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 07:43AMMonday, December 19, 2022
Ian 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 06:41AMThursday, December 15, 2022
The 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 05:18AMWednesday, December 14, 2022
Robert Bathurst is a nightshirt-wearing Scrooge in a winning 1930s Tennessee take on the ubiquitous Dickens title
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:33PM 
