Wednesday, 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 01:33PMFriday, December 9, 2022
Michael Luwoye, late of "Hamilton," has the title role in drearily hagiographic biomusical, enlivened only by its dancing
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 04:56PMThursday, December 8, 2022
TV actress Fay Ripley in misbegotten comedy set in east London's Walthamstow
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:47AMTuesday, December 6, 2022
In 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 11:42AMFriday, December 2, 2022
James 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 01:06PMTuesday, November 29, 2022
Oliver Johnstone plays a notably brutal warrior-king in this deliberately revisionist take on Shakespeare's history play
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:49PMFriday, November 25, 2022
Jasmine 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 12:12PMThursday, November 24, 2022
Tony-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 05:12AMSaturday, November 19, 2022
Beckett specialist Lisa Dwan and Oscar winner Timothy Hutton head cast of the latest from English writer-director Terry Johnson
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:34AMThursday, November 3, 2022
An 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 05:54AMThursday, October 27, 2022
A 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 12:33PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Theresa 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 01:09PMMonday, October 24, 2022
Rob Madge solo play comes to the West End for two weeks, directed by Luke Sheppard, of "& Juliet" fame.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:46PMThursday, October 13, 2022
Productions of “John Gabriel Borkman” and “Blues for an Alabama Sky” conjure bleak atmospheres in two playhouses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25AMMonday, October 10, 2022
Feted 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 08:43AM 
