Camp Siegfried, Cabaret, and Lisa Dwan as Beckett's Winnie among the year's best theatre in London.
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:02AMThe 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 04:18AMA London production starring Eddie Redmayne pulls the audience into a hedonistic milieu. Then things get dark.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMJasper Britton, Ria Jones and Caroline Langrishe in Alan Bennett's 1973 comedy about mortality, directed by Patrick Marber
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:36AMJames Graham’s new play draws parallels between the bad-tempered 1968 debates between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal and the rancorous public arena of today.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:12PMHattie Ladbury in superlative form as a gender-flipped Duke, with Georgia Landers as Isabella
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 02:01PMRIP Stephen Sondheim, who has died age 91
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:47AMThe master of musicals remembered, and revered
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:04AMStephen Mangan is the best Scrooge yet, with Oli Higginson and Rachel John amongst those lending sterling support
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:00AMTwo London productions that play fast and loose with their literary sources lack the theatrical magic of another show that gives viewers the original, unadorned.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54AMArthur Darvill as Henry Finn in Royal Court play dogged by controversy; Hamish Pirie directs
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:06AMAlex Mugnaioni gives a breakout performance in London premiere of 2018 Broadway play
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:14PMMuch-traveled musical needs a narrative makeover - but the songs are cool
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:33AMLizzy Connolly stars in a musical in search of music, and a point-of-view
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:59AMOn British stages, Saoirse Ronan, Cush Jumbo and Ian McKellen present contrasting approaches to Shakespeare and Chekhov.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMAn ageless Stockard Channing excels in fitfully effective revival of Marsha Norman Pulitzer winner
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 02:26PMIan Shaw plays his late father, 'Jaws' co-star Robert Shaw, in a play the younger Shaw has co-written
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:30AMTom Mothersdale excels yet again, this time at the Donmar and directed by Elayce Ismail
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:56AMSuzan-Lori Parks has tweaked her Off Broadway play to mixed results "I can't sleep": So goes the fateful opening line of White Noise, the Suzan-Lori Parks play disturbing enough to spark ma…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:03AMA new work by Caryl Churchill, the final installment in Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell saga and a Larry Kramer play deploy their running times with varied success.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42AMSophie Stanton in 25th anniversary revival of Ayub Khan Din's debut play
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:02AMOvid comes to refreshed life courtesy 3 playwrights, 2 directors, and 4 actors
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:22AMThe Olivier winner and Tony nominee returns to the historical well
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:20PMBess Wohl two-hander gets a superlative production A stealthily powerful play gets the production of its dreams in Camp Siegfried, which marks a high-profile UK presence for the American wr…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMAleshea Harris play has a powerful UK debut at the Royal Court
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:44PM“Frozen” and “Back to the Future: The Musical” are sure to please fans of the original screen works, without offering much more of interest.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:32AMPaula Vogel's play - delayed at the Menier by the pandemic - is even more moving in London than it was in New York.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:21AMTime hasn’t been kind to The Memory of Water, Shelagh Stephenson’s play about three sisters brought together following the death of their mother.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:29PMIn “Rockets and Blue Lights” and “Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia,” British playwrights make grand gestures. Sometimes too grand.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54AMHere’s one interesting feature of the London theatre as autumn hoves into view: for whatever reason, the capital’s stages are unusually alive to Jewish stories just now.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:22AMAfter months of pandemic-mandated postponements, the British composer’s new show finally had its premiere. It’s fun.
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