Live theater is set to return in England starting May 17, but many online offerings will remain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMThe fabled date is getting nearer! For months, May 17 has loomed large in the calendar of London theatreland as the signal for playhouses to reopen their doors after a five-month lockdown.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:49AMTired of reading the headlines? You can watch artistic interpretations of the stories of our era by trailing actors in a Living Newspaper production, section by section.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMWe Remember a Great Actress Taken Way Too Soon
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMHellos Aplenty as Lockdown Nears an End - And A Sad Goodbye
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:47AMThe director Simon Godwin has offered up the most impassioned version of this play imaginable, its often unwieldy length here filleted to 90-minutes as hurtling and relentless as the very jo…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:46AMWith coronavirus restrictions easing in England, several venues have plans to give classic plays new life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54AMEarlier this month, we marked the 91st birthday of the living legend that is Stephen Sondheim with a look back at five London productions of his work that are embedded in the memory. This we…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:41AMA brave venture that by necessity feels incomplete, Dream offers a take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream that may surprise even those who think they’ve seen everything that can be done with …
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 04:03PMLast week, we acknowledged the forthcoming birthday of Andrew Lloyd Webber via a look back at five defining London stagings of his work. This time, we do the same with Stephen Sondheim, with…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44AMWith British venues closed and years advancing, there’s even less time to see some of the finest actors in their 80s onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42AMLondon's repertoire of standout Lloyd Webber productions includes these five shows, and more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMAt Sunday’s ceremony, a whole host of British winners and nominees got their training in the theater before they made it to the screen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMThis is the latest entertainment from Les Enfants Terribles, the adventuresome company founded in 2001 whose immersive, interactive Alice’s Adventures Underground was Olivier nominated in …
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:07PMOur monthlong series culling some of the early London theatrical triumphs of stars before they became known to the world at large draws to a close with our look back at a brilliant quintet o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AMDanny Sapani and Adrian Lester in new two-hander by Lester's wife, Lolita Chakrabarti, livestreaming through Sunday
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:32PMThe International Theater Amsterdam presented Ivo van Hove’s exhilarating Shakespeare marathon in a one-off, livestreamed production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18AMSolo plays are everywhere these days and why not? So it’s not too surprising to note the renewed interest in All On Her Own, a slice of Terence Rattigan esoterica that premiered on TV in 1…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:57PMNow, it's time to cast a glance at those stage musicals in London that brought to the attention of keen-eyed playgoers various people whom the world would get to know later.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:28AMThe cumulative effect is of a lot of well-meaning performers acting into a digital void or, perhaps, delivering audition speeches for some sort of drama school panel that exists just out of …
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:42PMSam Tutty was five months into his career-making star turn on the West End in Dear Evan Hansen when the pandemic shut London theatres down last March. Far from sitting idle, the industrious …
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:06PMSince 2019, Tinuke Craig has fielded various iterations of her first-ever musical, The Color Purple, which was acclaimed in performance at Leicester's Curve Theatre and the Birmingham Hippod…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMLast week, we looked at the early stage work of a quintet of actors who have gone on to celebrated work, and a wider public, onscreen. But the same trajectory is every bit as true of Britain…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:08AMMany British screen stars may seem to have come to public attention as comparative unknowns, but not to theatre devotees. What follows is a list of five actors whom I managed to catch early …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:22AMAn ever-mutating virus has led to general uncertainty on and off the West End about the start-up of live performance. That shifting scenario in turn brings to mind some of the titles from th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:47AMThere’s been much discussion about the presence of Black actors in Regency England on the Netflix show, but performers of color have been playing historical roles in London theaters for de…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03AMFrom Andrew Lloyd Webber to Sondheim via David Tennant's West End return, London is poised for activity post-pandemic
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PM'Dick Whittington' never opened at the National but can be seen online
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:23AMOut of pandemic-driven chaos and confusion came moments of clarity - and "Blindness" "Goodbye": The single word lingered heavily in the air last March 16, as the scripted closing both of th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:54AMAndrew Lincoln invents Scrooge afresh in robust seasonal perennial As proof that you can't have too much of a good thing, consider the return of Matthew Warchus's buoyant production of A Ch…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMComic double-act reviewed the night before performances were suspended indefinitely
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