Friday, August 7, 2020
Profile of Young Vic artistic director could go still further
Filmed, as one would, well, imagine, prior to lockdown, Imagine .... My Name is Kwame hearkens to what now seems a bygone era …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:24AMThursday, August 6, 2020
Theatre comes to life, albeit gently, and some familiar names crop up online
After a weeklong hiatus due to an absence of noteworthy material, this column is back heralding the return, as w…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:06AMThursday, July 30, 2020
Streamed productions from the archive of the Royal Shakespeare Company show the development of some top-rank British performers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMThursday, July 23, 2020
Empty playhouses caught on camera and an online 'Merchant' complete a typically varied week of theatrical fare
Theatres will begin gently unlocking their doors as we head into August. In the…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:18AMThursday, July 16, 2020
A Broadway legend in concert lends musical buoyancy to this week's ever wide-ranging theatrical array
We're easing out of lockdown, haircuts are being had, and the theatre continually shape…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:18AMThursday, July 9, 2020
Medeas past and present conjoin across a characteristically eclectic theatre week
Stop the presses! For the first time in nearly four months, The Arts Desk can point to the first of several…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:54AM“Staged,” a six-episode sitcom, and “Talking Heads,” a remake of a group of vaunted monologues, show what good can come of a bereft theatrical scene in Britain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54AMThursday, July 2, 2020
Nigel Slater is back, as is Richard Nelson's Apple family for a second time via Zoom
Can this weekly lineup really now be three months old? As we move towards at least some degree of rela…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:48AMThursday, June 25, 2020
Some celeb-heavy revivals and a kids-friendly showstopper feature amongst this week's lineup
Might we be nearing light at the end of the lockdown tunnel? It definitely seems that way, with t…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:06AMThursday, June 18, 2020
The state of Britain then and now gets a look-in, as do animals in human form
As lockdown continues, National Theatre at Home has announced its final sequence of plays, and several of the v…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:12AMTHEATRE LOCKDOWN SPECIAL 9: Alan Bennett revisited, and so is Oz
Some familiar titles, a 1913 rarity and a show in which the audience plays its part
The government may occupy shifting sands…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:12AMCaryl Churchill and Simon McBurney are among the British theater talents contributing to “The Lockdown Plays,” a series of new works you can listen to, but can’t see.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06AMThursday, June 4, 2020
Tom Hiddleston reminds us of his stage roots, as does Christopher Walken as Captain Hook
As we continue into a third month in lockdown, the arts continue to suggest ever-changing worlds beyo…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:48AMThursday, May 28, 2020
Early James Graham joins various Broadway legends, Irving Berlin and Jerry Herman amongst them
The live-ness of theatre seems further away with every passing week, but at least the art form…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:24PMThursday, May 21, 2020
A popular American star vehicle and 'Alice in Wonderland' minute-by-minute figure among the cultural bounty during the week ahead
Can we really be entering a third month in lockdown? Indeed…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:03AMThursday, May 14, 2020
From a much-traveled one-man play to a continent-spanning National Theatre premiere, the theatrical week offers plenty so savour
No one can accuse the gods of streaming of failing to cast a…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:03PMThursday, May 7, 2020
In an ever-busy week, the Donmar and Finborough join the online bustle
Has anyone else noticed how fulltime this streaming thing has become? Those who were of a mind to (and who never sle…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:24AMThursday, April 30, 2020
Sonnets galore also form part of another busy week amidst bizarre times
Time is moving in mysterious ways at the moment. It's been possible over the last month or so to mark out the beginni…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:42PMTheatrical extravaganzas could be a long time returning. But until then, there are plenty of great plays with tiny casts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24AMThursday, April 23, 2020
Sondheim's and Shakespeare's natal days feted. Plus a chance to match wits with a knight and a dame
As lockdown continues, so does the ability of the theatre community to find new ways to t…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:18AMThursday, April 16, 2020
Theatre buffs have no shortage of scintillating options during our ongoing shut-in
The lockdown has been extended, but here's the good news: each week whereby we are shut inside seems to br…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:24PMWednesday, April 15, 2020
Kara Tointon leads a concept-heavy, Victorian-era Shakespeare update
Twelfth Night is rarely long-absent from the British stage and nor is it in our current climate of streaming aplenty. Th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:24AMMonday, April 13, 2020
Musical adaptation celebrates British pluck, coupled with luck
18 months or so after it opened in Chichester, Flowers for Mrs Harris launches a sequence of streamed productions from the Wes…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:18AMThursday, April 9, 2020
London’s playhouses have been shuttered before, by plagues and war for instance, but they have always returned as strong as ever.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMWednesday, April 8, 2020
Beth Steel award-winner makes for muscular, eerily apposite fare
The talk is of an “economy in ruin [with] unemployment through the roof”: a précis of Britain in lockdown? In fact, thi…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:12AMTuesday, April 7, 2020
Stephen Rea rivets once again in David Ireland play
One of the most blistering stage performances in recent memory gets a renewed lease on life with the streaming of the 2019 screen version…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:54AMThursday, April 2, 2020
Mike Bartlett's 2016 play chimes with our topsy-turvy times
“The whole world is just tilting at the moment,” we’re told near the end of Wild, the Mike Bartlett play from summer 2016 …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:12AMSunday, March 22, 2020
The composer-lyricist has left an indelible legacy
Here's an irony worthy of the work of Stephen Sondheim, an artist who clearly knows a thing or two about the multiple manifestations of th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:03PMThursday, March 19, 2020
While the city’s theaters were still open, several plays seemed to have relevant messages for our troubled times.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AMFriday, March 13, 2020
Mike Bartlett play remains as buoyant and biting as ever
The Beatles lyric that gives Mike Bartlett’s terrific play its title dates to 1967, which also happens to be the year in which the…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:18AM 
