From 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: The Arts Desk 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: The Arts Desk at 08:48AMComic double-act reviewed the night before performances were suspended indefinitely
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:17AMThe 'Goes Wrong' team brings their irrepressible improv show to the West End
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:24PMDickens redux, noisily but with brio The twelve days of Christmas have nothing on the flotilla of Christmas Carols jostling for view this season, each of which is substantially different eno…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:12AMThe Almeida Theatre reopens for the first time since March.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:31PMTaut Pinter revival sacrifices the play's darkly comic underlay Add the Hampstead Theatre to the swelling ranks of playhouses opening its doors this month, in this case with a revival well i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:48AMSimon Russell Beale and Patsy Ferran in fresh adaptation of Dickens
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:25PMPaul Harvard's ambitious debut play needs further focus A 35-year-old gay man has to figure out which way to turn in GHBoy, the Paul Harvard play whose connection to the chemsex world is emb…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:36AMThe first coronavirus shutdown caught playhouses unawares, but they learned lessons that stood them in good stead when the shutters came down again.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32AMOur critic looks back on 32 years with a publication he was with from its very first issue, in 1988.
SOURCE: www.theaternewsonline.com at 05:59AMInterview with MARY POPPINS leading man Charlie Stemp
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:52PMOpening and closing night were the same for vital solo show Broadway tends to be the Darwinian environment where a show's opening night can also mark its closing.
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:42AMTwo long-running immersive theater productions — “The Murdér Express” and “The Great Gatsby”— offered some much-needed merriment just before a new lockdown hit England.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18AMReview of 2020 Olivier Awards
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:10AMSparky solo play leaves you wanting yet more Call him Ishmael, and the Zimbabwe-born, UK-based writer Zodwa Nyoni has done just that. That's the name of the solo character in Nyoni's slight…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:24AMTwo young Black playwrights chronicle tales of the Nigerian diaspora in performances at the Bridge Theater, but only one digs deep.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54AMCapacious biography pins down an elusive subject "The older he got, the less he cared about self-concealment," or so it is said of Sir Tom Stoppard, somewhere deep into the 865 pages of …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:32AM'The Last Five Years' revival is itself revived at Southwark Playhouse
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 04:00PMEssential series of Alan Bennett stage pairings comes to an end Stillness works like a stealth bomb in Nights in the Garden of Spain, in which Tamsin Greig further confirms her status as on…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:54AMMasterclasses make up a mighty hour of theatre "Getting dark," or so comments Irene Ruddock (a pitch-perfect Imelda Staunton) in passing midway through A Lady of Letters, and, boy, ain't th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:24AMThe Bridge theater in London has resumed performances after the coronavirus shutdown with a series of monologues by David Hare and Alan Bennett.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMreview of Old Vic In Camera presentation of the late Brian Friel's 1979 play 'Faith Healer'
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:22PMAlfresco 'Pippin' revival at south London pub theatre
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:18AMMaureen Lipman in fearless form in Martin Sherman's discursive solo play Solo plays and performances are, of necessity, the theatrical currency of the moment, whether across an entire seaso…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:03AMThe sheer brio of the endeavour proved irresistible, and one wasn’t surprised to see the performers’ eyes misting over
SOURCE: inews.co.uk at 07:50PMC-o-n-t-a-c-t — the letters are aptly distanced to suit the times — marks the English-language premiere of an alfresco theatre piece that premiered in Paris during lockdown.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:50PMBased on the hit 1993 hit film “Sleepless in Seattle,” the production is London’s first fully staged indoor musical in months. Applause for that, at least.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMTraverse Theatre two-hander transfers well to the screen In normal times, Edinburgh Festival audiences would now be packing into the city’s invaluable Traverse Theatre, home to some of th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:12AM
