Wednesday, January 9, 2019
A new year brings with it the promise of theatrical bounty, nowhere more so than in London where the calendar buzzes across the year. From a flotilla of musical transfers from Broadway on to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06AMTuesday, January 8, 2019
The Pinter season gallops into the home stretch, with Rupert Graves and Jane Horrocks leading the chargeThe scintillating, commercially bold season of Pinter one-acts at the theatre bearing …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:54AMThursday, January 3, 2019
Sunday, December 30, 2018
American titles were everywhere but British plays and the classics got a look-in, tooWill pride of place amongst theatre productions every year go in perpetuity to the work of Stephen Sondhe…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:36AMMonday, December 24, 2018
American work was everywhere on the London stage during 2018, as it looks to be again in the year ahead when, for example, there will be five major Arthur Miller revivals within the first si…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24AMSunday, December 23, 2018
Whoever thinks actresses are getting a raw deal these days should hang out in London, where show after show during 2018 put one or another terrific female center-stage—sometimes solo, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:32AMThursday, December 20, 2018
Lynn Nottage Pulitzer Prize-winner emerges even more strongly in London A tremendous year for American theatre on the London stage is resoundingly capped by Sweat, the Lynn Nottage Pulitzer …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:24AMOur three European theater critics pick their favorite productions of the year — plus a turkey for the festive season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04AMMonday, December 17, 2018
Anthony Neilson's latest is a Poe-faced delightThe Tell-Tale Heart may be the title of an 1843 short story by Edgar Allen Poe, but rest assured that Anthony Neilson's adaptation of it f…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:32AMSaturday, December 15, 2018
here's this for next week but please run Joshua Jenkins from CURIOUS first :-) x Bonnie Langford q-and-a / Matt Wolf Bonnie Langford began her career as a child actor in such shows as th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42AMThursday, December 13, 2018
It’s not easy making history twice, but that’s what Rosalie Craig has managed and within not very many years.
SOURCE: www.todaytix.com at 07:11PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Congreve's Restoration-era rarity is boisterous to a fault It's been 40 years since The Double Dealer last had a major airing (indeed, perhaps any airing) in London, so on the basis of …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:06AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
Joshua Jenkins has spent a sizable chunk of his acting life playing Christopher, the teenager at the wounding and wounded heart of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The much…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMThursday, December 6, 2018
Kit Harington and Johnny Flynn go hell for leather as savagery-prone siblingsDon't be deceived by Kit Harington's matted, slicked-back hair that is immediately visible the minute the audienc…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:36AMThree productions in London look at pairings (romantic and otherwise) that come to grief, including a retelling of the myth of Orpheus in the underworld.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMSaturday, December 1, 2018
Patsy Ferran was barely out of the prestigious London drama school, RADA, when she proved that she could steal a scene or two from none other than Angela Lansbury in the 2014 West End reviva…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06AMSaturday, November 24, 2018
Reeve Carney soared above the audience as Spider-Man in the much-chronicled Broadway musical of the same name and this time descends to the underworld as the singing, romantically smitten Or…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12AMMonday, November 19, 2018
Still only 26, Douglas Booth has been appearing on film and TV for a decade and has won screen attention in such titles as Noah, The Riot Club, Great Expectations and the experiment in paint…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:54PMFriday, November 16, 2018
Much of the success has to do with a range of artists whose own creativity isn’t tethered to the Brexit-era antics at large
SOURCE: www.standard.co.uk at 09:25AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
The Pinter season continues, this time in largely comic form The West End is specialising in two-parters of late. To Imperium and The Inheritance we can add to a growing list the latest duo …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:24PMMonday, November 12, 2018
Tim Howar has been rocking out on the London stage of late in Rock of Ages and Chess, and the Canadian performer is now donning that legendary mask to play—you guessed it—The Pha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:33PMFriday, November 9, 2018
Among a range of plays in London exploring racial tensions, an adaptation of Zadie Smith’s novel stands out for its positive view of the city’s multicultural life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18AMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Finty Williams and Chris Larkin are terrific English actors in their own right but share the fact of having a parent who is a Tony and Oscar-winning British legend—two women, in their …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PMDisability-themed two-hander suggests that little has changed in eight years To the recent spate of shows that put their own narrative-building first, we can now add Still No Idea, with the …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:36AMThursday, November 1, 2018
Jordan Luke Gage was already doing several performances a week as the ever-young Strat in the Jim Steinman-scored rock extravaganza Bat Out of Hell at the Dominion Theatre, but when original…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:32PMThursday, October 25, 2018
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Robert Icke reaches a new career plateau with his Ibsen adaptation Beware the smile that Edward Hogg wears like a shield in the opening scenes of The Wild Duck, the Ibsen play refashioned in…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:12PMFriday, October 19, 2018
Angela Carter adaptation strains to sustain its high spirits"What could possibly go wrong?" The question ends the first act of Wise Children, the debut venture from the new company birthed b…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:06AMTuesday, October 16, 2018
Shakespeare at the Donmar, in double visionShakespeare exists to be refracted and filtered through the age in which he is presented. So there's every good reason for the Donmar's artistic di…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMMonday, October 15, 2018
Jonathan Bailey’s credits range from Gavroche in Les Miz when he was a child actor to the most recent London revival of The Last Five Years, opposite Samantha Barks, and the Almeida Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMThursday, October 11, 2018
West End transfers rarely come as keenly anticipated as the upgrade currently being afforded the Young Vic production of The Inheritance, Matthew Lopez’s seven-hour, two-part play chro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PM 
