Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Matt Smith stars in heavy-handed adaptation of Ibsen's 1880s classic, here with onetime Tony nominee Paul Hilton (The Inheritance) in glowering support
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:50AMMatt Smith gives his all in unyielding adaptation of Ibsen morality play
Real life is a helluva lot scarier right now than you might guess from the performative theatrics on display in the …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMThursday, February 15, 2024
A pitch-perfect Lindsay Duncan leads a large and splendid cast in Dodie Smith rediscovery
Sisters are doing it for themselves, just as families as a whole are, too, on the London stage thes…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:54PMMonday, February 12, 2024
Scott Graham directs this latest, language-heavy take on Franz Kafka's seminal 1915 novella, here starring Felipe Pacheco as Gregor Samsa
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:54AMTuesday, February 6, 2024
Ralph Davis stands out as Iago in a new Othello that casts two actors as the jealous Moor: Ken Nwosu and the excellent Ira Mandela Siobhan; Ola Ince directs.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 04:33AMMonday, January 29, 2024
Neil Simon's 1968 play allows for fun, yes, but also sadness
Sarah Jessica Parker's screen renown as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City has made a London event out of the West End revival …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:48AMMonday, January 22, 2024
Sophie Melville and Lucy McCormick shine in rambling if roisterous queer take on the gunslinging wild west
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:09AMThursday, January 11, 2024
Catherine Tate, David Threlfall, and Grace Molony in Angus Jackson production, whose opening was delayed by a month
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:03PMWednesday, December 27, 2023
The National Theatre fielded hit after hit, and smaller venues scored as well
Wait, and your wishes are answered. That seemed to be the case during the theatre year just gone, following on f…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:02PMSunday, December 17, 2023
Nathaniel Parker, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd and the splendid Nancy Carroll head director Nina Raine's rending reappraisal of Tom Stoppard's 2006 play.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:24PMThursday, December 14, 2023
Woody Harrelson marks his third London stage appearance across 21 years in London transfer of David Ireland's 2018 Edinburgh Festival success, here directed by Jeremy Herrin.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:02AMTuesday, December 12, 2023
Stephen Sondheim's fascinating 1976 show enriches aurally and, this time round, visually
This is, by my reckoning at least, the third major London production over the years of Pacific Overt…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:24AMThursday, December 7, 2023
Nicolas Tennant is a standout in starry revival of Pinter's breakout play, here directed by Matthew Dunster and with Joe Cole as Lenny and Jared Harris as Max
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:46PMMonday, December 4, 2023
The amazing Marylouise Burke marks her second Annie Baker play at the National Theatre, and it's even better than the previous one.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:03AMThursday, November 30, 2023
Rebecca Frecknall, whose “Cabaret” is heading to Broadway, steers Federico García Lorca’s play to its tragic finish with genuinely shocking force.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:08AMTuesday, November 28, 2023
Roald Dahl adaptation is busy to a fault but lacks emotion
The National Theatre these days seems to be going from hit-to-hit, with transfers aplenty and full houses at home. And there's eve…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:06PMHattie Morahan and Paul Hilton lead an astonishing cast in Joe Hill-Gibbins adaptation of 1881 Ibsen scorcher
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:43AMMonday, November 27, 2023
Christopher Eccleston is a Scrooge for the ages
Familiarity has bred something quite fantastic with the Old Vic Christmas Carol, which is back for a seventh season and merits ringing all av…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:32AMMonday, November 20, 2023
Two-time Tony nominee Samuel Barnett in roaring form in Marcelo Dos Santos's clever monologue
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:34PMThursday, November 16, 2023
Catherine Cusack and Kishore Walker in play about the biracial experience in the UK
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:38PMWednesday, November 8, 2023
The West End gets a much-needed shot in the arm
Rarely has a play's opening been so opportune. Just when it looked as if the West End was slipping into decline, along comes the smart, shrewd…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:54AMTuesday, November 7, 2023
Alun Armstrong and Marion Bailey shine in the latest from Richard Bean, author of One Man, Two Guvnors, and co-directed by Terry Johnson and the venerable Richard Wilson.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:50PMTuesday, October 31, 2023
The veteran actor directs and plays the title role in a brisk and curiously weightless London production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:37PMMonday, October 30, 2023
Lynn Nottage's kitchen play finds a brilliant chef in director Lynette Linton and an astonishing cast, headed by Olivier winner Giles Terera (Hamilton) and Sweat alumnus Patrick Gibson
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:13AMThursday, October 26, 2023
In London, Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas do their best in a new play that careers between near-slapstick one minute and speechifying the next.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:43AMWednesday, October 18, 2023
Alison Oliver plays the title role in director Carrie Cracknell's revival of the remorseless 1996 play from Irish dramatist Marina Carr
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:49AMFriday, October 13, 2023
Sunset Boulevard is back, fresher than ever, but the new British musical is having its moment, too
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:32AMA stripped-back revival in London, directed by Jamie Lloyd, brings the classic musical into the present day, and gives Scherzinger a career-defining performance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07AMTuesday, October 10, 2023
The brilliant Sharon Duncan-Brewster has stepped in, triumphantly, to the co-starring role in this delayed stage two-hander that completes a theatrical triptych.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:22AMFriday, October 6, 2023
Felicity Kendal returns to the role of Dotty Otley in Michael Frayn's comedy classic, opposite newcomers to the cast including James Fleet and an amusingly athletic Mathew Horne
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:17PMWednesday, October 4, 2023
Bernadette Peters in peerless, age-defying form heads an all-star tribute to her, and our, beloved Stephen Sondheim
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:51AM 
