Thursday, August 1, 2024
Late summer is often reputed as the lull before the autumnal storm of new productions. And yet, the British capital is as busy as ever during the month ahead, breaking into song (many of the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:30AMThursday, July 25, 2024
Roy Alexander Weise directs UK bow of Katori Hall's baggy if brio-filled Pulitzer winner
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:54AMFriday, July 19, 2024
The veteran British actress shines in a new revival that is the musical theater highlight of the West End summer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AMAn imperfect show arrives boasting a quasi-immersive charm
The Baker's Wife closed on the way to Broadway in 1976, since which time Stephen Schwartz's stubbornly resistent if sweetly scored…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:02AMWednesday, July 17, 2024
Christopher Hampton adapts Stefan Zweig's 1922 novella, here starring Jim Corrigan, Natalie Simpson, and Nigel Hastings; Chelsea Walker directs.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:09AMWednesday, July 10, 2024
Pamela Nomvete follows on from Tony winner Phylicia Rashad in Detroit-set Dominique Morisseau play co-starring Racheal Ofori.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:43PMTuesday, July 9, 2024
Justine Mitchell shines in takeover of Kendall Feaver play whose opening was delayed by a change of leading lady
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:47AMThursday, July 4, 2024
A quarter-century on from its Salzburg premiere, Simon McBurney's mind-bending show continues to enthrall
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:01PMMonday, July 1, 2024
Plays take center stage in London this July after a musicals-heavy June, with a host of heavy-hitting American titles leading the charge. A Broadway phenomenon, Slave Play, crosses the Atlan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMAndrew Lloyd Webber's 1980s spectacular skates into a new era
The reinvigoration of Andrew Lloyd Webber continues apace. New York is now hosting a ballroom culture, drag-inflected Cats, and…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:54AMSunday, June 30, 2024
The men prevail in new play from 2023 Olivier nominee for her acting, Faith Omole
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:45AMTuesday, June 25, 2024
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Stephanie J Block delivers a knockout UK stage debut in Bart Sher staging of Cole Porter classic
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:24AMFriday, May 31, 2024
In June, New York may be in thrall to the Tonys, but life on the London stage continues apace. The month ahead promises a broad array of musicals, from a pocket-sized hit of the Edinburgh Fe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42AMThursday, May 30, 2024
★★★ ROMEO AND JULIET, DUKE OF YORK'S THEATRE Doomy and deathly, and much-hyped
Tom Holland reaches for the stars and makes it to the theatre's roof
One of Shakespeare's longest plays …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:24AMThursday, May 23, 2024
Olivier winner Cassidy Janson is the standout performer in director Hannah Chissick's production of decades-old Jerry Herman musical revue
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:23AMFriday, May 17, 2024
Danny Sapani moves on from King Lear at the Almeida to the UK premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis´s trophy-bearing play, co-starring Ayesha Antoine and Martins Inghambe.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:59AMFriday, May 10, 2024
A radiant Nina Hoss, from the film Tar, heads the splendid cast of adaptor-director Benedict Andrews's electrifying reclamation of Chekhov's final play
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:24AMThursday, May 9, 2024
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
While Broadway spends the month of May in pre-Tony Awards overdrive, the London theater continues to do what it does so well—namely, offering a broad array of shows to suit all tastes. Som…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
A gender-flipped Jodie McNee stars in visually impressive, emotionally subpar adaptation of the same Philip K Dick story that spawned the Tom Cruise film
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:43AMSaturday, April 27, 2024
Charles Edwards shines in overly tricksy, overlong Sam Adamson play tracing a friendship over time
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:52AMWednesday, April 17, 2024
The stunning Anthony Welsh heads a pitch-perfect quintet in UK premiere of 2023 Off Broadway play by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins and directed once again by Eric Ting.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:10AMMonday, April 15, 2024
Our theater critics and a reporter discuss the big winner — “Sunset Boulevard” — and the rest of the honorees at Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AMFriday, April 12, 2024
In Robert Icke’s adaptation of Parts 1 and 2 of “Henry IV,” the veteran stage actor’s performance belies his age.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06AMWednesday, April 10, 2024
Dominic Dromgoole directs UK premiere of Paul Grellong play, wit Julian Ovenden, 2024 Olivier nominee Giles Terera, and Michael Benz
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:31AMPaul Grellong play delivers in its final passages
The Menier Chocolate Factory has made something of a habit of late out of trawling unexpected corners of the contemporary American reper…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:06AMTuesday, April 9, 2024
For him, “art played a particular role in social change,” the director Mehmet Ergen said. “Everything was political.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMWednesday, April 3, 2024
Patricia Clarkson powers the latest iteration of this great, grievous American drama
Memory is a confounding thing. By way of proof, just ask the Mary Tyrone who is being given unforgettable…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:54AMTuesday, April 2, 2024
Sheridan Smith gives it her all against near-impossible odds
Is there a more purely likeable actress than Sheridan Smith, the performer who was still a teenager when she stole the show at t…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:54AMMonday, April 1, 2024
New York isn’t the only game in town. London is continually busy, as befits a theater town that thinks not in terms of seasons but of exciting and rewarding shows throughout the year. Just…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AM 
