Thursday, July 26, 2018
Gerard Alessandrini's latest is smart but needs streamliningIf it's possible to have somewhat too much of a good thing, that would seem to be the case with the British premiere at the M…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:04AMSaturday, July 21, 2018
Collegiate-style Armageddon takes over the Court mainstage The apocalypse arrives as a series of collegiate sketches in the aptly-named Pity, the Rory Mullarkey play that may well prompt sym…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:12AMDavid Haig q-and-a / Matt Wolf Weather is the unlikely if potent topic of Pressure at the Ambassadors Theatre, written by and starring the protean Olivier Award-winning actor David Haig, who…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24AMSaturday, July 14, 2018
A newly-minimalist Sam Mendes guides an expert cast to sublime heights There's surprising and then there's The Lehman Trilogy, the National Theatre premiere in which a long-established direc…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:48AMFriday, July 13, 2018
Lara Martins has quietly carved a slice of theatrical history by becoming the longest-running Carlotta in the storied history of The Phantom of the Opera, continuing on in its original West …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PMThursday, July 5, 2018
Martin McDonagh revival brings Poldark to the London stage, guns blazing Aidan Turner may not reveal those famously bronzed pecs that have made TV's Poldark box office catnip in his West End…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:42AMFriday, June 29, 2018
Kelli O’Hara is finally making her West End stage debut as British governess Anna Leonowens in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I, the role that brought the beloved America…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48AMTuesday, June 26, 2018
Oliver Tompsett is a West End alum of such musicals as We Will Rock You, Wicked, Rock of Ages and Guys and Dolls. In June, he joined the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Kinky Boo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04AMFriday, June 22, 2018
Joseph Kloska has become something of a Royal Shakespeare Company regular of late and steps up a career notch with his co-starring performance opposite Tony winner Richard McCabe (The Audien…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32AMThursday, June 14, 2018
Familiar title is reinvigorated afresh in a startling revival Lia Williams can be said to have been in her prime ever since the double-whammy several decades ago when she appeared onstage in…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:48AMLaura Linney and Orlando Bloom are drawing audiences to London’s playhouses, even as theatergoers seem to be growing indifferent to who’s in the cast.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
Fondly remembered from his London and Broadway run in Alan Bennett’s Tony-winning The History Boys, Stephen Campbell Moore has since returned to the West End in Clybourne Park and Chim…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMMonday, June 11, 2018
Lesser-known American classic exerts a clinical fascination The American playwright /journalist Sophie Treadwell's 1928 expressionist drama crops up every so often in order to allow a direct…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:32PMThis is a feisty, animated Iceman , with the magnificent Denzel Washington leading the cast.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 06:04PMSaturday, June 9, 2018
Vanessa Kirby leads superfluous update that is a lot more Stenham than Strindberg It seems appropriate that an onstage blender features amidst Tom Scutt's sleak, streamlined set for Julie gi…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:32AMGavin Spokes is among those invaluable English performers who can do plays and musicals across both the British and American repertoire. A 2016 Olivier nominee for playing Nicely Nicely John…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12AMWednesday, June 6, 2018
1980s Broadway flop proves an Off West End knockout Two dynamite lead performances and the chance to savour an underappreciated score give genuine charge to The Rink, a decades-old Broadwa…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:12AMMonday, June 4, 2018
Adam Gillen recently finished an extended and electrifying run as Mozart in the National Theatre’s glorious revival of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, only to segue from the world of Eu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMLate Shakespeare collaboration is by turns engaging and daftThose who find the Bard tough going – wasn't that one of Emma Rice's admissions back in the day? – should beat a path to The T…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:36AMThursday, May 31, 2018
Brian Friel's luminous play fully lands in the National's largest space What sort of physical upgrade can a play withstand? That question will have occurred to devotees of Brian Fr…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:36AMMichelle Terry, the playhouse’s artistic director, defines her agenda with productions of “Hamlet” and “As You Like It.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
Caroline O’Connor was born in the north of England to Irish parents, grew up in Australia, and works regularly in the U.S., including most recently on Broadway in Anastasia. She is ret…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMFriday, May 25, 2018
Much-traveled play contains one twist too many Add Catalan writer Jordi Galcerán to the shortlist of European playwrights who are finding an international perch, in this case with a tricks…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:04AMThursday, May 17, 2018
Nancy Carroll won a 2011 Olivier Award for Best Actress for her searing and stylish performance at the National Theatre in After the Dance and is rarely long away from the London stage. Know…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06AMFriday, May 11, 2018
Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance” refracts gay American life through an English novel, while two new British plays choose a shorter, satirical path.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMSaturday, May 5, 2018
David Thaxton won the 2011 Olivier Award for his stunning performance as Giorgio in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, but the performer has been spending much of his career returning to Les…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMDavid Thaxton won the 2011 Olivier Award for his stunning performance as Giorgio in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, but the performer has been spending much of his career returning to Les…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Eighties musical remains a melodically rich muddle Its origins as a concept album cling stubbornly to Chess, the Tim Rice collaboration with the male members of ABBA first seen on the West E…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:42AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Romola Garai gives a storming performance in deliberately tricksy Ella Hickson playForget write what you know: writing what you feel would seem to be the impetus driving Ella Hickson's often…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:42AMAlfred Enoch hit the big time as Wes on ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder and played Dean Thomas in the Harry Potter films, but the fast-rising screen star is returning to the stage to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32AM 
