Monday, 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 10:48AMFriday, March 29, 2024
Rachael Stirling and Dominic Rowan are in fine, aptly fruity form in April De Angelis play about the legendary British tragedienne
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:20PMTuesday, March 26, 2024
30 years on from the film, Stephan Elliott's road movie is now an excuse to grab some drinks
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:54PMMonday, March 25, 2024
Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer bring their Mischief-inflected silliness back to London after a New York run
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 02:38PMThursday, March 21, 2024
Justine Mitchell gives a performance for the ages in superb revival of Brian Friel's onetime Broadway flop, with Nick Holder and Declan Conlon in fine form, as well
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:08AMThursday, March 14, 2024
Billy Crudup makes his West End debut in David Cale play previously seen Off Broadway
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:46AMMonday, March 11, 2024
Trevor Nunn, age 84, makes a blinding return to form
"We all live here in peace and friendship," notes Telegin (David Ahmad), otherwise known as Waffles, early in Uncle Vanya, to which one …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:18AMMonday, March 4, 2024
Francesca Mills is a first-rate Duchess, with sterling support from, amongst others, Arthur Hughes, Jamie Ballard, and Olivier Huband in Rachel Bagshaw's expert production
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:34AMThursday, February 29, 2024
Benedict Lombe returns to the site of her award-winning solo play 'Lava' with a follow-up two-hander
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:29AMThursday, February 22, 2024
Laura Donnelly once again soars in tailor-made part/s scripted by her partner
Art makes for unexpected bedfellows, and so it proves in Jez Butterworth's moving if meandering The Hills of Ca…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:18PMAt last, a "King Lear" that achieves lift-off, thanks to director Yael Farber, leading men Danny Sapani, Fra Fee, and Clarke Peters, and a thrilling design team
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:08AMWednesday, 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 06:38PM 
