Sometimes the story transcends its telling. And so it proves in The great Wave, a new play by the Japanese-Northern Irish writer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMTom loves Viv and Viv loves Tom. Only sometimes, Tom forgets who Viv is. Tristan Bernays’ short, bruising play tenderly tracks a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AM“More life, more love!” cries Fanny and Alexander’s doomed father Oscar, as he raises his last ever Christmas toast in this adaptation
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:46AMIt’s a story so enigmatically compelling that many believe it to be true: the unexplained disappearance, on Valentine’s Day, 1900, of three
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMNicholas Hytner’s rabble-rousing production pits the ruling elite against populismAll hail! Shakespeare’s Roman drama may be enjoying something of a resurgence at present, but it rarely …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:03AM★★★★ JULIUS CAESAR, BRIDGE THEATRE Nicholas Hytner’s rabble-rousing production pits the ruling elite against populismNicholas Hytner’s rabble-rousing production pits the ruling e…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:03AMWe all know that unsettling sensation of being watched – the prickling in the back of the neck, the certainty that eyes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:50AMDespite big funding cuts and several regime changes, regional theatres saw box office receipts rise. Sam Marlowe provides her top picks and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMLin-Manuel Miranda’s hugely anticipated hit musical is a massive achievement“Are you aware that we’re making history?” demands Alexander Hamilton in the show that has finally made th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:54AMBlood and screaming babies, drugs and vomit: yep, there’s definitely something amiss in the boho Parisian domicile of good-looking young Americans Abby
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMThe USA in 1975: year of two assassination attempts on President Gerald Ford, the capture of Patty Hearst, and the Thriller in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22PMOoh la la, quel delice! This musical, based on the 2010 French-Belgian film Les Emotifs Anonymes is utterly gorgeous. Souffle-light and swooningly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMSet in a country garden, Mike Bartlett’s new play digs wide and deep – and the soil proves fertile. Albion is an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMDavid Eldridge's wry-warm two-hander on the unsexy side of singledom Loneliness: in the age of the digital hook-up and the flaunting narcissism of social media, it’s become a strange …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:24AM“You have to believe me if you want me to believe you.” So says adulterer Paul to his equally faithless wife Alice
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMB is for Birthday. It’s also for Bomb. In this grotesque, darkly funny new play by Chilean writer Guillermo Calderon, fledgling activist
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMGhosts, dreams, memories and the masks we wear to present our various selves every day: there are more characters drifting through this
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMIt ain’t easy, just off grimy Oxford Street on a chilly September night, to imagine you’re in sultry New Orleans. But this
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:13AMThe South African director has built an international reputation for creating searing, uncompromising and often confrontational drama. She tells Sam Marlowe why
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMOnly halfway through this turbulent year, and it already seems safe to say that 2017 has seen some landmark theater. In the past, the London scene traditionally cooled off in the summer, whi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:03AMWe are so ready for this. Director Marianne Elliott's production of the two-part Tony Kushner epic "Angels in America" at the National Theatre's Lyttelton is one of the year's most anticipat…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:57PMWell, that was 2016 — a weird, troubling 12 months by anyone's standards, characterized by war, political catastrophe and so many extraordinary people in the cultural arena shuffling off t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:33PMIt's been a busy year for Lears, with Shakespeare's monumental tragedy the choice of multiple major theaters to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death. But this just might be t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMThis has been the year of the king. With theaters across the country celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, productions of the playwright's mighty tragedy, "King Lear," ha…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMHere we go again. And again. And again. Welcome to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, where it's Feb. 2 and a buck-toothed woodchuck is about to deliver its annual weather forecast. But the new mus…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:57PMThink of Holly Golightly, and it’s more than likely that the face you’re picturing is Audrey Hepburn’s. And, while this adaptation by Richard Greenberg of Breakfast at Tiffany's is muc…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:34PMEven Muggles agree: In London this summer, there is no ticket hotter than Potter. Around this time last year, the anticipation around the Benedict Cumberbatch "Hamlet" began climbing to hyst…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:11AMSometimes fairy tale casting just isn't enough, and so it proves with this keenly anticipated production, part of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company season at the Garrick. Lily James and Ri…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:52PMSpring is traditionally a time of fresh beginnings, and the new London theater season is already bustling with change and bursting with promise. In the West End, a clutch of big shows are pr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:56AMHello, old Friend. The last time Matthew Perry was in the West End, it was for David Mamet's "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," back in 2003. Director Lindsay Posner's production received a dec…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:41AMIt's that time of year again: when thoughts turn to turkey and mistletoe, and London seems its most atmospherically Dickensian — even if the snow is the fake kind laid on by canny retailer…
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