Ben Power’s deft adaptation of Dickens’ sprawling novel emphasises its brilliant characters and eternally relevant themes, but the bleak production and dour music wrestle with one anothe…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:36PMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins's production is rich in ideas and beautifully staged, but it’s still two hours of listening to middle-aged millennials feeling sorry for themselves
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:42PMThe veteran actor stars in a long uneven new production fusing both parts of Shakespeare’s ‘Henry IV’ at London’s Noël Coward Theatre
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:32AMThe ‘Succession’ star returns to his stage stomping ground, and it’s where he stomps best. Alongside an extraordinary Patricia Clarkson, he owns the stage in Jeremy Herrin’s spare, b…
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:24AMWhy is the National Theatre staging this frightfully old fashioned play from the 1930s? A superb performance from Lindsay Duncan and a production tinged with foreboding are reason enough
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:42AMAfter multiple manifestations at Theatre Royal Bath and a southern UK tour, Noel Coward’s deathless comedy hits the West End in a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00PMChristian Czornyj’s video game-inspired musical is the first by Adam Lenson’s exciting new production company, which gives voice and space to artist-led
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PMIt’s one of those shows that has almost become too familiar. In the last two decades every number of Jason Robert Brown’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:37AMWhat is it about the Bible and musical theatre? While the UK has the gospel according to Andrew Lloyd Webber – Joseph
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMEven if Ben Elton’s successful sitcom about William Shakespeare had been given a fourth series, it seems only natural that they would
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58PMThere’s a fierce relevance in the story of a woman failed by a patriarchal justice system and seeking justice her own way.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMTom Stoppard has spent a career searching for the key to the human condition through metaphor: quantum mechanics, gymnastics, Latin love poetry,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMBrexit gets only a couple of mentions in this roar of a monologue by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams. But the play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:28AMMaybe it’s a little histrionic to stage a play about existence and extinction right now. Maybe not. If director Richard Jones does
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:38PMAs soldiers piss in phone boxes, smash things up, generally kick and punch objects both animate and not, it becomes clear that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:43AMLucy Prebble’s debut play, The Sugar Syndrome, about two people who meet in an online chat room, premiered at London’s Royal Court
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMThe Waitress composer and singer-songwriter, fresh from winning her first Grammy, is taking to the West End stage to star in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00PMAlthough Cormac McCarthy is best known as a novelist, winning the Pulitzer for The Road in 2006, he has also written two
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AMAfter a six-month closure, the home of Les Misérables is back with a new name and lavish decor. Owner Cameron Mackintosh tells
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:48AMAfter so much time and so much tinkering, when it comes to Les Misérables the philosopher’s axe springs to mind. Every time
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMSince closing on Broadway in 1986 after four performances, Rags has been stitched and unstitched so many times that this version, which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMPlaywright Conor McPherson found fame in his 20s with a work about barflies telling ghost stories, went on to write a Bob
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMInstead of staging Richard III as a vehicle for some able-bodied actor to show off how great they are by playing the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMNeil Gaiman’s 2013 novel is meant to be his most autobiographical. Maybe the monsters and the magic that populate the book are
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40PMJackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer-winning play is simultaneously a microcosmic, tightly controlled look at a family through the prism of a middle-class sitcom,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PMTouring libraries and other non-theatre spaces in South London before a run in Oxford, this sweet play from Merton-based company Attic doesn’t
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:35AMWhatever you’ve been dreaming of, this isn’t quite it. Roughly based on the 1954 Bing Crosby film, the show follows army vets
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMIf you were to attempt to explain the concept of & Juliet to anyone, it would be very easy to make the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMThe best and the worst thing about being a teenager is the fact that it doesn’t last forever. Broadway phenomenon Dear Evan Hansen
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PMMary Poppins returns. No, not the Emily Blunt film, rather Cameron Mackintosh’s muddled stage musical, back in the Prince Edward Theatre after
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PMThe musical theatre star is embracing all things festive and 1950s glamour in White Christmas, which starts its West End run at
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