Monday, October 7, 2024

How the excavation of Shakespeare’s Curtain theatre has changed stage history by Esther Addley

Recovery of stage foundations, which will be part of new London museum, has changed understanding of theatre development Three metres below ground in a newly developed square in Shoreditch, …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32PM

‘I was always the bit of totty’: Emily Atack on tabloids, trolls and life after The Inbetweeners by Zoe Williams

The role of Charlotte ‘Big Jugs’ Hinchcliffe made her a star – then she spent years trying to get the respect and the roles she deserved. Now, at the age of 34, she’s been having the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM

Hofesh Shechter: ‘The biggest insult I’ve received is that I’m the rockstar of contemporary dance!’ by Lyndsey Winship

As Theatre of Dreams arrives in London, the celebrated choreographer and composer explains how having his laptop stolen was a blessing in disguise for his new show Hofesh Shechter walks out …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM

Leonard Rossiter’s manic physicality was a revelation | Michael Billington by Michael Billington

His gangster Hitler in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui turned him into a star but from his earliest roles the actor had an unforgettable expressive force • Rossiter interviewed by the Gua…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM
Sunday, October 6, 2024

Juno and the Paycock review – Mark Rylance delights as a drunken fantasist Dubliner by Arifa Akbar

Gielgud theatre, LondonRylance is entertainingly Chaplinesque as a dissolute husband in Seán O’Casey’s 1924 tragicomedy, but Succession’s J Smith-Cameron is its heart and soul as the …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PM

Nowhere review – an audacious and radical message for peace by Arifa Akbar

Battersea Arts Centre, LondonMixing the personal and political into one consciousness-raising ‘anti-biography’, Khalid Abdalla’s solo show takes in western colonialism, 9/11, British i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02PM

Bright Lights Over Bentilee review – UFO show shines a light on Stoke by Clare Brennan

The Dipping House, Stoke-on-TrentClaybody Theatre’s show about a famed flying saucer sighting on a housing estate is whimsical fun Back in 1967, the most extraordinary thing about Bentilee…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM

White Rabbit Red Rabbit review – a game Michael Sheen hops to it by David Jays

@sohoplace, LondonNassim Soleimanpour’s experiment in live theatre has a different performer discover the script for the first time each night – but Sheen is especially well suited to it…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM

Clare Jarvis obituary by Andrew Jarvis

My niece Clare Jarvis, who has died aged 51 from cancer, was a fine actor and a talented singer and musician. After graduating from the Manchester School of Theatre in 1994, at a time when t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM

Boy whose Mousetrap show at school led to legal threat joins West End cast by Vanessa Thorpe

Alasdair Buchan, who directed his version aged 11 in 1997, will play mysterious stranger in long-running whodunnit As the curtain falls on every performance of The Mousetrap, the world’s …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM

‘Mr Rossiter says he is good at madmen’: Leonard Rossiter interviewed by the Guardian in 1969 – from the archives by Terry Coleman

17 July 1969: The actor talks about his role as Hitler in Brecht’s Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and his career so far ‘It was hard not to stare at him all the time’: inside the remark…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Frontiers: Choreographers of Canada review – dreamscapes and new realities by Sarah Crompton

Royal Ballet and Opera, London; Sadler’s Wells, LondonChristopher Wheeldon’s international hit returns home as thrilling as ever. Plus: three contrasting works by the National Ballet of …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM

The week in theatre: Giant; Roots; Look Back in Anger – review by Susannah Clapp

Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court; Almeida, LondonJohn Lithgow is magnificent as Roald Dahl in Nicholas Hytner’s production of an extraordinary debut play; Morfydd Clark finds her vo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM
Friday, October 4, 2024

‘It was hard not to stare at him all the time’: inside the remarkable rise and shocking loss of Leonard Rossiter by Catherine Shoard

Best known for sitcoms Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the actor died 40 years ago during a performance of Loot, aged 57. Co-stars, colleagues and friends remember a br…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM

‘We want to put audiences on edge’: the team bringing A24 horror film Saint Maud to the stage by Rachael Healy

A new theatre adaptation is giving Rose Glass’s creepy tale of religious obsession an industrial north-east slant – but it hasn’t lost the film’s fear factor “We’re telling a sto…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM

John Osborne and Arnold Wesker captured the 50s but remain playwrights for the ages | Michael Billington by Michael Billington

I was 16 when I became obsessed with Look Back in Anger. Now, in a double bill with Roots at the Almeida, both dramas’ eternal truths are clear John Osborne and Arnold Wesker had a lot in …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM

Birmingham Royal Ballet: Luna review – kaleidoscopic quintet shoots for the moon by Lyndsey Winship

Birmingham HippodromeEmploying five female choreographers in one production is a bold move but this sweeping celebration of strong women does not cohere There’s no doubting the good intent…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM

The Little Prince review – twinkling spin on Saint-Exupéry’s flight of fantasy by Chris Wiegand

The Egg, BathPerformance poet Toby Thompson has a breezy rapport with the young audience as he retells the bittersweet novella with modern trimmings One of the pleasures of Toby Thompson’s…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM
Thursday, October 3, 2024

National Ballet of Canada: Frontiers review – heavenly revelations and indie spaghetti by Lyndsey Winship

Sadler’s Wells, LondonA triple bill of modern pieces highlight the challenges of modern ballet, but only in Crystal Pite’s work does it all comes together, especially in the dancing of S…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM

A Tupperware of Ashes review – wrenching drama of a family hit by Alzheimer’s by Anya Ryan

Dorfman theatre, London In Tanika Gupta’s play, Meera Syal is a steely south Asian matriarch whose Lear-like decline into dementia upends her family There are quibbles with Tanika Gupta’…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Fleetwood Mac producer sues makers of Broadway show Stereophonic by Benjamin Lee

Ken Caillat claims that the 70s-set play is ‘substantially similar’ to his memoir focused on the making of Rumours Ken Caillat, a producer known for sound engineering Fleetwood Mac, and …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34PM

Count the bounces! Balance the egg! Can Taskmaster triumph as a live experience? by Brian Logan

Playing gimcrack games and being teased by Greg Davies’ digital avatar in a facsimile of the Taskmaster house will delight fans of the TV show – once the kinks are ironed out What’s th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM

Look Back in Anger/Roots review – double bill of 1950s gamechanging kitchen sink dramas by Arifa Akbar

Almeida theatre, LondonWatching John Osborne’s fulminating Jimmy Porter feels curiously cold, while the same cast bring subtleties to Arnold Wesker’s classic The “angry young man” ha…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM

Scott Bakula on playing Lincoln: ‘The timing made a lot of sense to me’ by David Smith In Washington

The actor, known best for TV roles in Quantum Leap and Star Trek, plays the well-loved president in a one-man show Scott Bakula has just finished a noon student matinee. The audience include…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AM
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

‘I was barricading myself with alcohol’: Matthew López on the play that was too scary to stage by Ryan Gilbey

He has done frothy romcoms and weighty epics such as Tony-winning The Inheritance. Now the US playwright is revisiting the drink-fuelled drama that terrified him as he wrote it In 2008, the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PM

McNeal review – Robert Downey Jr shines in muddled AI-themed play by Adrian Horton

Vivian Beaumont Theater, New York The Oscar-winning actor makes a smooth transfer to Broadway but Ayad Akhtar’s play is a mixed bag of insight and exhaustion The writer Jacob McNeal is, am…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:21PM

Redlands review – Rolling Stones play second fiddle in 60s culture wars clash by Arifa Akbar

Chichester Festival theatreThis drama about Mick Jagger and Keith Jones’s 1967 drugs bust curiously foregrounds their lawyer’s family issues The public outcry that followed the prison se…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM

Gavin Creel, Tony award-winning Broadway star, dies at 48 by Associated Press

Actor, who appeared in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Waitress, Hair and Hello, Dolly!, has died of a rare form of cancer Gavin Creel, a Broadway musical theater veteran who won a Tony award for …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AM

The Lieutenant of Inishmore review – the fur flies as Martin McDonagh’s cat-loving thug returns by Mark Fisher

Everyman, Liverpool Julian Moore-Cooke is terrific as Padraic, avenging his pet, but the mix of humour and gory violence needs fine-tuning in this revival The joke at the heart of Martin McD…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM

The best theatre to stream this month: James Earl Jones drives Miss Daisy, Ed Harris takes on Sam Shepard by Chris Wiegand

The Hollywood giants are joined online by audio noir from Danny Krass, Nicole Scherzinger’s Norma Desmond and a one-woman 25th birthday party Sharon Duncan-Brewster plays Pink, an insomnia…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM

‘If audiences are crying, I’ve done my job’: closing the stories of a generation of British south Asians by Arifa Akbar

Actors Meera Syal and Shobna Gulati, with playwright Tanika Gupta, explain how their National Theatre production springs from the anguish of losing their mothers Meera Syal and Tanika Gupta�…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 15, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
TBA: Titanic