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Some recommendations for visitors and residents who want to get the most from the city's varied theater scene.
January can be a sleepy time for stage activity in some cities. Not London, though, which is riding high from a wealth of high-profile, pre-Christmas holdovers, alongside a trio of dynamic i…
The classics were reclaimed afresh, and the acting more often than not astonished
The veteran actress, playing Prospero in her West End debut, is strangely absent from Shakespeare's narrative.
Tom Stoppard's dense 1997 play is dazzlingly served by director Blanche McIntyre and two formidable leading men in Matthew Tennyson and Simon Russell Beale as the younger and older AE Housma…
Relaunch of Elton John musical needs further tinkering still
It's second time only quasi-lucky for The Devil Wears Prada, the stage musical adaptation of the much-loved Meryl Streep film fr…
December may be the time of year when people switch off and embrace the holidays. But there's very little rest in the ever-busy world of London theater, which is more crowded this year than …
A new production in London, starring Ncuti Gatwa, releases Oscar Wilde's 1895 comedy from period convention and brings it stunningly into the 21st century.
An outstanding Sule Rimi joins Emma Kingston and Jasper Britton in UK premiere of Dan McCabe's play set in Sunnyside, Queens
Musical theatre behemoth becomes an outsized film - and this is just part one
"No one mourns the wicked," we're told during the immediately arresting beginning to Wicked, which concludes tw…
Baggy and overlong Beru Tessema play, directed by Daniel Bailey, gets a high profile guest appearance from onetime Hamilton himself, Jamael Westman
The 'Emily in Paris' star surrenders to cliche - or does she?
The Catalan capital has given its name to a famous number in the Stephen Sondheim musical, Company. And here it is lending geog…
A Victorian classic gets a modern-day makeover, Benjamin Button sings, and a popular superhero gets a London stage outing: Those are among the highlights of a characteristically busy month o…
John Hollingworth gives a movingly indrawn performance in new play from Richard Bean, who wrote "One Man, Two Guvnors"; Emily Burns directs.
Adrien Brody is in magnificent form in his UK stage debut as Nick Yarris in new Lindsey Ferrentino play, directed by Justin Martin, of Prime Face renown
Oli Forsyth play is brilliantly served by its starry cast
Morfydd Clark and Billy Howle give blazing star turns in this Almeida double bill of onetime Royal Court classics; Diyan Zora and Atri Banerjee direct - brilliantly
the critic mourns the passing of a Broadway and London star gone way too soon
An appreciation of the legendary Tony winning actress, an impassioned presence always on the London (and, sometimes, Broadway) stage
From name-heavy West End revivals to bracing new dramas, October in London is giving pride of place to the play. Offerings during the month ahead include several classic titles of ongoing re…
Anne Odeke stars in her own play which has morphed from a solo endeavour into a bustling, capacious rallying cry on the Globe mainstage
Some recommendations for visitors and residents who want to get the most from the city's varied theater scene.
Diana Vickers and Marc Antolin in thin if breezy musical send-up of Gwyneth Paltrow Utah ski trial
Maureen Beattie stars in Stella Feehily's bioplay directed by Alice Hamilton as the opening show of the new Hampstead season
Summer is saying its goodbyes, and with that comes the seasonal promise of exciting theater for the fall. That's nowhere more true than in London, which offers a dizzying array of shows in t…
