Last week, we acknowledged the forthcoming birthday of Andrew Lloyd Webber via a look back at five defining London stagings of his work. This time, we do the same with Stephen Sondheim, with…
With British venues closed and years advancing, there's even less time to see some of the finest actors in their 80s onstage.
London's repertoire of standout Lloyd Webber productions includes these five shows, and more
At Sunday's ceremony, a whole host of British winners and nominees got their training in the theater before they made it to the screen.
This is the latest entertainment from Les Enfants Terribles, the adventuresome company founded in 2001 whose immersive, interactive Alice's Adventures Underground was Olivier nominated in 20…
Our monthlong series culling some of the early London theatrical triumphs of stars before they became known to the world at large draws to a close with our look back at a brilliant quintet o…
Danny Sapani and Adrian Lester in new two-hander by Lester's wife, Lolita Chakrabarti, livestreaming through Sunday
The International Theater Amsterdam presented Ivo van Hove's exhilarating Shakespeare marathon in a one-off, livestreamed production.
Solo plays are everywhere these days and why not? So it's not too surprising to note the renewed interest in All On Her Own, a slice of Terence Rattigan esoterica that premiered on TV in 196…
Now, it's time to cast a glance at those stage musicals in London that brought to the attention of keen-eyed playgoers various people whom the world would get to know later.
The cumulative effect is of a lot of well-meaning performers acting into a digital void or, perhaps, delivering audition speeches for some sort of drama school panel that exists just out of …
Sam Tutty was five months into his career-making star turn on the West End in Dear Evan Hansen when the pandemic shut London theatres down last March. Far from sitting idle, the industrious …
Since 2019, Tinuke Craig has fielded various iterations of her first-ever musical, The Color Purple, which was acclaimed in performance at Leicester's Curve Theatre and the Birmingham Hippod…
Last week, we looked at the early stage work of a quintet of actors who have gone on to celebrated work, and a wider public, onscreen. But the same trajectory is every bit as true of Britain…
Many British screen stars may seem to have come to public attention as comparative unknowns, but not to theatre devotees. What follows is a list of five actors whom I managed to catch early …
An ever-mutating virus has led to general uncertainty on and off the West End about the start-up of live performance. That shifting scenario in turn brings to mind some of the titles from th…
There's been much discussion about the presence of Black actors in Regency England on the Netflix show, but performers of color have been playing historical roles in London theaters for deca…
From Andrew Lloyd Webber to Sondheim via David Tennant's West End return, London is poised for activity post-pandemic
'Dick Whittington' never opened at the National but can be seen online
Out of pandemic-driven chaos and confusion came moments of clarity - and "Blindness" "Goodbye": The single word lingered heavily in the air last March 16, as the scripted closing both of th…
Andrew Lincoln invents Scrooge afresh in robust seasonal perennial As proof that you can't have too much of a good thing, consider the return of Matthew Warchus's buoyant production of A Ch…
Comic double-act reviewed the night before performances were suspended indefinitely
The 'Goes Wrong' team brings their irrepressible improv show to the West End
Dickens redux, noisily but with brio The twelve days of Christmas have nothing on the flotilla of Christmas Carols jostling for view this season, each of which is substantially different eno…
The Almeida Theatre reopens for the first time since March.