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Northern Ireland-set play is funny, sparky and ultimately savage, with a superb star turn from Julia Dearden
Tracy-Ann Oberman and Adrian Lukis head a sterling cast in blistering revival of Ryan Craig's play about familial fallout prompted by the situation in the Middle East
Two Tony-nominated Broadway hits reach London, a 2025 Olivier Award winner directs his first London non-musical, and an early play from a now-venerable playwright gets a rare revival: These …
Popular novel-turned-musical pushes the bounds of credibility to breaking point and beyond: Mark Addy and an indrawn Jenna Russell head the cast under Katy Rudd's direction.
Andor's Elizabeth Dulau gives a star-making performance as Mary Ann Evans before she became George Eliot; Tony winner Owen Teale co-stars as her father, Robert.
The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe is the possibly unlikely berth for the UK premiere of a 2005 play about Black-on-Black violence from the late, much-missed Chadwick Boseman
Clive Francis, 80 this year, delivers the standout performance in writer and co-director Jonathan Lynn's farewell to the beloved Yes, Minister TV and stage franchise.
Isis Hainsworth makes a dazzzling Thomasina Coverly in director Carrie Cracknell's resplendent revival of Tom Stoppard's finest play, here co-starring Tony-winner Stephen Dillane's son, Seam…
The London theater season is in full swing during the month ahead, mixing keenly awaited revivals with new plays and U.K. premieres, along with a gala concert honoring one of Broadway's fine…
Long-aborning Finn Anderson musical has a gorgeous score but needs work on its clotted, overly earnest book; Tanya Azevedo directs the mostly-female cast of 8.
The word made flesh takes on renewed meaning when it comes to Woolf Works, Wayne McGregor's impassioned response to the writing of Virginia Woolf. First seen in 2015, since which time McGreg…
Tendentious script bogs down well-intentioned adaptation
Theater is quick out of the starting gate in 2026. January is hosting a range of Olivier and Tony winners, and film names too, in a mixture of revivals, adaptations and new shows that promis…
From big, bold musicals to solo shows, London theatre once again landed on multiple fronts, led by Jamie Lloyd's mind-bending revival of Evita and the small-scale wow of Brian Watkins' Weath…
Some had wondered how the show about Abraham Lincoln's wife would fare after its creator left the Broadway cast. But mirth is abundant as it opens on the West End.
Bel Powley is in bruising form as Nigel Lindsay's outspoken daughter in Sam Grabiner's messy but always-interesting play, directed by James Macdonald
Felicity Kendal shifts roles in this splendid 30th-anniversary production of a minor Top Stoppard play, here delivered with feeling and empathy by the director Jonathan Kent and a genuine fi…
Patrick Heusinger makes a ripped West End debut in this stage iteration of the hugely popular film franchise, here directed by Punchdrunk's Felix Barrett and co-starring Melissa James ("Moul…
The protean Kathryn Hunter fills in brilliantly for an indisposed David Threlfall in the European premiere of Rajiv Joseph's 2011 Broadway play about the ravages of war, directed by the ever…
2022 co-commission between the Royal Opera and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama is back for a longer run of a work inspired by the Gus van Sant film of the same name about onetime Nir…
Janie Dee dazzles afresh in this centenary revival of Noel Coward's fragile if sexually audacious 1925 comedy, last seen in London a quarter-century ago
An appreciation of Sir Tom Stoppard, arguably the greatest English-language dramatist of his generation
The festive season is fast approaching, and with it comes the usual cavalcade of openings keen to get in before the holidays proper: just think of the numerous prospects for tickets as prese…
Neil Hurst and Jodie Prenger co-author a ribald, rude, riotously funny take-down of the 2003 film, directed by Alex Jackson, who gave us "Homo Alone"
Alaa Shehada's hit solo play from Edinburgh transfers to London, mixing humour, history - and horror
