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Caryl Churchill and Simon McBurney are among the British theater talents contributing to "The Lockdown Plays," a series of new works you can listen to, but can't see.
Tom Hiddleston reminds us of his stage roots, as does Christopher Walken as Captain Hook
As we continue into a third month in lockdown, the arts continue to suggest ever-changing worlds beyo…
Early James Graham joins various Broadway legends, Irving Berlin and Jerry Herman amongst them
The live-ness of theatre seems further away with every passing week, but at least the art form…
A popular American star vehicle and 'Alice in Wonderland' minute-by-minute figure among the cultural bounty during the week ahead
Can we really be entering a third month in lockdown? Indeed…
Online broadcasts of some of the composer's greatest hits put the spotlight on a 50-year career.
From a much-traveled one-man play to a continent-spanning National Theatre premiere, the theatrical week offers plenty so savour
No one can accuse the gods of streaming of failing to cast a…
In an ever-busy week, the Donmar and Finborough join the online bustle
Has anyone else noticed how fulltime this streaming thing has become? Those who were of a mind to (and who never s…
Sonnets galore also form part of another busy week amidst bizarre times
Time is moving in mysterious ways at the moment. It's been possible over the last month or so to mark out the beginni…
Theatrical extravaganzas could be a long time returning. But until then, there are plenty of great plays with tiny casts.
Sondheim's and Shakespeare's natal days feted. Plus a chance to match wits with a knight and a dame
As lockdown continues, so does the ability of the theatre community to find new ways to t…
Theatre buffs have no shortage of scintillating options during our ongoing shut-in
The lockdown has been extended, but here's the good news: each week whereby we are shut inside seems to br…
Kara Tointon leads a concept-heavy, Victorian-era Shakespeare update
Twelfth Night is rarely long-absent from the British stage and nor is it in our current climate of streaming aplenty. Th…
Musical adaptation celebrates British pluck, coupled with luck
18 months or so after it opened in Chichester, Flowers for Mrs Harris launches a sequence of streamed productions from the Wes…
London's playhouses have been shuttered before, by plagues and war for instance, but they have always returned as strong as ever.
Beth Steel award-winner makes for muscular, eerily apposite fare
The talk is of an "economy in ruin [with] unemployment through the roof": a précis of Britain in lockdown? In fact, this is…
Stephen Rea rivets once again in David Ireland play
One of the most blistering stage performances in recent memory gets a renewed lease on life with the streaming of the 2019 screen version…
Mike Bartlett's 2016 play chimes with our topsy-turvy times
"The whole world is just tilting at the moment," we're told near the end of Wild, the Mike Bartlett play from summer 2016 that…
The composer-lyricist has left an indelible legacy
Here's an irony worthy of the work of Stephen Sondheim, an artist who clearly knows a thing or two about the multiple manifestations of th…
While the city's theaters were still open, several plays seemed to have relevant messages for our troubled times.
Mike Bartlett play remains as buoyant and biting as ever
The Beatles lyric that gives Mike Bartlett's terrific play its title dates to 1967, which also happens to be the year in which the f…
Sebastian Barry two-hander offers rich acting opportunities for two of Ireland's finest
Some wondrous acting is sacrificed on the altar of an increasingly wonky plot in On Blueberry Hill, t…
Daniel Monks electrified London at the end of 2019 playing the title role at the Donmar in Teenage Dick, Chinese-American writer Mike Lew's teasingly titled play that transposes Shakespeare'…
Popular film romcom looks fairly icky on stage
It's not so much that Pretty Woman: The Musical isn't much good, which it isn't. More to the point is that this West End replica of the …
The Woman in Black, the theatrical chiller adapted from the Susan Hill novel, celebrated 30 years in the West End last summer and has recently opened to acclaim at the McKittrick Hotel off-B…
Three plays consider the divisions wrought by Brexit, Britain's surveillance state and the terror of the news cycle, with varying levels of success.
