Andy Mientus has credits ranging from Spring Awakening and Les Miz to such TV series as Smash and Gone. But the Pittsburgh native can be found this summer within the intimate confines of Lon…
A giddy Sheridan Smith is back centre-stage but watch out for newcomer Jac Yarrow, too Cheeky and broad and (for the most part) as entertaining as seems humanly possible, this embryonic entr…
Melly Still brings her singular theatricality to bestselling novel on stage Better than the 2001 film but likely to disappoint devotees of the book, Captain Corelli's Mandolin onstage works…
Lia Williams needs no introduction as a supreme actress, whether on Broadway in Skylight [for which she was nominated for a 1997 Tony Award] or Arcadia or across a range of work closer to ho…
2015 musical gets a belated, overly busy West End transfer Time hasn't necessarily been kind to this slow-aborning West End transfer of a show first seen (and lauded) in its 2015 debut in L…
The starry director-writer team behind 'Harry Potter' onstage return to their frequent home at the Royal Court An apocalyptic title proves somewhat of a red herring for a slight if intriguin…
Nicholas Hytner's production at the Bridge Theater in London finds something fresh in a work that sometimes feels as if it's being done out of duty.
Andrew Langtree has appeared in the world premiere productions of the musicals Mamma Mia!, Ghost and Groundhog Day, receiving a 2017 Olivier nomination for his performance as Ned Ryerson in …
Alex Mugnaioni has worked at Shakespeare's Globe, touring the Bard to North and South America, but only now is the actor making his West End debut, and in a work well away from the Bard. Beg…
The Irish star is sublimely funny - and moving, too - in Noël Coward classic "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" can be heard pulsating through the Old Vic auditorium as the curtain rises…
Mazz Murray (the snappy first name is short for Marianne) has lent her distinctive rock sound to such West End musical mainstays as We Will Rock You, as the Killer Queen, and Chicago. The gu…
Despite the formidable presence of John Malkovich, David Mamet's new play is as reprehensible as the predatory film tycoon at the center of it.
Renée Fleming and Dove Cameron align in starry London debut for six-time Tony-winner A Broadway show as melodically haunting and sophisticated as it is niche, The Light in the Piazza has t…
Cuban-American performer Christie Prades is headlining the London premiere of On Your Feet!, the Broadway musical about Gloria Estefan opening June 27 at the London Coliseum, following a sho…
Slice of Rattigan esoterica is useful to see even as it shows its age Terence Rattigan completists, and count myself among them, will leap at the chance to see a rare production courtesy th…
Onetime Disney Channel teen queen Dove Cameron has been spreading her theatrical wings of late. Last December the 23-year-old performer opened off-Broadway in the New Group production of the…
Kenneth Lonergan's Off Broadway play trades heavily on deadpan as it crosses the pond A small-scale Off Broadway venture late in 2009, The Starry Messenger has arrived in London to mark the…
Three new theater productions in London explore questions of race and skin color in different ways.
Dante or Die's latest is mirthful and mournful in turn Who is that slithering on the floor by your foot, or coming to rest by or upon your knee? Audiences lucky enough to find themselves at…
Nkeki Obi-Melekwe at only 22 has stepped into the starring role of anyone's dreams, succeeding 2019 Olivier nominee Adrienne Warren in the title role of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical at the …
Adrianna Bertola was a pintsized powerhouse in the title role of Matilda the Musical, played Gretl Von Trapp in The Sound of Music and, now age 20, has made the transition with ease to an ad…
Troubled but tantalising Williams play doesn't entirely land this time around Where would Tennessee Williams's onetime flop be without the British theatre to rehabilitate it on an ongoing b…
Jonathan Maitland skewers Brexit-era realpolitik and largely scores What could have been merely a cheap and cheesy piss-take registers as considerably more robust in The Last Temptation of …
Broadway veteran and four-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn has given over the better part of the past year to London and to Trevor Nunn's beautiful Menier Chocolate Factory revival of Fiddler on …
Productions in London of classic plays " from Chekhov to Cy Coleman " feature strong female performances.