Ian Rickson finds the fury and dynamism in a piece of Ibsen esoterica The past haunts the present and looks likely to torpedo the future in Rosmersholm, the lesser-known Ibsen play now re…
Giles Terera's many and varied credits include Honk!, The Book of Mormon, and a revelatory National Theatre revival of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, but the versatile performer reached a new car…
A wonderfully inventive productive balances gore, humor and pathos exceedingly well.
Mamma Mia! has transformed the lives of a lot of people, not least its gifted and versatile director, Phyllida Lloyd, who came to the ABBA musical from a career in the British not-for-profit…
Maggie Smith tackles an impressive one-woman show at the Bridge Theater, and a British classic of the 1980s gets a new lease on life at the National.
Kelly Mathieson grew up in Scotland and started ballet lessons when she was two. But after training at London's prestigious Royal College of Music, she forsook the world of actual opera to m…
Ben Edelman burst onto the New York theater scene like a proverbial comet in last year's Lincoln Center Theater production of Admissions, the fiery play about family dynamics and race from J…
Ben Edelman burst onto the New York theater scene like a proverbial comet in last year's Lincoln Center Theater production of Admissions, the fiery play about family dynamics and race from J…
Joanna Riding has won two Olivier Awards, starting with her matchless Julie Jordan in Nicholas Hytner's landmark 1992 production of Carousel, and is now giving a career-defining performance …
A revelatory new production of "Betrayal" starring Tom Hiddleston comes after a season of the playwright's one-act plays.
Richard Fleeshman starred on the West End and Broadway opposite Caissie Levy in Ghost the Musical and was part of the British ensembles of Urinetown and The Last Ship…
Athol Fugard's seminal 1961 play hasn't lost its potency London's impromptu mini-season devoted to the work of Athol Fugard picks up real steam with Blood Knot, Matthew Xia's transfixing ta…
Bruce Norris's ever-provocative play puts people first, labels second "Some monsters are real," notes a retribution-minded wife (Matilda Ziegler) early in Downstate, Bruce Norris's beautiful…
Penelope Wilton and Ophelia Lovibond face off in revival of little-known 1986 play David Hare knows a thing or two about sustaining an onstage face-off. Skylight and The Breath of Life consi…
Rachel Tucker is known both sides of the Atlantic as an especially thrilling Elphaba in Wicked and as a singer who has enlivened various concert halls and cabaret rooms, performing both solo…
Rachel Tucker is known both sides of the Atlantic as an especially thrilling Elphaba in Wicked and as a singer who has enlivened various concert halls and cabaret rooms, performing both solo…
Rachel Tucker is known both sides of the Atlantic as an especially thrilling Elphaba in Wicked and as a singer who has enlivened various concert halls and cabaret rooms, performing both solo…
Alex Kingston stars in darkly comic Off Broadway transfer Joshua Harmon knows how to stir and excite an audience and does that and more with Admissions, newly arrived in the West End as p…
Charity Wakefield has made a name for herself both sides of the Atlantic in TV shows like Bounty Hunters and Wolf Hall but is only now making her West End debut in the transfer to the Vaudev…
Tale of female emancipation gets a necessary post-interval lift There's a lovely, quietly subversive musical lurking somewhere in Waitress, and for extended passages in the second act that …
Productions of Molière's "Tartuffe," Peter Shaffer's "Equus" and Martin Sherman's "Gently Down the Stream" all find something new.
Layton Williams q-and-a / Matt Wolf Layton Williams wasn't yet a teenager when in 2007 he became the first mixed-race actor to play the title role on the West End in Billy Elliot the Musical…
★★★ JESUS HOPPED THE 'A' TRAIN, YOUNG VIC Shards of power amidst much that is overwrought Stephen Adly Guirgis play is best when most reflective An entirely electric leadin…
★★★★ SHIPWRECK, ALMEIDA THEATRE Trump-inflected fantasia mixes polemical and poetic Anne Washburn's shape-shifting play won't be confined, nor will the man at its …
9/11-themed musical crosses the Atlantic, its capacious heart intact Against the grimmest of backdrops, generosity and even grace can be possible. That's the eternally uplifting message of C…