Vanessa Kirby leads superfluous update that is a lot more Stenham than Strindberg It seems appropriate that an onstage blender features amidst Tom Scutt's sleak, streamlined set for Julie gi…
Gavin Spokes is among those invaluable English performers who can do plays and musicals across both the British and American repertoire. A 2016 Olivier nominee for playing Nicely Nicely John…
1980s Broadway flop proves an Off West End knockout Two dynamite lead performances and the chance to savour an underappreciated score give genuine charge to The Rink, a decades-old Bro…
Adam Gillen recently finished an extended and electrifying run as Mozart in the National Theatre’s glorious revival of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, only to segue from the world of Eu…
Late Shakespeare collaboration is by turns engaging and daftThose who find the Bard tough going " wasn't that one of Emma Rice's admissions back in the day? " should beat a path to The Two N…
Brian Friel's luminous play fully lands in the National's largest space What sort of physical upgrade can a play withstand? That question will have occurred to devotees of Brian Fr…
Michelle Terry, the playhouse's artistic director, defines her agenda with productions of "Hamlet" and "As You Like It."
Caroline O’Connor was born in the north of England to Irish parents, grew up in Australia, and works regularly in the U.S., including most recently on Broadway in Anastasia. She is ret…
Much-traveled play contains one twist too many Add Catalan writer Jordi Galcerán to the shortlist of European playwrights who are finding an international perch, in this case with a tr…
Nancy Carroll won a 2011 Olivier Award for Best Actress for her searing and stylish performance at the National Theatre in After the Dance and is rarely long away from the London stage. Know…
Matthew Lopez's "The Inheritance" refracts gay American life through an English novel, while two new British plays choose a shorter, satirical path.
David Thaxton won the 2011 Olivier Award for his stunning performance as Giorgio in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, but the performer has been spending much of his career returning to Les…
David Thaxton won the 2011 Olivier Award for his stunning performance as Giorgio in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, but the performer has been spending much of his career returning to Les…
Eighties musical remains a melodically rich muddle Its origins as a concept album cling stubbornly to Chess, the Tim Rice collaboration with the male members of ABBA first seen on the West E…
Romola Garai gives a storming performance in deliberately tricksy Ella Hickson playForget write what you know: writing what you feel would seem to be the impetus driving Ella Hickson's often…
Alfred Enoch hit the big time as Wes on ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder and played Dean Thomas in the Harry Potter films, but the fast-rising screen star is returning to the stage to…
Long-aborning stage version of the Baz Luhrmann film is a protracted cartoon A much tinkered-with show needs to go back to the drawing board, if this latest iteration of Strictly Ballroom: T…
The screen and stage star invents herself anew, this time in song A onetime Martha and Maggie the Cat in the theatre, not to mention a screen siren of the sort they don't make anymore, might…
All or Nothing, the self-described “Mod Musical” now at the Ambassadors Theatre directly following a run at the Arts, tells the story of the Small Faces, the English rock band fr…
Two London stage productions bring some razzle dazzle to the city: a musical biography of Tina Turner and the return of "Chicago."
Bat Out of Hell, the rock and roll stage extravaganza drawn from songwriter Jim Steinman and the iconic Meat Loaf album of the same name, has returned to London, this time to the Dominion Th…
Bernadette Peters and company find their voice in the second act of this classic musical.
Josefina Gabrielle has been an invaluable West End presence in productions ranging from Oklahoma! as Laurey opposite Hugh Jackman to Gussie in the Maria Friedman-directed Merrily We Roll Alo…
In "Brief Encounter" and "Summer and Smoke," directors subvert the expectations of their audiences with fascinating results.
David Albury has gained attention in the verbatim musical Committee… at the Donmar and as Fleetwood in Michael Blakemore’s British stage debut of The Life and is now making his …