David Haig q-and-a / Matt Wolf Weather is the unlikely if potent topic of Pressure at the Ambassadors Theatre, written by and starring the protean Olivier Award-winning actor David Haig, who…
A newly-minimalist Sam Mendes guides an expert cast to sublime heights There's surprising and then there's The Lehman Trilogy, the National Theatre premiere in which a long-established direc…
Lara Martins has quietly carved a slice of theatrical history by becoming the longest-running Carlotta in the storied history of The Phantom of the Opera, continuing on in its original West …
Martin McDonagh revival brings Poldark to the London stage, guns blazing Aidan Turner may not reveal those famously bronzed pecs that have made TV's Poldark box office catnip in his West End…
From big-name musicals to challenging new work at small theaters, the Yanks are everywhere.
Kelli O’Hara is finally making her West End stage debut as British governess Anna Leonowens in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I, the role that brought the beloved America…
Oliver Tompsett is a West End alum of such musicals as We Will Rock You, Wicked, Rock of Ages and Guys and Dolls. In June, he joined the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Kinky Boo…
Joseph Kloska has become something of a Royal Shakespeare Company regular of late and steps up a career notch with his co-starring performance opposite Tony winner Richard McCabe (The Audien…
Familiar title is reinvigorated afresh in a startling revival Lia Williams can be said to have been in her prime ever since the double-whammy several decades ago when she appeared onstage in…
Laura Linney and Orlando Bloom are drawing audiences to London's playhouses, even as theatergoers seem to be growing indifferent to who's in the cast.
Fondly remembered from his London and Broadway run in Alan Bennett’s Tony-winning The History Boys, Stephen Campbell Moore has since returned to the West End in Clybourne Park and Chim…
Lesser-known American classic exerts a clinical fascination The American playwright /journalist Sophie Treadwell's 1928 expressionist drama crops up every so often in order to allow a direct…
This is a feisty, animated Iceman , with the magnificent Denzel Washington leading the cast.
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…