It’s back to school for families and back to the theater for devotees of the London stage in what is shaping up to be the busiest September in years. Highlights include new plays featu…
Stephen Wight came to attention in the plays of Patrick Marber (Dealer’s Choice, Don Juan in Soho) and then moved on to TV and further acclaim. Now, the actor has transferred to the We…
The set turns out to be the thing now that Benedict Cumberbatch's star turn in Hamlet has finally arrived, trailing in its wake a level of expectation, hysteria and scrutiny that might well …
The Royal Shakespeare Company takes on Marlowe; Shakespeare's Globe presents an elegant "Richard II"; Open Air Theater in Regent's Park offers a lesson in manners.
The sex will be in the heel as of this week at the Adelphi Theatre, where Kinky Boots is readying to open officially on September 15. The London production stars Matt Henry and Killian Donne…
Gods, tyrants and lovers give a scintillating air to London's late-summer theatrical landscape.
It’s no bad idea in a play about a real-life father and son to cast a real-life father and son. This is the case with the Apollo Theatre production of Dear Lupin, in which the veteran …
Lorna Want has appeared on the London stage in Parade, Footloose, and as Peron's mistress in the Michael Grandage production of Evita, but has reached a career high this year, winning an…
Satire may famously be what on Broadway closes Saturday night, but last night's concert performance of the Gershwin brothers' Of Thee I Sing found many patrons fleeing the Festival…
Some theater capitals go on late-summer hiatus, but not London, which has saved the year’s biggest opening for the dog days of August. (Not that there are tickets still to be had for B…
A revival of "Mack & Mabel" gets its energy from the show's star, Michael Ball, while "Songs for a New World'' displays its wit and rue.
Hockadoo! Memphis the Musical has a new leading man. The West End incarnation of the Tony-winning Broadway hit recently welcomed stage first-timer Matt Cardle to the cast, playing radio…
Burt Bacharach, existentialist? That's among the surprising thoughts prompted by the searchingly titled What's It All About?, the altogether delightful but also touching musical revue that t…
Two new plays, one starring the gifted Rory Kinnear, in London.
The National Theatre staging of War Horse has become a West End mainstay and continues at the New London Theatre after nabbing five Tony Awards on Broadway in 2011. The lead role of the equi…
The 25th-anniversary revival of Miss Saigon at the Prince Edward Theatre has had some cast changes as it enters its second year—among them the arrival of Broadway alum Chris Peluso to …
Premieres of "Luna Gala," "hang" and "Violence and Son" remind theatergoers of the thrill of the new.
Summertime and the livin’ is full of theater in London, a capital whose cultural calendar remains full whatever the season. Highlights this month include the UK premiere of an off…
Kate Fleetwood was a 2008 Tony nominee for her performance opposite Patrick Stewart in Macbeth and a 2012 Olivier nominee for the hit National Theatre production of London Road. But her curr…
A staging of "Aeschylus's "Oresteia" looks at violence, and a production of Shakespeare's "King John" looks at the monarch on the throne when the Magna Carta was produced in 1215.
The play that lost the 2011 Tony Award to War Horse is now receiving its British debut at the very address where War Horse premiered. But such theatrical coincidences won't register in most …
The West End has a, well, beautiful new star in Katie Brayben, the English actress who won an Olivier Award in April for her performance as Carole King in the London production of Beaut…
Imelda Staunton has already won Olivier Awards for her Baker’s Wife in the London debut of Into the Woods and as Mrs. Lovett opposite Michael Ball in the 2012 West End revival of Sween…
The Brits had a bravura night on Broadway as the 69th annual Tony awards last night, but if you dig into the detail, particularly when it comes to musicals, it looks unlikely the triumph wil…
They say there’s nothing like a dame—but what about two dames? That’s the situation currently with Peter Morgan’s London and Broadway hit The Audience, which has one …