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"You make clothes that make the darkness in me matter": If such an accolade strikes you as profound, make a beeline for McQueen, the James Phillips play about the tortured, all-too-brief lif…
It’s rare for a Broadway hit to cross the Atlantic intact, but that is currently happening with director Scott Ellis’ acclaimed revival of The Elephant Man, which has arrived in …
"Everyman" lets Chiwetel Ejiofor show off a palpable soul, "American Buffalo" has John Goodman inhabiting a landscape of hucksterism, and "The Merchant of Venice" brings Jonathan Pryce home.
Frank Loesser seems to be known in Britain for one show and one show only, which seems a shame given that the composer-lyricist of Guys and Dolls wrote other shows including the ravishing Th…
Antony Sher, the actor-knight who was nominated for a Best Actor Tony Award in 1997 for his performance as the British painter Stanley Spencer in Stanley, has played many of the great Shakes…
Reviews of "The Vote," "The Audience," and "Beyond Caring" in London
After a passionate Broadway debut in the short-lived Sting musical The Last Ship, Belfast-born actress-singer Rachel Tucker has returned to London to head the cast of the Menier Chocolate Fa…
"I hear America singing," wrote Walt Whitman, the American poet whose language playwright Richard Nelson has co-opted for the title of the second (Sweet and Sad) of his remarkable quartet of…
The sun is shining and as if to celebrate, the Dames are coming out to play on London stages this month. Fold in a musical theater favorite turning her attentions to Alan Ayckbourn and …
God love Christine Baranski: Eight years after the Tony and Emmy-winning actress played the supporting role of Carlotta Campion in a semi-staged 2007 production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies…
Will the States' Anglophilia fade? asks Matt Wolf
Ruthie Henshall needs scant introduction as one of the West End’s leading musical theater lights, with credits spanning the Atlantic that include Chicago, Miss Saigon, Putting It Toget…
A provocative and elusive reimagining of Bizet's "Carmen," National Health Service testimonials, and revisiting Roald Dahl.
J. Robert Oppenheimer has been called the father of the atomic bomb, and the American physicist has now given his name to a new Royal Shakespeare Company play, Oppenheimer. With a running ti…
Matt Wolf wishes the score of this revamped production was less generic
The Play That Goes Wrong at the Duchess Theatre contains lots of men behaving badly—or, at least clumsily—but the Olivier-nominated hit comedy owes much of its success to the two…
Fantastic food fights, serene wits and a rabbit that won't go away on the stages in London.
Spring is in the air and with it a raft of high-profile openings that include the West End bow of Imelda Staunton’s show-stopping Rose in Gypsy, a gala concert of Follies in honor of S…
English soul singer Beverley Knight has been batting a thousand in her stage forays to date. She first appeared on the West End in 2013 as Heather Headley’s replacement in The Bodyguar…
Stephen Sondheim's ever-elastic masterpiece is downsized to largely dazzling effect in its latest iteration, which has been transferred intact to a Shaftesbury Avenue pop-up after premiering…
Breakout performances rarely come as high-voltage as Jenna Augen’s turn in Bad Jews, the Joshua Harmon play that is transferring to the Arts Theatre starting March 18 after previous ru…
Sunny Afternoon, the Edward Hall-directed jukebox musical salute to the legendary British band The Kinks, was just nominated for five Olivier Awards, but arguably none of its nods is more de…
Two other plays " "Closer" and "Kill Me Now'' " also find their own ways of pushing the envelope.
Helen Mirren's comic timing as the Queen sets this performance apart, says Matt Wolf
Helen Mirren's comic timing as the Queen sets this performance apart, says Matt Wolf
