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Fish in the Dark, the Curb Your Enthusiasm writer's first venture onto Broadway, is a disappointment
The play for once really is the thing in a London month that puts musicals on the back burner for a change—well, that is until Gypsy begins previews—and lets the plays take cente…
Samantha Spiro has two Olivier Awards to her name, first for playing Mary in the Michael Grandage-directed Donmar production of Merrily We Roll Along and then for her irrepressible Dolly Lev…
Stars continue to be born from Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Following on from the ongoing Broadway run of the show, which catapulted to name status its Tony-winning leading lady Jessi…
The London stage is seeing a triptych of powerful performances with Mark Rylance in "Farinelli," Ian Gelder in "Gods and Monsters" and Maxine Peake in "How to Hold Your Breath."
You might not expect to find the distinguished stage veteran Isla Blair among the able cast of Made in Dagenham, the musical at the Adelphi Theatre based on the 2010 film about the fight for…
Lewis Reeves has caused quite a stir during his time in My Night with Reg, the revival of Kevin Elyot’s 1994 play about gay love and lust in the age of AIDS that has transferred to the…
In "Boa," "Tree," and "mountaineering," plenty of odd jobs and small casts, and an opportunity for the audience to co-star.
Jamie Lloyd’s blistering production of the Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman musical Assassins is hurtling into its final month at the Menier Chocolate Factory, and is about to welcome…
Here's the genuine hard problem facing commentators confronted with Tom Stoppard's new play of the same name: how do you honour the legacy of this extraordinary writer's first play in nine y…
Three-time Tony winner Mark Rylance returns to the playhouse he once ran, and the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon gets two new leads—these are just two of the…
Penelope Wilton and John Light in 'Taken at Midnight' at London's Theater Royal, Haymarket
Irish actor Brian Gilligan has been playing the defining role of Deco in the rock musical The Commitments at the Palace Theatre since September—meanwhile, the role’s originator, …
Josefina Gabrielle has three Olivier nominations to show for her wide-ranging musical theater career, which includes Laurey in Oklahoma! on both sides of the Atlantic as well as London reviv…
"Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" and "The Grand Tour'' are improved in some ways in their London versions.
Jake Gyllenhaal made his Broadway debut in good company " a galaxy of stars are currently on stage in New York. We review some of their performancesIt seems fitting that Jake Gyllenhaal is c…
Jennifer DiNoia has traveled the world with Wicked, shifting between various American cities to perform the musical in Australia and South Korea and now in London, where she plays Elphaba at…
A new year always brings with it promise in abundance, especially for the London theater scene, which Is already kicking into gear. From the latest British reworking of a Broadway musical to…
Trans-Atlantic transfers dominated at West End and fringe theaters in 2014.
That old canard about there being no good roles for women needed revising time and again in the theatre year just gone, so much so that end-of-year judging panels for the year's best faced f…
From a Noel Coward classic polished to within an inch of its life to a troubling Stephen Sondheim musical that packed a pistol-laden punch, London theater was characteristically varied and v…
Matt Wolf on high-concept Shakespeare and a new play that quite explicitly offers hope on the London stage.
From a boozy lunch at The Savoy to the star-studded red carpet of the London Palladium, Matt Wolf looks back at the glamour, the passion and the drama of 60 years of the Evening Standard The…
London offered a veritable feast of fine acting on stages large and small in 2014, whether in time-honored theatrical chestnuts (Angela Lansbury in Blithe Spirit) or bracing new plays (Russe…
The musical that defined an era is back on the West End, allowing a new generation to see what all the fuss was about 33 years ago when a non-narrative extravaganza as heavy on dance and sce…
