There are few supporting roles in musicals as fiery as that of John, the marine-turned-aid worker in Miss Saigon who gets the second act of the musical off to a powerful start with the anthe…
The holidays are officially here! In London, that means a spate of eagerly anticipated musical revivals, a seasonal romp at the National, and Shakespeare displaced to Las Vegas. For that and…
On the London stage, Jamie Lloyd's production of "Assassins"; a revival of "Accolade"; and Mordaunt Shairp's 1933 play "The Green Bay Tree."
Lucy Punch is back in the West End for the first time in well over a decade, having in the interim shot to fame in Bad Teacher, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger and the forthcoming screen …
Grim new productions in the British capital include "'Tis Pity She's a Whore," "Wildefire" and "Hippolytos."
The West End has a sleeper success in The Play That Goes Wrong, the delicious play-within-a-play that chronicles all manner of onstage and offstage mishaps during a performance of an old-sty…
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, David Hare's adaptation of Katherine Boo's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, works as both play and portent. Viewed on its own terms, the evening grips throughout i…
What ought to be a featherweight holiday confection emerges as a charmless slog in the belated West End bow of White Christmas, a title that at this point in November may induce panic in tho…
Amid a busy fall season in London for musicals, Natalie Mendoza’s powerful performance as Imelda Marcos in the European premiere of Here Lies Love at the National Theatre stands apart.…
Stage and screen star Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace, Tamara Drewe) has come a long way since she last appeared in the West End in the American comedy The Little Dog Laughed&nb…
Katie Mitchell brings incision and insight to a new London production of "The Cherry Orchard." "Neville's Island" explores survival, while "Memphis" tackles race relations.
The current crop of shows dealing with controversial subjects has breathed new life into the form
This production of The Real Thing by Sir Tom Stoppard
The October explosion of musicals continues into November with a heady mixture of new shows and revivals that mix beloved British names like Gemma Arterton and Catherine Tate with Broadway g…
The famous siblings are making their Broadway debuts this autumn: who will take home the acting honours? Continue reading...
Amid a busy month for musical upgrades to the West End from smaller playhouses elsewhere, the Kinks musical Sunny Afternoon, stands apart as a celebration of some of the most enduring songs …
A look at Phyllida Lloyd's new all-woman "Henry IV," and bumpy revivals of "Uncle Vanya" and "East Is East" in London.
A template of the American theatre gets dusted off to quietly devastating effect in Our Town, the 1938 Thornton Wilder play that has never been especially beloved in Britain even as it gets …
Jenna Russell needs no introduction as a London musicals mainstay, with credits ranging from Sarah Brown in the Michael Grandage-directed Guys and Dolls to a range of Sondheim musicals that …
The National Theatre's new Dorfman auditorium gets off to a kick-ass start with Here Lies Love, the Off Broadway musical transplant that does for the closing months of Nicholas Hytner's tenu…
Tony nominee Brandon Victor Dixon (The Color Purple) was center stage in the original New York production of the John Kander and Fred Ebb musical The Scottsboro Boys in 2010, only to miss ou…
The new London revival of David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow," with Lindsay Lohan and Richard Schiff, seemed a little too cautious.
The lazy days of summer are all but forgotten as the theater season kicks into autumnal overdrive. Highlights this month include a slew of New York musicals either making their London debuts…
What's the buzz at the Dominion Theatre on Evita's opening week? A star is born. Portuguese actress Madalena Alberto, who plays Eva Peron in the new revival, is w…
Enda Walsh's "Ballyturk" opens at the National Theater; the Royal Court stages Rory Mullarkey's "The Wolf From the Door"; and "The Comedy of Errors" shows at Shakespeare's Globe.