The hit London comedy One Man, Two Guvnors is entering its final stretch at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, its giddy commedia dell’arte-inspired zing intact. For that, credit a cast mad…
The Menier Chocolate Factory's scaled-down production of "Candide," the 1956 Broadway musical, offers a fresh perspective; while stars take on two Shakespeare roles.
A new year in the London theater can mean only one thing: a dizzying array of enticing revivals and new works, plays and musicals. This month alone offers up a potentially career-defining Le…
Playgoers could be forgiven for thinking that they were seeing double during much of 2013. No sooner had one sat through Ian Rickson's dazzling revival of Old Times once before returnin…
From Harold Pinter to Eugene O'Neill and from musicals to plays, theater in 2013 offered an unusually abundant array from both sides of the Atlantic.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical, "Stephen Ward," explores the epicenter of the Profumo affair that rocked London in the early 1960s.
From women alternating roles in a haunting Pinter revival to a pair of separate but equal psychos, from bracing new musicals to galvanic revivals, the London stage offered enough potent thea…
The quality of acting in London over the past year was at a characteristically high level—literally so as regards one prize-winning performer who spent much of her show flying above th…
Among the multiple achievements of American Psycho, any one of which might be enough to make Rupert Goold's long-awaited Almeida season-opener the banner musical of a notably busy year for t…
There’s a surprising new Trunchbull terrorizing the students at Crunchem Hall: Alex Gaumond joined the London company of Matilda in September in the role originated by Bertie Carvel. I…
The National Theater productions "Emil and the Detectives" and "From Morning to Midnight" triumph in areas of logistics, design and casts. "Strangers on a Train" at the Gielgud Theater puts …
Christmas is approaching, but not before a dizzying spate of openings, including two eagerly awaited musical premieres, a double dose of Shakespeare and a two-time Olivier Award winner revis…
For increasing numbers of people, food is theatre, so what better time to combine the two into the slight, sweet, determinedly socially conscious evening that is Gastronauts, the Royal Court…
I guess the BBC can't afford researchers or fact-checkers these days. If they could, perhaps something of substance might have arisen from their vacuous Culture Show entry on Vicky Featherst…
Is there West End life after Heather Headley? The answer is yes at London’s Adelphi Theatre, where British soul singer Beverley Knight is leading the Olivier-nominated musical The Body…
Despite an impressive performance form Daniel Craig, Mike Nichols production gets away from the essence of Pinter s work.
Jack Huston plays a hit man viewers can’t help liking on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, and now he’s coming at murder from a different angle on the London stage. The British-born …
Rosalie Craig has appeared in musicals up and down the U.K., from London Road at the National and Ragtime in Regent’s Park to the out-of-town tryout of Finding Neverland, directed by R…
Debbie Tucker Green's "Nut" explores a mind in torment, and two 2 revivals " "Home" and "Passing By" " stay open to interpretation.
Jeff Fahey is familiar to TV fans from his two seasons as a rescue pilot on Lost and as the sheriff in early episodes of Under the Dome, as well as for his work in movies such as The Lawnmow…
London's National Theater threw itself a 50th birthday party on Saturday, paying tribute to the storied past of what is arguably the most important address in the English-speaking stage.
The National Theatre tonight hosts its 50th-birthday gala, 11 days after the English-speaking theatre's most important and influential address in fact reached the half-century mark. With cel…
The fall season is heating up in London, with November highlights that include a three-time Tony winner testing his classical chops, two plays better known as films, Sondheim in concert and …
The fall season is heating up in London, with November highlights that include a three-time Tony winner testing his classical chops, two plays better known as films, Sondheim in concert and …
Different degrees of realism are at play in James Macdonald's production of "Roots," Tamara Harvey's "From Here to Eternity" and Mark Rylance's "Much Ado About Nothing." &nb…