Anne Reid inherits Lois Smith's stage and screen role as Marjorie, opposite Olivier nominee Richard Fleeshman, late of the West End "Company"
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:57AM[SHARE]Nicholas Hytner's heartbreaking ambulatory staging, at the Bridge Theater in London, finds new depths in the classic Broadway musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:39AM[SHARE]Willy Russell's play gets a renewed lease on life Can lightning strike twice? Very much so, when it comes to Shirley Valentine, Willy Russell's much-revived solo play which I saw back in th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:38AM[SHARE]In London, a stage show based on the popular TV series tries to capture the warmhearted appeal of the original.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:40AM[SHARE]The director Tinuke Craig follows up last summer's 'Jitney' with another bustling, boisterous play, this one a premiere from the Nigerian-British writer Diana Nneka Atuona; Sarah Parish star…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:08AM[SHARE]Sergo Vares and John Lightbody head the cast in Shakespeare's late Romance, which utilises both stages at the Globe for the first time.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:31AM[SHARE]Lydia Leonard, late of "Oslo," leads the cast of young writer Lulu Raczka's Jacobean mash-up, directed for the Almeida by the busy Rupert Goold.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:29PM[SHARE]New productions of "Medea" and "Phaedra" feature outstanding performances from Sophie Okonedo and Janet McTeer as women pushed to the edge.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PM[SHARE]Sabrina Wu, recently seen in "The Doctor," graduates to the solo part in critic-turned-playwright Ava Wong Davies's anatomy of love and loss
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:35PM[SHARE]The art form needs to make room for lesser-known names, to refresh and enlarge the talent pool, our critic writes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:55AM[SHARE]Hadley Fraser leads adroit new cast in third separate London showing of Ben Power's five-time Tony-winning play.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:54PM[SHARE]Onetime Girls Aloud pop star Cheryl makes a terrific West End debut in newly apposite thriller from Danny Robins
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:05AM[SHARE]Katy Stephens is a magnificent, maleficent Titus in Jude Christian's all-female production in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, complete with original songs
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:27PM[SHARE]London's underground queer culture comes "above ground" for deliberately formless Royal Court show
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 02:05PM[SHARE]TV writer Steven Moffat, of Sherlock and Doctor Who renown, crosses over to the stage in a starry production headed by the wonderful Reece Shearsmith
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:10AM[SHARE]Alex Edelman brings his superb Off Broadway hit back to London, where it was previously seen pre-pandemic
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:45AM[SHARE]In London, the Irish actor stars as Stanley Kowalski in a deeply empathic version of Tennessee Williams's 1947 play, "A Streetcar Named Desire."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:20AM[SHARE]Lillian Hellman's prescient 1940 play is terrifically well served in a Donmar revival starring English stage veteran Patricia Hodge and a radiant UK stage debut from Caitlin FitzGerald
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:38PM[SHARE]In an iffy year for new plays and musicals, a post-pandemic London stage returned to life Where were the great new plays during 2022? That question underscored weeks of playgoing that tu…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:32PM[SHARE]Pooja Ghai directs Hannah Khalil's play, a co-production between Shakespeare's Globe and Tamasha that captures in some essential way captures the zeitgeist
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:43AM[SHARE]Ian McKellen is Caroline Goose in a blissed-out panto joyfully directed by Cal McCrystal and co-starring the indispensable Anna-Jane Casey as Cilla Quack.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:41AM[SHARE]The Times's three European theater critics pick their favorite productions of the year " plus a turkey apiece for the festive season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]Robert Bathurst is a nightshirt-wearing Scrooge in a winning 1930s Tennessee take on the ubiquitous Dickens title
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:33PM[SHARE]Michael Luwoye, late of "Hamilton," has the title role in drearily hagiographic biomusical, enlivened only by its dancing
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 04:56PM[SHARE]TV actress Fay Ripley in misbegotten comedy set in east London's Walthamstow
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:47AM[SHARE]In a freewheeling London adaptation of Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel, Corrin plays a character whose emotions are as fluid as their identity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42AM[SHARE]James Graham play hits the West End on the way, presumably, to Broadway Opposition (and history) are the apparent mainstays of the ceaselessly busy James Graham, and he conjoins the two to …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:06PM[SHARE]Oliver Johnstone plays a notably brutal warrior-king in this deliberately revisionist take on Shakespeare's history play
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:49PM[SHARE]Jasmine Naziha Jones takes the lead female role in her own debut play, which is very much a work of two different halves.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tony-winner Owen Teale is the sixth Scrooge so far in the Old Vic's London iteration of Dickens's seasonal mainstay; Lydia White makes a notably charming Belle
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:26PM[SHARE]The cushion of state money let the Hampstead and Donmar playhouses develop broad programs with international reach. Now they must find creative ways to play on.
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