Thursday, May 25, 2023
Radio 4 comedy Dickens pastiche comes wearisomely to the stage, with a different guest star every week; Caroline Leslie directs.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Michelle Terry plays Puck at the theatres she runs, directed by Elle While and with Mariah Gale as a female Bottom here called Nicola Bottome
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 02:11PM[SHARE]Monday, May 22, 2023
Season opener at Shakespeare's Globe captures the shifting moods of early Shakespeare comedy; Michael Elcock, late of the musical Hex, co-stars.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:33PM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2023
Monday, May 15, 2023
Christina Bianco brings her exuberant solo show to the Menier for a short, very sweet run, with Ryan MacKenzie her ace accompanist
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:06AM[SHARE]Monday, May 8, 2023
Play about a onetime Broadway smash surely has Broadway in its sights
Plays about the theatre are many and varied, from Gypsy and Noises Off to the numerous Shakespeare works that absorb the…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 27, 2023
Onetime Tony-winner Brid Brennan ("Dancing at Lughnasa") delivers bigtime as a fierce matriarch fresh out of prison
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2023
2019 Off Broadway musical comes to London in a powerfully sung production directed by Whitney White and starring Eleanor Worthington-Cox, a onetime Matilda
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:14PM[SHARE]Monday, April 24, 2023
Modern-day classic returns to the building where it was first seen in London
It's saying a lot when a production lives up to its gasp-inducing set. That's the happy case with Josie Rourke's …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2023
Comedy classic plays up the pain that comes with pleasure
It's not often with Private Lives that you feel Amanda and Elyot are one step away from a visit to A&E. But such is the startli…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Friday, March 24, 2023
Olivier nominee Danny Lee Wynter makes his playwriting debut in a play starring himself, Ako Mitchell, and Dyllón Burnside, from the TV series 'Pose'
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 23, 2023
Elliott Evans takes the title role in this latest iteration of a still-problematic, slow-aborning musical, here directed by Hannah Chissick
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Jenna Russell, in a break from her storied musicals career, plays the Scotswoman, Mill, in this fine revival of Zinnie Harris's elliptical if intriguing 2000 play, seen off Broadway in 2002
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 16, 2023
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]Wednesday, March 15, 2023
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]Thursday, March 9, 2023
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]Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Friday, March 3, 2023
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]Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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]Thursday, February 23, 2023
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]Wednesday, February 22, 2023
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]Friday, February 17, 2023
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]Thursday, February 16, 2023
Thursday, February 9, 2023
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]Monday, February 6, 2023
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]Friday, February 3, 2023
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]Thursday, January 26, 2023
London's underground queer culture comes "above ground" for deliberately formless Royal Court show
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 02:05PM[SHARE]Friday, January 20, 2023
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]Friday, January 13, 2023
In London, the Irish actor stars as Stanley Kowalski in a deeply empathic version of Tennessee Williams's 1947 play, "A Streetcar Named Desire."
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