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."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2023
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]Tuesday, December 27, 2022
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]Wednesday, December 21, 2022
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]Monday, December 19, 2022
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]Thursday, December 15, 2022
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]Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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]Friday, December 9, 2022
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]Thursday, December 8, 2022
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
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]Friday, December 2, 2022
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]Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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]Friday, November 25, 2022
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]Thursday, November 24, 2022
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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 19, 2022
Beckett specialist Lisa Dwan and Oscar winner Timothy Hutton head cast of the latest from English writer-director Terry Johnson
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2022
An adaptation of "My Neighbour Totoro" enchants audiences at the Barbican. Across town at the Harold Pinter Theater, a revival of "Good" takes viewers to darker territory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2022
A new musical about the life of the televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, composed by Elton John, makes spectacular entertainment from a righteous subject.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Theresa Heskins co-authors and directs overinsistent adaptation of the life of Neil (Nello) Baldwin, a 76-year-old Staffordshire legend, which launches a lovely new West End venue
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:09PM[SHARE]Monday, October 24, 2022
Rob Madge solo play comes to the West End for two weeks, directed by Luke Sheppard, of "& Juliet" fame.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 13, 2022
Monday, October 10, 2022
Feted Broadway musical finds an apt London fit
Not much happens but, in its way, everything does in The Band's Visit, the gentle, sweet-natured musical that rather unexpectedly storme…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2022
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Dissent in the ranks in uber-timely American comedy
Can a play peak too soon? That's the quandary that attends the Old Vic airing of Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector's on-point if overextend…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 22, 2022
"Handbagged," a play that opened in London a day after Queen Elizabeth II died, depicts a clever, compassionate monarch. But theatrical depictions haven't always been so reverential.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Maynard Eziashi and Donna Berlin play husband and wife in exciting Almeida Theatre premiere from Dipo Baruwa-Etti
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:54AM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2022
Max Webster and Jo Tyabji co-direct Inua Ellams' modern-day adaptation of Sophocles tragedy.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:52AM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2022
Ivo van Hove returns to the Young Vic, where his shattering 'A View from the Bridge' was first seen in 2014
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2022
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