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]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]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]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]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]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]Productions of "John Gabriel Borkman" and "Blues for an Alabama Sky" conjure bleak atmospheres in two playhouses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25AM[SHARE]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]Phil Porter adapts heart-tugging memoir that was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:43AM[SHARE]Sophie Melville brings Gary Owen monodrama to its largest venue yet.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:41AM[SHARE]Royal Court verbatim theatre is both affecting - and self-flagellating
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:19AM[SHARE]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]"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]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]Max Webster and Jo Tyabji co-direct Inua Ellams' modern-day adaptation of Sophocles tragedy.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:52AM[SHARE]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]Two productions at the London playhouse feature heroines who, reluctantly, allow transformative characters into their lives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AM[SHARE]While marquee productions have featured star turns from Ian McKellen and Alan Cumming, smaller shows deal with contemporary life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48AM[SHARE]Shakespeare's valedictory, to comply with the received scholarship on this climactic play of his, lands with muted force in Sean Holmes's curate's egg of a production " engaging and vital at…
SOURCE: londontheatre.co.uk at 01:56PM[SHARE]Julian Ovenden and Joanna Ampil in Rodgers & Hammerstein classic directed by Daniel Evans, Ovenden's former castmate in Merrily We Roll Along two decades ago
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:49AM[SHARE]Problematic Globe production of The Tempest, starring Ferdy Roberts as a barely-clad Prospero
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:38AM[SHARE]Long-aborning musical still has a leg or two further to go There's further training, shall we say, still needed on 101 Dalmatians, the much-delayed show that marks the second consecutive mu…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:18AM[SHARE]Kate Fleetwood as Cruella de Vil in a show in need of further shaping
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:23PM[SHARE]Joshua Harmon's Off Broadway play resurfaces in London for a shouty revival headed by newcomer Rosie Yadid
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:32AM[SHARE]Scott Karim and Irfan Shamji reprise their 2019 stage partnership in a new play set between Kolkata, India, and the UK and directed by Milli Bhatia
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:52AM[SHARE]Last summer's hit Cole Porter revival is itself now revived, now with Kerry Ellis as Reno Sweeney, replacing Sutton Foster
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:08AM[SHARE]Ella Hunt gives a breakout performance opposite Jack Farthing in patchy 25th anniversary revival of Patrick Marber's London and Broadway play.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:04AM[SHARE]In London, a new play about President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and a revival of "The Seagull" explore undercurrents of pain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33AM[SHARE]Two new plays, "The Southbury Child" and "Mad House," explore domestic discord with contrasting degrees of success.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18AM[SHARE]Kathryn Hunter revisits Lear in a patchy production that co-stars Hunter's boss, Globe artistic director Michelle Terry
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:53AM[SHARE]Broadway entry from 2017 is the rare sequel that richly delivers Slamming the door on experience comes with repercussions in A Doll's House, Part 2, the thrilling Broadway entry from Americ…
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