Friday, April 8, 2022
Niche Sondheim gets an, um, no-trumpets-barred revival
Musicals don't get madder than Anyone Can Whistle, the 1964 Broadway flop from onetime West Side Story and Gypsy collaborators Stephen…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:06AM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2022
Rafe Spall and David Moorst headline London version of Broadway smash, alongside Tony winner Jim Norton as the Judge.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:51PM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2022
Thursday, March 17, 2022
In West End productions, Jonathan Bailey and Taron Egerton play a fighting couple, and Kit Harington from "Game of Thrones" plays the warrior king in "Henry V."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2022
Maria Friedman is back, this time with a concert show that includes her gifted young son, Alfie
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Jessica Turner is excellent as Theresa May in critic-turned-playwright Tim Walker's look at the run-up to Brexit.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:22PM[SHARE]Friday, March 4, 2022
Moral depravity looms large in exciting, heavily cut take on Shakespeare's eternally vexed 'comedy'
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2022
Francesca Carpanini inherits a role once played by Patti LuPone in interminable two-hander, first seen in 1977
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:10PM[SHARE]Friday, February 25, 2022
Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope give memorable performances as the odd couple artists in Anthony McCarten's new play, "The Collaboration."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 24, 2022
Creative adaptations of "Wuthering Heights" and Ionesco's "The Chairs" grapple with death and feature inclusions of the coronavirus and performance artists.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Paul McGann and Toby Stephens headline the first Florian Zeller play to have its world premiere in English; Jonathan Kent directs.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:28PM[SHARE]Friday, February 4, 2022
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Caryl Churchill's 2002 masterwork, starring Lennie James and Paapa Essiedu, resonates anew
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:32AM[SHARE]Two new plays offer very different experiences of the sanitarium, one starring Mark Rylance and the other spotlighting a fast-rising actress.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 27, 2022
Elizabeth McGovern's self-penned two-hander about Ava Gardner is a waste of time and talent
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 13, 2022
A surge in coronavirus infections toppled production after production, but two stage adaptations " of a movie and a blockbuster novel " recovered and endure.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Chilean writer Pablo Manzi brings his dark vision of human behaviour to the Royal Court, directed by Sam Pritchard.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Olivier Award-winner John Dagleish takes the title role in Alexander Knott's murky, angled take on Dickens's long-suffering clerk
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 02:47PM[SHARE]Tamsin Greig inherits Maureen Lipman's original role in Alan Plater's portrait of the onetime literary agent and legend
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 30, 2021
Camp Siegfried, Cabaret, and Lisa Dwan as Beckett's Winnie among the year's best theatre in London.
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 16, 2021
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 04:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Jasper Britton, Ria Jones and Caroline Langrishe in Alan Bennett's 1973 comedy about mortality, directed by Patrick Marber
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:36AM[SHARE]Monday, December 13, 2021
James Graham's new play draws parallels between the bad-tempered 1968 debates between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal and the rancorous public arena of today.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:12PM[SHARE]Monday, December 6, 2021
Hattie Ladbury in superlative form as a gender-flipped Duke, with Georgia Landers as Isabella
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 02:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Monday, November 29, 2021
Friday, November 26, 2021
Stephen Mangan is the best Scrooge yet, with Oli Higginson and Rachel John amongst those lending sterling support
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 25, 2021
Two London productions that play fast and loose with their literary sources lack the theatrical magic of another show that gives viewers the original, unadorned.
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