A particularly violent London season of well-known revivals includes a noteworthy “Duchess of Malfi” and a popular “Sweeney Todd.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:26PMTimed to coincide with the Olympics, this adaptation of the Oscar-winning film "Chariots of Fire" stirs the air without raising any adrenaline.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:59AMIn Dominic Dromgoole's production of Shakespeare's 1599 portrait of a young king at war, light and shadow are always intermingled.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:38AMIn Philip Ridley's play "Mercury Fur," a gruesome party assembles in a rubble-strewn London apartment
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AMDanny DeVito and Richard Griffiths reveal the raw hostility at the core of Neil Simon's "Sunshine Boys."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:40AMThe Baby Boom generation seems to have aged into a Baby Bust cohort on the London stage, where privileged youth remain spoiled.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PM“Forbidden Broadway,” the satirical revue that kept theater vultures sated for nearly three decades before closing in Manhattan in 2009, is returning this summer with plenty to spoof.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PMBen Brantley on "Sweeney Todd" and other London shows in which the on-stage death toll is unusually high.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:28PMBen Brantley on "The Physicists" at Donmar Warehouse and "South Downs" and "The Browning Version" at the Harold Pinter Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:57PMBen Brantley on new plays by Ella Hickson ("Eight") and the Belarus Free Theater ("Minsk 2011").
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:49PMAnthony Page's excellent revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" runs in London through Aug. 18.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:21PMWorks by agitprop, political and plain old angry playwrights are something of a trend on smaller stages in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:47PMThe Menier Chocolate Factory revives Harvey Fierstein's Tony-winning play, directed by Douglas Hodge.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:21AMBen Brantley on Vivienne Franzmann's "The Witness" at the Royal Court Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:16AM'The Duchess of Malfi,' a Jacobean tragedy that just ended its run at Old Vic in London, was written when memories of the first Queen Elizabeth were fresh. Now it provokes Ben Brantley's ref…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:04AM“We have a long way to go before this is over,” Catherine of Siena tells the audience in Kenneth Lonergan’s “Medieval Play,” which has knights, ladies, popes, harlots and a dozen o…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:05PMWhat better art than the theater, by its nature a collective experience, to consider the overlap between the individual and the communal?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:22PMThe Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of “The Common Pursuit” — rather like the intellectual undergraduates portrayed onstage — never fulfills even its modest promise.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMAthol Fugard’s “My Children! My Africa!” is a tale of friendship, idealism and unintended consequences in the twilight of apartheid.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“February House,” a new musical at the Public Theater, tours a Brooklyn Heights commune where W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers and Benjamin Britten were all residents.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMMike Bartlett’s “Cockfight Play,” directed by James Macdonald, centers on a sexual triangle.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMMegan Hilty stars in the red-blooded Encores! concert staging of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:31PMWhen a production moves to a Broadway house, it can seem different — even if the script, director and actors haven’t changed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:32AMThe Broadway season that ended recently has shown that the art of eloquence in theater is very much alive.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:58PMPaul Weitz’s “Lonely, I’m Not,” a damaged-boy-meets-defensive-girl story, stars a wonderfully matched, mismatched Topher Grace and Olivia Thirlby.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Target Margin Theater production of “Uncle Vanya” suggests a group of passionate college students who, after a long night of punch-drunk debate, have decided to act out one of their …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:41PMThe current revival of "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" is a reminder of the joys of smart-talking stage characters, also on display in the new works "Other Desert Cities" and "The Lyons."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:07AM“An Early History of Fire,” a tumultuous work that has been given a surprisingly flat production by the New Group, is the first new play in a decade from David Rabe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Leap of Faith” is this season’s black hole of musical comedy, sucking the energy out of anyone who gets near it.
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