Jade Franks mines the awkwardness of social mobility in her one-woman show “Eat the Rich.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMThere is plenty of stimulation for young theatergoers in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved book.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:06PMA new London staging of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical makes the most of its comedic elements and delivers a visual treat.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42AMArthur Miller and Ivo van Hove are a perfect match again, in a new production starring Bryan Cranston and Paapa Essiedu.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:12AMThe screen star is making her London stage debut in Tracy Letts’ portrait of embattled womanhood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMAlice Birch’s latest play offers two modish genres for the price of one: the trauma narrative and the earnest inquiry into masculinity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PM“Born With Teeth,” which premiered in the West End of London this week, imagines the writers’ working relationship as heavy on bawdy flirtation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:36AMSeveral theater productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including drama, comedy and musicals, deal with the effects of psychic pain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMThe shows that have gotten tongues wagging this year include stand-up gigs, character skits and a routine that ends with its performer covered in goo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06AMThe “Succession” star, playing the ghost of the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith, is a bright spot in a new play about the 2008 banking crunch.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AM“Inter Alia,” at the National Theater in London, is a successor to the award-winning “Prima Facie.” It brings familiar tropes, and melodrama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AMThe actress is making her West End debut in Jamie Lloyd’s latest take on an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:06PMThe band’s frontman, Thom Yorke, created a show with the Royal Shakespeare Company that is both admirably ambitious and a little foolish.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PM“My Master Builder,” a new take on the Ibsen classic, reduces a complex play to a tawdry marital melodrama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:24PMThe star actor returns to the theater where he started almost a half-century ago, with Samuel Beckett’s bleak one-man play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54AMA new play by Robert Icke about a real-life police chase takes the form of an imagined trial.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:12PMTimes critics discuss the big winners — a new play about Roald Dahl, a “Fiddler on the Roof” revival and a folk-rock “Benjamin Button”— at London’s theater awards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMA new one-woman show from the producer of “Baby Reindeer” and “Fleabag” is an irreverent allegory about wildfires and global warming.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:02PMThanks to Blanchett’s charismatic turn as a fading actress, this new Chekhov adaptation in London hangs together in spite of Thomas Ostermeier’s antics.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:12PMLuke Thallon expertly blends sincerity and neediness as the embattled prince in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s latest production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02AMThe actor, on a hot streak after “Wicked,” takes on his biggest stage role to date. In London, he plays Shakespeare’s unfortunate king as a flouncing sociopath.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:54PMSophocles is suddenly everywhere on the city’s stages. In concurrent shows, Rami Malek is playing Oedipus and Brie Larson is taking on Elektra.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMDave Malloy’s musical, which was a hit in New York, comes to London in an antirealist staging that loses the 1812 setting and some emotional punch.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36AMA new play in London portrays the beloved children’s author as a rounded character, while making no apology for his bigotry.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PMThe duo behind the Broadway hit follow it up with a meta reflection on finding love online that is relatable and fun but lacking narrative drive.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42PMGrief narratives were in vogue, and psychological maladies, too, at the annual Scottish arts showcase.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMIn a soul-baring new show at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Australian stand-up leans once again into fears, anxieties and mental health worries.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AMThe event’s best theater production avoided the gimmicks of other shows in favor of well-drawn characters and well-written dialogue.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMMultiple shows at the Edinburgh Fringe make camp fun out of the 2023 civil action that spurred a thousand memes — and one of them is a triumph.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMNostalgia will undoubtedly lure many to a London revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. It has more in common with a theme park than with theater, our critic writes.
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