Thursday, March 23, 2023
Elliott Evans takes the title role in this latest iteration of a still-problematic, slow-aborning musical, here directed by Hannah Chissick
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:01AMTuesday, March 21, 2023
Jenna Russell, in a break from her storied musicals career, plays the Scotswoman, Mill, in this fine revival of Zinnie Harris's elliptical if intriguing 2000 play, seen off Broadway in 2002
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:18PMThursday, March 16, 2023
Anne Reid inherits Lois Smith's stage and screen role as Marjorie, opposite Olivier nominee Richard Fleeshman, late of the West End "Company"
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:57AMWednesday, March 15, 2023
Nicholas Hytner’s heartbreaking ambulatory staging, at the Bridge Theater in London, finds new depths in the classic Broadway musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:39AMThursday, March 9, 2023
Willy Russell's play gets a renewed lease on life
Can lightning strike twice? Very much so, when it comes to Shirley Valentine, Willy Russell's much-revived solo play which I saw back in th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:38AMTuesday, March 7, 2023
In London, a stage show based on the popular TV series tries to capture the warmhearted appeal of the original.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:40AMFriday, March 3, 2023
The director Tinuke Craig follows up last summer's 'Jitney' with another bustling, boisterous play, this one a premiere from the Nigerian-British writer Diana Nneka Atuona; Sarah Parish star…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:08AMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Sergo Vares and John Lightbody head the cast in Shakespeare's late Romance, which utilises both stages at the Globe for the first time.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:31AMThursday, February 23, 2023
Lydia Leonard, late of "Oslo," leads the cast of young writer Lulu Raczka's Jacobean mash-up, directed for the Almeida by the busy Rupert Goold.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:29PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
New productions of “Medea” and “Phaedra” feature outstanding performances from Sophie Okonedo and Janet McTeer as women pushed to the edge.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PMFriday, February 17, 2023
Sabrina Wu, recently seen in "The Doctor," graduates to the solo part in critic-turned-playwright Ava Wong Davies's anatomy of love and loss
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:35PMThursday, February 16, 2023
The art form needs to make room for lesser-known names, to refresh and enlarge the talent pool, our critic writes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:55AMThursday, February 9, 2023
Hadley Fraser leads adroit new cast in third separate London showing of Ben Power's five-time Tony-winning play.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:54PMMonday, February 6, 2023
Onetime Girls Aloud pop star Cheryl makes a terrific West End debut in newly apposite thriller from Danny Robins
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:05AMFriday, February 3, 2023
Katy Stephens is a magnificent, maleficent Titus in Jude Christian's all-female production in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, complete with original songs
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:27PMThursday, January 26, 2023
London's underground queer culture comes "above ground" for deliberately formless Royal Court show
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 02:05PMFriday, January 20, 2023
TV writer Steven Moffat, of Sherlock and Doctor Who renown, crosses over to the stage in a starry production headed by the wonderful Reece Shearsmith
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:10AMAlex Edelman brings his superb Off Broadway hit back to London, where it was previously seen pre-pandemic
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:45AMFriday, 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 08:20AMWednesday, 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 12:38PMTuesday, 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 turn…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:32PMWednesday, 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 07:43AMMonday, 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 06:41AMThursday, 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 05:18AMWednesday, 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 01:33PMFriday, 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 04:56PMThursday, December 8, 2022
TV actress Fay Ripley in misbegotten comedy set in east London's Walthamstow
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:47AMTuesday, 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 11:42AMFriday, 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: theartsdesk.com at 01:06PMTuesday, 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 12:49PMFriday, 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 
