Friday, May 2, 2025
John Lithgow returns in even more devastating form in Giant, ramped up for the West End by a scorching London theatre debut from Aya Cash, replacing Romola Garai
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:58AMThursday, May 1, 2025
Stephen Sondheim’s final musical reaches the National, a SIX queen flirts with the supernatural and the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye outdoors at Regent’s Park. These are just a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMStarry new writing premiere struggles to connect
It's both brave and bracing to welcome new voices to the West End, but sometimes one wonders if such exposure necessarily works to the benef…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:24AMWednesday, April 23, 2025
Justina Kehinde plays a dying woman with an unusual request in Neil LaBute's circular, repetitive, often contrived play, now in its UK premiere
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:51PMSaturday, April 12, 2025
Nikesh Patel plays Abz in a terrifc new play from 2024 Olivier nominee Mohamed-Zain Dada (Blue Mist.).
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:18AMMonday, April 7, 2025
A view from inside the Albert Hall at a ceremony at which "Benjamin Button"'s John Dagleish brought the audience to tears and Simon Lipkin's Fagin and "Fiddler"'s bottle dance prompted cheers
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 02:49PMTimes 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 12:32PMTuesday, April 1, 2025
Laura Whitmore and Bryan Dick in John Donnelly play directed by Blanche McIntyre, fresh on the heels of The Invention of Love at the same address
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:24PMThere’s a spring in the step of the London theater in April, as seems appropriate, with new musicals based on classic titles jostling alongside the return of a major film star to the Londo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMTuesday, March 18, 2025
James Daly repeats his star turn as a vampy, bare-chested Count Dracula in London premiere of Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen's Off Broadway romp; Charlie Stemp, from Crazy for You, co-star…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:54AMThursday, March 13, 2025
Hit French play comes to London, translated by Jeremy Sams and with a scene-stealing supporting performance from onetime Olivier winner, Nigel Harman (Shrek): Michael Fox and Jennifer Kirby …
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:16AMWednesday, March 12, 2025
Julia McDermott is a solo sensation in her partner Brian Watkins's scorching solo play set amidst a world on the cusp of meltdown
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:14AMMonday, March 3, 2025
Clueless sings on the London stage, Cate Blanchett spreads her wings, and the producer of Fleabag is back for an encore - all that and James Graham not once but twice.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:13PMSunday, February 23, 2025
Cliff Curtis and Olivier Award winner Luke Treadaway in dense new play by the Oscar-nominated American writer Beau Willimon
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:13AMSaturday, February 22, 2025
Jonathan Bailey makes a petulant stage return in Shakespeare's most luxuriant play
Screen stardom is generally anointed at the box office so it's a very real delight to find the fast-rising…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:42AMFriday, February 14, 2025
Omari Douglas and Wil Johnson in baggy if big-hearted play that also stars its non-binary author, Coral Wylie
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:15AMFuturistic play is also deeply humane, and superbly served by its ensemble cast headed by Helen Schlesinger and Tim McMullan.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:50AMFriday, February 7, 2025
Brie Larson makes a brave West End debut that, alas, misfires
We live in tragic times given over to cataclysmic events that require outsized emotions in return. That may be one reason to ac…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:12AMMonday, February 3, 2025
Earl Gregory plays the Duke in inspired musical transposition of Shakespeare's buoyant comedy
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:47PMFebruary may be the shortest month but it is packed with enticing offerings on the London stage. The weeks ahead promise not one but two star-laden Sophoclean tragedies, and two comparably s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMWednesday, January 29, 2025
Nicholas Burns gets gifted with a surprise lump of excrement in Dave Florez's existential comedy
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:25PMFriday, January 24, 2025
Martina Laird and Gabrielle Brooks shine in shrewd, witty Shakespeare reappraisal
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:14AMWednesday, January 8, 2025
BEST OF 2024: THEATRE The classics reclaimed afresh, the acting often astonished
The classics were reclaimed afresh, and the acting more often than not astonished
It's the images that linge…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:42PMFriday, January 3, 2025
Some recommendations for visitors and residents who want to get the most from the city’s varied theater scene.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMThursday, January 2, 2025
January can be a sleepy time for stage activity in some cities. Not London, though, which is riding high from a wealth of high-profile, pre-Christmas holdovers, alongside a trio of dynamic i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AMSaturday, December 28, 2024
The classics were reclaimed afresh, and the acting more often than not astonished
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:35AMFriday, December 20, 2024
The veteran actress, playing Prospero in her West End debut, is strangely absent from Shakespeare’s narrative.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02AMWednesday, December 18, 2024
Tom Stoppard's dense 1997 play is dazzlingly served by director Blanche McIntyre and two formidable leading men in Matthew Tennyson and Simon Russell Beale as the younger and older AE Housma…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:46AMThursday, December 12, 2024
Relaunch of Elton John musical needs further tinkering still
It's second time only quasi-lucky for The Devil Wears Prada, the stage musical adaptation of the much-loved Meryl Streep film fr…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:02PMOur critics discuss which A-lister performances on the West End were worth the ticket price, and why so many new musicals struggled this year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36AMMonday, December 2, 2024
December may be the time of year when people switch off and embrace the holidays. But there's very little rest in the ever-busy world of London theater, which is more crowded this year than …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AM 
