Monday, April 13, 2026
Critics reflect on the 2026 Olivier Awards, which recognized homegrown British talent and some productions headed for New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PM"Paddington" got seven Olivier gongs, but "Into the Woods," "Evita," and the sleeper success that is "Kenrex" held their own
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:13AMWednesday, April 8, 2026
Damien Molony and a miscast Richard Schiff play Heisenberg and Bohr in he first London revival of Michael Frayn's Tony-winning drama; Alex Kingston plays Margrethe, for which Blair Brown won…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:31PMWednesday, April 1, 2026
Spring is here, and with it an abundance of activity in and around the West End, from a hard-hitting film adapted for the stage to a starry takeover and on to the return of a beloved Broadwa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMSaturday, March 28, 2026
Jocelyn Bioh's five-time 2024 Tony-nominated play comes to west London in Monique Touko's hyper-exuberant production; Paul Wills is the top-class designer
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:32AMWednesday, March 25, 2026
Northern Ireland-set play is funny, sparky and ultimately savage, with a superb star turn from Julia Dearden
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:36AMWednesday, March 11, 2026
Tracy-Ann Oberman and Adrian Lukis head a sterling cast in blistering revival of Ryan Craig's play about familial fallout prompted by the situation in the Middle East
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:16AMSunday, March 1, 2026
Two Tony-nominated Broadway hits reach London, a 2025 Olivier Award winner directs his first London non-musical, and an early play from a now-venerable playwright gets a rare revival: These …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AMFriday, February 27, 2026
Popular novel-turned-musical pushes the bounds of credibility to breaking point and beyond: Mark Addy and an indrawn Jenna Russell head the cast under Katy Rudd's direction.
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:01PMTuesday, February 24, 2026
Andor's Elizabeth Dulau gives a star-making performance as Mary Ann Evans before she became George Eliot; Tony winner Owen Teale co-stars as her father, Robert.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:58AMWednesday, February 18, 2026
The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe is the possibly unlikely berth for the UK premiere of a 2005 play about Black-on-Black violence from the late, much-missed Chadwick Boseman
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:05AMFriday, February 13, 2026
Clive Francis, 80 this year, delivers the standout performance in writer and co-director Jonathan Lynn's farewell to the beloved Yes, Minister TV and stage franchise.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:13AMSunday, February 8, 2026
Isis Hainsworth makes a dazzzling Thomasina Coverly in director Carrie Cracknell's resplendent revival of Tom Stoppard's finest play, here co-starring Tony-winner Stephen Dillane's son, Seam…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:10AMSunday, February 1, 2026
The London theater season is in full swing during the month ahead, mixing keenly awaited revivals with new plays and U.K. premieres, along with a gala concert honoring one of Broadway’s fi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:24AMFriday, January 30, 2026
Long-aborning Finn Anderson musical has a gorgeous score but needs work on its clotted, overly earnest book; Tanya Azevedo directs the mostly-female cast of 8.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:09AMMonday, January 19, 2026
The word made flesh takes on renewed meaning when it comes to Woolf Works, Wayne McGregor’s impassioned response to the writing of Virginia Woolf. First seen in 2015, since which time McGr…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:06AMMonday, January 12, 2026
Tendentious script bogs down well-intentioned adaptation
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:12PMThursday, January 1, 2026
Theater is quick out of the starting gate in 2026. January is hosting a range of Olivier and Tony winners, and film names too, in a mixture of revivals, adaptations and new shows that promis…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMSaturday, December 27, 2025
From big, bold musicals to solo shows, London theatre once again landed on multiple fronts, led by Jamie Lloyd's mind-bending revival of Evita and the small-scale wow of Brian Watkins' Weath…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:45AMFriday, December 19, 2025
Some had wondered how the show about Abraham Lincoln’s wife would fare after its creator left the Broadway cast. But mirth is abundant as it opens on the West End.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02AMWednesday, December 17, 2025
Bel Powley is in bruising form as Nigel Lindsay's outspoken daughter in Sam Grabiner's messy but always-interesting play, directed by James Macdonald
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:35AMTuesday, December 16, 2025
Felicity Kendal shifts roles in this splendid 30th-anniversary production of a minor Top Stoppard play, here delivered with feeling and empathy by the director Jonathan Kent and a genuine fi…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:36AMPatrick Heusinger makes a ripped West End debut in this stage iteration of the hugely popular film franchise, here directed by Punchdrunk's Felix Barrett and co-starring Melissa James ("Moul…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:41AMWednesday, December 10, 2025
The protean Kathryn Hunter fills in brilliantly for an indisposed David Threlfall in the European premiere of Rajiv Joseph's 2011 Broadway play about the ravages of war, directed by the ever…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:21AMMonday, December 8, 2025
2022 co-commission between the Royal Opera and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama is back for a longer run of a work inspired by the Gus van Sant film of the same name about onetime Nir…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:14PMWednesday, December 3, 2025
Janie Dee dazzles afresh in this centenary revival of Noel Coward's fragile if sexually audacious 1925 comedy, last seen in London a quarter-century ago
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:51AMMonday, December 1, 2025
An appreciation of Sir Tom Stoppard, arguably the greatest English-language dramatist of his generation
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:25PMThe festive season is fast approaching, and with it comes the usual cavalcade of openings keen to get in before the holidays proper: just think of the numerous prospects for tickets as prese…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42AMThursday, November 27, 2025
Neil Hurst and Jodie Prenger co-author a ribald, rude, riotously funny take-down of the 2003 film, directed by Alex Jackson, who gave us "Homo Alone"
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:35AMTuesday, November 25, 2025
Alaa Shehada's hit solo play from Edinburgh transfers to London, mixing humour, history - and horror
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:18PMMonday, November 24, 2025
Ivo van Hove returns to form with his blistering revival of Arthur Miller's 1947 play, here starring a pitch-perfect Bryan Cranston and Paapa Essiedu as father and son
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:39AM 
