Thursday, November 24, 2022
The cushion of state money let the Hampstead and Donmar playhouses develop broad programs with international reach. Now they must find creative ways to play on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMSaturday, November 19, 2022
Beckett specialist Lisa Dwan and Oscar winner Timothy Hutton head cast of the latest from English writer-director Terry Johnson
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:34AMThursday, November 3, 2022
An adaptation of “My Neighbour Totoro” enchants audiences at the Barbican. Across town at the Harold Pinter Theater, a revival of “Good” takes viewers to darker territory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54AMThursday, October 27, 2022
A new musical about the life of the televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, composed by Elton John, makes spectacular entertainment from a righteous subject.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Theresa Heskins co-authors and directs overinsistent adaptation of the life of Neil (Nello) Baldwin, a 76-year-old Staffordshire legend, which launches a lovely new West End venue
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:09PMMonday, October 24, 2022
Rob Madge solo play comes to the West End for two weeks, directed by Luke Sheppard, of "& Juliet" fame.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:46PMThursday, October 13, 2022
Productions of “John Gabriel Borkman” and “Blues for an Alabama Sky” conjure bleak atmospheres in two playhouses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25AMMonday, October 10, 2022
Feted Broadway musical finds an apt London fit
Not much happens but, in its way, everything does in The Band's Visit, the gentle, sweet-natured musical that rather unexpectedly stormed B…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:43AMThursday, October 6, 2022
Phil Porter adapts heart-tugging memoir that was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:43AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Sophie Melville brings Gary Owen monodrama to its largest venue yet.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:41AMThursday, September 29, 2022
Royal Court verbatim theatre is both affecting - and self-flagellating
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:19AMWednesday, September 28, 2022
Dissent in the ranks in uber-timely American comedy
Can a play peak too soon? That's the quandary that attends the Old Vic airing of Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector's on-point if overextended…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:13AMThursday, September 22, 2022
“Handbagged,” a play that opened in London a day after Queen Elizabeth II died, depicts a clever, compassionate monarch. But theatrical depictions haven’t always been so reverential.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:25AMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Maynard Eziashi and Donna Berlin play husband and wife in exciting Almeida Theatre premiere from Dipo Baruwa-Etti
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:54AMMonday, September 12, 2022
Max Webster and Jo Tyabji co-direct Inua Ellams' modern-day adaptation of Sophocles tragedy.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:52AMFriday, September 9, 2022
Ivo van Hove returns to the Young Vic, where his shattering 'A View from the Bridge' was first seen in 2014
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:59AMThursday, September 1, 2022
Two productions at the London playhouse feature heroines who, reluctantly, allow transformative characters into their lives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AMThursday, August 11, 2022
While marquee productions have featured star turns from Ian McKellen and Alan Cumming, smaller shows deal with contemporary life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48AMTuesday, August 9, 2022
Shakespeare’s valedictory, to comply with the received scholarship on this climactic play of his, lands with muted force in Sean Holmes’s curate’s egg of a production – engaging and …
SOURCE: londontheatre.co.uk at 01:56PMMonday, August 8, 2022
Julian Ovenden and Joanna Ampil in Rodgers & Hammerstein classic directed by Daniel Evans, Ovenden's former castmate in Merrily We Roll Along two decades ago
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:49AMProblematic Globe production of The Tempest, starring Ferdy Roberts as a barely-clad Prospero
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:38AMTuesday, August 2, 2022
Long-aborning musical still has a leg or two further to go
There's further training, shall we say, still needed on 101 Dalmatians, the much-delayed show that marks the second consecutive mu…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:18AMMonday, August 1, 2022
Kate Fleetwood as Cruella de Vil in a show in need of further shaping
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:23PMWednesday, July 27, 2022
Joshua Harmon's Off Broadway play resurfaces in London for a shouty revival headed by newcomer Rosie Yadid
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:32AMTuesday, July 26, 2022
Scott Karim and Irfan Shamji reprise their 2019 stage partnership in a new play set between Kolkata, India, and the UK and directed by Milli Bhatia
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:52AMSaturday, July 23, 2022
Last summer's hit Cole Porter revival is itself now revived, now with Kerry Ellis as Reno Sweeney, replacing Sutton Foster
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:08AMFriday, July 22, 2022
Ella Hunt gives a breakout performance opposite Jack Farthing in patchy 25th anniversary revival of Patrick Marber's London and Broadway play.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:04AMThursday, July 21, 2022
In London, a new play about President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and a revival of “The Seagull” explore undercurrents of pain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33AMThursday, July 7, 2022
Two new plays, “The Southbury Child” and “Mad House,” explore domestic discord with contrasting degrees of success.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18AMMonday, July 4, 2022
Kathryn Hunter revisits Lear in a patchy production that co-stars Hunter's boss, Globe artistic director Michelle Terry
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:53AMWednesday, June 22, 2022
Broadway entry from 2017 is the rare sequel that richly delivers
Slamming the door on experience comes with repercussions in A Doll's House, Part 2, the thrilling Broadway entry from Americ…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:12AM 
