Thursday, 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: The Arts Desk 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: The Arts Desk at 06:18AMMonday, August 1, 2022
Kate Fleetwood as Cruella de Vil in a show in need of further shaping
SOURCE: The Arts Desk 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: The Arts Desk 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: The Arts Desk at 10:12AMTuesday, June 21, 2022
Siena Kelly in superb form in a play by newcomer Dave Davidson - or maybe not .....
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:50AMThursday, June 16, 2022
Tinuke Craig directs Sule Rimi and a fine ensemble in early August Wilson drama
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:55AMThe updated musical version of the popular film challenges preconceived notions about the protagonist’s appearance. A take on “Oklahoma!” similarly offers a twist on a classic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMFriday, June 3, 2022
Sirine Saba is Agrippina and Nathaniel Curtis Britannicus in rare sighting of 17th-century classic by Racine, directed by Atri Banerjee
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:04AMWednesday, June 1, 2022
In a rare stage outing for the actor, in London, she plays the central character in Tennessee Williams’s play as more of a fusspot than a harridan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:06PMFriday, May 27, 2022
Adam Gillen, the National's recent Mozart in Amadeus, plays the much-married English monarch in anarchic Amy Hodge production
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:15PMThursday, May 26, 2022
Jodie Comer, from the TV series “Killing Eve,” makes a thrilling stage debut in “Prima Facie” on London’s West End.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33AMWednesday, May 18, 2022
Anne-Marie Duff shines in overly sprawling, diffuse play set between 1965 and 2019
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:03AMWednesday, May 4, 2022
Bernadette Peters, Michael Ball, Imelda Staunton and more led a legendary one-off concert in honour of a musical theatre legend
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:38PMFriday, April 29, 2022
Mark Rylance is back in a role that won him a Tony more than a decade ago. But this London production isn’t just coasting on past kudos.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:33PM 
