Monday, June 21, 2021
We never see the title character in Raya, Deborah Bruce’s intriguing, beautifully acted new play that continues a strong return for the Hampstead Theatre.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:24PMBeckett’s Happy Days is marking its 60th birthday this year with a heavenly Riverside Studios revival from the director Trevor Nunn. Perhaps it takes the wisdom accrued over a life to brin…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:53AMThe director's latest production caps decades of distinguished achievement
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:52AMThursday, June 17, 2021
As London venues reopen, theatergoers can choose to reckon with works like “The Death of a Black Man” or enjoy frothier fare from George Bernard Shaw.
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Thursday, May 27, 2021
One “play” uses only voice-overs. Another features a main actor only on video. And under Covid rules, an 11-person Shakespeare cast counts as an army.
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No, Jack Holden’s play is not about Tom, though the film star does get referenced along the way. In fact, Cruise is a vigorously acted history lesson that doubles as a vital performance op…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:05PMThursday, May 6, 2021
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
The fabled date is getting nearer! For months, May 17 has loomed large in the calendar of London theatreland as the signal for playhouses to reopen their doors after a five-month lockdown.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:49AMThursday, April 22, 2021
Tired of reading the headlines? You can watch artistic interpretations of the stories of our era by trailing actors in a Living Newspaper production, section by section.
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We Remember a Great Actress Taken Way Too Soon
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Hellos Aplenty as Lockdown Nears an End - And A Sad Goodbye
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The director Simon Godwin has offered up the most impassioned version of this play imaginable, its often unwieldy length here filleted to 90-minutes as hurtling and relentless as the very jo…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:46AMThursday, April 1, 2021
With coronavirus restrictions easing in England, several venues have plans to give classic plays new life.
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Earlier this month, we marked the 91st birthday of the living legend that is Stephen Sondheim with a look back at five London productions of his work that are embedded in the memory. This we…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:41AMThursday, March 18, 2021
A brave venture that by necessity feels incomplete, Dream offers a take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream that may surprise even those who think they’ve seen everything that can be done with …
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 04:03PMMonday, March 15, 2021
Last week, we acknowledged the forthcoming birthday of Andrew Lloyd Webber via a look back at five defining London stagings of his work. This time, we do the same with Stephen Sondheim, with…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44AMThursday, March 11, 2021
With British venues closed and years advancing, there’s even less time to see some of the finest actors in their 80s onstage.
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London's repertoire of standout Lloyd Webber productions includes these five shows, and more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMTuesday, March 2, 2021
At Sunday’s ceremony, a whole host of British winners and nominees got their training in the theater before they made it to the screen.
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This is the latest entertainment from Les Enfants Terribles, the adventuresome company founded in 2001 whose immersive, interactive Alice’s Adventures Underground was Olivier nominated in …
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:07PMMonday, February 22, 2021
Our monthlong series culling some of the early London theatrical triumphs of stars before they became known to the world at large draws to a close with our look back at a brilliant quintet o…
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Danny Sapani and Adrian Lester in new two-hander by Lester's wife, Lolita Chakrabarti, livestreaming through Sunday
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:32PMThursday, February 18, 2021
The International Theater Amsterdam presented Ivo van Hove’s exhilarating Shakespeare marathon in a one-off, livestreamed production.
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Solo plays are everywhere these days and why not? So it’s not too surprising to note the renewed interest in All On Her Own, a slice of Terence Rattigan esoterica that premiered on TV in 1…
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:57PMMonday, February 15, 2021
Now, it's time to cast a glance at those stage musicals in London that brought to the attention of keen-eyed playgoers various people whom the world would get to know later.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:28AMFriday, February 12, 2021
The cumulative effect is of a lot of well-meaning performers acting into a digital void or, perhaps, delivering audition speeches for some sort of drama school panel that exists just out of …
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:42PMWednesday, February 10, 2021
Sam Tutty was five months into his career-making star turn on the West End in Dear Evan Hansen when the pandemic shut London theatres down last March. Far from sitting idle, the industrious …
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:06PMTuesday, February 9, 2021
Since 2019, Tinuke Craig has fielded various iterations of her first-ever musical, The Color Purple, which was acclaimed in performance at Leicester's Curve Theatre and the Birmingham Hippod…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMMonday, February 8, 2021
Last week, we looked at the early stage work of a quintet of actors who have gone on to celebrated work, and a wider public, onscreen. But the same trajectory is every bit as true of Britain…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:08AMMonday, February 1, 2021
Many British screen stars may seem to have come to public attention as comparative unknowns, but not to theatre devotees. What follows is a list of five actors whom I managed to catch early …
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