Monday, 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 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:22AMMonday, January 25, 2021
An ever-mutating virus has led to general uncertainty on and off the West End about the start-up of live performance. That shifting scenario in turn brings to mind some of the titles from th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:47AMThursday, January 21, 2021
There’s been much discussion about the presence of Black actors in Regency England on the Netflix show, but performers of color have been playing historical roles in London theaters for de…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03AMSunday, January 10, 2021
From Andrew Lloyd Webber to Sondheim via David Tennant's West End return, London is poised for activity post-pandemic
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PMWednesday, January 6, 2021
'Dick Whittington' never opened at the National but can be seen online
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:23AMSunday, December 27, 2020
Out of pandemic-driven chaos and confusion came moments of clarity - and "Blindness"
"Goodbye": The single word lingered heavily in the air last March 16, as the scripted closing both of th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:54AMMonday, December 21, 2020
Andrew Lincoln invents Scrooge afresh in robust seasonal perennial
As proof that you can't have too much of a good thing, consider the return of Matthew Warchus's buoyant production of A Ch…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMComic double-act reviewed the night before performances were suspended indefinitely
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:17AMTuesday, December 15, 2020
The 'Goes Wrong' team brings their irrepressible improv show to the West End
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:24PMDickens redux, noisily but with brio
The twelve days of Christmas have nothing on the flotilla of Christmas Carols jostling for view this season, each of which is substantially different eno…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:12AMThursday, December 10, 2020
The Almeida Theatre reopens for the first time since March.
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:31PMTaut Pinter revival sacrifices the play's darkly comic underlay
Add the Hampstead Theatre to the swelling ranks of playhouses opening its doors this month, in this case with a revival well i…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:48AMWednesday, December 9, 2020
Simon Russell Beale and Patsy Ferran in fresh adaptation of Dickens
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:25PMTuesday, December 8, 2020
Paul Harvard's ambitious debut play needs further focus
A 35-year-old gay man has to figure out which way to turn in GHBoy, the Paul Harvard play whose connection to the chemsex world is emb…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:36AMThursday, November 26, 2020
The first coronavirus shutdown caught playhouses unawares, but they learned lessons that stood them in good stead when the shutters came down again.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32AMFriday, November 20, 2020
Our critic looks back on 32 years with a publication he was with from its very first issue, in 1988.
SOURCE: www.theaternewsonline.com at 05:59AMFriday, November 6, 2020
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Opening and closing night were the same for vital solo show
Broadway tends to be the Darwinian environment where a show's opening night can also mark its closing.
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:42AMTwo long-running immersive theater productions — “The Murdér Express” and “The Great Gatsby”— offered some much-needed merriment just before a new lockdown hit England.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18AMMonday, October 26, 2020
Sparky solo play leaves you wanting yet more
Call him Ishmael, and the Zimbabwe-born, UK-based writer Zodwa Nyoni has done just that. That's the name of the solo character in Nyoni's slight…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:24AMThursday, October 15, 2020
Two young Black playwrights chronicle tales of the Nigerian diaspora in performances at the Bridge Theater, but only one digs deep.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54AMWednesday, October 7, 2020
Capacious biography pins down an elusive subject
"The older he got, the less he cared about self-concealment," or so it is said of Sir Tom Stoppard, somewhere deep into the 865 pages of …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:32AMTuesday, October 6, 2020
'The Last Five Years' revival is itself revived at Southwark Playhouse
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 04:00PMSunday, October 4, 2020
Essential series of Alan Bennett stage pairings comes to an end
Stillness works like a stealth bomb in Nights in the Garden of Spain, in which Tamsin Greig further confirms her status as on…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:54AMThursday, October 1, 2020
Masterclasses make up a mighty hour of theatre
"Getting dark," or so comments Irene Ruddock (a pitch-perfect Imelda Staunton) in passing midway through A Lady of Letters, and, boy, ain't th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:24AMThursday, September 24, 2020
The Bridge theater in London has resumed performances after the coronavirus shutdown with a series of monologues by David Hare and Alan Bennett.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMMonday, September 21, 2020
review of Old Vic In Camera presentation of the late Brian Friel's 1979 play 'Faith Healer'
SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:22PMSaturday, September 19, 2020
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Maureen Lipman in fearless form in Martin Sherman's discursive solo play
Solo plays and performances are, of necessity, the theatrical currency of the moment, whether across an entire seaso…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:03AMFriday, September 4, 2020
The sheer brio of the endeavour proved irresistible, and one wasn’t surprised to see the performers’ eyes misting over
SOURCE: inews.co.uk at 07:50PM 
