Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Dominic Cooke's otherwise uneven production boasts formidable performances
What is one to do with Greek tragedy on the contemporary stage? For Simon Stone, whose Phaedra is currently playing…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:19AMFriday, December 9, 2022
This new musical about the early life of Nelson Mandela is a mawkish misfire
As bio-musicals continue to have their heyday, it makes sense for the Young Vic to throw its hat in the ring and …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:06AMThursday, December 8, 2022
TV is a strange medium, but James Graham is no stranger to its toxic charm. London audiences have recently witnessed the British playwright’s musical adaptation of the life of Tammy Faye, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:57AMTuesday, December 6, 2022
Charming performances in this watered-down version of Virginia Woolf’s novel
Identity is thorny business. This was the parting thought of Anna X, the play that marked Emma Corrin’s West …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:32AMFriday, September 30, 2022
Lyndsey Turner paints this seminal drama with disturbing colours
How can this beauty arise from such ugliness? The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s 1953 drama about the Salem witch trials of 1692…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:43AMFriday, September 9, 2022
Édouard Louis’s book is brought to life in a fierce performance
A bare interior with tarnished walls, a single bed, and an oxygen tube. The stage seems to have been set for a Beckett play…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:07AMSaturday, May 21, 2022
Bartlett Sher's Broadway production comes to London with aplomb
First staged in 2018, Bartlett Sher’s Lincoln Center Theater production of My Fair Lady is London’s latest import from B…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:33AMSaturday, April 30, 2022
Jez Butterworth's 2009 play is evergreen in its excellence
At long last, the giant has come back. Over a decade after its critical apotheosis on both sides of the Atlantic, Jez Butterworth…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:33PMThursday, April 28, 2022
'Killing Eve' star's stage debut is a triumph
National statistics tell us that, in the year ending September 2021, 41% of rape victims in England and Wales eventually withdrew their support …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMMonday, April 25, 2022
Jackie Sibblies Drury is one of the most exciting voices working in American theatre today. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Fairview and We Are Proud to Present a Presentation… has a …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:29AMMonday, November 8, 2021
Alana Valentine's play about crime and poverty in Australia receives a spirited production
The complex history of capital punishment in Australia may not be familiar to many Londoners, but t…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:03AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
An adroit cast does justice to Isley Lynn's complexly woven narrative
"You need to get better at communicating", says one character to another in Isley Lynn’s albatross. Indeed, the same…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:06AMTuesday, October 26, 2021
What does it take to stretch Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy to a runtime of over three hours? Not, as it turns out, a tedious crawl through the play. Rather, an electrifying but patient jo…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:26AMFriday, March 13, 2020
“Would you rather have one shoe or no shoes?” Viv is here to show us that missing only one shoe is not necessarily the better option. Having lost one of her shoes on the way to work, she…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:44AMMonday, March 9, 2020
Evelyn Farrant, the scheming actor at the centre of Gerald Moon’s 1983 play Corpse!, would like to believe that he is the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30PMWednesday, March 4, 2020
What goes into an apology, and what comes out of it? The three plays assembled in The Apologists approach these questions from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMFriday, February 28, 2020
John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is often remembered for its association with kitchen sink realism. Marking the play’s return to London
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:46AMSaturday, February 22, 2020
Antoinette Nwandu’s play Pass Over is a palimpsest. Its outer surface looks familiar: haunted by the ever-present threat of a murderous police force, two black men are paralyzed into inact…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:25PMWednesday, February 19, 2020
Now that’s what I call a star turn. Hitting the brakes on an express train, Lesley Manville lands on the National Theatre’s Olivier stage surrounded by thick smoke, supported by prosthet…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:34PMSunday, February 16, 2020
A woman walks into her home. Then does another. And another. Stef Smith’s Nora: A Doll’s House is not merely an adaptation of Ibsen’s 1879 play. It is three adaptations superimposed on…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:06AMFriday, February 14, 2020
Towards the end of Leopoldstadt, a young writer named Leonard is handed a sheet of paper with his family tree on it. The chart spans four generations and bears the imprint of two dozen lives…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:13PMWednesday, February 12, 2020
“Tonight’s been a drama-overload,” observes one of the “magnificent six” in Crongton Knights. She is not exaggerating: Emteaz Hussain’s adaptation of Alex
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:28AMFriday, February 7, 2020
Could diabolical interference be the only way for a woman in 17th-century London to advance in life without being bound to a man? For Joanna Faustus, the answer is in the affirmative. So she…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:15AMFriday, January 31, 2020
The wilting characters of Uncle Vanya would like us to believe that their scenes from country life should not amount to much, except, perhaps, for an endless succession of tedious trifles. T…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:40PMMonday, January 20, 2020
Set in Chicago in 1957, Tony Tortora’s Cops zooms in on four jaded police detectives trying to navigate a police force steeped
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AMFriday, January 17, 2020
Imagine if the “rude mechanicals” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream were asked to stage Hamlet in just an hour and with only
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMThursday, December 19, 2019
It is hard to believe that Shelagh Delaney wrote A Taste of Honey when she was only nineteen. This increasingly textured and knotty play, which received its first—and famous—staging in 1…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:00AMSunday, December 15, 2019
This Duchess of Malfi is a cool one. It is so cool that it has lost its gripping temper and, with it, some of its fire. A surprising drop in temperature, because director Rebecca Frecknall h…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:47AMThursday, December 12, 2019
“You into words?” Jamie Lloyd’s magnificent treatment of Cyrano de Bergerac very much is. Refracted through Lloyd’s modestly masterful staging, Martin Crimp’s vigorous, insightful …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:43AMTuesday, December 10, 2019
Based on Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s beloved classic The Little Prince, this year’s festive show at the Omnibus Theatre promises a joyously sparkling
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:34AMSunday, December 8, 2019
Fairview is a scorching minefield that looks like a green meadow. At long last, London audiences can enter the beguiling terrain of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s 2018 play in a flawless Young Vi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:55AM 
