Sunday, July 21, 2024
With more than 3,500 shows, the world’s biggest arts festival is back at full power. But what’s worth running up and down the Royal Mile for? Tim Bano picks the best theatre and comedy t…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:06AMSunday, June 30, 2024
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s singing, roller-skating steam trains are back for a night of absolute maximalism. Yes, it’s more spectacle than sense – but your inner child (and actual children)…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:54PMThursday, June 27, 2024
Lacking a musical identity and feeling spiritually like a period piece, this stage adaptation of Tina Fey’s Noughties classic feels like an exercise in doing the bare minimum
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:32PMWednesday, June 26, 2024
‘Motherland’ star Anna Maxwell Martin and James Corden have to battle with starchy direction and a clunky script in Joe Penhall’s new play about the threats facing MPs
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:42AMTuesday, June 18, 2024
‘Line of Duty’ star Adrian Dunbar teams up with Broadway legend Stephanie J Block for another perfectly pitched Cole Porter revival at the Barbican
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:12PMWednesday, June 5, 2024
‘The Crown’ star is a man in freefall in a Miller revival that works its magic by being that rare thing: a really decent production of a really great play
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:02AMThursday, May 30, 2024
Leading political playwright James Graham is burdened by the need to preserve this classic piece of writing about unemployed men in 1980s Liverpool, but the show comes alive when it finds th…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:18AMSaturday, May 25, 2024
Alienating production of Maggie Nelson’s 2009 philosophical memoir, is not a good showcase for the lead actors’ talents
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:54AMThursday, May 23, 2024
Hot on the heels of his triumphant ‘Sunset Boulevard’ revival, Jamie Lloyd has recruited one of the biggest young stars in Hollywood to take on Shakespeare – but this stripped back pro…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:36PMFriday, May 3, 2024
Bafta-winner Adeel Akhtar and ‘Tár’ star Nina Hoss are excellent, but Benedict Andrews’s clever but annoying contemporary Chekhov revival insists on a grating quirkiness
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:32AMWednesday, April 17, 2024
Ben Power’s deft adaptation of Dickens’ sprawling novel emphasises its brilliant characters and eternally relevant themes, but the bleak production and dour music wrestle with one anothe…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:36PMSunday, April 14, 2024
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's production is rich in ideas and beautifully staged, but it’s still two hours of listening to middle-aged millennials feeling sorry for themselves
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:42PMFriday, April 12, 2024
The veteran actor stars in a long uneven new production fusing both parts of Shakespeare’s ‘Henry IV’ at London’s Noël Coward Theatre
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:32AMWednesday, April 3, 2024
The ‘Succession’ star returns to his stage stomping ground, and it’s where he stomps best. Alongside an extraordinary Patricia Clarkson, he owns the stage in Jeremy Herrin’s spare, b…
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:24AMThursday, February 15, 2024
Why is the National Theatre staging this frightfully old fashioned play from the 1930s? A superb performance from Lindsay Duncan and a production tinged with foreboding are reason enough
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:42AMTuesday, March 10, 2020
After multiple manifestations at Theatre Royal Bath and a southern UK tour, Noel Coward’s deathless comedy hits the West End in a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00PMFriday, March 6, 2020
Christian Czornyj’s video game-inspired musical is the first by Adam Lenson’s exciting new production company, which gives voice and space to artist-led
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PMThursday, March 5, 2020
It’s one of those shows that has almost become too familiar. In the last two decades every number of Jason Robert Brown’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:37AMTuesday, February 25, 2020
What is it about the Bible and musical theatre? While the UK has the gospel according to Andrew Lloyd Webber – Joseph
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMMonday, February 17, 2020
Even if Ben Elton’s successful sitcom about William Shakespeare had been given a fourth series, it seems only natural that they would
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58PMFriday, February 14, 2020
There’s a fierce relevance in the story of a woman failed by a patriarchal justice system and seeking justice her own way.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMWednesday, February 12, 2020
Tom Stoppard has spent a career searching for the key to the human condition through metaphor: quantum mechanics, gymnastics, Latin love poetry,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMFriday, February 7, 2020
Brexit gets only a couple of mentions in this roar of a monologue by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams. But the play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:28AMTuesday, February 4, 2020
Maybe it’s a little histrionic to stage a play about existence and extinction right now. Maybe not. If director Richard Jones does
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:38PMThursday, January 30, 2020
As soldiers piss in phone boxes, smash things up, generally kick and punch objects both animate and not, it becomes clear that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:43AMWednesday, January 29, 2020
Lucy Prebble’s debut play, The Sugar Syndrome, about two people who meet in an online chat room, premiered at London’s Royal Court
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMMonday, January 27, 2020
The Waitress composer and singer-songwriter, fresh from winning her first Grammy, is taking to the West End stage to star in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Although Cormac McCarthy is best known as a novelist, winning the Pulitzer for The Road in 2006, he has also written two
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AMAfter a six-month closure, the home of Les Misérables is back with a new name and lavish decor. Owner Cameron Mackintosh tells
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:48AMFriday, January 17, 2020
After so much time and so much tinkering, when it comes to Les Misérables the philosopher’s axe springs to mind. Every time
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMWednesday, January 15, 2020
Since closing on Broadway in 1986 after four performances, Rags has been stitched and unstitched so many times that this version, which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AM 
