Summer is slipping away, but that’s never a bad thing theatrically, especially in London where the fall brings with it an abundance of theater to make one drool. What follows are five …
Sunny Afternoon, the hit London show scored to the back catalog of iconic British rock group The Kinks, is entering its final months at the Harold Pinter Theatre. What better time, then, to …
The Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Jersey Boys has been running eight years in London, first at the Prince Edward and now the Piccadilly Theatre, and earlier this year welcomed a new…
A fascinating slice of esoterica at Southwark Playhouse, and a raucous knees-up at the National.
Alan Morrissey is a well-known TV name in Britain from series like Holby City who has branched out of late into musicals. He co-starred opposite Tony winner Cynthia Erivo in I Can't Sing…
The New York theatre is so consistently awash in "star is born" moments when one or another British actor crosses the Atlantic to copious praise that it's lovely for a change to be able to r…
The Disney musical Aladdin has hopped a magic carpet to London for what looks set to be a long run at the Prince Edward Theatre in a West End premiere that has made a star out of American pe…
A revival, an Irish classic and an interactive whodunit on London stages.
The 1916 Harold Brighouse play Hobson's Choice is an English theatrical warhorse, and its latest London run at the Vaudeville Theatre comes anchored by a commanding star turn from Naomi …
Billie Piper vaults to the top rank of British theatre actresses with Yerma, Australian writer-director Simon Stone's rabidly free rewrite of Lorca's 1934 play that posits its young star as …
"Yes, from life," Nikolai Ivanov (Geoffrey Streatfeild) says in passing of a painting midway through the early Chekhov play that bears his name. But the phrase could serve as the abiding ach…
Three plays in London explore suffering, then and now.
1984 is the London play that just won't quit and is now at the Playhouse Theatre for a third West End run, this time with an entirely new cast. Adapted from George Orwell's chilling …
Harry Potter lives to see another day. The Hogwarts wizard has made his stage debut in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a two-part play that pushes JK Rowling's world-beating franchise bey…
Joseph Ayre only recently graduated from drama school and has already landed the leading role of Christopher, the mathematically gifted, socially challenged 15-year-old at the bruising heart…
"Children will listen," or so goes a lyric to one of the most heart-rending numbers in Into the Woods, the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical that seems rarely to be long-absent from the …
Linzi Hateley will be forever remembered for playing the title role in the musical Carrie in Stratford and on Broadway when she was still a teenager. Now 45 she is legging it in Lycra once a…
On the London stage, heist-related hilarity, a young Arthur Miller and a requiem for a poet.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s is rarely long absent from the stage, or so it seems. Recent London and New York productions in 2009 and 2013 are now followed by yet another incarnation of the …
French writer Florian Zeller has proven to be catnip for actors, with Kenneth Cranham and Frank Langella winning an Olivier and a Tony Award, respectively, for The Father and Gina McKee garn…
Kunal Nayyar has acquired a vast following on the back of playing Raj Koothrappali on CBS TV’s ever-popular The Big Bang Theory, but the London-born Indian actor is spending his summer…
Two West End openings: One that's arty, the other a Disney extravaganza.
Harold Brighouse's time-honoured English comedy from a century ago survives, its virtues mostly intact especially once attention shifts away from the snarling patriarch of the title, Henry H…
Kunal Nayyar has acquired a vast following on the back of playing Raj Koothrappali on CBS TV’s ever-popular The Big Bang Theory, but the London-born Indian actor is spending his summer…
"I can add colours to the chameleon," Richard III remarks of himself early in his anguished, marauding ascent to the throne, and the description could equally apply to the electrifying actor…