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As the actor makes her West End debut in Bartlett Sher's Tony award-winning revival of The King and I, she talks to
When Glenda Jackson plays King Lear or Michelle Terry plays Hamlet, it seems paradoxical that they are eligible for best female performance
The perfect juxtaposition of country-house charm in venue and urban sophistication in material, this joyous revival of Frank Loesser’s 1950 Broadway classic
Every generation has its foremost playwrights, from George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, to Harley Granville-Barker and Terence Rattigan, John Osborne and
No one can see everything: it just isn't possible. It's one of the reasons we need critics: they see things so that
The 'standard', default start time for Broadway shows used to be 8pm, with Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2pm and Sunday matinees
We have a thriving theatre culture in the UK, both on professional stages and with more than 2,500 amateur dramatic companies, which
Inspired by Chita Rivera and advised by Bill Kenwright to stop 'wasting her time' in Australia, Caroline O'Connor became a musical star
The theatre world is quite a small one and I spend a lot of time immersed in it, both as a critic
At the beginning of March, Theatre Royal Stratford East held a two-day showcase called Beam 2018, featuring more than 50 new musicals
"Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart," goes a refrain in A Little Night Music. The
I have written so often about the disappearing landscape of contemporary theatre criticism, both in the UK and New York, that I
I've heard some arbitrary reasons for policing audience behaviour before, but few as genuinely outrageous as English National Opera's ban on externally
In an admittedly sparser-than-usual year for Tony eligible shows " just 33 new shows opened on Broadway in the 2017/18 season, and
Now appearing in Chess at the London Coliseum, the performer and pop star tells Mark Shenton how the loss of her mother
Critics aren’t employed to agree with each other, let alone with the readers they write for or the artists they are writing
After a recent spate of jukebox musicals, it’s a thrill to welcome an entirely original British musical to the stage. Gus Gowland's
We are living in culturally complicated times and are constantly having to re-calibrate some of the apparent certainties we’ve lived with uncritically
The historic market town of Cirencester in the Cotswolds is famous for its agricultural college and its polo club. But until now
This new musical based on J Meade Falkner’s melodramatic Victorian 1898 novel, Moonfleet is a lumpen, deadly earnest affair. The story swirls
“I want the next couple of hours to be a show everyone remembers forever!”, declares one of the three actresses who portrays
Even before its official opening, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been breaking all previous Broadway sales records, by a wide
"You already know you’re going to love it!” proclaims the advertising slogan for Mamma Mia!, now heading for its 20th anniversary in
Lerner and Loewe’s 1956 version of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion has long provided the gold standard for musical adaptations. It both honours
“Sail on, sail on, good ship Titanic!”, goes a thrilling choral refrain in this Broadway-originated musical, and so does Thom Southerland’s boldly
