Sondheim's and Shakespeare's natal days feted. Plus a chance to match wits with a knight and a dame As lockdown continues, so does the ability of the theatre community to find new ways to t…
Theatre buffs have no shortage of scintillating options during our ongoing shut-in The lockdown has been extended, but here's the good news: each week whereby we are shut inside seems to br…
Kara Tointon leads a concept-heavy, Victorian-era Shakespeare update Twelfth Night is rarely long-absent from the British stage and nor is it in our current climate of streaming aplenty. Th…
Musical adaptation celebrates British pluck, coupled with luck 18 months or so after it opened in Chichester, Flowers for Mrs Harris launches a sequence of streamed productions from the Wes…
London's playhouses have been shuttered before, by plagues and war for instance, but they have always returned as strong as ever.
Beth Steel award-winner makes for muscular, eerily apposite fare The talk is of an "economy in ruin [with] unemployment through the roof": a précis of Britain in lockdown? In fact, this is…
Stephen Rea rivets once again in David Ireland play One of the most blistering stage performances in recent memory gets a renewed lease on life with the streaming of the 2019 screen version…
Mike Bartlett's 2016 play chimes with our topsy-turvy times "The whole world is just tilting at the moment," we're told near the end of Wild, the Mike Bartlett play from summer 2016 that…
The composer-lyricist has left an indelible legacy Here's an irony worthy of the work of Stephen Sondheim, an artist who clearly knows a thing or two about the multiple manifestations of th…
While the city's theaters were still open, several plays seemed to have relevant messages for our troubled times.
Mike Bartlett play remains as buoyant and biting as ever The Beatles lyric that gives Mike Bartlett's terrific play its title dates to 1967, which also happens to be the year in which the f…
Sebastian Barry two-hander offers rich acting opportunities for two of Ireland's finest Some wondrous acting is sacrificed on the altar of an increasingly wonky plot in On Blueberry Hill, t…
Daniel Monks electrified London at the end of 2019 playing the title role at the Donmar in Teenage Dick, Chinese-American writer Mike Lew's teasingly titled play that transposes Shakespeare'…
Popular film romcom looks fairly icky on stage It's not so much that Pretty Woman: The Musical isn't much good, which it isn't. More to the point is that this West End replica of the …
The Woman in Black, the theatrical chiller adapted from the Susan Hill novel, celebrated 30 years in the West End last summer and has recently opened to acclaim at the McKittrick Hotel off-B…
Three plays consider the divisions wrought by Brexit, Britain's surveillance state and the terror of the news cycle, with varying levels of success.
American theatre phenomenon pushes buttons aplenty to diminishing effect This latest musical theatre exercise in "geek chic" has been an American phenomenon: a show propelled by social medi…
Danny Mac dazzled followers on Strictly Come Dancing with his fancy footwork on the ever-popular BBC program, but the English performer has since made a separate name for himself in st…
Roger Allam and Colin Morgan refashion Caryl Churchill's contemporary classic There are any number of ways to perform A Number, Caryl Churchill's bleak and beautiful play about a father and…
Lesley Manville rises above the prevailing muddle Lesley Manville's thrilling career ascent continues apace with The Visit, which marks American playwright Tony Kushner's return to…
Noah Thomas was appearing in a drama school production of Guys and Dolls when he was tapped to become the third person to star as Jamie New, an aspiring drag queen, in the hit British musica…
The director Patrick Marber has knitted Tom Stoppard's putative swan song into a compelling whole It's not uncommon for playwrights to begin their careers by writing what they know, to co-o…
Gavin Creel has both Tony and Olivier Awards to show for his effervescent talent, so it makes sense that the New York-based Ohioan should continue crossing the Atlantic to work in the West E…
Mike Bartlett's play has deepened in accordance with our divisive times It's not been three years since Albion premiered at the Almeida Theatre, since which time Brexit has happened a…
Josh Williams has appeared across a range of London playhouses, from the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre to the Royal Court, but only now is he in the West End and in a starring role, no less…