London has seen numerous Phantoms in the 33-plus years since the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera had its world premiere before going on to become a global phenomenon. Bu…
High Fidelity didn't last long on Broadway in 2006, but the musical adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel has had plenty of airings elsewhere since that time and is now in previews at southwes…
Arinzé Kene play from 2011 packs a renewed punch Time has been not just kind but even crucial to Little Baby Jesus, the 2011 play from the multi-hyphenate talent Arinzé Kene, who…
Gorky play suffers an identity crisis in uneasily-pitched revival Even the mighty Almeida is allowed the occasional dud and it's sure as hell got one at the moment with Vassa. Maxim Gork…
The Lion King this month marks 20 years on the London stage, during which time it has become the sixth longest-running West End musical ever, with no end in sight. The iconic Disney musical …
Whether it's finishing what Jane Austen started, imagining the private conversations of first ladies or inserting the personal, on London stages female playwrights are mixing things up.
The Tony-nominated composer/lyricist Dave Malloy of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 fame hasn't had a London presence until this fall, when he is unexpectedly being represented…
The ever-likable Mischief Theatre's latest stretches them in new if still-unfinished ways If ambition were all, Groan Ups would get an A*. Marking the first of a very welcome three-show res…
Sondheim's 1990 show gets more disturbingly pertinent with every revival "Every now and then the country goes a little wrong": so goes one of the many lyrics from the Stephen Sondheim-John W…
Henry Shields is an invaluable part of London's invaluable and in-demand Mischief Theatre Company, having long doubled as both a writer and actor on such hits as The Play That Goes Wrong, Pe…
Athol Fugard's 1982 self-exorcism is searingly revived Time has been kind to Athol Fugard's "Master Harold"...and the Boys. It's a stealth bomb of a play that I saw in its world premiere pro…
Lloyd Owen has one of the best, most resonant speaking voices in the business and has leant his vocal luster to such roles as Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, opposite Diana Rigg, an…
From a member of Parliament in "Hansard" to the users of a threatened community center in "Faith, Hope and Charity," London theaters are exploring how power works.
The French writer Florian Zeller is rarely long absent from the London or New York stage. On Broadway he is represented at the moment by the transfer from the West End of The Height of the S…
Onetime Broadway flop has more charm in London but still needs work The work isn't finished on Big, if this stage musical of the beloved 1988 Tom Hanks film is ever to, um, make it big. A B…
Jay McGuiness was a member of the popular English boy band The Wanted and won the 2015 edition of Strictly Come Dancing, the U.K. precursor to Dancing with the Stars. But he is currently ret…
A potentially compelling play is done in by its structure and an unhelpful staging An excellent director makes a rare misstep with Amsterdam, in which a compelling if tricksy play is given …
Chicago actress Samantha Pauly has been in three previous productions of Evita, none of which can have been as conceptually daring as the director Jamie Lloyd's provocative and edgy current …
Chicago actress Samantha Pauly has been in three previous productions of Evita, none of which can have been as conceptually daring as the director Jamie Lloyd's provocative and edgy current …
Two new productions, "The Doctor" and "Appropriate," subvert ideas about identity.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a regular visitor to the London stage but there's never in my extensive experience been as likable an…
Matthew Needham has cut quite a swath through the American repertoire of late, between the Olivier Award-winning revival of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke and the U.S.-set stage adapta…
Laura Pitt-Pulford was a 2016 Olivier nominee for her zesty alfresco performance at Regent's Park in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, but the English performer has cut a distinctive swathe f…
Laura Pitt-Pulford was a 2016 Olivier nominee for her zesty alfresco performance at Regent's Park in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, but the English performer has cut a distinctive swathe f…
Theatrical productions at the Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe give the impression of a world coming apart at the seams.