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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.
Witness for the Prosecution, the Agatha Christie thriller directed by Lucy Bailey, has turned into a sleeper hit inside its unusual location of a onetime debating chamber at Westminster's Co…
Ethan Kai may be known to fans of British TV from the Yorkshire-set drama, Emmerdale, but the 25-year-old actor is making one of the most astonishing West End debuts in years playing the dis…
A London production of "The Night of the Iguana" starring Clive Owen asks for the audience's patience, and rewards it.
Name-heavy cast powers baggy, repetitive Off Broadway musical
If good intentions were all, The View Upstairs would be Gypsy. As it is, the European premiere of this 2017 Off Broadway musica…
Andy Mientus has credits ranging from Spring Awakening and Les Miz to such TV series as Smash and Gone. But the Pittsburgh native can be found this summer within the intimate confines of Lon…
A giddy Sheridan Smith is back centre-stage but watch out for newcomer Jac Yarrow, too
Cheeky and broad and (for the most part) as entertaining as seems humanly possible, this embryonic entr…
Melly Still brings her singular theatricality to bestselling novel on stage
Better than the 2001 film but likely to disappoint devotees of the book, Captain Corelli's Mandolin onstage works…
Lia Williams needs no introduction as a supreme actress, whether on Broadway in Skylight [for which she was nominated for a 1997 Tony Award] or Arcadia or across a range of work closer to ho…
2015 musical gets a belated, overly busy West End transfer
Time hasn't necessarily been kind to this slow-aborning West End transfer of a show first seen (and lauded) in its 2015 debut in L…
The starry director-writer team behind 'Harry Potter' onstage return to their frequent home at the Royal Court
An apocalyptic title proves somewhat of a red herring for a slight if intriguin…
Nicholas Hytner's production at the Bridge Theater in London finds something fresh in a work that sometimes feels as if it's being done out of duty.
Andrew Langtree has appeared in the world premiere productions of the musicals Mamma Mia!, Ghost and Groundhog Day, receiving a 2017 Olivier nomination for his performance as Ned Ryerson in …
