Irish actor Brian Gilligan has been playing the defining role of Deco in the rock musical The Commitments at the Palace Theatre since September—meanwhile, the role’s originator, …
Josefina Gabrielle has three Olivier nominations to show for her wide-ranging musical theater career, which includes Laurey in Oklahoma! on both sides of the Atlantic as well as London reviv…
"Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" and "The Grand Tour'' are improved in some ways in their London versions.
Jake Gyllenhaal made his Broadway debut in good company " a galaxy of stars are currently on stage in New York. We review some of their performancesIt seems fitting that Jake Gyllenhaal is c…
Jennifer DiNoia has traveled the world with Wicked, shifting between various American cities to perform the musical in Australia and South Korea and now in London, where she plays Elphaba at…
A new year always brings with it promise in abundance, especially for the London theater scene, which Is already kicking into gear. From the latest British reworking of a Broadway musical to…
Trans-Atlantic transfers dominated at West End and fringe theaters in 2014.
That old canard about there being no good roles for women needed revising time and again in the theatre year just gone, so much so that end-of-year judging panels for the year's best faced f…
From a Noel Coward classic polished to within an inch of its life to a troubling Stephen Sondheim musical that packed a pistol-laden punch, London theater was characteristically varied and v…
Matt Wolf on high-concept Shakespeare and a new play that quite explicitly offers hope on the London stage.
From a boozy lunch at The Savoy to the star-studded red carpet of the London Palladium, Matt Wolf looks back at the glamour, the passion and the drama of 60 years of the Evening Standard The…
London offered a veritable feast of fine acting on stages large and small in 2014, whether in time-honored theatrical chestnuts (Angela Lansbury in Blithe Spirit) or bracing new plays (Russe…
The musical that defined an era is back on the West End, allowing a new generation to see what all the fuss was about 33 years ago when a non-narrative extravaganza as heavy on dance and sce…
There are few supporting roles in musicals as fiery as that of John, the marine-turned-aid worker in Miss Saigon who gets the second act of the musical off to a powerful start with the anthe…
The holidays are officially here! In London, that means a spate of eagerly anticipated musical revivals, a seasonal romp at the National, and Shakespeare displaced to Las Vegas. For that and…
On the London stage, Jamie Lloyd's production of "Assassins"; a revival of "Accolade"; and Mordaunt Shairp's 1933 play "The Green Bay Tree."
Lucy Punch is back in the West End for the first time in well over a decade, having in the interim shot to fame in Bad Teacher, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger and the forthcoming screen …
Grim new productions in the British capital include "'Tis Pity She's a Whore," "Wildefire" and "Hippolytos."
The West End has a sleeper success in The Play That Goes Wrong, the delicious play-within-a-play that chronicles all manner of onstage and offstage mishaps during a performance of an old-sty…
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, David Hare's adaptation of Katherine Boo's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, works as both play and portent. Viewed on its own terms, the evening grips throughout i…
What ought to be a featherweight holiday confection emerges as a charmless slog in the belated West End bow of White Christmas, a title that at this point in November may induce panic in tho…
Amid a busy fall season in London for musicals, Natalie Mendoza’s powerful performance as Imelda Marcos in the European premiere of Here Lies Love at the National Theatre stands apart.…
Stage and screen star Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace, Tamara Drewe) has come a long way since she last appeared in the West End in the American comedy The Little Dog Laughed&nb…
Katie Mitchell brings incision and insight to a new London production of "The Cherry Orchard." "Neville's Island" explores survival, while "Memphis" tackles race relations.
The current crop of shows dealing with controversial subjects has breathed new life into the form