A superb staging of "My Night With Reg" opens at the Donmar Warehouse. "Holy Warriors" at Shakespeare's Globe tries to compress the history of the Middle East into two-and-a-half hours.
After nearly two years in the West End, the musical adaptation of the Whitney Houston film The Bodyguard will play its final performance August 30 at the Adelphi Theatre. Thea Sharrock&rsquo…
Benedict Andrews's ferocious new production of Tennessee Williams's "Streetcar Named Desire" at the Young Vic stars Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster.
Summer is officially winding down, but there’s no shortage of openings and special theatrical events all month long, from revivals of classic musicals (Guys and Dolls) to the European …
A London revival of Oscar Wilde's "Earnest" is the latest of several productions that have cast stage veterans in younger roles.
Film star Kathleen Turner is no stranger to the British stage, having twice appeared out of town at the Chichester Festival Theatre (in the solo play Tallulah and Somerset Maugham’s Ou…
Elaine Stritch, who has died aged 89, was a star of stage and TV. Here are her 10 best, or most defining, roles
At age 62, Nigel Havers might seem long in the tooth to be playing witty young bachelor Algernon (Algy) Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde's beloved comic masterpi…
Paul Chahidi stole the spotlight on both sides of the Atlantic with his sublimely funny and commanding turn as Maria in Twelfth Night, the all-male production of Shakespeare’s comedy t…
Is there no end to the London stage’s infatuation with all things American? You might think not in a month that promises major works by Tennessee Williams and the Gershwins, and with n…
In London, 'Mr. Burns' and 'Adler & Gibb' Stir Things Up; 'Khandan' Provides Relief
Alex Jennings won a 2003 Olivier Award for playing Henry Higgins in the Trevor Nunn-directed revival of My Fair Lady, and the protean actor is now back at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in an…
Three plays provide very different experiences for British audiences.
A totemic play from (nearly) 20 years ago surfaces afresh in Stephen Daldry's West End revival of Skylight, the power of David Hare's intimate epic fully intact if somewhat redistributed as …
After nearly 20 years on Broadway, half-American, half-Canadian actor Peter Lockyer has crossed the pond to make his West End debut as Jean Valjean in the totemic musical Les Miserables…
Polly Stenham abandons her domestic English environs for an African resort in "Hotel." Kathleen Turner gets growly in "Bakersfield Mist." And Andrew Lippa shows why he is "The Life of the Pa…
Katherine Kingsley has received Olivier nominations in a variety of diverse shows, from Piaf to Singin’ in the Rain, to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The English actr…
New plays from the US are taking over London theatre
Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry are in the running for tonight's Broadway theatre awards - but will they win?
Ben Miles has had no shortage of high-profile stage roles—he played Bolingbroke to Kevin Spacey’s Richard II at the Old Vic and Kristin Scott Thomas’s husband in the West E…
Kevin Spacey is seen before he is heard in Clarence Darrow, the solo play that is doing a brief if ferociously bracing run at the Old Vic, but once the actor stops fiddling with his onstage …
London is whistling “Yankee Doodle” this month: a Rodgers and Hammerstein classic resurfaces, several off-Broadway hits get a British airing and two Americans continue their stel…
Laurence Connor's staging of "Miss Saigon'' in London shifts emphasis from the power of America's military to the suffering of the Vietnamese.
David Hunter has understudied the last two guys to play Guy in the West End incarnation of the hit musical Once—but earlier this month, he nabbed the starring role for himself. The new…
Plays don't come much more baleful than "Titus Andronicus" or chronicle moral decay better than "A Small Family Business.''