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100 stories from This Is London

Serious laughter in the master farce Norman Conquests By Fiona Mountford (****)

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Rain Man rising above the erotic By Nicholas de Jongh

Dan Gordon's theatre adaptation of The Rain Man movie not only improves the original, it introduces to the West End a Hollywood heartthrob as charismatic on stage as screen.

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Branagh leads Ivanov invasion By Nicholas de Jongh (****)

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Here's a prince for our time By Nicholas de Jongh(***)

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Candide is lost in translation By Fiona Maddocks (***)

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Frankly, this show is damned, by Nicholas de Jongh

Connoisseurs of big, bad musicals must rush to catch Gone With The Wind in case it's quickly blown away on gales of ridicule. Or is a small, well-placed tornado in the vicinity of the theatre too much to hope for?

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

A good look at politics By Nicholas de Jongh

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Carnage in the dark does not dim the acting By Nicholas de Jongh (***)

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

West End power cut blacks out first night by Rashid Razaq and Louise Jury

The heart of the West End was plunged into darkness for more than two hours after a major power cut.

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Frankie goes to the West End...but will he last four seasons? By Nicholas de Jongh

After those sagging lines of hagio-graphic tribute musicals to old rock'n' rollers and bland bands, what a refreshing change to meet up with this Broadway triumph.

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Middle-aged lovers make much the biggest waves By Nicholas de Jongh

Hytner plays it disappointingly straight, with Daniel Hawksford's bland Claudio, Julian Wadham's inscrutable Prince and Susannah Fielding's wan Hero failing to raise the temperature. It is R…

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

For he's a jolly good Othello By Nicholas de Jongh

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Macbeth of a lifetime By Nicholas de Jongh

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

You're sure to have a ball By Nicholas de Jongh

The light-hearted, frivolous young will have a ball with Dirty Dancing.

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Always look on the knight side By Nicholas de Jongh

What a wicked pleasure it is to welcome the first anti-musical into the West End! Spamalot gives a welcome new twist to the term musical comedy.

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Drama? It's just madness By Nicholas de Jongh

There are not that many plays I would cross London to avoid. Johnson's Piano/Forte, an ill-mixed combination of farcical black comedy and psychodrama about the two disturbed, twenty-somethin…

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Spacey's modern monarch by Nicholas de Jongh

You would need a heart of stone not to be stirred by Kevin Spacey, oozing pomp and circumstance, in the empty glitter of Trevor Nunn's modish, moderndress production of Richard II.

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Nicole to return to West End By Luke Leitch

Kidman, 38, plans to star as one of drama's most compelling heroines: the tragically unhappy and manipulative beauty Hedda Gabler.

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Wrong time for waving the flag<br> Reviewed by Nicholas de Jongh

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Danny Boyle's Frankenstein is a monster success by Henry Hitchings (****)

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Keira Knightley and 'Peggy' shine but unknown dazzles in The Children's Hour by Henry Hitchings (****)

In short, the acting is cogent, and the stars deliver. Yet for all the glamour and hype, it's hard to escape the feeling that this is a very good production of a historically significant but…

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Sergei Diaghilev's debt to London by Sjeng Scheijen

Sergei Diaghilev was essentially cosmopolitan. Born in a village near Novgorod in 1872, he quit Russia after the 1917 revolution to travel the globe with the Ballets Russes, his world-famous…

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Fun and games in Deathtrap by Henry Hitchings

The comedy thriller is not exactly staple West End fare these days but Matthew Warchus's enjoyable revival of Ira Levin's 1978 play Deathtrap suggests that the genre still has legs.

SOURCE: This Is London at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

In New York we're starved of plays, says Stephen Sondheim by Matt Wolf

The master of the modern musical adores London, a city he first visited in 1952, and it's safe to say that the capital more than repays Stephen Sondheim's affections. The veteran Broadway co…

SOURCE: This Is London at 4:25pm on February 29, 2012☆⚑

This is London: Sam Mendes to quit Donmar

Sam Mendes is to quit the Donmar Warehouse after 10 years as artistic director. His announcement comes only days after he revealed his romantic involvement with Kate Winslet following her split from husband Jim Threapleton.
[Thanks to LeeinLondon for pointing this out.]

SOURCE: This Is London at 12:00am on November 23, 2001☆⚑

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