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London Theater Review: ‘Rules for Living’
Imagine Alan Ayckbourn clawing his fingernails down a blackboard; that’s Sam Holcroft’s “Rules for Living.” She takes your average family farce — a social occasion sunk by clashing personalities — and...
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Angela Lansbury, The Kinks and Broadway-Bound ‘Charles III’ Win Olivier...
Angela Lansbury has picked up her first Olivier Award at the age of 89 following the reprise of her Tony-winning performance in Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” (which marked her return to the London...
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London Theater Review: ‘The Twits’
The tagline says “mischievously adapted”; I say hijacked. Working with director John Tiffany for the first time since Tony-winning musical “Once,” Irish playwright Enda Walsh has done a number on Roald...
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West End Review: ‘Gypsy’ Starring Imelda Staunton
You don’t do “Gypsy” without a Momma Rose to match, and London hasn’t had a Momma Rose in more than 40 years. In that time, it’s gone without one of the great cautionary tales — much more than a mere...
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Tessa Ross Quits as National Theatre Chief after 6 Months in Role
LONDON — Tessa Ross has resigned as the National Theatre’s chief executive after only six months in the role, citing an overly crowded leadership structure at the top of the organization. Ross, who...
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‘Groundhog Day’ Musical to Bow in Matthew Warchus’ First Season at London’s...
The musical version of “Groundhog Day” as well as starring stage turns for Ralph Fiennes (in Henrik Ibsen’s “Master Builder”) and Timothy Spall (in Harold Pinter’s “The Caretaker”) are among the shows...
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West End Review: ‘American Buffalo’ with Damian Lewis, John Goodman
Buffaloes, American or otherwise, live in herds. Leading actors don’t — and it sure shows in this starry revival of “American Buffalo,” David Mamet’s 1975 play about three wasters in a Chicago junk...
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London Theater Review: ‘Everyman’ with Chiwetel Ejiofor
Here’s a mission statement and a half. Rufus Norris, the National Theater’s new boss, kicks off his tenure with an “Everyman” for everyone. This is one of Britain’s oldest extant plays zapped into the...
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West End Review: ‘Death of a Salesman’ with Antony Sher
Timed to mark Arthur Miller’s centenary, “Death of a Salesman” proves grimly pertinent in austerity Britain. High school students are taught to see Willy Loman as a man chasing the American Dream, but,...
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West End Review: ‘McQueen’ Starring Dianna Agron
Raised in the East End and trained on Saville Row, fashion designer Alexander McQueen was an icon of creative London in an era when Cool Britannia ruled the waves. James Phillips’ soulless bio-play...
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London Theater Review: ‘Temple’ Starring Simon Russell Beale
Drama has its sweet spots. “Temple” is one of those plays that takes us into exactly the right room at exactly the right moment. With Occupy London camped outside a closed St. Paul’s Cathedral, its...
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London Theater Review: Patrick Marber’s ‘The Red Lion’
There is some corner of a playing field that is forever England in the new play by Patrick Marber (“Closer”), his first in more than eight years, which turns a dysfunctional non-league soccer club into...
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West End Review: ‘Bend It Like Beckham,’ the Musical
If Gurinder Chadha’s Brit flick “Bend It Like Beckham,” which gave the world one Keira Knightley, seems an odd choice for a musical adaptation, it actually works a lot better on stage than on screen....
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London Theater Review: ‘The Trial’ Starring Rory Kinnear
Franz Kafka’s novella “The Trial” gets the Richard Jones treatment at the Young Vic — that is to say, the director whizzes it into a far-out psychedelic loop-de-loop that does it no favors. Josef K...
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London Theater Review: ‘Measure for Measure’ at Shakespeare’s Globe
Departing artistic director Dominic Dromgoole bids farewell to the main stage of Shakespeare’s Globe with a “Measure for Measure” that demonstrates exactly why he’ll be missed. All the crowdpleasing...
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West End Review: ‘The Mentalists’ Starring Stephen Merchant
The success of Tony-winning London hit “One Man, Two Guvnors” has made Richard Bean a bankable playwright: His factory-set 1999 debut “Toast” popped up on the London fringe last year and now “The...
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London Theater Review: ‘Songs for a New World’ with Cynthia Erivo
Twenty years after Jason Robert Brown burst onto the American musical theater landscape at age 25, London gets a first-class revival of his breakout show, “Songs for a New World,” with a dream cast....
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Edinburgh Theater Review: Complicite’s ‘The Encounter’
Leaping off from Petru Popescu’s book “Amazon Beaming,” an account of an American photographer’s encounter with an indigenous tribe, Simon McBurney’s solo show for his company Complicite is quite...
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London Theater Review: Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Hamlet’
Thought you knew “Hamlet”? Think again. Benedict Cumberbatch’s prince might have triggered a media frenzy, but make no mistake, this is director Lyndsey Turner’s production — and it’s a radical...
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London Theater Review: ‘Future Conditional’ Directed by Matthew Warchus
The Old Vic has a new head in Matthew Warchus (“Matilda,” “God of Carnage”), and he’s already gone one better than his predecessor. Where Kevin Spacey started his tenure there shakily, with a dumpy...
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