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West End Review: ‘The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?’ With Damian Lewis, Sophie Okonedo
A married, middle-aged man falls in love with a goat. Edward Albee’s set-up might be simple, but it’s perfectly positioned – silly and shocking and, at its best, achingly sad. “The Goat, or Who Is...
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London Theater Review: ‘Consent’ by Nina Raine
Modern classics don’t come along very often. “Consent” is, without a shadow of a doubt, just that: an intricately constructed philosophical drama that does for love, law and language and what Michael...
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‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Wins a Record Nine Olivier Awards (Full...
Forget the Triwizard Tournament and the Hogwarts House Cup, Harry Potter has arguably won an ever bigger prize. The West End production of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” due on Broadway next...
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London Theater Review: ‘Obsession’ Starring Jude Law
Stories shift, depending on their art-form. Luchino Visconti transformed James M. Cain’s twitchy crime thriller “The Postman Always Rings Twice” into a classy black and white romance-noir in his 1943...
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London Theater Review: Jez Butterworth’s ‘The Ferryman,’ Directed by Sam Mendes
Jez Butterworth tapped into England’s green and pleasant land in “Jerusalem,” summoning ancient feet and pagan spirits to the stage. “The Ferryman,” his first major play since that mega-hit, dredges...
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London Theater Review: ‘Angels in America’ With Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane
Better on angels than it is on America, Marianne Elliott’s grand revival of “Angels in America” brings Tony Kushner’s sprawling fantasia back to London’s National Theater 25 years after its first...
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London Theater Review: ‘Woyzeck’ Starring John Boyega
The paradox of “Woyzeck” is simple: Georg Büchner’s play is unfinished, but unimprovable. Based on a real-life murder case, a story of a soldier who self-destructs, it is brilliantly broken, powerful...
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London Theater Review: Videogames and Violence Drama ‘Killology’
Violence begets violence in Gary Owen’s “Killology” — whether it’s real or represented. Entering the debate about the effects of explicit computer games, Owen’s dark three-actor play complicates the...
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London Theater Review: ‘Anatomy of a Suicide’
The sins of the father revisited on the son — it’s a stage staple that tracks back to Ancient Greece. From Captain Alving in Ibsen’s “Ghosts” to Arthur Miller’s arms-dealing Joe Keller in “All My...
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London Theater Review: Topical Drama ‘Terror’
Stage trials are nothing new. Ayn Rand had a big Broadway hit with one back in 1935: “Night of January 16” was designed to put her philosophy, individualism, to the test. Ferdinand von Schirach’s...
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London Theater Review: ‘Ink,’ A New Play About Rupert Murdoch and The Sun
Like David Hare before him, playwright James Graham — whose play “Privacy” ran Off Broadway last season with Daniel Radcliffe — goes digging for drama in Britain’s national institutions. “Ink” does for...
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West End Review: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ With Sienna Miller
Money can’t buy you class. Australian director Benedict Andrews gives Tennessee Williams’ inheritance drama “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” a twist for the Trump era: Gone are the cream suits and vintage...
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London Theater Review: Bob Dylan Musical ‘Girl From the North Country’
“Bob Dylan: the Musical,” or something more sophisticated? Picking his way through the legendary songwriter’s back catalogue, Irish playwright Conor McPherson has come up with a portrait of...
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London Theater Review: ‘Mosquitoes’ by Lucy Kirkwood
The more we understand, the less we understand. As human knowledge increases, so does individual ignorance. Every new discovery brings new things to fear. These are the paradoxes that “Chimerica”...
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West End Review: ‘Apologia’ Starring Stockard Channing
Some things are best left in the past, and “Apologia,” Alexi Kaye Campbell’s ambivalent examination of baby-boomer morality and second-wave feminism is one of them. Written just after the financial...
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London Theater Review: ‘Against’ Starring Ben Whishaw
Hear ye the Gospel of Luke – as written for our times by the playwright Christopher Shinn. In “Against,” Ben Whishaw’s earnest Luke is a tech billionaire supposedly instructed by God: “Go where there’s...
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London Theater Review: ‘Follies’ With Imelda Staunton at the National Theatre
Guess that’s why they call him God. Stephen Sondheim’s paean to old Broadway, “Follies,” hasn’t had a full-bodied British revival since its West End premiere 30 years ago. With a cast that includes...
View ArticleLondon Theater Review: Martin McDonagh’s ‘A Very Very Very Dark Matter’
Hans Christian Andersen had his secrets. By day, a revered children’s writer — the Greatest of Danes; by night, a repressed brothel habitué. Whitewashed as his legacy has been, it’s unlikely he kept a...
View ArticleLondon Theater Review: ‘White Teeth’
The Kilburn High Road carves a line through north London. Turkish grills, Irish pubs and Indian grocers jostle with jerk shops, pizzerias and a political theater — formerly the Tricycle, newly...
View ArticleWest End Review: ‘Pinter Three and Four’
“Pinter at the Pinter” is not merely completist, it’s meticulously curated. A decade after Harold Pinter’s death, director Jamie Lloyd’s six-month season of the writer’s short plays and sketches looks...
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