In spring 2020, The Old Vic will present Amy Herzog’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama nominated play 4000 Miles, directed by Matthew Warchus with Eileen Atkins and Timothée Chalamet in the lead roles, opening on 16 April 2020 with previews from 6th April. ‘It was to finish something I started. Micah and I started something. I finished it. That’s it. People want to make it … [Read more...]
London Plays: Best Plays in London - New Plays in London
Here is our guide to plays in London. From long-running West End plays such as The Mousetrap and The Woman in Black to new plays opening soon. Book London theatre tickets online for plays – click one of the images or the link below which shows all listings of plays currently on sale.
Final casting announced for Leopoldstadt at Wyndham’s Theatre
Sonia Friedman Productions announces final casting for the world premiere of Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt to be directed by Patrick Marber. Now booking to 13 June 2020, Leopoldstadt begins previews at Wyndham’s Theatre on 25 January 2020 with opening night on 12 February 2020. Faye Castelow, Felicity Davidson, Avye Leventis and Sadie Shimmin join the previously … [Read more...]
RSC Measure for Measure at the Barbican | Review
This production of Measure for Measure is, as the show’s programme would have it, set in ‘Freud’s Vienna’ of the 1900s, where strict moral codes were given plenty of lip service but privately, all sorts of things went on under the bedsheets. This does beg the question: why set the production in an era so comparable to what things were like in Shakespeare’s day? It … [Read more...]
The Watsons transfers to London West End at the Harold Pinter Theatre
Following sold-out runs at both Chichester Festival Theatre and the Menier Chocolate Factory, Laura Wade’s The Watsons transfers to the West End in 2020. The production opens at the Harold Pinter Theatre on 19 May, with previews from 8 May, and runs until 26 September. Public booking opens on 15 November, priority booking is open now. Directed by Samuel West, The … [Read more...]
All’s Well That Ends Well at Jermyn Street Theatre | Review
I was disappointed that I wasn’t able to see this production in Guildford as I always try to see everything that Guildford Shakespeare Company (GSC) produce, but what a treat! I get to see it in the delightful Jermyn Street Theatre for GSC’s first London transfer. Most of the set is covered with dust sheets as we take our seats but enough is showing to see that … [Read more...]
Lest We Forget at Greenwich Theatre | Review
Army privates William (Gilbert Kyem Jnr) and Dave (Chris Anderson) are in a World War One trench somewhere on the Western Front, wondering when on earth they’re going to see some proper action instead of merely holding their positions. Lest We Forget is a little too successful in portraying the boredom of the frontline, though I suppose the audience’s patience is … [Read more...]
The Taming of the Shrew – Royal Shakespeare Company – The Barbican
Hilarious, brilliant and sumptuous - the RSC shows a mighty confidence to import all of Shakespeare’s genius whilst addressing the disquieting messages of this folio by employing the simple but perfect device of flipping its characters’ genders. No humour is sacrificed - in fact the mirth is enhanced. For example, the famous tussle between Catherine and Petrucio, (now … [Read more...]
Macbeth by William Shakespeare at Theatro Technis | Review
The Tragedy of Macbeth is an intrinsically thrilling and eerie play and it’s no bad thing to be reminded every now and then that that fellow William Shakespeare really could turn a phrase and hatch a plot. The Guardian’s Michael Billington, reflecting on nearly half-a-century of reviewing British theatre, recently noted that, whilst the nation’s theatre has never been … [Read more...]
Who They Were at the Etcetera Theatre | Review
As Florence (Adela Rajnović) and Eros (Lucy Abraham) engage in yet another petty argument (or maybe it was it the same one, but continued from where it was left off previously), Eros asserts that nobody is really special, and that the term ‘special’ has become overused. I can see where she is coming from - it reminded me of a café in Brighton I went to many years ago … [Read more...]