Love London Love Culture’s Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for the revival of Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer Prize nominated play Marjorie Prime at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory.
‘A success which I intend to repeat’: LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN – Marquee TV (Online review)
This production of Lady Windermere’s Fan is mostly a strong account of a play that will always be overshadowed by Earnest and a very pleasant way to spend a locked down afternoon.
‘Pleasant enough thing but there’s nothing particularly groundbreaking’: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST – West End ★★★
In Michael Fentiman’s strictly period production, it’s hard to see what we’re meant to care about, and what is supposed to resonate with us. It’s a pleasant enough thing, but there’s nothing particularly groundbreaking about it.
Review Round-up: The Importance of Being Earnest at the Vaudeville Theatre
Michael Fentiman’s production of Oscar Wilde’s beloved comedy is the final production in Classic Spring’s year-long Oscar Wilde season, running until 20 October 2018 at the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre. Here’s what critics have been saying about it…
NEWS: Sophie Thompson will play Lady Bracknell in Classic Spring’s The Importance of Being Earnest
Classic Spring has announced that Olivier Award winner Sophie Thompson will play Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest at London’s Vaudeville Theatre (20 July to 20 October, press night is 2 August).
‘It’s also time to let Wilde free’: AN IDEAL HUSBAND – West End
In an otherwise charming and chic production, it can only be a shame that Classic Spring didn’t decide to take a risk with this interpretation of An Ideal Husband.
NEWS: Father & son Edward & Freddie Fox star with Frances Barber in An Ideal Husband
Real-life father and son, Edward and Freddie Fox, will play fictional father and son, the Earl of Caversham and Lord Goring, in An Ideal Husband, as part of the year-long Oscar Wilde season at the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre. Also starring, in the role of Mrs Cheveley is Frances Barber.
‘More slapstick than subtle’: LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN – West End ★★★
It has taken more than 20 years but Jennifer Saunders this week returned to the West End stage to make her mark in Lady Windermere’s Fan at the Vaudeville Theatre.
‘Bring it back for Easter holidays!’: WILDE CREATURES – West End ★★★★
These gentle, heartfelt, poignant morality tales have all the storytelling power of folktale but with both Oscar Wilde’s elegant, poignant romanticism and satirical social anger.
NEWS: Simon Callow performs De Profundis in West End’s Oscar Wilde season, TICKETS ONSALE
Simon Callow will perform Frank McGuinness’s new stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis at the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre for a limited run of just six performances from 3 to 6 January 2018. Tickets are now on sale.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: A Woman of No Importance at the Vaudeville Theatre
Eve Best stars in this new production of A Woman of No Importance, launching Dominic Dromgoole’s year-long Oscar Wilde season at the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre. It runs until 30 December 2017. What have critics been saying about it?
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE – West End ★★★
A Woman of No Importance is the most Shavian of Wilde’s plays – in fact with a slight reshuffling of the cast the same company could present Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession also produced in 1893 and wherein the same issue of parentage is concealed.
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE – West End ★★★★
At its heart is Eve Best: mournful and troubled in black velvet, hair tumbling, a humble church-mouse amid the quipping brittle socialites. Her wronged Mrs Arbuthnot is the emotional and moral core of the play.
NEWS: Jennifer Saunders returns to West End after 20 years in Lady Windermere’s Fan, TICKETS ONSALE
Samantha Spiro, Kevin Bishop and Jennifer Saunders will star in Lady Windermere’s Fan, directed by Kathy Burke, the second offering in the year-long Oscar Wilde season at the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre.
NEWS: ‘Wilde Talk’ series set for A Woman of No Importance, Full cast announced
Classic Spring has announced its ‘Wilde Talk’ series to run alongside performances of A Woman of No Importance. Further casting has also been announced.
PHOTOS: Restoration comedy meets modern music festival in The Provoked Wife
Marooned Theatre’s acclaimed, contemporary re-imagining of John Vanbrugh’s 1697 Restoration comedy, The Provoked Wife, prepares to transfer to north London’s Hope Theatre next month after a sell-out summer season south of the river at White Bear Theatre. See our photo gallery!
NEWS: Anne Reid joins Eve Best in Wilde season opener A Woman of No Importance
Last Tango in Halifax star Anne Reid will play Lady Hunstanton, alongside Eve Best as Mrs Arbuthnot, in A Woman of No Importance at the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre from 6 October to 30 December 2017.
NEWS: Dromgoole stages year-long Oscar Wilde season in West End, Eve Best opens
Classic Spring, a new theatre company from former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Dominic Dromgoole, today announces first casting and creatives for a year-long celebration of Oscar Wilde at the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre, starting in October with Eve Best in A Woman of No Importance.
NEWS: David Horovitch reprises his role as Handel in All the Angels at Globe
Shakespeare’s Globe has announced casting for All the Angels – Handel and the First Messiah, written by Nick Drake and directed by Jonathan Munby. The production runs in the Globe’s indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse from 6 December 2016 to Sunday 12 February 2017, with a press night on 8 December.
Fifteen years of Globe greats remembered
This is an unusual post, not about any current production, and far too long. And the latest current reviews are available below, AMADEUS at the top and well worth it. But there has been controversy over the departure of … Continue reading →
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