Now we’ve seen Cameron Mackintosh here in London twice in the last year throw his original investors overboard on his two biggest hits: Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera.
‘Brings clarity to a towering American masterpiece’: WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF – Bristol ★★★★
David Mercatali’s production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf though long finds layer after layer in the lashings of marital discord.
20 shows to look forward to in 2020
Looking ahead to some of 2020’s exciting shows, most with an emphasis away from the West End and instead focusing at the London Fringe and across the UK.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: The Goat, or Who is Sylvia at Theatre Royal Haymarket
Ian Rickson directs this revival of Edward Albee’s play starring Damian Lewis and Sophie Okenedo. But what have critics been saying about it?
Re-reviewing two American classics by Edward Albee
“It’s an honour just to be nominated…” Come award season, these words are often heard but you do have to wonder what it feels like to be the only member of a four person ensemble that isn’t up for an Olivier Award.
THE GOAT or, WHO IS SYLVIA? – West End
Damian Lewis is excellent, capturing Martin’s dismaying sincerity, but Sophie Okonedo’s is the performance which will be remembered for decades.
PHOTOS: Damian Lewis & Sophie Okonedo open in Albee’s The Goat tonight
Ian Rickson’s revival of the late Edward Albee’s 2002 play The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? opens tonight (5 April 2017), starring Damian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo. View all the production photography.
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? – West End
There are few theatrical pleasures greater than witnessing the formidable Imelda Staunton graft fresh insights onto a well-known role: it can be almost as exhausting to watch as to do since you can’t look away.
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? – West End
The shared vacuum of George and Martha’s lives is filled by bitter sniping, infidelity and alcohol, the pain of their desperate mutual neediness broken one night by a drunken and impromptu invitation to Nick and Honey, a much young married couple, newly employed on the college’s staff.
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? – West End
It’s a sensational piece of writing that barely seems to have aged since its 1962 debut, such is the sharpness of its caustic wit as Martha spouts forth her bitterness at life-plans gone awry and George’s morose demeanour gives way to no less wickedly pointed vitriol.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? New photos of Imelda Staunton, Conleth Hill, Luke Treadaway & Imogen Poots
A classic reborn with a Rolls Royce cast! Check out these newly released production images of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, starring Conleth Hill and Imelda Staunton as warring George and Martha, along with Luke Treadaway and Imogen Poots.
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? – West End
It hit me like a truck, as it should: not least because of the explosive substance that is Imelda Staunton, firmly at its black bitter suffering heart as Martha.
5 shows to look out for in March: An American in Paris, Stepping Out, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? & more
Here is Love London Love Culture’s guide to five of the best shows opening in the capital in March 2017 that you might want to see… Click on links to BUY tickets in the Mates Ticket Shop.
NEWS: Jason Hughes & newcomer Archie Madekwe join The Goat cast
Jason Hughes and newcomer Archie Madekwe join Damian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo in Ian Rickson’s West End revival of Edward Albee’s The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?, opening in April.
The Year Ahead: Complete round-up of the best theatre coming up in 2017
What are the hottest shows coming up this year? Based on the ones that are most likely to appear on top picks’ lists in my round-up of commentators’ round-ups, they include Hamilton, Obsession, The Glass Menagerie, Angels in America and…
The Year Ahead: Complete round-up of the best theatre coming up in 2017
What are the hottest shows coming up this year? Based on the ones that are most likely to appear on top picks’ lists in my round-up of commentators’ round-ups, they include Hamilton, Obsession, The Glass Menagerie, Angels in America and…
Why do celebrity deaths make us grieve so much?
2016 has seen the world lose some extraordinarily talented people. From David Bowie to Alan Rickman and Prince to Gene Wilder, a lot has been said about why we treat the deaths of those we probably never even met as almost equal to those close to us.
What are the Top 15 hottest tickets on the site right NOW?
we’re looking backwards and forwards for our final list today. These are our current Top 15 Ticket Recommendations – broken down into five musicals, five plays and five ‘star attractions’ (in other words, there are famous faces in the cast) – based on both best-sellers over the past month as well as our predictions on the hottest of upcoming openings…
NEWS: Luke Treadaway & Imogen Poots complete Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? cast
Imogen Poots and Luke Treadaway will join the previously announced Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill in the new production of multi Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by James Macdonald.
NEWS: Sophie Okonedo joins Damian Lewis in Albee’s The Goat, TICKETS ONSALE
Sophie Okonedo will join Damian Lewis in a new production of Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Directed by Ian Rickson, the production will play a strictly limited 12 week season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 24 March to 24 June 2017.
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