The holidays have always been a time of rich pickings for dramatists, bringing together people (pre-Covid at least) who probably avoid each other for the rest of the year.
‘An unmissable joy’: UNDER MILK WOOD – National Theatre ★★★★★
Under Milk Wood is a perfect piece to contemplate after a year when the shrinking worlds of lockdown made every neighbourhood a village and every one of us was connected in fate and behaviour whether we liked it or not.
‘Possesses an up-to-the-minute urgency’: LIVING NEWSPAPER #3 – Royal Court Theatre (Online review)
The third edition of Royal Court’s Living Newspaper moves online only, with some seriously fierce political writing this time around.
NEWS: Casting announced for West End transfer of Laura Wade’s Home, I’m Darling
As rehearsals begin, casting has been announced for the West End transfer of the National Theatre and Theatr Clwyd’s critically acclaimed co-production of Home, I’m Darling, a new play by Laura Wade, directed by Theatre Clwyd artistic director Tamara Harvey, featuring Katherine Parkinson, which begins performances at the Duke of York’s Theatre on 26 January 2019.
News & interesting titbits: Broadway & West End casting round-ups
The announcement of the new cast for Broadway’s hugely lauded Hello, Dolly! has been a most strange affair – names trickling out one by one, rather than one big splash.
NEWS: National’s Angels in America transfers to Broadway with Lane, Garfield & Gough
Marianne Elliott’s sell-out National Theatre revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America transfers to Broadway in the new year with original stars Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane and Denise Gough.
NEWS: National’s Angels in America transfers to Broadway with Lane, Garfield & Gough
Marianne Elliott’s sell-out National Theatre revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America transfers to Broadway in the new year with original stars Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane and Denise Gough.
ANGELS IN AMERICA – National Theatre
In the many aspects of Angels in America that there are to enjoy and appreciate, the richness of Tony Kushner’s writing was not one that I was particularly expecting. But at several points throughout the many, many hours of the two-show press day, it felt like Kushner was almost writing in pull-quotes, such was the vividness of the language that was resonating from the stage of the Lyttelton.
PHOTOS: Full galleries of #AngelsInAmerica’s Millennium Approaches & Perestroika
#AngelsInAmerica has been trending on Twitter during today’s theatrical marathon press day (4 May 2017). Ahead of the critics delivering their judgment on Marianne Elliott‘s 25th anniversary production of Tony Kushner‘s two-part epic, we’re celebrating with the full photo galleries of both parts of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes – Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part …
How to get tickets for the sold-out Angels in America
Tickets for Angels in America sold out very quickly- a mark of the excitement for this 25th anniversary production of Tony Kushner’s epic, but the folks at the National have come up with three ways that you can still catch the show.
PHOTOS: Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Denise Gough & Angels in America cast in rehearsal
Rehearsal photos are released today of the National Theatre’s forthcoming 25th anniversary revival of Tony Kushner‘s two-part epic Angels in America, which opens at the National’s Lyttelton Theatre on 4 May 2017, following previews from 11 April America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, …
NEWS: Nathan Lane joins Garfield & Gough in NT’s Angels in America, May 2017
The National Theatre confirms today that American stage and screen star Nathan Lane (pictured) – as well as Susan Brown, James McArdle, and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett – will join the previously announced Andrew Garfield, Denise Gough and Russell Tovey in the cast of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.