Ahead of rounding up various publications #theatre2016 highlights, I’m taking a moment to reflect on my own theatregoing year and my favourite plays, musicals, performances and other events.
Plays for my Brexit & Chilcot mood: The Truth, Faith Healer, The Spoils
Has anyone else had difficulty getting back into their theatregoing after the results of the EU Referendum? The two – excellent – plays I have managed to see since the UK voted to leave on 23 June, have both, in a strange way, deepened my Brexit despair too. Neither Florian Zeller‘s The Truth nor Faith Healer by […]
Weekly Theatre Podcast: The Spoils, Titanic, The Deep Blue Sea, Human Animals
This week the London theatre bloggers discuss Jesse Eisenberg’s double West End debut The Spoils, Helen McCrory in Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea, the return of Titanic, and Human Animals at the Royal Court.
TICKETS: Mark’s Top Ten recommendations this week (20 June)
In Mark Shenton’s regularly updated list of top ten ticket recommendations, new entries this week include The Spoils, Blue/Orange, The Deep Blue Sea and The Go-Between.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: The Spoils at Trafalgar Studios
Jesse Eisenberg’s new play The Spoils received its UK premiere this week. Eisenberg also co-stars with Kunal Nayyar, both reprising their roles from the play’s New York run. Does it impress the critics?
Press Pass: All the reviews on Jesse Eisenberg and The Spoils
In my years of covering theatre, I’ve seen a lot of Hollywood stars make their West End debuts, but I’ve rarely, if ever, seen it done with quite so much aplomb. Jesse Eisenberg and Kunal Nayyar – best known internationally for, respectively, multiple films including The Social Network, and US sitcom The Big Bang Theory – are both totally at home onstage and totally at ease with one another.
5 shows to look out for in June: Aladdin, The Spoils, The Go-Between & more
Is it really June already? Summer is upon us. Here are a few hot show opening this month that you need to keep an eye out for…
NEWS: Alfie Allen and Katie Brayben join Jesse Eisenberg in The Spoils
Alfie Allen, who last month cheered on his former Game of Thones co-star Kit Harington at Doctor Faustus’ opening night, will make his West End in a few weeks in the UK premiere of Jesse Eisenberg’s The Spoils…
NEWS: Jesse Eisenberg stars in West End transfer of his play The Spoils
The European premiere of The New Group’s critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production, The Spoils, a razor-sharp new comedy written by and starring internationally acclaimed actor Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice), will transfer for a strictly limited season at London’s Trafalgar Studios, from 27 May to 13 August 2016, with press night on 2 June.