By Stuart King Monday, October 7 2024, 00:01
Seán O’Casey’s oft-performed classic of the Dublin un-working, working-class, gets a refreshing revival courtesy of director Matthew Warchus, bolstered by an exceptionally tongue-in-cheek central performance from Mark Rylance as ‘Captain’ Jack Boyle.
Paul Hilton (Joxer Daly) & Mark Rylance ('Captain' Jack Boyle) in Juno and the Paycock at the Gielgud Theatre. Credit Manuel Harlan
By Stuart King Saturday, October 5 2024, 13:01
Pooja Ghai directs Tanika Gupta’s latest play about a British Indian family coming to terms with the matriarch’s gradual decline and loss of faculties due to mental illness. Central to the beautiful and nuanced production, is a towering performance by Meera Syal as Queenie, a renowned and combative Michelin-star rated chef who is the epitome of the Indian life force.
The cast of A Tupperware of Ashes at Dorfman Theatre. Photo by Manuel Harlan
By Becky Kroon Friday, October 4 2024, 15:40
Extending its popular West End run once again, Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis’s hit musical adaptation of Back To The Future continues to delight touristy theatregoers, recently debuting its fresh cast at the Adelphi Theatre.
Vasco Emauz as Marty McFly in Back to the Future the Musical. Photo by Matt Crockett.
By Stuart King Friday, October 4 2024, 12:10
For an actor whose career has included dozens of theatre productions (from Loot in the West End and Mourning Becomes Electra at the National, to Major Barbara at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin), Paul McGann must roll his eyes whenever someone references his star turn in Withnail & I, or his stint as the eighth incarnation of Doctor Who. However, it is precisely these roles which have ensured a good turn-out here at the has-seen-better-days-and-could-do-with-a-boost-to-funding Greenwich Theatre.
Kerri McLean and Paul McGann in The River at Greenwich Theatre. Photo credit: Danny with a Camera
By Emmie Newitt Friday, October 4 2024, 10:28
The new version of Chekhov's play by Duncan Macmillan and Thomas Ostermeier also announces the creative team and dates for its run in London early next year.
The cast of The Seagull.
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