By Miriam Gibson Monday, December 5 2022, 11:33
“There are two things I shall no longer be turning down,” announces Gore Vidal, played by a sardonic Zachary Quinto in Best of Enemies, “Sex, and television appearances".
It’s the late 1960s and TV is a new and exciting business in the USA. News needn’t just be “What happened?” any longer, it can be “What do you think?”. That’s what the ABC executives reckon at least, worried that their network is becoming the least-watched channel as they enter an election year.
By London Box Office Friday, December 2 2022, 10:09
Susan Stroman, the respected Broadway director and choreographer, has announced an acclaimed UK revival of the musical comedy Crazy for You, packed with George and Ira Gershwin songs. It will transfer from the Chichester Festival Theatre to the Gillian Lynne Theatre for a strictly limited 30 week West End season from 24th June 2023. The opening night is 3rd July.
By Stuart King Thursday, December 1 2022, 19:54
Zachary Quinto (the most recent incarnation of Mr Spock in the Star Trek film franchise) becomes the latest in a long line of Hollywood imports to hit London’s theatre district. Stylishly delivering his effete East Coast leftie Gore Vidal to David Harewood’s brittle and uptight right-winger William F Buckley Jr, the two spar for the TV cameras in ABC’s news studio as they offer their distinctly polarised political assessment of the Republican and Democratic conventions in the run-up to the 1968 US Presidential Election.
David Harewood and Zachary Quinto, Best of Enemies, Noel Coward Theatre.
By London Box Office Thursday, December 1 2022, 11:46
A brand new production of the Wizard Of Oz, the beloved musical, will take to the stage at the iconic London Palladium next summer. Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group are thrilled to announce the musical, based on the story by L. Frank Baum, will play for a strictly limited season at the world-famous venue. Here’s to some classic musical magic for 2023.
By London Box Office Tuesday, November 29 2022, 18:39
The brilliant James Norton stars as the mysterious, troubled lawyer Jude St Francis in director Ivo van Hove’s acclaimed adaptation of A Little Life. The play is adapted from the brilliant Booker Prize nominated novel by Hanya Yanagihara and weaves a powerful story that has broken the hearts of readers worldwide. Now it’s celebrating its English language stage premiere at the Harold Pinter Theatre from Saturday 25th March to Sunday 18th Jun 2023.
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