Original cast recording of Your Lie in April – out now
Frank Wildhorn’s Your Lie in April: The Musical (Original London Cast Recording) is available in streaming and digital formats now! Your Lie in April, one of the most popular romantic stories and greatest tearjerkers in the history of Japanese manga – which is a popular form of graphic novel – features music by multi-Grammy, Tony, […]
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre
Following record-breaking ticket sales across the country and a hugely acclaimed national tour earlier this year, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS starring Martin Shaw and Gary Wilmot, will transfer to London’s Harold Pinter Theatre this summer, preceded by a limited tour to Brighton and York. The greatest, most powerful and dangerous figures who shaped English […]
Tuppence Middleton joins the West End cast of The Years
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam’s new Artistic Director Eline Arbo returns to direct her five-star, sold out “masterpiece” (The Guardian) adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s critically acclaimed semi-autobiographical novel The Years. Having run to critical acclaim at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and at the Almeida Theatre from August – September 2024, it is now playing […]
Royal Court Theatre’s production of GIANT comes to the Harold Pinter Theatre
Royal Court Theatre’s production of Mark Rosenblatt’s GIANT comes to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End. Directed by Nicholas Hytner (Straight Line Crazy, La Belle Sauvage) and designed by Bob Crowley, the sold-out hit which has just completed its run at the Royal Court premiered at the theatre in September 2024. The West […]
GOOD starring David Tennant at the Harold Pinter Theatre ★★
‘Good’ premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London in 1981 and now, after several delays due to the pandemic, returns to the West End for a ten-week run at the Harold Pinter Theatre starring Doctor Who’s David Tennant. It’s 1933 and John Halder (Tennant) is a German Professor who has been handpicked to join the […]
REVIEW: BLITHE SPIRIT (Harold Pinter Theatre) ★★★★
Noel Coward‘s 1941 play Blithe Spirit has been revived many times and is one of his most popular works. First performed during World War II, the comedy served as a well-needed tonic and distraction from the world at that time. The show is now back in the West End, at the Harold Pinter Theatre, and […]
REVIEW: WALDEN (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Amy Berryman‘s debut play Walden opened the RE:EMERGE season (which creates a space for new voices and fresh talent to have their work shown on the West End stage) at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London last week. It’s an interesting concept for a show. Stella (Gemma Arterton) get stuck in the middle when her […]
REVIEW: UNCLE VANYA (Harold Pinter Theatre) ★★★★★
Anton Chekhov wrote the play Uncle Vanya in 1895 but this glorious new staging and adaption at the Harold Pinter Theatre by Conor McPherson gives it a timeless feel while still rooted in the decaying country house of Imperial Russia, with a household full of ennui. The brilliant and highly theatrical staging by Rae Smith, […]
REVIEW: Pinter Seven (Harold Pinter Theatre) ★★★★★
Short of a few rehearsed readings to come, Pinter Seven completes the Jamie Lloyd Company’s 24-week season turning the spotlight on Pinter’s one-act plays: a fascinating critical reappraisal of the late Nobel Prize winning playwright’s lifework a decade after his death. Jamie Lloyd has personally directed the bulk of them with a superb creative command […]
REVIEW: Pinter Five / Pinter Six (Harold Pinter Theatre) ★★★★
First and Last Things are brought to light in the newest instalments of Jamie Lloyd’s epochal season presenting all of Harold Pinter’s short plays. Pinter Five and Six take us from the unsettling claustrophobia of Pinter’s first play, 1957’s The Room, through to the satirical exasperation of his last, Celebration, from 2000. The complex violence […]