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Just for One Day, Old Vic — Live Aid musical hits the stage with fresh look at epic concert
...And it is them that this heartfelt, though flawed, musical from Luke Sheppard (direction), John O’Farrell (book) and Matthew Brind (musical arrangements) seeks to remember, staged like a gig with the band...
February 13, 2024
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Cold War combines love, politics and art in a stirring drama — review
...They are superbly played by Luke Thallon and Anya Chalotra, who pull your sympathies back and forth, with spare, soulful songs from Costello speaking for them as they strive to survive in an impossible world...
December 13, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewTheatre
The Witches at the National Theatre — a mischievous musical take on Roald Dahl
...Bertie Caplan brings a sweet sincerity to Luke that, together with Triplett’s gruff love, holds the show together, even during occasional narrative dips....
November 22, 2023
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Backstairs Billy is a droll portrait of a curious royal relationship — review
...Backstairs Billy Duke of York’s Theatre, London There’s a moment in Backstairs Billy when the Queen Mother (Penelope Wilton) and her devoted servant Billy (Luke Evans) plot an escape....
November 8, 2023
InterviewTheatre
Class comedy — playwright Marcelo Dos Santos on Backstairs Billy
...Now that extraordinary double act moves to the West End stage with Backstairs Billy, a new comedy from Marcelo Dos Santos, starring Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans....
October 25, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Pygmalion at the Old Vic — Shaw’s drama is still relevant but the staging is problematic
...Luke Sheppard’s witty staging glitters with good ideas: lighting and video work from Howard Hudson and Luke Halls flood the stage with colour in line with Henry’s feelings; Mark Smith weaves sign language...
September 20, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewTheatre
Patriots is a mighty tragedy about the battle for Russia — review
...“If the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must,” he tells emerging oligarch Roman Abramovich (excellent Luke Thallon). But his blazing self-confidence is also his blind spot....
June 14, 2023
ReviewTheatre
James Norton in A Little Life: harrowing performance in a troubling drama — review
...We see the treacherous Brother Luke promising little Jude a home at the same time as, nearby, Harold is prepping food for the adoption celebrations....
April 5, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Five stars for a high-energy, finger-snapping Guys & Dolls
...As the eponymous criminals, Frances Mayli McCann and Jordan Luke Gage have masses of charisma, together with great voices: McCann gives a spellbinding rendition of her sweetly seductive solo “How ’Bout a...
March 15, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Putin and Berezovsky play chilling power games in Patriots at the Almeida Theatre
...Around them swirl Luke Thallon’s shrewd Abramovich, Jamael Westman’s upright Litvinenko and Yolanda Kettle as his wise wife Marina....
July 14, 2022
ReviewTheatre
The RSC’s Much Ado About Nothing is an Afrofuturist-inspired spectacle
...Mohammed Mansaray’s Claudio falls all too readily for a souped-up scandal about his fiancée; Luke Wilson’s Benedick seems genuinely rattled at the prospect of his fellow singleton friend falling in love....
February 24, 2022
ReviewTheatre
Move over pantomime cows — puppets steal the show
...On Bob Crowley’s simple, versatile set, beautifully atmospheric video work (Luke Halls) and lighting (Jon Clark) keep the narrative moving, inundating the space with teeming rain and raging waters....
December 9, 2021
Theatre
18 open-air theatres to visit across the UK
...Acher’s installation evoking the Northern Lights, Borealis, will light up the sky to launch the festival.festival.org Liverpool Theatre Festival The success of last year’s festival in the grounds of St Luke...
June 18, 2021
ReviewTheatre
Best new London theatre — After Life celebrates life, and drama
...There is a sad story snaking its way through it of two men (Luke Thallon and Togo Igawa) — separated by decades, now united after death — who loved the same woman, and a study of loneliness in the story...
June 11, 2021
ReviewTheatre
Theatres reopen into an uncertain Christmas present
...Lonely individuals talk about baking banana bread (Elliot Levey) or finding a dog (Luke Thallon) which turns out to be anything but man’s best friend....
December 11, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
InterviewArts
Luke Jerram: ‘My job as an artist is to create memories’
...“My job as an artist is to create a set of memories for people,” says Luke Jerram. He has certainly done that....
August 14, 2020
Theatre
Top 10 theatre shows to watch at home over Christmas
...But Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester is offering a film of Luke Sheppard’s live production of Jonathan Larson’s 1996 show (available in the UK only), reworking the story of Puccini’s La bohème to reflect...
December 9, 2020
Theatre
UK theatre groups send out a welcome and a warning
...Headlong’s original plan was to tell ghost stories in the ruins of St Luke’s Church in Liverpool....
October 23, 2020
ReviewTheatre
Drama clings on amid the crisis
...In Liverpool, St Luke’s Bombed Out Church (a landmark in the city) has become the venue for a nine-day theatre festival, opening with Swan Song by Jonathan Harvey....
September 11, 2020
Theatre
Now the sky’s the limit for English theatre
...“In Memoriam by Luke Jerram, which will open the festival, has been specifically designed as a way of remembering those we’ve lost during the pandemic,” says Hemmings....
July 17, 2020
ReviewTheatre
Best new London theatre — Lesley Manville excels in The Visit; Ibsen rewritten in Nora: A Doll’s House
...There are losses, too, however: the other characters remain sketchy (despite a skilful turn from Luke Norris as the three controlling husbands) and the gathering panic of the plot is diffused and muddied...
February 20, 2020
ReviewTheatre
Best new London Theatre — The Upstart Crow, The Prince of Egypt, The Tin Drum
...Luke Brady (Moses) and Liam Tamne (Ramses) are engaging — warm, mischievous, approachable — but this isn’t the vehicle for subtle character studies or moral complexity (casual slaughter is shrugged off)....
February 27, 2020
ReviewTheatre
Best new London theatre — Maxine Peake in The Welkin, Beckett triple bill, The Sunset Limited
...All this, together with the women’s reluctance to embrace their brief moment of authority and instead entrust the decision to a visiting male doctor, drives Peake’s Elizabeth Luke to exasperation....
January 23, 2020
ReviewTheatre
A Very Expensive Poison — a brilliantly bold drama about the murder of Alexander Litvinenko
...From there on in, Marina Litvinenko (MyAnna Buring) steps in and out of the action, becoming our guide to events, as the play (based on Luke Harding’s book of the same name) snakes its way back through the...
September 6, 2019
Long Story Short
A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday
...Our theatre critic Sarah Hemming provides the list we’ve been looking for: the top 10 theatre shows, from New York to London, that we can now watch at home....
May 15, 2020

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