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Woody introduces the gang to a homemade spork toy with self-esteem issues in "Toy Story 4."
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‘Ferryman’ to Conor McPherson, London theater has an edge this summer

July 2, 2019 at 4:28 p.m.

Only halfway through this turbulent year, and it already seems safe to say that 2017 has seen some landmark theater. In the past, the London scene traditionally cooled off in...

Nathan Lane, Andrew Garfield in an extraordinary ‘Angels in America’

July 2, 2019 at 4:28 p.m.

We are so ready for this. Director Marianne Elliott's production of the two-part Tony Kushner epic "Angels in America" at the National Theatre's Lyttelton is one of the year's most...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

London theater will have ‘Mary Stuart,’ ‘Children’ for dark months of winter

May 11, 2019 at 1:30 a.m.

Well, that was 2016 — a weird, troubling 12 months by anyone's standards, characterized by war, political catastrophe and so many extraordinary people in the cultural arena shuffling off this...

Glenda Jackson is unnerving and unforgettable in London’s ‘King Lear’

May 11, 2019 at 1:30 a.m.

It's been a busy year for Lears, with Shakespeare's monumental tragedy the choice of multiple major theaters to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death. But this just might...

London theater for fall: A female cast for ‘King Lear’ and ‘Red Barn’ by David Hare

May 11, 2019 at 1:30 a.m.

This has been the year of the king. With theaters across the country celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, productions of the playwright's mighty tragedy, "King Lear," have come...

‘Groundhog Day’ musical in London never repeats the movie

May 11, 2019 at 1:30 a.m.

Here we go again. And again. And again. Welcome to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, where it's Feb. 2 and a buck-toothed woodchuck is about to deliver its annual weather forecast. But the...

On London stage, Harry Potter leads a magical summer

May 25, 2019 at 1:46 p.m.

Even Muggles agree: In London this summer, there is no ticket hotter than Potter. Around this time last year, the anticipation around the Benedict Cumberbatch "Hamlet" began climbing to hysterical...

London ‘Romeo’ just doesn’t get the heart pumping

May 11, 2019 at 1:30 a.m.

Sometimes fairy tale casting just isn't enough, and so it proves with this keenly anticipated production, part of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company season at the Garrick. Lily James and...

London Theater: A changing of the guard for spring 2016

May 11, 2019 at 1:30 a.m.

Spring is traditionally a time of fresh beginnings, and the new London theater season is already bustling with change and bursting with promise. In the West End, a clutch of...

‘The End of Longing’: Matthew Perry’s first play disappoints in the West End

May 11, 2019 at 1:30 a.m.

Hello, old Friend. The last time Matthew Perry was in the West End, it was for David Mamet's "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," back in 2003. Director Lindsay Posner's production received...

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