Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Jack Huston plays a hit man viewers can’t help liking on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, and now he’s coming at murder from a different angle on the London stage. The British-born …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Rosalie Craig has appeared in musicals up and down the U.K., from London Road at the National and Ragtime in Regent’s Park to the out-of-town tryout of Finding Neverland, directed by R…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Jeff Fahey is familiar to TV fans from his two seasons as a rescue pilot on Lost and as the sheriff in early episodes of Under the Dome, as well as for his work in movies such as The Lawnmow…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 3, 2013
London's National Theater threw itself a 50th birthday party on Saturday, paying tribute to the storied past of what is arguably the most important address in the English-speaking stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:17AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 2, 2013
The National Theatre tonight hosts its 50th-birthday gala, 11 days after the English-speaking theatre's most important and influential address in fact reached the half-century mark. With cel…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 30, 2013
The fall season is heating up in London, with November highlights that include a three-time Tony winner testing his classical chops, two plays better known as films, Sondheim in concert and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:35PM[SHARE]The fall season is heating up in London, with November highlights that include a three-time Tony winner testing his classical chops, two plays better known as films, Sondheim in concert and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Different degrees of realism are at play in James Macdonald's production of "Roots," Tamara Harvey's "From Here to Eternity" and Mark Rylance's "Much Ado About Nothing." &nb…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Scottish-born actor Stephen Ashfield is delighting London audiences as Elder McKinley in The Book of Mormon, giving a career-defining performance every bit as sweetly outrageous and full-thr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Darius Campbell, the strapping Scottish-born Pop Idol alum, is no stranger to stage musicals that arrive with weighty pedigrees. His commanding Rhett Butler was the best thing about director…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
The Commitments is the first in a series of high-profile musical premieres in London this fall, a lineup that includes The Light Princess, From Here to Eternity, and Stephen Ward. If there i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2013
It’s musical month in London, with major openings every week in October. Visitors can choose from the rollicking tale of an Irish soul band, a fairytale debut from Tori Amos, Tim Rice&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 28, 2013
That slice of Broadway-upon-Southwark that is the Menier Chocolate Factory has a toxic treat in The Lyons, Nicky Silver's pitch-black and quintessentially New York comedy about a family so i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Not so long ago, Kristen Beth Williams was a Broadway ensemble player and understudy in such shows as Promises, Promises and Nice Work If You Can Get It. But the 32-year-old Texan has been s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2013
As The Bodyguard heads towards its first birthday on the West End in December, the musical is welcoming two new leads: Beverley Knight has replaced Tony winner Heather Headley in the late Wh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Productions of "Edward II," "The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas," and "Fleabag" show that London theater is in a fearsome mood these days.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:26AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 15, 2013
The American repertoire has featured big-time on the London stage this year but perhaps nowhere more oddly than courtesy the ever-adventurous Orange Tree's staging of a World War Two play fr…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Rare is the Broadway performer who lands two London gigs in a single season, but Tony nominee Colman Domingo is celebrating his first-ever trip to the U.K. with back-to-back runs of his 2009…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:09PM[SHARE]Rare is the Broadway performer who lands two London gigs in a single season, but Tony nominee Colman Domingo is celebrating his first-ever trip to the U.K. with back-to-back runs of his 2009…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2013
September’s here, which means it’s all systems go on London stages, on and off the West End. The lineup ranges from visiting American stars (James Earl Jones, Colman Domingo) to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 2013
It's not just Shakespeare as the theater examines a fight for freedom with new female-centric plays like "Blue Stockings," by the director-turned-writer Jessica Swale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2013
After enjoying two sellout runs at London’s Young Vic, Hattie Morahan is bringing her acclaimed performance as the famously emancipated heroine Nora in A Doll’s House to the West…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Since his 2006 run as a teacher in the Broadway transfer of Alan Bennett’s much-laureled play The History Boys, English actor Stephen Campbell Moore has played Americans in the UK prem…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2013
"The Same Deep Water As Me" takes an uncompromising view of Britain's so-called compensation culture and raises laughs where a more hectoring view of events would find a lament. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Douglas Hodge won Olivier and Tony Awards for his flamboyant yet poignant turn in La Cage aux Folles, catapulting this veteran of Shakespeare, Chekhov and Pinter into the musical theater pan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 11, 2013
Playbill.com offers an inside look at the original musical Love's Labour's Lost at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Why give up on a lucrative thing? That’s the thinking behind the return of Dirty Dancing, which has arrived at London’s Piccadilly Theatre for an encore engagement after breaking…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2013
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