Wednesday, January 1, 2014
A new year in the London theater can mean only one thing: a dizzying array of enticing revivals and new works, plays and musicals. This month alone offers up a potentially career-defining Le…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 29, 2013
Playgoers could be forgiven for thinking that they were seeing double during much of 2013. No sooner had one sat through Ian Rickson's dazzling revival of Old Times once before returnin…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:30AM[SHARE]Friday, December 27, 2013
From Harold Pinter to Eugene O'Neill and from musicals to plays, theater in 2013 offered an unusually abundant array from both sides of the Atlantic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical, "Stephen Ward," explores the epicenter of the Profumo affair that rocked London in the early 1960s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:16AM[SHARE]From women alternating roles in a haunting Pinter revival to a pair of separate but equal psychos, from bracing new musicals to galvanic revivals, the London stage offered enough potent thea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2013
The quality of acting in London over the past year was at a characteristically high level—literally so as regards one prize-winning performer who spent much of her show flying above th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2013
Among the multiple achievements of American Psycho, any one of which might be enough to make Rupert Goold's long-awaited Almeida season-opener the banner musical of a notably busy year for t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2013
There’s a surprising new Trunchbull terrorizing the students at Crunchem Hall: Alex Gaumond joined the London company of Matilda in September in the role originated by Bertie Carvel. I…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2013
The National Theater productions "Emil and the Detectives" and "From Morning to Midnight" triumph in areas of logistics, design and casts. "Strangers on a Train" at the Gielgud Theater puts …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Christmas is approaching, but not before a dizzying spate of openings, including two eagerly awaited musical premieres, a double dose of Shakespeare and a two-time Olivier Award winner revis…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:30PM[SHARE]Friday, November 29, 2013
For increasing numbers of people, food is theatre, so what better time to combine the two into the slight, sweet, determinedly socially conscious evening that is Gastronauts, the Royal Court…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 27, 2013
I guess the BBC can't afford researchers or fact-checkers these days. If they could, perhaps something of substance might have arisen from their vacuous Culture Show entry on Vicky Featherst…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:55PM[SHARE]Is there West End life after Heather Headley? The answer is yes at London’s Adelphi Theatre, where British soul singer Beverley Knight is leading the Olivier-nominated musical The Body…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:28AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 23, 2013
Despite an impressive performance form Daniel Craig, Mike Nichols production gets away from the essence of Pinter s work.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 02:10PM[SHARE]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…
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