Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Planning a late summer trip to London? There’s lots of great theater to choose from beyond the West End’s many long-running hits. If you’ve got a thirst for what’s ne…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Lenny Henry has long been known as one of Britain’s best and brightest comedians, but the strapping 6’3” talent has been no less impressive in recent shifts to “strai…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
At 26, and only a few years out of drama school, Cynthia Erivo is making the sort of London theater splash of which dreams are made. The diminutive powerhouse opened on July 15 at the Menier…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2013
John Gordon Sinclair wasn’t yet 20 when he burst on to the screen in the 1981 Bill Forsyth film Gregory’s Girl, and the Scottish-born actor has distinguished himself on stage in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2013
The British comedian Lenny Henry is giving one of the performances of the year as the Pittsburgh sanitation worker whose world implodes around him in August Wilson's American tragedy. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 7, 2013
Talk about absence making the heart grow fonder! I'm referring not simply to the news value of Kenneth Branagh making one of his comparatively rare returns to the theater, this from an actor…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Anna-Jane Casey has sung Sondheim at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Rodgers and Hammerstein at the annual Royal Albert Hall Proms and co-starred in the most recent London incarnation of Fo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 27, 2013
At last, warm weather has come to London, and the theater season continues to sizzle, as well. This month’s pickings include new projects from 2013 Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Reviews of Tennessee Williams's "Sweet Bird of Youth," with Kim Cattrall, and Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan," with Daniel Radcliffe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Can theatrical lightning strike twice? That certainly looks to be the case at the Donmar, which has followed Josie Rourke's expert revival of Conor McPherson's contemporary classic, The Weir…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:30PM[SHARE]London stage favorite Dianne Pilkington spent three years on the West End as Glinda in Wicked and was one of Tyne Daly’s students in the London transfer of Master Class early last year…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:38AM[SHARE]Patti LuPone says she loves London though one sometimes wonders why, given the treatment that Broadway's original Evita has endured at the hands of a particular English composer, who also ha…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Doug Lucie's signature spikiness remains intact, and then some, in the Defibrillator production of Hard Feelings, which is sure to pack out west London's tiny Finborough and might well be a …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2013
At 28, Gary Wood is appearing in his third production of A Chorus Line, this time at the London Palladium. As Paul, the soft-spoken gay Puerto Rican whose monologue stops the show with no si…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Simon Godwin directs a new National Theatre production of an American drama for which the British would seem to have more of an affinity than compatriots back home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:16AM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2013
Cyndi Lauper triumphs at New York's Tony Awards as British import Matilda fails to win the crucial Best Musical prize.
SOURCE: Telegraph at 09:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2013
RSC musical Matilda may suffer for its sophistication at the Broadway awards when they take place tonight, says Matt Wolf.
SOURCE: Telegraph at 06:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Rufus Hound has made a sizable name for himself as a comedian on the British stand-up circuit and recently starred on screen in The Wedding Video. Now, the 34-year-old Englishman is spending…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PM[SHARE]Far from being put off by an overabundance of a certain play, audiences in Britain seem to enjoy collecting different experiences from each rendition the drama.
SOURCE: rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com at 06:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2013
London theater is looking and sounding very American these days. But there are plenty of notable British-born ventures to lure early summer stagegoers, as well, including the long-awaited mu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:27PM[SHARE]London theater is looking and sounding very American these days. But there are plenty of notable British-born ventures to lure early summer stagegoers, as well, including the long-awaited mu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Robert Sean Leonard of "House" fame provides an American backbone for "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:34AM[SHARE]Robert Sean Leonard of "House" fame provides an American backbone for "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The fast-rising Broadway actor Seth Numrich began the season in Lincoln Center Theater’s acclaimed revival of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy, and now the Juilliard-trained 26-ye…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:35AM[SHARE]Monday, May 20, 2013
The pronouns have it in Alan Ayckbourn's career-defining comedy of spiralling misunderstandings, which has arrived on the West End 46 years after first hinting at the formidable talent of a …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Merrily We Roll Along may have flopped on Broadway in 1981, but the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical—the story of a three-way friendship that begins at the end and rewinds to the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
It’s been 22 years since Robert Sean Leonard last appeared on stage in London as George Gibbs in Our Town. Half a lifetime later, the 44-year-old star of TV’s House is back in to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The London theater scene is taking on a decidedly American tone: Playwrights from Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill to David Mamet, Stephen Sondheim and Annie Baker are among the names o…
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