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
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.
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