Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Versatile London stage star Lloyd Owen is about to grab the spotlight as he steps into the role made famous by Kevin Costner in the eagerly awaited musical adaptation of The Bodyguard. Owen …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 20, 2012
How hopelessly bourgeois, U.K. theater-makers seem to be saying these days, to be packed into rows of seats when we can be roaming about a particular dwelling for ourselves: Let the environm…
SOURCE: rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com at 09:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2012
If all of Loserville were as arresting and witty as its design, the West End would finally have what it hasn't offered playgoers in years: a buoyant British musical not reliant on a celebrat…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:30PM[SHARE]Scarlett Strallen has been spending the better part of a year at London’s Palace Theatre, twirling an umbrella and sending her lilting soprano soaring into the hearts of audiences in S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Fiona Shaw brings a sensual splendor to the revival of Howard Barker's onetime radio play "Scenes From an Execution," at the National Theatre's Lyttelton auditorium in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Spain's Golden Age turns unaccountably to dross in Damned by Despair, the Tirso de Molina play that is a good half-hour shorter than the running time given in the programme but won't (in thi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:15PM[SHARE]Idina Menzel needs no introduction to theater fans, who revere her Tony-winning performance as Elphaba in Wicked, as well as her recurring TV role as Lea Michele's birth mother, Shelby C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 9, 2012
"All this hatred is exhausting," or so remarks Will Young's ceaselessly grimace-prone Emcee in Cabaret in a comment that encapsulates the evening as a whole. Returning to a show he directed …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Tribute shows don’t get more robust and all-embracing than Let It Be, the audience-rousing canter through the Beatles’ catalog of hits that is newly opened at London’s Prin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Michelle Ryan spent many years on the popular British TV show EastEnders and crossed the Atlantic to take on the title role in the short-lived 2007 reboot of The Bionic Woman. Now, the 28-ye…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Since beginning his career more than three decades ago with the Royal Shakespeare Company (including a Tony-winning performance in the title role of The Life and Adventure of Nicholas Nickle…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:43PM[SHARE]Bertie Carvel in a new version of Tirso de Molina's "Damned by Despair," Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins in Beckett's "All That Fall" and Jez Butterworth's new play, "The River," are among …
SOURCE: rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com at 12:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Rob Ashford divides his time between Broadway and London, with Tony and Olivier nods in abundance for his flourishing trans-Atlantic career, and a 2002 Tony for Thoroughly Modern Millie, the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:17PM[SHARE]Rob Ashford divides his time between Broadway and London, with Tony and Olivier nods in abundance for his flourishing trans-Atlantic career, and a 2002 Tony for Thoroughly Modern Millie, the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 9, 2012
Rob Ashford occupies a unique perch in the Anglo-American theatre. Florida-born, raised in West Virginia and a product of Broadway, where he began as a dancer in shows including Parade, Vict…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Who says you can't go home again? American actor-singer Anthony Rapp does that, and then some, with his solo show Without You, in which one of the original leads of the Broadway musical…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:08PM[SHARE]A curtain rises at the start of Joe Wright's thrilling film version of Anna Karenina only for the finish several hours later to be accompanied in time-honoured fashion by the words "the end"…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PM[SHARE]Carley Stenson has starred in two West End musicals, both based on hugely successful Hollywood films. The 29-year-old actress was the third Elle Woods in the Olivier Award-winning London run…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Emi Wokoma has burst into the front ranks of London leading ladies with her performance as Tina Turner in the jukebox musical Soul Sister, which has transferred for a commercial run to the S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AM[SHARE]Monday, August 27, 2012
An erstwhile Broadway flop provides late-summer theatrical fascination in the form of Vieux Carré, the self-evidently flawed Tennessee Williams play from 1977 that nonetheless is worth…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Jon Boydon is now in his third year playing tough guy Tommy DeVito in the Olivier Award-winning West End production of Jersey Boys. A veteran of We Will Rock You, Boydon, soon to be 36, is n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PM[SHARE]British theater has hit a rough patch as productions of ''Carousel,'' ''The Great Gatsby'' and "Soho Cinders'' bypass the spirit of the original works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 19, 2012
Accolades are due again for the tiny Finborough Theatre, whose production of JB Priestley's all-but-unknown Cornelius constitutes the most exciting reclamation from the English theatrical ca…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 16, 2012
The ever-libidinous Guy (Jason Durr) is "as subtle as a fire engine" when it comes to sex, or so we're told during the course of Volcano, and it's difficult not to feel that this belated Noe…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 15, 2012
British TV star Jason Durr (Heartbeat) is spending the summer seducing women on a Caribbean island in the West End premiere of Volcano, a previously unknown Noel Coward play that sheds light…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Sierra Boggess is the first to admit that she has had an, um, interesting year. Announced as the star of Rebecca opposite her real-life fiancé Tam Mutu, Boggess jumped to Prince of Br…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 7, 2012
The triumphalist spirit of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" tallies with the mood of this summer's athletic aspirations.
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