Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Sally Ann Triplett knows her way around musicals, having appeared over the last 25 years in shows ranging from Follies, Grease and Chess to the original UK and Broadway productions of Carrie…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 29, 2012
On Broadway, Merrily We Roll Along remains forever scarred as the Stephen Sondheim musical that ground to an abrupt halt, closing after two weeks in 1981.read more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Jenna Russell has become London’s go-to star in the musicals of Stephen Sondheim. She played Young Sally in Follies back in 1988, won the 2007 Olivier Award for Dot/Marie in Sunday in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 27, 2012
"Twelfth Night'' is a success in London, with Mark Rylance set to make waves again in the role of Olivia, while "The Magistrate'' leaves some room for improvement.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Heather Headley has blazed a theatrical trail for herself on the strength of two Broadway shows (The Lion King and Aida, winning a Tony in 2000 for the latter) and via a Grammy-winning recor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:10PM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2012
An expert cast delivers on their promise in Aleksei Arbuzov's triangular Russian drama from 1965 of the same name, which offers up war and peace and the shifting tides of love - so much of t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Stephen Tompkinson is a familiar name on screens both large and small, having starred in series like Wild At Heart and DCI Banks and in films such as Brassed Off. The 47-year-old Englishman …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Haley Flaherty has appeared in a range of musicals in and outside London, from Chicago and Mamma Mia! to Love Never Dies, but the Scottish actress shines especially brightly as Miss Honey in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2012
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Megan McGinnis has spent a large chunk of the past few years touring around America in Daddy Long Legs, and now the John Caird/Paul Gordon musical two-hander is touching down at London&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Monday, October 29, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
Still waters run deep, but that truism barely hints at the quiet power of The River, the eagerly awaited new play from Jez Butterworth (writer) and Ian Rickson (director) whose col…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:22PM[SHARE]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…
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