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]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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Jack Lowden is making his West End debut as Olympic runner and missionary Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire, the 1981 Oscar winner that has been adapted into a play by Mike Bartlett. Tha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:55PM[SHARE]Philadelphia, Here I Come! ends in its Donmar invocation with the roar of a plane taking off, which only amplifies one's sense that the show has taken some while to take wing. Markedly bette…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:04AM[SHARE]Oskar Eustis, Stephen Sondheim and Donna Murphy celebrate the special atmosphere that is Central Park's Delacorte Theater, now home to a new production of Into the Woods.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
It’s not every day that a West End show stars an Olympic gold medalist—and skating champ Robin Cousins’ 1980 medallion is actually on display in a Tiffany box in the foyer …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2012
"A Doll's House'' proves its issues of money and women's rights still resonate, while ''Ten Billion'' offers chills in its warnings about modern living.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Neil McDermott has stepped (or perhaps one should say knelt down) into the role of the physically challenged, campily malevolent Lord Farquaad in the hit London production of Shrek the Music…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Henry Lloyd-Hughes brings a ready swagger and insolence to the part of Dimitri, the rude, moneyed Greek boy in Posh, Laura Wade’s hit West End play about an assemblage of posh Oxford u…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Jodie Prenger came to fame via the British reality TV show I’d Do Anything, securing the role of Nancy in Cameron Mackintosh's recent West End revival of Oliver! and going on to st…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 4, 2012
The Taming of the Shrew celebrates its own rumbustious, raucous (mis)behaviour, so why shouldn't Shakespeare's comedy be granted a production that follows suit? From an opening gambit i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 27, 2012
It’s been almost 20 years since Anna Chancellor shot to attention as Henrietta (a.k.a. “Duckface”) in the hit film comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral. Since then, the raven…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
A quadruple threat who can sing, dance, act and do a spot-on American accent, 27-year-old Summer Strallen has inherited Ginger Rogers’ screen role in the London stage premiere of the 1…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2012
It’s the perfect summer for the West End debut of Chariots of Fire, Mike Bartlett’s stage adaptation of the 1981 Oscar-winning film about two British runners competing in the 192…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 12, 2012
If it's possible for a piece of writing to remain significant, even important, without necessarily being great, that would describe the status of Harvey Fierstein's epoch-defining Torch Song…
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