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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:57PM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2012
James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors) made it past the finish line, Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow) did not, and the art-house musical Once trumped Disney's latest Broadway entry, Newsies,…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Sophie Evans has been skipping down the Yellow Brick Road as Dorothy in the West End stage adaptation of The Wizard of Oz since February, having assumed the role from original star Danielle …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 3, 2012
Productions at the life-changing Globe to Globe sequence of international takes on the Bard have had numerous points of origin, from shows conceived directly for the event to reprises of sta…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2012
Now here's a surprise. In English, Henry VIII gets dismissed as a Shakespearean dud (well, let's apportion the blame as well to the play's generally acknowledged co-author, John Fletcher), i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Raza Jaffrey played a political wheeler-dealer on TV’s Smash, but the Anglo-Asian star came to the series as a stage vet of the London productions of Mamma Mia! and Bombay Dreams,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
The battle of the sexes took on a bright and breezy tone in Pakistan's contribution to the Globe's ongoing Bardathon, the Theatre Wallay-Kashf's rumbustious production of The Taming of the S…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:06AM[SHARE]Friday, May 25, 2012
It's both easy and fashionable to render ironic, or scoff at, the title of All's Well That Ends Well. This is the Shakespeare "comedy" in which the rabidly obsessed Helena finally ensnares h…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2012
It’s a busy time for rising London star Tom Mison: He plays Emily Blunt’s missing-in-action boyfriend in the current film Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and will be seen on TV with …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:41AM[SHARE]Friday, May 18, 2012
Clothes are shed, sensibilities skewered, and political correctness defiantly ignored in this latest London revival of Joe Orton's wonderful play (the fourth, for what it's worth, in the cap…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Since winning back-to-back Tony nominations in 2007 and 2008 for A Moon for the Misbegotten and The Homecoming, Eve Best has hit the big-time on American TV alongside Edie Falco in Showtime&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Prismatic brilliance sweeps the London stage, from Laurie Metcalf in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey," to Summer Strallen in "Top Hat" and Anna Chancellor in a Rattigan-Hare double-bill.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Michael Ball turns 50 on June 27, but the hugely popular British star has been the one gifting playgoers of late by giving the performance of his career in the West End revival of Sweeney To…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:13PM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Laurie Metcalf may be best known for her multiple Emmy-winning performance as Jackie on TV’s Roseanne, but she is above all a creature of the stage, as befits a longtime member of Chic…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Things didn't go well for Eva Perons past and present at this morning's announcement from New York of the nominations for Broadway's 2012 Tony Awards, honouring the best of the 2011/12 theat…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Winner of seven 2012 Olivier Awards, Matilda isn’t just about a literary-minded tot and a battle-axe of a headmistress (Bertie Carvel's Miss Trunchbull). The supporting cast of Mat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:45PM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2012
So, what's the "problem"? All is right with the world - or the theatre at least - in the Maori-language staging of Troilus and Cressida from the Auckland-based Ngakau Toa troupe that pi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Andrew Alexander is the eighth actor to play the debonair, tweed-suited Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps, London’s longest running comedy, at the Criterion Theatre. A graduate of King&rs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:40PM[SHARE]Andrew Alexander is the eighth actor to play the debonair, tweed-suited Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps, London’s longest running comedy, at the Criterion Theatre. A graduate of King&rs…
SOURCE: miami.broadway.com at 12:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2012
A new production of "Uncle Vanya" at the Print Room and of "Sweeney Todd" at the Adelphi are impressive renditions of favorite vehicles for actors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:02AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2012
As previously reported, Matilda was the big winner at London’s 2012 Olivier Awards on April 15, taking home a record seven trophies—and the musical’s quartet of young Best …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:45PM[SHARE]The 36th Laurence Olivier Awards included a handful of indelible moments, including a joint Best Actress win and six other awards for Matilda. (Meanwhile, multiple nominees such as One Man, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:15PM[SHARE]Matilda, the Royal Shakespeare Company-spawned musical about an extraordinary young girl, managed the extraordinary feat Sunday of snaring a record seven trophies at last night's 36th Lauren…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The effervescent Katherine Kingsley is celebrating her second Olivier Award nomination for the formidable style (and nasal squawk) she brings to sidelined silent movie actress Lina Lamont in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Lindsay Duncan, winner of both a Tony and an Olivier Award for her scintillating performance as Amanda in Noel Coward’s Private Lives, is back on the West End a decade later leading a …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 24, 2012
If it's possible to take a loving and empathic approach to decidedly intractable material, the director Michael Attenborough achieves precisely that with Filumena, in which Samantha Spi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:02PM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
