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]Thursday, March 22, 2012
Gregory Doran was today named the incoming artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he will succeed Michael Boyd in the post later this year. The announcement came as no sur…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2012
It’s not easy following in the steps of an Oscar winner like Colin Firth, but the gifted Charles Edwards, who will take the stage beginning March 22 as stuttering monarch George VI in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Phone rings, door chimes, in comes Company, this time sporting surround sound and high definition and at a cinema near you. Tonight marks a rare opportunity to see a New York gala - the sort…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:00PM[SHARE]Was it the players, or the play, that has made a phenomenon out of One Man, Two Guvnors, the prize-winning comedy now on its third London theatre and preparing to hop the pond to Broadway ne…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Richard Nelson's "Farewell to the Theatre" and Mike Leigh's "Abigail's Party" are studies in cruelty, the first among a group of expatriates on a U.S. college campus and the second at a cock…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The master of the modern musical adores London, a city he first visited in 1952, and it's safe to say that the capital more than repays Stephen Sondheim's affections. The veteran Broadway co…
SOURCE: This Is London at 04:25PM[SHARE]Dean Chisnall, 29, a regular West End presence in the six years since he left West London’s Arts Educational drama school, is now stepping into the title role in Shrek the Musical at t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Tyne Daly has won a Tony Award and multiple Emmys and interspersed her TV renown with stage work in the classics (The Seagull), musicals (Gypsy), and new plays (Rabbit Hole). Now she has add…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2012
"Absent Friends'' mines its characters' woes for laughter and pathos, while another revival of "Singin' in the Rain'' leaves audiences damp, but delighted.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Oliver Tompsett made his West End debut in the Madness musical Our House before moving on to Mamma Mia! and a long run as Fiyero in Wicked. The engaging 30-year-old is now getting the vocal …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Dianne Pilkington enjoyed a long and acclaimed West End run as Glinda in Wicked and starred as Amalia in last year’s Chichester Festival revival of She Loves Me, with a stint in The 39…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Ramin Karimloo spent many years wearing the most famous of musical theater masks, first in The Phantom of the Opera and then its sequel, Love Never Dies, for which he received an Olivier Awa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:19PM[SHARE]Friday, January 27, 2012
No one can exactly accuse Federico Garcia Lorca's 1936 play of falling into neglect. From Howard Davies's National Theatre revival to this latest reclamation by the Almeida, The House of Ber…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Siobhan Dillon has spent a busy few years on West End stages, first in Grease and then as Elle Woods’ rival Vivienne in Legally Blonde. Now she has signed on for a yearlong run as the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:47PM[SHARE]Siobhan Dillon has spent a busy few years on West End stages, first in Grease and then as Elle Woods’ rival Vivienne in Legally Blonde. Now she has signed on for a yearlong run as the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
It’s been more than a dozen years since Adam Cooper stormed Broadway as the Swan in Matthew Bourne’s sexy, stylish, revisionist Swan Lake, earning a 1999 Tony nomination for Best…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Not everyone gets to make a West End splash as a lovesick, poshly spoken, faintly dimwitted chap who also happens to be wildly hairy and vaguely masochistic. “I, too, enjoy pain,&rdquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Just over two years ago, Eddie Redmayne opened at London’s cozy Donmar Warehouse as the assistant to artist Mark Rothko (Alfred Molina) in John Logan’s Red, a performance that wo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 28, 2011
This was a year on the London stage in which Shakespeare often appeared twice over (with two productions each of Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors and Richard III), a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Monday, December 26, 2011
And what a year it was! Comedy was king on stages around town, while a variety of Shakespeare royals -- Richard III Ã deux courtesy Kevin Spacey and the lesser-known but far more electrif…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:00PM[SHARE]Friday, December 23, 2011
A generally grim year for musicals (Matilda and Crazy For You very much excepted) nears a belatedly emotional and rewarding close with the Crucible Theatre's revival of Company, which b…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Michael Crawford will be forever remembered as the original Phantom of the Opera, but he has made a splash across all disciplines during his long, awards-laden career. Turning 70 on January …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Pop stars and singers have been crossing over into theater more and more these days, from Shayne Ward (Rock of Ages) and Duncan James (Legally Blonde) in London to Harry Connick Jr (On a Cle…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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