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
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Sharon Gless has appeared three times on the West End but never before to the waves of empathy she is eliciting in A Round-Heeled Woman as Jane Juska, an American woman in her 60s who decide…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:50AM[SHARE]Should the people who made Tron - or for that matter James Cameron - ever decide to take on a Broadway musical, they owe themselves a trip to the Menier Chocolate Factory's ludicrous p…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 30, 2011
In the six years since America Ferrera appeared off-Broadway in Dog Sees God, the actress, now 27, shot to TV fame in Ugly Betty, scooping up copious awards along the way. Ferrera is now bac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Sean Palmer appeared an English National Opera production of On the Town in the spring of 2007, but this season has seen the Nevada-born co-star of Broadway’s The Little Mermaid move o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Bertie Carvel made his name across London’s not-for-profit sector, winning raves at the Almeida (Rope), Royal Court (The Pride) and Donmar Warehouse (as Leo Frank in Olivier-nominated …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Don't be misled by the mini-history lesson with which Trevor Nunn's belated London stage premiere of The Lion in Winter begins, a sequence of dates, facts and maps that scroll up a decorativ…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:38PM[SHARE]Notable theatrical offerings in London include a riveting play about Stalin, a strained take on intrigue around Wallis Simpson and a production about the early Beatles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 9, 2011
At 58, and with four Tony Awards to show for his sterling career, Boyd Gaines is only now making his U.K. theater debut alongside Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2011
At 6’2”, Mark Evans may not be the tallest Fiyero ever in the London production of Wicked: That honor goes to Oliver Tompsett, 6’3”, who has subsequently moved across…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
John Leguizamo has headlined three Broadway solo shows, not to mention countless movie and TV appearance, but only now is the 47-year-old performer making his London stage debut. The Colombi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Andrew Knott was scarcely into his teens when the actor, 32 next month, appeared as Dickon in the 1993 screen retelling of The Secret Garden, starring Maggie Smith. Nearly two decades later,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Bill McCabe uses Richard as his professional first name, since there was already a Bill McCabe in Equity, the actors’ union. But there is only one Scottish-born actor, now 51, who has …
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