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 …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Lisa Eichhorn was a celluloid “it” girl three decades ago, leaping to stardom opposite Richard Gere in the 1979 film Yanks, followed by the cult classic Cutter’s Way alongs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Language is the key in a revival of "The Playboy of the Western World;" "Terrible Advice" centers on two cads, and a rock show is laden with hummable tunes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:14PM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2011
The human spirit won't be easily vanquished, or so we're led to believe from Cool Hand Luke, which in itself should provide succour to those trapped at this stage adaptation of the novel tha…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Recording star Shayne Ward is a 2005 winner of Simon Cowell’s X Factor, but only now is the Twitter favorite making his West End debut. Ward, soon to be 27, has signed on through March…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2011
At 23, newcomer Elisabeth Hopper isn’t that much older than Miranda, the teenage castaway she is playing in Trevor Nunn's hit London production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, op…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2011
"Decade," a mosaic of responses to the Sept. 11 tragedy, acts as a textual tapestry of grief, rage and compassion -- and as first-rate theater, too.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Lucy Briers comes by her theatrical leanings naturally as the daughter of actress Ann Davies and the veteran English comic actor Richard Briers (a 1998 Tony nominee for his Broadway performa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Alex Gaumond was adorable (and sang up a storm) as Emmett in Legally Blonde, garnering an Olivier Award nomination, and the Montreal native has since gone all rock-starry and cool (while sti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PM[SHARE]Memo to William Shakespeare: could we have more, please, in The Tempest of the anxious, angsty Prospero, the mortality-minded magus played in his most riveting theatre performance in years b…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 2, 2011
It's grin and bear it - even on occasion bare it - time at Shakespeare's Globe, which closes its 2011 season not with a bang but with a wearyingly facetious whimper. A nice idea that in diff…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2011
Martin Marquez has worked extensively around London, often in the not-for-profit theater. For now, Martin is appearing at the Victoria Palace as Dad in Billy Elliot, the same role that won G…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2011
He has opened in Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" for a limited run in which he plays a swaggering Irish stoker last played on Broadway in 1993 by Liam Neeson.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PM[SHARE]After years of exploring classic plays—from Shakespeare and Stoppard to David Hare and Alan Bennett—at the National Theatre, Adrian Scarborough is making his musical theater debu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2011
Who says little guys finish last? As the diminutive Lord Farquaad in the West End incarnation of the Broadway musical Shrek, Nigel Harman all but walks off with the Drury Lane production, pl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2011
Sam Attwater has done the British TV soap opera rounds, first in Hollyoaks and then EastEnders. In March, he hit it big on the reality competition Dancing on Ice, delivering a show-stopping …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:23AM[SHARE]Sam Attwater has done the British TV soap opera rounds, first in Hollyoaks and then EastEnders. In March, he hit it big on the reality competition Dancing on Ice, delivering a show-stopping …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2011
The South Bank complex has just opened a fourth performance space to showcase a double bill of four new works by young playwrights, running in repertory through September.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Alfie Boe earned a place in musical theater history when the opera star played Jean Valjean last fall at London’s O2 arena in two gala performances commemorating the 25th anniversary o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2011
Chris Ellis-Stanton is one of the UK’s most appealing young musical actors, having jumped from understudying and playing Billy Flynn in Chicago on the West End to Billy Crocker on tour…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Shakespeare in the Park explores two of Shakespeare's thorny "problem plays" — Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Sharon D Clarke has some of the best pipes in the business, as London audiences who have seen her in We Will Rock You, Hairspray, Once on This Island and Guys and Dolls can attest. The 46-ye…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Dominic West came to prominence in the U.S. playing the American working-class cop McNulty in TV’s much-lauded The Wire. The dashing actor has since forsaken the Baltimore climes of th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2011
In "The Village Bike," the wonderful new play from Penelope Skinner in the Royal Court's tiny Theatre Upstairs, the devouring sexuality of a village teacher takes center stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Samuel Barnett will be long remembered for playing the heartsick student Posner in Alan Bennett’s Tony-winning The History Boys, a performance that earned him a 2006 Best Featured Acto…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2011
It was six years ago that Damian Humbley, not long in London from his native Australia, was cast alongside Ruthie Henshall in the replacement cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Nineteen-year-old Danielle Hope is the latest performer to have landed a starring role in a big-budget West End musical via reality TV. Hope won out over some 9,000 girls to become “th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:37PM[SHARE]Friday, June 17, 2011
Caissie Levy has starred in three iconic musicals: Wicked (in L.A., as Elphaba), Rent (on tour, as Maureen) and Hair (on Broadway and the West End, as Sheila). Now she’s taking the lea…
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