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…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 15, 2011
At 30, Cassidy Janson has made a considerable name for herself on the London stage, shifting from small-scale musicals (Tick Tick…Boom! opposite Neil Patrick Harris at the Menier Choc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Simon Gray's 1971 bitter comedy "Butley" is being revived at the Duchess Theatre starring Dominic West, while the Young Vic sees a lively take on Gogol's dark 1836 play "Government Inspector…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Recent weeks have welcomed two new versions of Shakespeare's comedy to London. Why see one when you've seen the other? Well here's a reason: they seem by and large like two different plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2011
Nigel Lindsay has performed Pinter and Stoppard, Patrick Marber (Dealer’s Choice) and David Eldridge (Under the Blue Sky). But the actor can currently be found at London's Theatre …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Love Never Dies is now well into its second year at the Adelphi, where Celia Graham has replaced Olivier nominee Sierra Boggess as Christine Daae. Graham, a 35-year-old from Glasgow, has bee…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Sarah Lancashire has made a major name for herself in British TV, which is one of the reasons why her galvanic starring performance in the new Cameron Mackintosh/Richard Eyre musical Betty B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Craig Parkinson is mighty tall (6’4 1/2”) and also inordinately talented: a calm, bespectacled figure of kindness who appears only in the second act of the highly acclaimed reviv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 5, 2011
It’s tempting to think of End of the Rainbow, Peter Quilter’s play-with-music set in London during the last months of Judy Garland’s tumultuous life, as a one-woman show, g…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Mark Rylance's 'Rooster' Byron is just one of the Britons wowing New York in Broadway shows this springIt's spring on Broadway, and that can only mean two things, both of them time-honoured:…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Sienna Miller is in high spirits as she arrives late one afternoon at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, her pooch Porgy happily in tow. (The newly groomed dog was sporting a green hair bow.) The…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The actor, who has made a career of portraying famous people, will be doing a fresh take on the Lenten tradition of the Passion Play in Wales.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:05PM[SHARE]Michael Malarkey, a graduate of the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, is currently rocking out as Elvis Presley at the Noel Coward Theatre in Million Dollar Quartet&mdash…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2011
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