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
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
There’s hardly a major musical, British or American, that West End veteran Diane Langton hasn’t done at one point or another, whether you’re talking Chicago (as Mama Morton…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Joanna Riding has two Olivier Awards to her name, one for Carousel and the other as a replacement Eliza in My Fair Lady—not to mention further credits ranging from The Witches of Eastw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss is making a blazing West End debut in The Children’s Hour, the smash-hit revival of Lillian Hellman’s 1934 melodrama. Moss joins Keira Knightley as a …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2011
It’s been more than a decade since London-born Olivia Williams, 42, made a Hollywood splash in Rushmore, The Sixth Sense and, more recently, as Carey Mulligan’s teacher in An Edu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Hannah Waddingham has impressed in numerous West End musicals, including The Beautiful Game, Monty Python’s Spamalot (playing the Lady of the Lake both in London and on Broadway), the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Illinois native David Bedella may be the first performer actually from Chicago to play the invitingly sleazy lawyer Billy Flynn in the London production of Chicago: The engaging 48-year-old …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2011
A TV talent show star plays Dorothy in the staged version of "The Wizard of Oz," while "Spelling Bee" looks at competitive culture and "Drowning on Dry Land" pits a loser against a children'…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Few North Americans have made the swift impression on the London theater scene left by 25-year-old Sarah Goldberg, a Vancouver native who came to London six years ago to attend drama school …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The hottest ticket of this still-young London theater year is the director Ian Rickson’s scorching revival of The Children’s Hour, Lillian Hellman’s play about charges of l…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Ben Goddard accompanied himself on guitar and flute—among other instruments—as Joe Gillis in a pared-down West End revival of Sunset Boulevard and spent the better part of a year…
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