Friday, July 19, 2019
Andy Mientus has credits ranging from Spring Awakening and Les Miz to such TV series as Smash and Gone. But the Pittsburgh native can be found this summer within the intimate confines of Lon…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, July 12, 2019
A giddy Sheridan Smith is back centre-stage but watch out for newcomer Jac Yarrow, too
Cheeky and broad and (for the most part) as entertaining as seems humanly possible, this embryonic entr…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2019
Melly Still brings her singular theatricality to bestselling novel on stage
Better than the 2001 film but likely to disappoint devotees of the book, Captain Corelli's Mandolin onstage works…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Lia Williams needs no introduction as a supreme actress, whether on Broadway in Skylight [for which she was nominated for a 1997 Tony Award] or Arcadia or across a range of work closer to ho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 6, 2019
2015 musical gets a belated, overly busy West End transfer
Time hasn't necessarily been kind to this slow-aborning West End transfer of a show first seen (and lauded) in its 2015 debut in L…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 4, 2019
The starry director-writer team behind 'Harry Potter' onstage return to their frequent home at the Royal Court
An apocalyptic title proves somewhat of a red herring for a slight if intriguin…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:42AM[SHARE]Nicholas Hytner's production at the Bridge Theater in London finds something fresh in a work that sometimes feels as if it's being done out of duty.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Andrew Langtree has appeared in the world premiere productions of the musicals Mamma Mia!, Ghost and Groundhog Day, receiving a 2017 Olivier nomination for his performance as Ned Ryerson in …
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 04:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 29, 2019
Alex Mugnaioni has worked at Shakespeare's Globe, touring the Bard to North and South America, but only now is the actor making his West End debut, and in a work well away from the Bard. Beg…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2019
The Irish star is sublimely funny - and moving, too - in Noël Coward classic
"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" can be heard pulsating through the Old Vic auditorium as the curtain rises…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:12AM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2019
Mazz Murray (the snappy first name is short for Marianne) has lent her distinctive rock sound to such West End musical mainstays as We Will Rock You, as the Killer Queen, and Chicago. The gu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2019
Despite the formidable presence of John Malkovich, David Mamet's new play is as reprehensible as the predatory film tycoon at the center of it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Renée Fleming and Dove Cameron align in starry London debut for six-time Tony-winner
A Broadway show as melodically haunting and sophisticated as it is niche, The Light in the Piazza has t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:06AM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2019
Cuban-American performer Christie Prades is headlining the London premiere of On Your Feet!, the Broadway musical about Gloria Estefan opening June 27 at the London Coliseum, following a sho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2019
Slice of Rattigan esoterica is useful to see even as it shows its age
Terence Rattigan completists, and count myself among them, will leap at the chance to see a rare production courtesy th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:18AM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2019
Onetime Disney Channel teen queen Dove Cameron has been spreading her theatrical wings of late. Last December the 23-year-old performer opened off-Broadway in the New Group production of the…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 04:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2019
Kenneth Lonergan's Off Broadway play trades heavily on deadpan as it crosses the pond
A small-scale Off Broadway venture late in 2009, The Starry Messenger has arrived in London to mark the…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:24AM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2019
Dante or Die's latest is mirthful and mournful in turn
Who is that slithering on the floor by your foot, or coming to rest by or upon your knee? Audiences lucky enough to find themselves at…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:33PM[SHARE]Nkeki Obi-Melekwe at only 22 has stepped into the starring role of anyone's dreams, succeeding 2019 Olivier nominee Adrienne Warren in the title role of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical at the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Adrianna Bertola was a pintsized powerhouse in the title role of Matilda the Musical, played Gretl Von Trapp in The Sound of Music and, now age 20, has made the transition with ease to an ad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2019
Troubled but tantalising Williams play doesn't entirely land this time around
Where would Tennessee Williams's onetime flop be without the British theatre to rehabilitate it on an ongoing b…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Jonathan Maitland skewers Brexit-era realpolitik and largely scores
What could have been merely a cheap and cheesy piss-take registers as considerably more robust in The Last Temptation of …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2019
Broadway veteran and four-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn has given over the better part of the past year to London and to Trevor Nunn's beautiful Menier Chocolate Factory revival of Fiddler on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 4, 2019
Ian Rickson finds the fury and dynamism in a piece of Ibsen esoterica
The past haunts the present and looks likely to torpedo the future in Rosmersholm, the lesser-known Ibsen play now re…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:48PM[SHARE]Friday, May 3, 2019
Giles Terera's many and varied credits include Honk!, The Book of Mormon, and a revelatory National Theatre revival of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, but the versatile performer reached a new car…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Mamma Mia! has transformed the lives of a lot of people, not least its gifted and versatile director, Phyllida Lloyd, who came to the ABBA musical from a career in the British not-for-profit…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 03:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2019
Maggie Smith tackles an impressive one-woman show at the Bridge Theater, and a British classic of the 1980s gets a new lease on life at the National.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:29AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 13, 2019
Kelly Mathieson grew up in Scotland and started ballet lessons when she was two. But after training at London's prestigious Royal College of Music, she forsook the world of actual opera to m…
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