Friday, October 28, 2016
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Newcomer Charlie Stemp looks set to be stamped for stardom when a revival of the 1965 British musical Half a Sixpence starts previews on October 29 at the Noel Coward Theatre, in advance of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PM[SHARE]Friday, October 21, 2016
Some have responded to the very notion of a musical about cancer as if the idea itself were breaking some unwritten code of what is permissible to put on stage
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:00AM[SHARE]Ramin Karimloo needs little introduction as a onetime Phantom in both The Phantom of the Opera and its West End sequel, Love Never Dies, as well as a storming Jean Valjean in Les Misera…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:30AM[SHARE]Monday, October 17, 2016
British actor-singer David Hunter previously inherited the leading role of Guy in London in the Tony-winning musical Once and has now stepped into the co-starring role of Charlie Price …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:39PM[SHARE]Ambition trumps (if you'll forgive that verb) achievement in Ella Hickson's new play, a long-aborning exercise in time-travel whose audacity of vision can't override one's impression that th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:03AM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2016
Dutch actress-singer Celinde Schoenmaker will mark West End history on October 10 when she appears as Christine Daae opposite Ben Forster as the Phantom in the 30th-anniversary performance o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:10PM[SHARE]Dutch actress-singer Celinde Schoenmaker will mark West End history on October 10 when she appears as Christine Daae opposite Ben Forster as the Phantom in the 30th-anniversary performance o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2016
Ben Richards is a major TV name in Britain who has distinguished himself across a range of musicals, including Grease and Guys and Dolls to The Full Monty and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:30PM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2016
Gabriela Garcia has risen from ensemble player to the leading role of Nina in the much-acclaimed London production of In the Heights, the 2008 Tony-winning best musical now enjoying an exten…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 22, 2016
Sunday, September 18, 2016
The fall theater season in London gets off to a starry start with the opening at Wyndham’s Theatre of No Man’s Land, the 1975 Harold Pinter play starring the actor-knights Ian Mc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 11, 2016
Summer is slipping away, but that’s never a bad thing theatrically, especially in London where the fall brings with it an abundance of theater to make one drool. What follows are five …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:16AM[SHARE]Monday, September 5, 2016
Sunny Afternoon, the hit London show scored to the back catalog of iconic British rock group The Kinks, is entering its final months at the Harold Pinter Theatre. What better time, then, to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:30AM[SHARE]Friday, August 26, 2016
The Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Jersey Boys has been running eight years in London, first at the Prince Edward and now the Piccadilly Theatre, and earlier this year welcomed a new…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2016
Monday, August 22, 2016
Alan Morrissey is a well-known TV name in Britain from series like Holby City who has branched out of late into musicals. He co-starred opposite Tony winner Cynthia Erivo in I Can't Sing…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2016
The New York theatre is so consistently awash in "star is born" moments when one or another British actor crosses the Atlantic to copious praise that it's lovely for a change to be able to r…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2016
The Disney musical Aladdin has hopped a magic carpet to London for what looks set to be a long run at the Prince Edward Theatre in a West End premiere that has made a star out of American pe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2016
The 1916 Harold Brighouse play Hobson's Choice is an English theatrical warhorse, and its latest London run at the Vaudeville Theatre comes anchored by a commanding star turn from Naomi …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:39PM[SHARE]Friday, August 5, 2016
Billie Piper vaults to the top rank of British theatre actresses with Yerma, Australian writer-director Simon Stone's rabidly free rewrite of Lorca's 1934 play that posits its young star as …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 4, 2016
"Yes, from life," Nikolai Ivanov (Geoffrey Streatfeild) says in passing of a painting midway through the early Chekhov play that bears his name. But the phrase could serve as the abiding ach…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:11AM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2016
Thursday, July 28, 2016
1984 is the London play that just won't quit and is now at the Playhouse Theatre for a third West End run, this time with an entirely new cast. Adapted from George Orwell's chilling …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2016
Harry Potter lives to see another day. The Hogwarts wizard has made his stage debut in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a two-part play that pushes JK Rowling's world-beating franchise bey…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 21, 2016
Joseph Ayre only recently graduated from drama school and has already landed the leading role of Christopher, the mathematically gifted, socially challenged 15-year-old at the bruising heart…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2016
"Children will listen," or so goes a lyric to one of the most heart-rending numbers in Into the Woods, the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical that seems rarely to be long-absent from the …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:27AM[SHARE]Linzi Hateley will be forever remembered for playing the title role in the musical Carrie in Stratford and on Broadway when she was still a teenager. Now 45 she is legging it in Lycra once a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 3, 2016
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