Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Uzo Aduba is a two-time Emmy winner for her performance as Suzanne (a.k.a. "Crazy Eyes") in the prison drama Orange is the New Black and revealed her gifts as a belter as Glinda in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Irish actress Denise Gough has gone from comparative unknown to West End star on the back of her acclaimed performance as Emma, an actress battling addiction in Duncan Macmillan’s Peop…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 12, 2016
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Cedric Neal’s Broadway credits include After Midnight and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, but the Texas-born performer is now U.K.-based, to the benefit of audiences that can see …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:58AM[SHARE]Cedric Neal’s Broadway credits include After Midnight and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, but the Texas-born performer is now U.K.-based, to the benefit of audiences that can see …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Shorter feels longer in the West End iteration of Motown the Musical, a minor-league jukebox musical that became a Broadway hit courtesy an unbeatable back catalogue - keep those hits coming…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:07AM[SHARE]Monday, March 7, 2016
An innocently intended Friday night out turns into something fearsome indeed in I See You, a Royal Court co-production with the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, that puts the tensions of post-a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2016
Guys and Dolls transfers with a (largely) new cast, Motown the Musical grooves its way across the Atlantic, and a new musical that folds the atomic bomb, of all things, into its title are am…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:46PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 27, 2016
A prevailing sense of farewell ripples through this closing production in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse's hugely welcome season of Shakespeare's final quartet of plays. That valedictory feel i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
Tracie Bennett was a 2012 Tony nominee for best actress in a play for End of the Rainbow, in which the pint-sized Englishwoman played Judy Garland. And now the powerhouse performer has retur…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Ilan Goodman may be the son of Olivier Award-winning actor Henry Goodman (Assassins, Chicago) but the RADA-educated performer has been carving a name for himself as a fine talent in his own …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:52PM[SHARE]Monday, February 15, 2016
Uncle Johnny instead of Vanya, a passing reference to sharia law, and nary a samovar in sight: surely this can't be the Uncle Vanya that has long been a cornerstone of the British theatre, e…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 13, 2016
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Janie Dee has won two Olivier Awards and moved from classics to new plays, Shakespeare to musicals. But the protean talent is shifting gears big-time to inherit 2015 Tony nominee Geneva Carr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:27PM[SHARE]Janie Dee has won two Olivier Awards and moved from classics to new plays, Shakespeare to musicals. But the protean talent is shifting gears big-time to inherit 2015 Tony nominee Geneva Carr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 4, 2016
Jennifer Mudge has a slew of New York credits that range from The Philanthropist on Broadway opposite Matthew Broderick to the Witch in Fiasco Theatre’s revelatory Into the Woods off-B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 3, 2016
"One... Two... You know what to do": that coolly delivered rehearsal intro from a trombonist called Cutler (Clint Dyer) could serve as a synoptic appraisal of the simply overwhelming Nationa…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 28, 2016
The Print Room offers a revelatory production of "Five Finger Exercise," but "Waste," at the National Theater's Lyttelton stage, and Cirque du Soleil's "Amaluna," at Royal Albert Hall waver.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PM[SHARE]February is a busy month for American accents in London, with multiple Broadway titles emerging on the scene alongside a bevy of stars that includes a TV favorite (Matthew Perry), a two-time…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:50PM[SHARE]February is a busy month for American accents in London, with multiple Broadway titles emerging on the scene alongside a bevy of stars that includes a TV favorite (Matthew Perry), a two-time…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:38PM[SHARE]The Print Room, a 180-seat playhouse in London's Notting Hill, has come up with the most revelatory production of this still-young theatrical year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 21, 2016
Jeremy Secomb moved to London from his native Australia over 17 years ago, since then he has risen through the ranks to become a West End leading man. Last year, he won raves in the title ro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 14, 2016
Now in its seventh year at the Lyric Theatre, Thriller Live has become a West End mainstay and a focal point for fans of Michael Jackson, who died not long after the show opened in January, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:33PM[SHARE]It often seems with Shakespeare's works in London as if the titles are shown on a sort of perpetual loop, constantly subject to a renewed interpretation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 10, 2016
One of the more unusual Broadway offerings of recent times crosses the Atlantic with considerable style in an Off West End premiere of 2006 New York entry Grey Gardens that punches well abov…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 7, 2016
The seemingly eternal British love affair with Guys and Dolls continues apace with the (somewhat recast) transfer to London of the Chichester production from two summers ago, and a more buoy…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Matt Henry has understudied across a range of West End hits, from The Lion King to Avenue Q, and was a finalist on popular British reality TV show The Voice. But only now as the cross-dressi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:01PM[SHARE]Friday, January 1, 2016
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
It’s a New Year, and with it comes a wealth of fresh enticements on the London stage, from two Broadway musicals reborn in Britain to the premiere of a new play by arguably England'…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Say what you will about London theatre during 2015, and by my reckoning it was a pretty fine year, there certainly was a lot of it. I can't recall a year that brought with it a comparable vo…
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