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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 27, 2015
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015
English actress-singer Savannah Stevenson has become a mainstay in the West End production of Wicked, playing Glinda at the Apollo Victoria Theatre opposite a host of Elphabas that range fro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:51AM[SHARE]Monday, December 21, 2015
You'll feel guilty for having bothered with a programme after seeing The Lorax, the Dr Seuss adaptation that puts saving the environment centre-stage at the Old Vic just as the recent climat…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 17, 2015
The veteran actor Ron Cook needs little introduction to devotees of the British stage, given that he moves from show to show with consummate ease. With credits ranging from Brian Friel&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 16, 2015
If you are going to confront the specter of a performance that haunts the decades still, it helps to possess a degree of charm that few performers can match.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:59PM[SHARE]The proverbial pond that separates the New York and London theatres has had a seismic effect on The Dazzle, Richard Greenberg's ironically titled play from 2002 that in every way seems darke…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 13, 2015
The pleasures to be found in the pitfalls that are part of live performance rear their accident-prone head yet again in Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the latest exercise in controlled (or is it?) ch…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 10, 2015
English actress-singer Cassidy Janson has appeared in many American shows in and around London, from blockbusters like Wicked to more intimate productions like Dessa Rose, opposite The Color…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PM[SHARE]A supposed Stoppardian footnote gets a first-class reclamation in Howard Davies's sizzling revival of Hapgood, the espionage-themed drama from 1988 that resonates intellectually and emo…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Johnny Flynn juggles two lives—one as the singer-songwriter who has toured America with his folk-rock band Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit, the other as the fast-rising actor who has…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 28, 2015
The great Caryl Churchill careers down a blind alley in Here We Go, and the results aren't pretty, especially within the cavernous confines of the National Theatre's Lyttelton " this wr…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 25, 2015
A lot of people are going to be enraged, frustrated, or confused by Evening at The Talk House, and in the authorial world of Wallace Shawn, wasn't it ever thus? This is the playwright who ga…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:57AM[SHARE]The holidays are fast approaching, bringing with them a glut of openings across the spectrum, from a seasonal entertainment with an Oscar winner in the lead to new sightings of iconic titles…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2015
Kenneth Branagh occupies center stage for much of "The Winter's Tale," the Shakespeare play with which he inaugurates the company that bears his name.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:01PM[SHARE]Natalie Dew plays Jess Bhamra, the football-loving London Sikh in the West End musical Bend It Like Beckham at the Phoenix Theatre, a career-making performance that has brought the actress a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2015
It's not every day that you have a West End musicals leading man who has also played Hamlet, Richards II and III, and Prospero in The Tempest, but the RSC veteran Jonathan Slinger comes …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:37PM[SHARE]Friday, November 6, 2015
Sunny Afternoon won this year’s Olivier Award for Best Musical, and Danny Horn has stepped into the demanding leading role of Kinks frontman Ray Davies at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 5, 2015
The cast captivates in a production of Pinter that stands out against today s Broadway fare.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 11:05PM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2015
For much of a grimly deliberate evening, Knightley appears shoulders hunched, indrawn, her eyes darting about as if in search of escape.
SOURCE: Telegraph at 08:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2015
The nights are drawing in, so all the better reason to feast on a month that sees a Broadway classic (the acclaimed revival of Gypsy) enter its final weeks even as another Broadway entry (El…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 22, 2015
Ben Forster played Magaldi in the most recent West End revival of Evita and is poised to take over as the Phantom in London in the New Year, but through the holiday season he can be found le…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2015
Kenneth Cranham has performed twice on Broadway—in Loot in 1968 and then again in 1994 in An Inspector Calls, for which he garnered a Tony nomination. But the veteran actor is get…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 8, 2015
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Canadian singer-songwriter Kyle Riabko earned raves off-Broadway in 2013 and then at the Menier Chocolate Factory this past summer with What’s It All About?, his smart, hip reimagining…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2015
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