Monday, June 8, 2015
The Brits had a bravura night on Broadway as the 69th annual Tony awards last night, but if you dig into the detail, particularly when it comes to musicals, it looks unlikely the triumph wil…
SOURCE: Telegraph at 06:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2015
They say there’s nothing like a dame—but what about two dames? That’s the situation currently with Peter Morgan’s London and Broadway hit The Audience, which has one …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:49PM[SHARE]Simon Russell Beale revisits the Occupy movement in "Temple," and the Royal Shakespeare Company revives Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:33AM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2015
Beauty transforms itself into a beast but an inner grace shines forth regardless: such is the enduring power of Bernard Pomerance's stage play The Elephant Man, first seen in London almost 4…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2015
While Broadway slows down after the Tony Awards in June, London rolls merrily along, both on and off the West End. This month’s highlights include a stage musical premiere adapted from…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2015
Simon Russell Beale, an era-defining Hamlet, takes a star turn at the West End rendition of a piece of theatrical hokum by Ira Levin that, 32 years after its New York debut, still delivers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]“Men Should Weep” is playing at the National and “Tribes” is at the Royal Court, with a fleeting glimpse of Stephen Sondheim at the Queen’s Theatre.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Royal Court and the National dominated the London Evening Standard theatre awards, and rightly so. Non-subsidised theatre needs to get its act together. Is there any good new commercial …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PM[SHARE]She's hosted breakfast television in the UK as well as a Broadway-related reality show (Grease: You're The One That I Want). But Denise Van Outen is also a dedicated theater performer, with …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]Michael Grandage directs the grand tragedy in the intimate space of the Donmar while, at the National Theater, Alan Ayckbourn registers the holiday season as only he can do.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Samantha Bond may be best-known the world over as Moneypenny in the James Bond (no relation!) films, back when Pierce Brosnan was playing 007. But the distinctively smoky-voiced actress has …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]Jonathan Cake is marking a homecoming of sorts by spending a London winter co-starring with his old friend (and Cambridge University classmate) Tom Hollander in the Feydeau farce A Flea In H…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]It's not always the case that an alternate leading lady ends up the star, but that is now happening at London's Savoy Theatre, where 27-year-old Dubliner Susan McFadden has replaced Sheridan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]The much heralded "Twelfth Night" is on at the National Theatre in London and "Becky Shaw," imported from America has its own handy glossary.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Harriet Thorpe may be best-known in the US as Patsy's chum Fleur in TV's Absolutely Fabulous, but the actress has been a mainstay of West End musicals for years. Thorpe played Fraulein Kost …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]Four years out of Cambridge University, Robyn Addison is making her professional stage debut opposite Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles in Sir Peter Hall's production of The Rivals, the 18th-c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]The 39 Steps ranks as the West End's longest currently running comedy, and Rufus Wright has just stepped into the leading role of stiff-upper-lipped hero Richard Hannay. This affectionate pa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]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 sleuthing…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]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 lesbianism and the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]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 05:58PM[SHARE]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 05:58PM[SHARE]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 05:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2015
"You make clothes that make the darkness in me matter": If such an accolade strikes you as profound, make a beeline for McQueen, the James Phillips play about the tortured, all-too-brief lif…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2015
It’s rare for a Broadway hit to cross the Atlantic intact, but that is currently happening with director Scott Ellis’ acclaimed revival of The Elephant Man, which has arrived in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PM[SHARE]"Everyman" lets Chiwetel Ejiofor show off a palpable soul, "American Buffalo" has John Goodman inhabiting a landscape of hucksterism, and "The Merchant of Venice" brings Jonathan Pryce home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:57AM[SHARE]Frank Loesser seems to be known in Britain for one show and one show only, which seems a shame given that the composer-lyricist of Guys and Dolls wrote other shows including the ravishing Th…
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