Tuesday, May 28, 2013
The monthly missive from Across the Pond introduces readers to Helen Mirren taking The Queen to the streets, a cabaret concert and some puddle-jumping plays.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, April 22, 2013
The monthly missive from Across the Pond takes readers to John Logan's imaginative piece Peter and Alice, James Graham's political work This House and Henry Goodman in The Winslow Bo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, March 16, 2013
The monthly missive from Across the Pond looks at the historic London venue known as the Curtain, Morley Prize-worthy books and productions of Our Country's Good, The Vortex, Quartermain…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 3, 2013
Look out, Miss Hannigan. Broadway has a new, deliciously wicked villainess, Miss Trunchbull, played by one Mr. Bertie Carvel, already an Olivier Award winner for the new musical Matilda.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, February 12, 2013
The monthly missive from Across the Pond offers perspective on a handful of London's essential theatrical institutions, James Hogan's Ivy and Joan, the year's most engaging …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMThursday, January 3, 2013
Maria Friedman, John Lithgow, Simon Russell Beale, Alex Bourne, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Harriet Walter, Phyllida Lloyd, Hannah Waddingham punctuate this month's look at London theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, November 28, 2012
This month's report from England looks at productions of Uncle Vanya, Berenice, 55 Days at Hampstead, Lolita Chakrabarti's Red Velvet, and explores how cabaret blooms at night in Lon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, November 3, 2012
A look at London's East Indian-set Much Ado About Nothing; Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon in All That Fall; Cabaret and its source material, I Am a Camera; A Chorus of Disapproval; and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, October 4, 2012
Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge and director Jamie Lloyd on why the verse classic Cyrano de Bergerac still speaks to us after more than a century. To wit: "Each of us has some kind of n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, October 1, 2012
An amble through the landscape of U.K. theatre, with stops at Matilda, the Donmar Warehouse, Lear at the Almeida and Hedda at the Old Vic and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, September 17, 2012
This month's missive offers a reflection on World Stages London, a peek at the freaky London Wonderground, a reunion with Dickens' Women, plus The Last of the Haussmans, The Physicis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMonday, July 23, 2012
In London, finally a late-night dinner option in the theatre district. Plus, a look at The Sunshine Boys, Birthday, Ragtime and actress-singer Janie Dee.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, June 24, 2012
London attractions at the moment include David Hare's South Downs, paired with its inspiration, Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version, plus Helen Edmundson's Mary Shelley, a ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 27, 2012
If you're not planning to see Singin' in the Rain, Long Day's Journey Into Night or Collaborators in London, how about a weekend in the country, far from the crowds?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, May 8, 2012
A roundup of spring parties in London, including the presentation of the Sheridan Morley Prize to Stephen Sondheim, plus visits to his Sweeney Todd and the Old Vic's Duchess of Malfi sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, February 20, 2012
With the spring arrival of two revivals of his past classics Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar Phantom composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will have three musicals on Broadway at the same tim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, February 7, 2012
The monthly roundup of London's theatrical events past, present and future includes a peek into the Young Vic, the National, the Noel Coward and the Rose.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, January 9, 2012
A look at London theatrical events, including Menier Chocolate Factory's Pippin, the Roald Dahl-based musical Matilda and the Broadway-bound One Man, Two Guvnors.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, December 5, 2011
A walking tour of recent, current and upcoming London theatrical events, including programming for 2012 World Stages London, plus Broken Glass, Crazy for You, The Lion in Winter, Collaborato…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:04AMA walking tour of recent current and upcoming London theatrical events, including programming for 2012 World Stages London, plus Broken Glass, Crazy for You, The Lion in Winter, Collabators …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, November 7, 2011
Actresses from British theatre history — hello, Nell Gwyn! — have been gathered at the National Portrait Gallery. Plus, new plays by Conor McPherson and Mike Leigh.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, November 6, 2011
Kim Cattrall and Richard Eyre discuss the theatre's other great balcony scene — Noël Coward's comedy Private Lives, now back on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, September 26, 2011
Some comments about the Broadway-aimed, revised and re-branded Porgy and Bess, plus London's Shrek and South Pacific.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMonday, August 29, 2011
The 17th-century play A Woman Killed With Kindness, John Doyle's staging of Road Show and the Iraq War current-events play Loyalty are among works now (or recently) on London's board…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, July 31, 2011
The summer lull is anything but in the London theatre scenes. For starters, Kevin Spacey is Richard III and Kristin Scott Thomas stars in Harold Pinter's Betrayal.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, July 5, 2011
The Royal Shakespeare Company packs up its ensemble, crew and even its stage and heads to New York City — into the converted Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59PMThe Royal Shakespeare Company packs up its ensemble, crew and even its stage and heads to New York City — into the converted Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58PMMonday, July 4, 2011
We visit fresh London productions of Pygmalion, Much Ado About Nothing, The Servant of Two Masters, The Cherry Orchard, A Delicate Balance and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, May 30, 2011
Are there differences between New York and London theatregoers? London writer Ruth Leon asks the question, and takes in Broadway's Arcadia, Earnest, Anything Goes and Jerusalem.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, May 12, 2011
In this month's column spotlighting London theatre, we look at the 2011 Olivier Awards — an embarrassment of riches — and the presence of American artists on London stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, April 7, 2011
In this month's column spotlighting London theatre, we slip into the Garrick Club for a special award, and attend Company, Spelling Bee, The Heretic, The Children's Hour and more.
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