Friday, June 14, 2013
Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonThomas Middleton's brilliant 1605 comedy has been cut, "edited" and updated to 1950s Soho by Sean Foley and Phil Porter for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Whether pa…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:45PMThe National Theatre scored a massive hit by shifting Goldoni's 18th century commedia dell'arte, The Two Servants of One Master, from Venice to the Brighton underworld of 1963 and re-dubbing…
Linked From The Independent at 06:36AMThursday, June 6, 2013
Cross-posted at StageGrade.
We're sensing a trend with our StageGrade Tony Poll: Critical
dissatisfaction with shows themselves, coupled with huge love for the
performers and directors of…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 04:34PMApologies for light posting lately, but I hope I can compensate with a few tidbits. I recently had the pleasure of looking back over the theater season with Kerry Weber, culture editor at Am…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 09:05AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Rufus Hound has made a sizable name for himself as a comedian on the British stand-up circuit and recently starred on screen in The Wedding Video. Now, the 34-year-old Englishman is spending…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:39PMWednesday, May 22, 2013
By the guffaws at the opening night of One Man, Two Guvnors, it’s guaranteed to be a sold-out must-see. With a cast and script as tight as a mother-of-the-bride’s girdle, low-class Bri…
Linked From AussieTheatre at 01:55AMMonday, May 20, 2013
National Theatre Live: Othello trailer
Othello broadcasts live on Thursday 26 September
Find your nearest cinema at http://www.ntlive.com
The National Theatre presents a major new product…
Linked From YouTube at 07:36AMHOLLYWOOD TAKES A NEW PATH INTO THE WOODSjoel fishbane@joelfishbaneLong-time readers of this column will be familiar with my opinions on the movie musical – last winter, after the release …
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 07:21AMFriday, May 3, 2013
Tony winner James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors) will star alongside Daniel Mays in Nick Payne’s new play The Same Deep Water As Me at the Donmar Warehouse, according to The Daily Mail.…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:11PMTuesday, April 23, 2013
Oh, Charlie Rosen. You know him. Late of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and One Man, Two Guvnors, Charlie has perfected the art of being a member of an onstage Broadway band. In his latest ven…
Linked From The Craptacular at 09:09AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
Nicholas Hytner will step down as artistic director of the National Theatre in London in March 2015, according to the U.K.'s The Independent. Hytner took over from Trevor Nunn in 2003 an…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:50AMThursday, April 4, 2013
Commedia dell’Arte, the 16th century Italian theatrical form, is a gift that keeps on giving. Not only did it give us sketch comedy and Punch and Judy shows, it gave us Carlo Goldoni’s S…
Linked From AussieTheatre at 01:30AMMonday, March 25, 2013
AussieTheatre is thrilled to be giving away 10 DOUBLE PASSES to see The National Theatre of Great Britain’s smash hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors at Sydney Theatre on Tuesday 9 April. A g…
Linked From AussieTheatre at 06:00PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
AussieTheatre spoke with Owain Arthur, the Welsh actor starring in international hit One Man, Two Guvnors. It’s a rare thing for a play to capture the hearts and minds of audiences around …
Linked From AussieTheatre at 10:09PMThursday, March 7, 2013
One Man, Two Guvnors at Theatre Royal Haymarket
'The most glorious comedy on the planet.' Daily Mail, March 2012
Richard Bean's award-winning play is a glorious celebration of …
Linked From YouTube at 12:12PMThis is an extremely humorous show — with as many laughs as silly sub-plots. It’s so much a British comedy couple of hours — and the (mainly older) audience just loves it! Written by R…
Linked From AussieTheatre at 07:48AMSaturday, February 23, 2013
Name: Nikhil TilwalliHometown: Chicago, ILEducation: B.S. in Mathematics, M.S. in Electrical EngineeringFavorite Credits: Performing stand-up at Comic Strip Live, Upright Citizen's Brigade T…
Linked From TheaterInTheNow at 01:18PMWednesday, February 20, 2013
The best of Great Britain's theater scene was celebrated on Sunday with the annual WhatsOnStage.com Awards, held at London's Palace Theatre. The ceremony, hosted by West End One Man, Two Guv…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:20PMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Rufus Hound, soon to be seen co-hosting our very own Whatsonstage.com Awards this coming Sunday (17 February), has joined the cast of One Man, Two Guvnors.
Richard Bean̵…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 05:14AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Olivier Theatre, National, London: On the one hand, the National Theatre famously produced the comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, which continues to run in the West End, has been to Broadway and i…
Linked From The Stage at 10:02AMSunday, February 3, 2013
One of my favorite theatrical experiences last season was One Man, Two Guvnors, a British import that rollicked at the good old Music Box Theatre for 159 performances, three at which I was i…
Linked From Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 02:46PMThursday, January 31, 2013
Production images have been released for the new cast of One Man, Two Guvnors at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, including Rufus Hound as Francis Henshall - who is soon to be seen co-hosti…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 06:28AMMonday, January 28, 2013
Actor and comedian Rufus Hound is about to take over from Owain Arthur as Francis in One Man, Two Guvnors at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, having played the role on the current UK tour.
The …
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:25AMFriday, January 25, 2013
James Corden and Dominic Cooper, both alums of The History Boys on Broadway and in the West End, will reunite at London’s National Theatre in a new project yet to be announced, accordi…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:02PMThursday, January 24, 2013
According to the Daily Mail, One Man, Two Guvnors star James Corden and Dominic Cooper are set to reunite in a production by the National Theatre. Artistic Director Nicholas Hytner is still …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:53PMWednesday, January 9, 2013
Broadway.com is the hotspot for all the latest on the Great White Way, but what about the hundreds of exciting shows being presented on stages all over the country? We’ve found five mu…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:09PMTuesday, January 8, 2013
John Lithgow fans won’t have to head overseas to see the Oscar nominee and Tony winner in his latest play The Magistrate. The National Theatre production of Arthur Wing Piner…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:44PMMonday, January 7, 2013
We loved "One Man, Two Guvnors" standout Tom Edden so much on Broadway, we couldn't resist asking him to show us the Theatre Royal Haymarket now that he's rejoined the London cast. See the T…
Linked From YouTube at 12:44PMWednesday, January 2, 2013
Once the holiday gift-giving was done, theater fans got down to business online, catching up on Broadway.com’s exclusive video features! Below are the most-watched videos on the site f…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:36PMMonday, December 31, 2012
To paraphrase A Chorus Line, I picked 10 and 10 - 10 Boys and 10 Girls - of the theatre people, who made their biggest mark on the theatre world in 2012. And I have a feeling we'l…
Linked From JK's TheatreScene at 11:09PMSunday, December 30, 2012
The other day, I posted my annual Year in Review Best/Worst Non-Performance Categories. You can see that HERE. Today, I present to you my favorite performances in a variety of ca…
Linked From JK's TheatreScene at 07:48PM