When Laura Wade's Posh premiered at the Royal Court in 2010, its dark promise that these destructive student toffs - members of the Riot Club, a loosely fictional version of Oxford's Bulling…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:55AMLondon is never short of theatre temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a mammoth Tony Kushner revival to an unusual Romeo and Juliet and tap…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AMAlongside a lauded acting career - he will reprise his Prospero when the RSC's The Tempest comes to the Barbican this summer - Simon Russell Beale has retained his passion for classical musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:06AMThe bad boy is back. Marber's Moliere update, which first appeared at the Donmar Warehouse in 2006, has been revived by the playwright for a West End run - David Tennant succeeding Rhys Ifan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMRajiv Joseph's plays include Gruesome Playground Injuries, All This Intimacy and the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. On screen, he's written for TV series Nurse Jac…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:31AMActor and musician David Hunter's previous work includes Once,TommyandOne Man, Two Guvnors.He's currently starring as Charlie in the West End production ofKinky Boots.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48AMWhile An American in Paris captures the dreamy glamour of old Hollywood, Simon McBurney rivetingly evokes its seedy, cynical underbelly, from backroom deals to drug busts and mobsters. Yet i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:18AMMaria Friedmandirects abrand new staging ofRichard Harris's award-winning play STEPPING OUT, which which toured UK venues last year and now plays at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre.Book ti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00AMMichael Blakemore's stellar directing career encompasses everything from landmark productions at the National, where he was associate director, to West End and Broadway hits. He was the firs…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:32AMIt's 1945, and Paris is shakily emerging from Nazi occupation - celebrating, yes, with soldiers returning and families reuniting, but also confronting collaborators in their midst and post-w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:54PMIn 1944, Terence Rattigan substantially revised Less Than Kind at the behest of star theatrical couple the Lunts the result was the less political, more overtly comic Love in Idleness. Now, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42AMArchie Madekwe's screen credits includeFresh Meatand filmsLegacyandSecond Coming. He's now making his professional stage debut inThe Goat, or Who Is Sylvia, Edward Albee's darkly comic maste…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36AMActor Tom Lister is best known for playing Carl King onEmmerdale, but he's also amassed a number of stage credits, includingLegally Blonde,Calamity JaneandWater Babies. He's currently starri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMNever mind stepping out - the real wonder of this production is Anna-Jane Casey stepping in for the injured Tamzin Outhwaite at short notice. It's a plot twist worthy of the backstage shenan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:54PMThis week, London's Bush Theatre reopens following a 4.3 million capital project. The building's revitalisation sees it become more sustainable and entirely accessible, with a new entrance, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:31PMHadley Fraser's work ranges from Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera to Coriolanus at the Donmar and The Winter's Tale at the Garrick. He's collaborated with pianist Will Butterworth on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMHow quickly should art respond to events The National's Great Britain opened right on the heels of the 2014 phone-hacking trial, and here again the theatre is speedy with this response to th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMMuch has been written about the snack ban instigated by this Edward Albee revival at the behest of its star, Imelda Staunton. No problems on that score with performances of such scorching in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:49AMArthur Darvill's work ranges from TV shows like Doctor Who, Broadchurch and Legends of Tomorrow to starring in Once in the West End and on Broadway, as well as composing music for projects l…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:03AMFifty years on, Tom Stoppard's absurdist tragicomedy is back in the theatre where it had its professional premiere, and still just as dazzlingly virtuosic. If some of its gags, musings and m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:18AMAnthony Head's diverse work ranges from popular TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Merlin, Little Britain and Doctor Who to theatre work like Ticking, Six Degrees of Separation and The Rock…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00AMActress and singer Rachel Tucker has impressed in leading musical theatre roles both in the West End and on Broadway, including Wicked, We Will Rock You and The Last Ship. She's also perform…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMJessica Swale's account of Nell Gwynn premiered at Shakespeare Globe's in 2013and then enjoyed a West End run, with Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Gemma Arterton respectively playing Nell. Now it's the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00AMThis month, find great ticket offers on major London shows - we've got 20 productions with tickets at or under 20
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:30AMJess strolls through fresh powder. Behind her is a gleaming glass lake, ahead snow-capped mountains dotted with handsome fir trees. More snow twinkles in the inky heavens like jewelled stars…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:11AMThere are some great ticket deals for KINKY BOOTS at the Adelphi Theatre this month, with up to 37 off. Book here from just 20
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:19AMLondon is never short of theatre temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. Fromstarry Stoppard and Marber revivals to toe-tapping musicals and Elena …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:28AMMulti-award-winning comedy writer, actor and authorMiranda Hartwill make her West End Theatre debut as Miss Hannigan in Annie opening in the West End in May 2017. Previews at the Piccadilly …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:07AMThe misfits shall inherit the earth. This enjoyably offbeat play from Stephen Karam whose The Humanswon the Tony for Best Play last year opened Off-Broadway a decade ago, but the arrival of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:11AMTickets are now on sale for CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, starring Sienna Miller and Jack O'Connell as Maggie and Brick. Benedict Andrews' Young Vic production will being previews in the West End a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:57AMSuffused with grief and unrequited love, Twelfth Night is often played as an anti-comedy - more melancholy than mirthful. Not so in Simon Godwin's brash, gender-bending, utterly joyful rende…
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