Thursday, June 19, 2014
A totemic play from (nearly) 20 years ago surfaces afresh in Stephen Daldry's West End revival of Skylight, the power of David Hare's intimate epic fully intact if somewhat redistributed as …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:04AMWednesday, June 18, 2014
After nearly 20 years on Broadway, half-American, half-Canadian actor Peter Lockyer has crossed the pond to make his West End debut as Jean Valjean in the totemic musical Les Miserables…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:01PMThursday, June 12, 2014
Polly Stenham abandons her domestic English environs for an African resort in “Hotel.” Kathleen Turner gets growly in “Bakersfield Mist.” And Andrew Lippa shows why he is “The Life…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03AMWednesday, June 11, 2014
Katherine Kingsley has received Olivier nominations in a variety of diverse shows, from Piaf to Singin’ in the Rain, to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The English actr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:46PMSunday, June 8, 2014
Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry are in the running for tonight's Broadway theatre awards - but will they win?
SOURCE: Telegraph at 07:54AMThursday, June 5, 2014
Ben Miles has had no shortage of high-profile stage roles—he played Bolingbroke to Kevin Spacey’s Richard II at the Old Vic and Kristin Scott Thomas’s husband in the West E…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:34PMKevin Spacey is seen before he is heard in Clarence Darrow, the solo play that is doing a brief if ferociously bracing run at the Old Vic, but once the actor stops fiddling with his onstage …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:05AMFriday, May 30, 2014
London is whistling “Yankee Doodle” this month: a Rodgers and Hammerstein classic resurfaces, several off-Broadway hits get a British airing and two Americans continue their stel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:19PMTuesday, May 27, 2014
Laurence Connor’s staging of “Miss Saigon’' in London shifts emphasis from the power of America’s military to the suffering of the Vietnamese.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:05AMThursday, May 22, 2014
David Hunter has understudied the last two guys to play Guy in the West End incarnation of the hit musical Once—but earlier this month, he nabbed the starring role for himself. The new…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:53PMThursday, May 15, 2014
Plays don’t come much more baleful than “Titus Andronicus” or chronicle moral decay better than “A Small Family Business.’'
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMIt’s been 35 years since Tom Conti won a Tony Award for his career-defining performance in Whose Life Is It Anyway?, followed five years later by his Oscar-nominated star turn in Reube…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:03AMWednesday, May 7, 2014
It’s been a quarter of a century since Miss Saigon first opened on the West End, starring Lea Salonga, Jonathan Pryce and an unknown Filipino man named Jon Jon Briones in the ensemble.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:59PMMonday, May 5, 2014
Two major musical revivals—a modern British classic and an enduring American one—would already mark out May as a big month for London theater. Add in star turns by two Tony-nomin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:26PMTuesday, April 29, 2014
Comment: Brits are on the sidelines in the Tony Awards nominations, finds Matt Wolf
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 01:06PMThursday, April 24, 2014
"I don't think it makes a good play, but it's a remarkable one," Sean O'Casey famously remarked of The Silver Tassie, his late-1920s drama about the depredations of war, and how simultaneous…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:15AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
Leigh Zimmerman is known for her leggy allure on both sides of the Atlantic, having starred on either the West End or on Broadway (and sometimes both) in Chicago, The Producers and The Will …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:58PMLeigh Zimmerman is known for her leggy allure on both sides of the Atlantic, having starred in either the West End or on Broadway (and sometimes both) in Chicago, The Producers and The Will …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:58PMFriday, April 18, 2014
What is it with the London theatre and this particular Arthur Miller play? In 1987, Michael Gambon reached a career-best peak playing the Italian-American longshoreman, Eddie Carbone, in a d…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:18AMThursday, April 17, 2014
From “King Charles III” to a Noel Coward revival, new productions in London dissect the vagaries of class.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:35AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
Stage debuts don’t come much more striking than that of 19-year-old Scotsman Martin Quinn, who plays the put-upon Oskar in Let the Right One In. Helmed by Tony winner John Tiffany…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:22PMMonday, April 14, 2014
Gavin Creel licked his trophy in delight, Zrinka Cvitešić spoke of making Croatian history, and Sharon D Clarke let out an exultant "wow" from the podium that was surely heard well beyond …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:14AMThursday, April 10, 2014
Broadway adaptation of Woody Allen film is hard-edged and charmless
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 11:00PMWednesday, April 9, 2014
Samantha Bond was a Tony nominee for Amy’s View, played Moneypenny in the Bond (no relation) films, and appeared in Downton Abbey as Lady Rosamund—but only now is the 52-year-old…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:10PMMonday, April 7, 2014
TV stars shines in poignant new Broadway play
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:00AMThursday, April 3, 2014
Denzil Washington shrugs off his 59 years to play a young chauffeur in the stirring A Raisin in the Sun, says Matt Wolf
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 11:00PMLondon theater is busier than ever with a major reopening of a West End playhouse jostling for attention with eagerly awaited revivals (from the likes of Shakespeare, Sean O’Casey, and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:15PMTuesday, April 1, 2014
The actress brings a new vigor to Madame Arcati in “Blithe Spirit,” while “Fatal Attraction” suffers from stilted language and holes in the plot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:23AMWednesday, March 26, 2014
Clare Higgins needs no introduction as one of Britain’s finest actresses, having won three Olivier Awards, as well as a 2003 Tony nod for her Broadway debut in Nicholas Wright's Vi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:35AM 
