Thursday, April 2, 2015
Spring is in the air and with it a raft of high-profile openings that include the West End bow of Imelda Staunton’s show-stopping Rose in Gypsy, a gala concert of Follies in honor of S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2015
English soul singer Beverley Knight has been batting a thousand in her stage forays to date. She first appeared on the West End in 2013 as Heather Headley’s replacement in The Bodyguar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:56PM[SHARE]Monday, March 23, 2015
Stephen Sondheim's ever-elastic masterpiece is downsized to largely dazzling effect in its latest iteration, which has been transferred intact to a Shaftesbury Avenue pop-up after premiering…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Breakout performances rarely come as high-voltage as Jenna Augen’s turn in Bad Jews, the Joshua Harmon play that is transferring to the Arts Theatre starting March 18 after previous ru…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Sunny Afternoon, the Edward Hall-directed jukebox musical salute to the legendary British band The Kinks, was just nominated for five Olivier Awards, but arguably none of its nods is more de…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 8, 2015
Helen Mirren's comic timing as the Queen sets this performance apart, says Matt Wolf
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 11:00PM[SHARE]Helen Mirren's comic timing as the Queen sets this performance apart, says Matt Wolf
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 11:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2015
Fish in the Dark, the Curb Your Enthusiasm writer's first venture onto Broadway, is a disappointment
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2015
The play for once really is the thing in a London month that puts musicals on the back burner for a change—well, that is until Gypsy begins previews—and lets the plays take cente…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 26, 2015
Samantha Spiro has two Olivier Awards to her name, first for playing Mary in the Michael Grandage-directed Donmar production of Merrily We Roll Along and then for her irrepressible Dolly Lev…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Stars continue to be born from Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Following on from the ongoing Broadway run of the show, which catapulted to name status its Tony-winning leading lady Jessi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:09AM[SHARE]The London stage is seeing a triptych of powerful performances with Mark Rylance in "Farinelli," Ian Gelder in "Gods and Monsters" and Maxine Peake in "How to Hold Your Breath."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 19, 2015
You might not expect to find the distinguished stage veteran Isla Blair among the able cast of Made in Dagenham, the musical at the Adelphi Theatre based on the 2010 film about the fight for…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Lewis Reeves has caused quite a stir during his time in My Night with Reg, the revival of Kevin Elyot’s 1994 play about gay love and lust in the age of AIDS that has transferred to the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 5, 2015
Jamie Lloyd’s blistering production of the Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman musical Assassins is hurtling into its final month at the Menier Chocolate Factory, and is about to welcome…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Here's the genuine hard problem facing commentators confronted with Tom Stoppard's new play of the same name: how do you honour the legacy of this extraordinary writer's first play in nine y…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:58PM[SHARE]Three-time Tony winner Mark Rylance returns to the playhouse he once ran, and the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon gets two new leads—these are just two of the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Irish actor Brian Gilligan has been playing the defining role of Deco in the rock musical The Commitments at the Palace Theatre since September—meanwhile, the role’s originator, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AM[SHARE]Friday, January 16, 2015
Josefina Gabrielle has three Olivier nominations to show for her wide-ranging musical theater career, which includes Laurey in Oklahoma! on both sides of the Atlantic as well as London reviv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Jake Gyllenhaal made his Broadway debut in good company " a galaxy of stars are currently on stage in New York. We review some of their performancesIt seems fitting that Jake Gyllenhaal is c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2015
Jennifer DiNoia has traveled the world with Wicked, shifting between various American cities to perform the musical in Australia and South Korea and now in London, where she plays Elphaba at…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 1, 2015
A new year always brings with it promise in abundance, especially for the London theater scene, which Is already kicking into gear. From the latest British reworking of a Broadway musical to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Monday, December 29, 2014
That old canard about there being no good roles for women needed revising time and again in the theatre year just gone, so much so that end-of-year judging panels for the year's best faced f…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 24, 2014
From a Noel Coward classic polished to within an inch of its life to a troubling Stephen Sondheim musical that packed a pistol-laden punch, London theater was characteristically varied and v…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 20, 2014
From a boozy lunch at The Savoy to the star-studded red carpet of the London Palladium, Matt Wolf looks back at the glamour, the passion and the drama of 60 years of the Evening Standard The…
SOURCE: www.standard.co.uk at 08:08AM[SHARE] 
