Thursday, September 11, 2014
The play "Little Revolution," about the 2011 London riots, falters, while two other plays, "Breeders" and "The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd" underwhelm.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2014
American performer and YouTube sensation Christina Bianco hasn’t exactly been sitting idle since moving to London. Not only is she in previews for the West End transfer of Forbidden Br…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:07PM[SHARE]First it was our star actors, now it's our award-winning dramatists who are set to storm Broadway, as a host of British plays transfer from London to the New York stage
SOURCE: www.standard.co.uk at 11:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2014
The role of Albert in the long-running War Horse has produced some highly distinguished alumni, starting with Luke Treadaway, who went on to win an Olivier Award for The Curious Incident of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The days are getting shorter, and in the theater world, that’s good news! The fall season is revving up, and this month marks the West End arrival of both Olivier Award-winning veteran…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Saturday, August 23, 2014
This has been a busy season for Off Broadway musicals crossing the pond to London, from Dessa Rose and Dogfight to Forbidden Broadway and See Rock City. But for simplicity of approach couple…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Who says you can’t go home again? Kerry Ellis has returned to her defining role as Elphaba in Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre for a limited run through October, barring certain p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Geronimo Rauch not only has one of the best names on the West End, but the Argentinian actor has also had two of the best jobs. He first played Jean Valjean in Les Miserables at the Queen&rs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:22PM[SHARE]Lauren Bacall, who has died at the age of 89, was an iconic figure on screen. She spoke one of the immortal lines in film history when all but exhaling the remark, "You just put your lips to…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2014
A superb staging of "My Night With Reg" opens at the Donmar Warehouse. "Holy Warriors" at Shakespeare's Globe tries to compress the history of the Middle East into two-and-a-half hours.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2014
After nearly two years in the West End, the musical adaptation of the Whitney Houston film The Bodyguard will play its final performance August 30 at the Adelphi Theatre. Thea Sharrock&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:25PM[SHARE]Friday, August 1, 2014
Benedict Andrews's ferocious new production of Tennessee Williams's "Streetcar Named Desire" at the Young Vic stars Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Summer is officially winding down, but there’s no shortage of openings and special theatrical events all month long, from revivals of classic musicals (Guys and Dolls) to the European …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2014
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Film star Kathleen Turner is no stranger to the British stage, having twice appeared out of town at the Chichester Festival Theatre (in the solo play Tallulah and Somerset Maugham’s Ou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:08PM[SHARE]Friday, July 18, 2014
Elaine Stritch, who has died aged 89, was a star of stage and TV. Here are her 10 best, or most defining, roles
SOURCE: Telegraph at 09:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2014
At age 62, Nigel Havers might seem long in the tooth to be playing witty young bachelor Algernon (Algy) Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde's beloved comic masterpi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2014
Paul Chahidi stole the spotlight on both sides of the Atlantic with his sublimely funny and commanding turn as Maria in Twelfth Night, the all-male production of Shakespeare’s comedy t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Is there no end to the London stage’s infatuation with all things American? You might think not in a month that promises major works by Tennessee Williams and the Gershwins, and with n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 28, 2014
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Alex Jennings won a 2003 Olivier Award for playing Henry Higgins in the Trevor Nunn-directed revival of My Fair Lady, and the protean actor is now back at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:25PM[SHARE]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 02:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 03:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 of the Pa…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 03:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 07:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 02:34PM[SHARE]Kevin 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 …
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