Thursday, February 27, 2014
If it's possible to have rather too much of a frolicsome thing, consider by way of example The Knight of the Burning Pestle, a giddily self-conscious 1607 romp from Francis Beaumont that wou…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2014
March is very busy in London as several high-profile actors take the stage. This month’s offerings include the return of Angela Lansbury to the West End after four (!) decades away, Ro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
After four years in Los Angeles, Yorkshire-born TV and film actor Kenny Doughty is returning to his roots in The Full Monty in the West End. Not to be confused with the Americanized Broadway…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Alexander Hanson has appeared in many Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, including Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard and an arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar—but only…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2014
Brian Cox moves between stage and screen work in London, New York, and L.A. with ease. The Emmy-winning Scotsman can currently be found anchoring the director Josie Rourke’s revival of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 2, 2014
On screen, Philip Seymour Hoffman will be forever immortalised as the Oscar-winning star of Capote who was both a darling of the indie film world (think Todd Solondz and the Coen Brothers) a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2014
February brings cold weather to London, but there’s plenty brewing theatrically to stir the emotions and warm the heart. This month’s offerings range from the start of previews f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Soon marking her 80th birthday, the actress is playing a one-woman show based on Ellen Terry at the Wanamaker, the indoor theater at Shakespeare's Globe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2014
Lesley Manville has had an astonishing few years of late, moving from Ibsen at the National (Pillars of the Community opposite Damian Lewis) to John Guare at the Old Vic (Six Degrees of Sepa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:47PM[SHARE]Lesley Manville has had an astonishing few years of late, moving from Ibsen at the National (Pillars of the Community opposite Damian Lewis) to John Guare at the Old Vic (Six Degrees of Sepa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 19, 2014
You don't have to know the difference between Dennis Wise (who is referenced during it) and Ernie Wise (who is not) to be immensely gripped by The Pass, the scorching new Royal Court play th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Jessie Buckley was still a teenager when she made it to the finals of I’d Do Anything, the 2008 BBC reality TV competition to find a Nancy for the West End revival of Oliver! She didn&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 8, 2014
The hit London comedy One Man, Two Guvnors is entering its final stretch at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, its giddy commedia dell’arte-inspired zing intact. For that, credit a cast mad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2014
The Menier Chocolate Factory's scaled-down production of "Candide," the 1956 Broadway musical, offers a fresh perspective; while stars take on two Shakespeare roles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 1, 2014
A new year in the London theater can mean only one thing: a dizzying array of enticing revivals and new works, plays and musicals. This month alone offers up a potentially career-defining Le…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 29, 2013
Playgoers could be forgiven for thinking that they were seeing double during much of 2013. No sooner had one sat through Ian Rickson's dazzling revival of Old Times once before returnin…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:30AM[SHARE]Friday, December 27, 2013
From Harold Pinter to Eugene O'Neill and from musicals to plays, theater in 2013 offered an unusually abundant array from both sides of the Atlantic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical, "Stephen Ward," explores the epicenter of the Profumo affair that rocked London in the early 1960s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:16AM[SHARE]From women alternating roles in a haunting Pinter revival to a pair of separate but equal psychos, from bracing new musicals to galvanic revivals, the London stage offered enough potent thea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2013
The quality of acting in London over the past year was at a characteristically high level—literally so as regards one prize-winning performer who spent much of her show flying above th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2013
Among the multiple achievements of American Psycho, any one of which might be enough to make Rupert Goold's long-awaited Almeida season-opener the banner musical of a notably busy year for t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2013
There’s a surprising new Trunchbull terrorizing the students at Crunchem Hall: Alex Gaumond joined the London company of Matilda in September in the role originated by Bertie Carvel. I…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2013
The National Theater productions "Emil and the Detectives" and "From Morning to Midnight" triumph in areas of logistics, design and casts. "Strangers on a Train" at the Gielgud Theater puts …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Christmas is approaching, but not before a dizzying spate of openings, including two eagerly awaited musical premieres, a double dose of Shakespeare and a two-time Olivier Award winner revis…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:30PM[SHARE]Friday, November 29, 2013
For increasing numbers of people, food is theatre, so what better time to combine the two into the slight, sweet, determinedly socially conscious evening that is Gastronauts, the Royal Court…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 27, 2013
I guess the BBC can't afford researchers or fact-checkers these days. If they could, perhaps something of substance might have arisen from their vacuous Culture Show entry on Vicky Featherst…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:55PM[SHARE]Is there West End life after Heather Headley? The answer is yes at London’s Adelphi Theatre, where British soul singer Beverley Knight is leading the Olivier-nominated musical The Body…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:28AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 23, 2013
Despite an impressive performance form Daniel Craig, Mike Nichols production gets away from the essence of Pinter s work.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 02:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Jack Huston plays a hit man viewers can’t help liking on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, and now he’s coming at murder from a different angle on the London stage. The British-born …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Rosalie Craig has appeared in musicals up and down the U.K., from London Road at the National and Ragtime in Regent’s Park to the out-of-town tryout of Finding Neverland, directed by R…
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