Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Robert Sean Leonard of "House" fame provides an American backbone for "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:34AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
The fast-rising Broadway actor Seth Numrich began the season in Lincoln Center Theater’s acclaimed revival of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy, and now the Juilliard-trained 26-ye…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:35AMMonday, May 20, 2013
The pronouns have it in Alan Ayckbourn's career-defining comedy of spiralling misunderstandings, which has arrived on the West End 46 years after first hinting at the formidable talent of a …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:44PMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Merrily We Roll Along may have flopped on Broadway in 1981, but the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical—the story of a three-way friendship that begins at the end and rewinds to the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:47PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
It’s been 22 years since Robert Sean Leonard last appeared on stage in London as George Gibbs in Our Town. Half a lifetime later, the 44-year-old star of TV’s House is back in to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:28PMTuesday, May 7, 2013
The London theater scene is taking on a decidedly American tone: Playwrights from Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill to David Mamet, Stephen Sondheim and Annie Baker are among the names…
SOURCE: rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com at 10:20AMThursday, May 2, 2013
The London weather is warming up as the spring theater season continues its sizzling pace. If you’ve already seen Dames Helen Mirren and Judi Dench on the West End and are waiting for …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:25PMMonday, April 29, 2013
The 37th Laurence Olivier Awards, held at London’s Royal Opera House on April 28, spread the wealth among a limited number of shows, with seven prizes for The Curious Incident of the D…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:19AMSunday, April 28, 2013
The Oliviers consider more than twice the number of productions for their annual awards compared to Broadway's Tonys. But you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise following Sunday night'…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:43PMThursday, April 25, 2013
The long-awaited pairing of Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear in "Othello'' at the National Theatre is one of the director Nicholas Hytner's greatest achievements.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:16AMThe IHT’s theater critic handicaps the field for this year’s Laurence Olivier Awards, London’s version of the Tonys.
SOURCE: rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com at 10:06AMWednesday, April 24, 2013
Luke Treadaway is one of eight 2013 Olivier Award nominees from the sellout London hit The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, now at the Apollo Theatre with Broadway in its sight…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:50PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Declan Bennett was born and brought up in England, spent seven years living and working in New York, and is now playing a lovesick Irish musician in the newly acclaimed London production of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:28PMTuesday, April 16, 2013
The galloping success of "Once" is set to continue in a London production whose quietest moments are its most piercing, and "Narrative'' takes getting used to but rewards the audience in the…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:46AMSunday, April 14, 2013
Starting with “Jerry Springer: The Opera,” Nicholas Hytner has repositioned the three-stage complex as arguably the defining theatrical address in the English-speaking world. And he stil…
SOURCE: rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com at 09:13AMThursday, April 11, 2013
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
A Chorus Line is back on the London boards for its first West End revival in almost four decades. In an Anglo-American cast of hard-working hoofers, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, 31 in May, sta…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:13PMFriday, April 5, 2013
Stephen Sondheim is two weeks away from his 83rd birthday on the windy, rain-tossed March day when I visit Broadway's reigning king of music and lyrics at his Manhattan home. He hasn't stepp…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PMWednesday, April 3, 2013
English song-and-dance man Gavin Lee, 41, has spent much of the past decade playing Bert in Mary Poppins on both sides of the Atlantic, nabbing Olivier and Tony nods along the way. Now, he&r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:37PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
London’s spring season is in full swing, with plenty of great shows to choose from. If you can’t get a ticket to see Helen Mirren play the Queen or the hit play The Curious Incid…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:47PMWednesday, March 20, 2013
Gavin Creel is currently on a third go-round as a West End leading man, following Mary Poppins and Hair, with a knockout turn as Elder Price in The Book of Mormon, which opens March 21 at th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:58PMTuesday, March 19, 2013
Three plays in London: William Boyd's "Longing" doesn't make sense, and two other shows provide grim worldviews.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
It’s been nearly seven years since Rufus Sewell created the role of a Czech grad student in Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, a performance that earned him an Olivier Awa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
It’s been more than a decade since Kristin Chenoweth last sang before a London audience, though she performed two years ago at a private dinner hosted by the Obamas in the presence of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:22AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
March brings the advent of spring after a frigid London winter, and what better time for the city’s theater to spring into overdrive? This month’s London Datebook finds two thesp…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMAt 41, the much-laureled actress figured she was more or less sidelined from Shakespeare until she became age-appropriate for Cleopatra. What to do in the meantime? Direct “Macbeth.”
SOURCE: rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com at 09:10AMWednesday, February 20, 2013
Sherie Rene Scott has garnered multiple Tony nods in shows ranging from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels to her career-defining Everyday Rapture. But only now is this Broadway favorite making her Lon…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:19PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
