Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Jon Boydon is now in his third year playing tough guy Tommy DeVito in the Olivier Award-winning West End production of Jersey Boys. A veteran of We Will Rock You, Boydon, soon to be 36, is n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMBritish theater has hit a rough patch as productions of ''Carousel,'' ''The Great Gatsby'' and "Soho Cinders'' bypass the spirit of the original works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:00AMSunday, August 19, 2012
Accolades are due again for the tiny Finborough Theatre, whose production of JB Priestley's all-but-unknown Cornelius constitutes the most exciting reclamation from the English theatrical ca…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:12PMThursday, August 16, 2012
The ever-libidinous Guy (Jason Durr) is "as subtle as a fire engine" when it comes to sex, or so we're told during the course of Volcano, and it's difficult not to feel that this belated Noe…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:54PMWednesday, August 15, 2012
British TV star Jason Durr (Heartbeat) is spending the summer seducing women on a Caribbean island in the West End premiere of Volcano, a previously unknown Noel Coward play that sheds light…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:49PMWednesday, August 8, 2012
Sierra Boggess is the first to admit that she has had an, um, interesting year. Announced as the star of Rebecca opposite her real-life fiancé Tam Mutu, Boggess jumped to Prince of Br…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:13PMTuesday, August 7, 2012
The triumphalist spirit of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" tallies with the mood of this summer's athletic aspirations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:58PMWednesday, August 1, 2012
Jack Lowden is making his West End debut as Olympic runner and missionary Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire, the 1981 Oscar winner that has been adapted into a play by Mike Bartlett. Tha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:55PMPhiladelphia, Here I Come! ends in its Donmar invocation with the roar of a plane taking off, which only amplifies one’s sense that the show has taken some while to take wing. Markedly bet…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:04AMOskar Eustis, Stephen Sondheim and Donna Murphy celebrate the special atmosphere that is Central Park's Delacorte Theater, now home to a new production of Into the Woods.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, July 31, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
It’s not every day that a West End show stars an Olympic gold medalist—and skating champ Robin Cousins’ 1980 medallion is actually on display in a Tiffany box in the foyer …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:25AMTuesday, July 24, 2012
"A Doll's House'' proves its issues of money and women's rights still resonate, while ''Ten Billion'' offers chills in its warnings about modern living.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:51AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Neil McDermott has stepped (or perhaps one should say knelt down) into the role of the physically challenged, campily malevolent Lord Farquaad in the hit London production of Shrek the Music…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:30PMWednesday, July 11, 2012
Henry Lloyd-Hughes brings a ready swagger and insolence to the part of Dimitri, the rude, moneyed Greek boy in Posh, Laura Wade’s hit West End play about an assemblage of posh Oxford u…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:25PMTuesday, July 10, 2012
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Jodie Prenger came to fame via the British reality TV show I’d Do Anything, securing the role of Nancy in Cameron Mackintosh's recent West End revival of Oliver! and going on to st…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:03PMWednesday, July 4, 2012
The Taming of the Shrew celebrates its own rumbustious, raucous (mis)behaviour, so why shouldn't Shakespeare's comedy be granted a production that follows suit? From an opening gambit i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:55PMWednesday, June 27, 2012
It’s been almost 20 years since Anna Chancellor shot to attention as Henrietta (a.k.a. “Duckface”) in the hit film comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral. Since then, the raven…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:00PMTuesday, June 26, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
A quadruple threat who can sing, dance, act and do a spot-on American accent, 27-year-old Summer Strallen has inherited Ginger Rogers’ screen role in the London stage premiere of the 1…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:30AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
It’s the perfect summer for the West End debut of Chariots of Fire, Mike Bartlett’s stage adaptation of the 1981 Oscar-winning film about two British runners competing in the 192…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMTuesday, June 12, 2012
If it's possible for a piece of writing to remain significant, even important, without necessarily being great, that would describe the status of Harvey Fierstein's epoch-defining Torch Song…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:57PMThe young director, Polly Findlay, succeeds by giving the Greek tragedy by Sophocles a contemporary update in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:20PMMonday, June 11, 2012
James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors) made it past the finish line, Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow) did not, and the art-house musical Once trumped Disney’s latest Broadway entry, Newsie…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:58AMWednesday, June 6, 2012
Sophie Evans has been skipping down the Yellow Brick Road as Dorothy in the West End stage adaptation of The Wizard of Oz since February, having assumed the role from original star Danielle …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:05PMSunday, June 3, 2012
Productions at the life-changing Globe to Globe sequence of international takes on the Bard have had numerous points of origin, from shows conceived directly for the event to reprises of sta…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:02AMThursday, May 31, 2012
Now here's a surprise. In English, Henry VIII gets dismissed as a Shakespearean dud (well, let's apportion the blame as well to the play's generally acknowledged co-author, John Fletcher), i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:54AMWednesday, May 30, 2012
Raza Jaffrey played a political wheeler-dealer on TV’s Smash, but the Anglo-Asian star came to the series as a stage vet of the London productions of Mamma Mia! and Bombay Dreams,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:20PMTuesday, May 29, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
The battle of the sexes took on a bright and breezy tone in Pakistan's contribution to the Globe's ongoing Bardathon, the Theatre Wallay-Kashf's rumbustious production of The Taming of the S…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:06AM 
