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 08:06AMFriday, May 25, 2012
It's both easy and fashionable to render ironic, or scoff at, the title of All's Well That Ends Well. This is the Shakespeare "comedy" in which the rabidly obsessed Helena finally ensnares h…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:19AMWednesday, May 23, 2012
It’s a busy time for rising London star Tom Mison: He plays Emily Blunt’s missing-in-action boyfriend in the current film Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and will be seen on TV with …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:41AMFriday, May 18, 2012
Clothes are shed, sensibilities skewered, and political correctness defiantly ignored in this latest London revival of Joe Orton's wonderful play (the fourth, for what it's worth, in the cap…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:44AMWednesday, May 16, 2012
Since winning back-to-back Tony nominations in 2007 and 2008 for A Moon for the Misbegotten and The Homecoming, Eve Best has hit the big-time on American TV alongside Edie Falco in Showtime&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:43PMTuesday, May 15, 2012
Prismatic brilliance sweeps the London stage, from Laurie Metcalf in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey," to Summer Strallen in "Top Hat" and Anna Chancellor in a Rattigan-Hare double-bill.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:46AMWednesday, May 9, 2012
Michael Ball turns 50 on June 27, but the hugely popular British star has been the one gifting playgoers of late by giving the performance of his career in the West End revival of Sweeney To…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:13PMFriday, May 4, 2012
An Oliver Award-winning play makes its way to New York from London, with its considered and blunt title intact.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMWednesday, May 2, 2012
Laurie Metcalf may be best known for her multiple Emmy-winning performance as Jackie on TV’s Roseanne, but she is above all a creature of the stage, as befits a longtime member of Chic…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:02PMTuesday, May 1, 2012
A triptych of plays woven by Robert Holman back in the '80s involve encounters among strangers in wartime.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:15PMThings didn’t go well for Eva Perons past and present at this morning’s announcement from New York of the nominations for Broadway’s 2012 Tony Awards, honouring the best of the 2011/12…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:21AMWednesday, April 25, 2012
Winner of seven 2012 Olivier Awards, Matilda isn’t just about a literary-minded tot and a battle-axe of a headmistress (Bertie Carvel's Miss Trunchbull). The supporting cast of Mat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:45PMMonday, April 23, 2012
So, what's the "problem"? All is right with the world - or the theatre at least - in the Maori-language staging of Troilus and Cressida from the Auckland-based Ngakau Toa troupe that pi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:47PMWednesday, April 18, 2012
Andrew Alexander is the eighth actor to play the debonair, tweed-suited Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps, London’s longest running comedy, at the Criterion Theatre. A graduate of King&rs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:40PMAndrew Alexander is the eighth actor to play the debonair, tweed-suited Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps, London’s longest running comedy, at the Criterion Theatre. A graduate of King&rs…
SOURCE: miami.broadway.com at 12:40PMTuesday, April 17, 2012
A new production of "Uncle Vanya" at the Print Room and of "Sweeney Todd" at the Adelphi are impressive renditions of favorite vehicles for actors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:02AMMonday, April 16, 2012
As previously reported, Matilda was the big winner at London’s 2012 Olivier Awards on April 15, taking home a record seven trophies—and the musical’s quartet of young Best …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:45PMThe 36th Laurence Olivier Awards included a handful of indelible moments, including a joint Best Actress win and six other awards for Matilda. (Meanwhile, multiple nominees such as One Man, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:15PMMatilda, the Royal Shakespeare Company-spawned musical about an extraordinary young girl, managed the extraordinary feat Sunday of snaring a record seven trophies at last night’s 36th Laur…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:33AMWednesday, April 4, 2012
The effervescent Katherine Kingsley is celebrating her second Olivier Award nomination for the formidable style (and nasal squawk) she brings to sidelined silent movie actress Lina Lamont in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:37PMTuesday, April 3, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Lindsay Duncan, winner of both a Tony and an Olivier Award for her scintillating performance as Amanda in Noel Coward’s Private Lives, is back on the West End a decade later leading a …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMSaturday, March 24, 2012
If it's possible to take a loving and empathic approach to decidedly intractable material, the director Michael Attenborough achieves precisely that with Filumena, in which Samantha Spi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:02PMThursday, March 22, 2012
Gregory Doran was today named the incoming artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he will succeed Michael Boyd in the post later this year. The announcement came as no sur…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:37AMWednesday, March 21, 2012
It’s not easy following in the steps of an Oscar winner like Colin Firth, but the gifted Charles Edwards, who will take the stage beginning March 22 as stuttering monarch George VI in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PMTuesday, March 20, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Phone rings, door chimes, in comes Company, this time sporting surround sound and high definition and at a cinema near you. Tonight marks a rare opportunity to see a New York gala - the sort…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:00PMWas it the players, or the play, that has made a phenomenon out of One Man, Two Guvnors, the prize-winning comedy now on its third London theatre and preparing to hop the pond to Broadway ne…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:30AMTuesday, March 13, 2012
Richard Nelson's "Farewell to the Theatre" and Mike Leigh's "Abigail's Party" are studies in cruelty, the first among a group of expatriates on a U.S. college campus and the second at a cock…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:55AMTuesday, March 6, 2012
The master's "Hay Fever" is a triumph, and, with a play called "Goodbye to All That," a new wise writer emerges.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:21PMWednesday, February 29, 2012
The master of the modern musical adores London, a city he first visited in 1952, and it's safe to say that the capital more than repays Stephen Sondheim's affections. The veteran Broadway co…
SOURCE: This Is London at 04:25PM 
