Dominic West came to prominence in the U.S. playing the American working-class cop McNulty in TV’s much-lauded The Wire. The dashing actor has since forsaken the Baltimore climes of th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMIn "The Village Bike," the wonderful new play from Penelope Skinner in the Royal Court's tiny Theatre Upstairs, the devouring sexuality of a village teacher takes center stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01PMSamuel Barnett will be long remembered for playing the heartsick student Posner in Alan Bennett’s Tony-winning The History Boys, a performance that earned him a 2006 Best Featured Acto…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:56AMIt was six years ago that Damian Humbley, not long in London from his native Australia, was cast alongside Ruthie Henshall in the replacement cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:57AMKristin Scott Thomas tackles Harold Pinter in a revival staged by Ian Rickson.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:37AMNineteen-year-old Danielle Hope is the latest performer to have landed a starring role in a big-budget West End musical via reality TV. Hope won out over some 9,000 girls to become “th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:37PMCaissie Levy has starred in three iconic musicals: Wicked (in L.A., as Elphaba), Rent (on tour, as Maureen) and Hair (on Broadway and the West End, as Sheila). Now she’s taking the lea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:44PMAt 30, Cassidy Janson has made a considerable name for herself on the London stage, shifting from small-scale musicals (Tick Tick…Boom! opposite Neil Patrick Harris at the Menier Choc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:50AMSimon Gray’s 1971 bitter comedy “Butley” is being revived at the Duchess Theatre starring Dominic West, while the Young Vic sees a lively take on Gogol’s dark 1836 play “Government…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:58AMRecent weeks have welcomed two new versions of Shakespeare's comedy to London. Why see one when you've seen the other? Well here's a reason: they seem by and large like two different plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:05PMNigel Lindsay has performed Pinter and Stoppard, Patrick Marber (Dealer’s Choice) and David Eldridge (Under the Blue Sky). But the actor can currently be found at London's Theatre …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:17PM"The Cherry Orchard" at the National Theatre in London is deliberately jarring, and a young playwright ventures on "The Acid Test.''
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:05PMLove Never Dies is now well into its second year at the Adelphi, where Celia Graham has replaced Olivier nominee Sierra Boggess as Christine Daae. Graham, a 35-year-old from Glasgow, has bee…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:47PMNew productions in London tackle plays by Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMSarah Lancashire has made a major name for herself in British TV, which is one of the reasons why her galvanic starring performance in the new Cameron Mackintosh/Richard Eyre musical Betty B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:08PMCraig Parkinson is mighty tall (6’4 1/2”) and also inordinately talented: a calm, bespectacled figure of kindness who appears only in the second act of the highly acclaimed reviv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PMIt’s tempting to think of End of the Rainbow, Peter Quilter’s play-with-music set in London during the last months of Judy Garland’s tumultuous life, as a one-woman show, g…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:11PM''London Road'' and "The Holy Rosenbergs" share a stage, and the Royal Shakespeare Company takes on the space race.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:59AMMark Rylance's 'Rooster' Byron is just one of the Britons wowing New York in Broadway shows this springIt's spring on Broadway, and that can only mean two things, both of them time-honoured:…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSienna Miller is in high spirits as she arrives late one afternoon at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, her pooch Porgy happily in tow. (The newly groomed dog was sporting a green hair bow.) The…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:09PMThe actor, who has made a career of portraying famous people, will be doing a fresh take on the Lenten tradition of the Passion Play in Wales.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:05PMMichael Malarkey, a graduate of the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, is currently rocking out as Elvis Presley at the Noel Coward Theatre in Million Dollar Quartet&mdash…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:58AMThe Donmar Warehouse's "Moonlight" lacks its creator's shimmer and wit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:17AMThere’s hardly a major musical, British or American, that West End veteran Diane Langton hasn’t done at one point or another, whether you’re talking Chicago (as Mama Morton…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:00PM“Rocket to the Moon” at the National Theater is the latest in the parade of American works showing on London stages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:55PMJoanna Riding has two Olivier Awards to her name, one for Carousel and the other as a replacement Eliza in My Fair Lady—not to mention further credits ranging from The Witches of Eastw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:13PM''Rocket to the Moon'' at the National Theatre is the latest in the parade of American works showing on London stages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:56AMMad Men star Elisabeth Moss is making a blazing West End debut in The Children’s Hour, the smash-hit revival of Lillian Hellman’s 1934 melodrama. Moss joins Keira Knightley as a …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:14PMIt’s been more than a decade since London-born Olivia Williams, 42, made a Hollywood splash in Rushmore, The Sixth Sense and, more recently, as Carey Mulligan’s teacher in An Edu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:05PMTwo powerful revivals are on London stages: “Flare Path” and “Ecstasy.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:08PMHannah Waddingham has impressed in numerous West End musicals, including The Beautiful Game, Monty Python’s Spamalot (playing the Lady of the Lake both in London and on Broadway), the …
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