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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Dominic West on Coming Home to London's Butley After TV Success in The Wire by Matt Wolf

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 12:42PM
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Theater Review: 'The Village Bike' Explores a Woman's Desire by Matt Wolf

In "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.

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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Former History Boy Samuel Barnett on His London Stage Return in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Matt Wolf

Samuel 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 11:56AM
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Damian Humbley on Winning Laughs (and Surviving an Onstage Accident) in London's Lend Me a Tenor Musical by Matt Wolf

It 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 11:57AM
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Theater Review: 'Betrayal' With Just Enough Sting by Matt Wolf

Kristin Scott Thomas tackles Harold Pinter in a revival staged by Ian Rickson.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:37AM
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Danielle Hope on Jumping from Reality TV to the Lead in London's The Wizard of Oz by Matt Wolf

Nineteen-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 12:37PM
Friday, June 17, 2011

Caissie Levy on Her Journey from Wicked and Hair to the London Premiere of Ghost by Matt Wolf

Caissie 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 01:44PM
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Cassidy Janson on Wicked, Neil Patrick Harris & Making Lend Me a Tenor Sing on the London Stage by Matt Wolf

At 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 11:50AM
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Theater: Onstage, British Bile and Russian Satire by Matt Wolf

Simon 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…

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

London Theater: Divergent Takes on 'Much Ado' by Matt Wolf

Recent 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.

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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Nigel Lindsay on the Joy of Going Green as the Title Ogre in London’s Shrek by Matt Wolf

Nigel 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
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Theater Review: Chekhov's Villain Gives an Audience Someone to Root For by Matt Wolf

"The Cherry Orchard" at the National Theatre in London is deliberately jarring, and a young playwright ventures on "The Acid Test.''

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Friday, May 27, 2011

Love Never Dies Star Celia Graham on Her Phantom History and Broadway Dreams by Matt Wolf

Love 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 02:47PM
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Theater Review: Daring to Overcome the Difficulties of 'Problem Plays' by Matt Wolf

New productions in London tackle plays by Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams.

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Sarah Lancashire on Co-Starring with a Beautiful Pig in London's Betty Blue Eyes by Matt Wolf

Sarah 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 01:08PM
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Craig Parkinson on Standing Tall and Finding Ecstasy on the London Stage by Matt Wolf

Craig 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 01:03PM
Thursday, May 5, 2011

Hilton McRae on Sharing the London Stage with Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow by Matt Wolf

It’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
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Theater Review: At the National Theatre in London, Other People's Pain by Matt Wolf

''London Road'' and "The Holy Rosenbergs" share a stage, and the Royal Shakespeare Company takes on the space race.

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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Broadway round-up – theatre review by Matt Wolf

Mark 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 07:05PM
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Sienna Miller on Broadway Critics, Jude Law and Her Triumphant Star Turn in London's Flare Path by Matt Wolf

Sienna 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 02:09PM
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Theater: The Passion of Michael Sheen by Matt Wolf

The 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.

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Michael Malarkey Brings Elvis to the West End in Million Dollar Quartet by Matt Wolf

Michael 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 11:58AM
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Theater Review: Pinter Revival, Short on Impact by Matt Wolf

The Donmar Warehouse's "Moonlight" lacks its creator's shimmer and wit.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Billy Elliot's Diane Langton Recalls a Lifetime on the London Stage by Matt Wolf

There’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
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Theater Review: Clifford Odets's Dentist, Anything but Painless by Matt Wolf

“Rocket to the Moon” at the National Theater is the latest in the parade of American works showing on London stages.

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Musical Star Joanna Riding on Her West End Return in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Matt Wolf

Joanna 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

Clifford Odets's Dentist, Anything but Painless by Matt Wolf

''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 09:56AM
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Elisabeth Moss on Mad Men Delays, Broadway Memories & Her Star Turn in London's Children's Hour by Matt Wolf

Mad 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 02:14PM
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Olivia Williams on Battling Matthew Fox in the London Debut of LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep by Matt Wolf

It’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 01:05PM
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Theater Review: Plays That Grapple With Grief in War and Love by Matt Wolf

Two powerful revivals are on London stages: “Flare Path” and “Ecstasy.”

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Hannah Waddingham, Wicked Witch of London's Oz, on Not Playing Elphaba and More by Matt Wolf

Hannah 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 …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:35AM

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