Thursday, March 17, 2011
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 11:35AMWednesday, March 9, 2011
Illinois native David Bedella may be the first performer actually from Chicago to play the invitingly sleazy lawyer Billy Flynn in the London production of Chicago: The engaging 48-year-old …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:00PMTuesday, March 8, 2011
A TV talent show star plays Dorothy in the staged version of "The Wizard of Oz," while "Spelling Bee" looks at competitive culture and "Drowning on Dry Land" pits a loser against a children'…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:55PMWednesday, March 2, 2011
Few North Americans have made the swift impression on the London theater scene left by 25-year-old Sarah Goldberg, a Vancouver native who came to London six years ago to attend drama school …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMWednesday, February 23, 2011
The hottest ticket of this still-young London theater year is the director Ian Rickson’s scorching revival of The Children’s Hour, Lillian Hellman’s play about charges of l…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMTuesday, February 22, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Ben Goddard accompanied himself on guitar and flute—among other instruments—as Joe Gillis in a pared-down West End revival of Sunset Boulevard and spent the better part of a year…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:05PMWednesday, February 9, 2011
The 39 Steps ranks as the West End’s longest currently running comedy, and Rufus Wright has just stepped into the leading role of stiff-upper-lipped hero Richard Hannay. This affection…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:21AMTuesday, February 8, 2011
“Greenland’' at the National Theatre in London offers worst-case scenarios for the planet, alongside the occasional fact and a heartening burst of pop culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:14PMWednesday, February 2, 2011
Four years out of Cambridge University, Robyn Addison is making her professional stage debut opposite Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles in Sir Peter Hall’s production of The Rivals, the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:29PMWednesday, January 26, 2011
Harriet Thorpe may be best-known in the US as Patsy’s chum Fleur in TV's Absolutely Fabulous, but the actress has been a mainstay of West End musicals for years. Thorpe played Frau…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:57PMTuesday, January 25, 2011
The much heralded "Twelfth Night" is on at the National Theatre in London and "Becky Shaw," imported from America has its own handy glossary.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:44AMWednesday, January 19, 2011
It’s not always the case that an alternate leading lady ends up the star, but that is now happening at London’s Savoy Theatre, where 27-year-old Dubliner Susan McFadden has repla…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:23PMWednesday, January 12, 2011
Jonathan Cake is marking a homecoming of sorts by spending a London winter co-starring with his old friend (and Cambridge University classmate) Tom Hollander in the Feydeau farce A Flea In H…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:13AMTuesday, January 11, 2011
Fine acting redeems "A Flea in Her Ear" at the Old Vic, but "The Invisible Man'' at the Menier Chocolate Factory falls flat.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMWednesday, January 5, 2011
Samantha Bond may be best-known the world over as Moneypenny in the James Bond (no relation!) films, back when Pierce Brosnan was playing 007. But the distinctively smoky-voiced actress has …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:26PMTuesday, December 28, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
London boasts well over 150 significant openings a year, more than triple the number Broadway musters these days in an entire season. Where to begin, then, in looking back with pleasure on t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:58PMTuesday, December 14, 2010
Michael Grandage directs the grand tragedy in the intimate space of the Donmar while, at the National Theater, Alan Ayckbourn registers the holiday season as only he can do.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:50AMWednesday, December 8, 2010
She’s hosted breakfast television in the UK as well as a Broadway-related reality show (Grease: You’re The One That I Want). But Denise Van Outen is also a dedicated theater perf…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PMTuesday, November 30, 2010
Tracie Bennett gives a full-throttle performance as Judy Garland in "End of the Rainbow," and a "Master Builder" is staged from the ground up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:49PMThe Royal Court and the National dominated the London Evening Standard theatre awards, and rightly so. Non-subsidised theatre needs to get its act togetherIs there any good new commercial th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMTuesday, November 16, 2010
There's little doubt that Raul Esparza will one day make a fine Ben...
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:28AM 
