Michael Greif has shepherded Dear Evan Hansen successfully into port many times at this point, but only now is the 2017 Best Musical Tony Award winner being seen outside North America. Its W…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMIn the first part of our chat with the ever-vital Elaine Paige, the English musical theater legend spoke about making the shift into radio and the excitement that has accompanied this unexpe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:33PMElaine Paige needs scant introduction as the “first lady of the British musical theater,” a title that the veteran star of Evita, Cats, Chess and Sunset Boulevard, to name just a few of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:03PMThe stars of “The Crown” are back together in a production in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:33AMAnnie Baker's latest will divide opinion but reward devotees The National Theatre is forging its own special relationship with American playwright Annie Baker, having now produced three of h…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:36AMLondon has seen numerous Phantoms in the 33-plus years since the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera had its world premiere before going on to become a global phenomenon. Bu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18AMHigh Fidelity didn’t last long on Broadway in 2006, but the musical adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel has had plenty of airings elsewhere since that time and is now in previews at southw…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 02:59PMArinzé Kene play from 2011 packs a renewed punch Time has been not just kind but even crucial to Little Baby Jesus, the 2011 play from the multi-hyphenate talent Arinzé Kene, who since…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:24AMGorky play suffers an identity crisis in uneasily-pitched revival Even the mighty Almeida is allowed the occasional dud and it’s sure as hell got one at the moment with Vassa. Maxim Gork…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:48PMThe Lion King this month marks 20 years on the London stage, during which time it has become the sixth longest-running West End musical ever, with no end in sight. The iconic Disney musical …
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 02:08PMWhether it’s finishing what Jane Austen started, imagining the private conversations of first ladies or inserting the personal, on London stages female playwrights are mixing things up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33AMThe Tony-nominated composer/lyricist Dave Malloy of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 fame hasn’t had a London presence until this fall, when he is unexpectedly being represent…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 12:00AMThe ever-likable Mischief Theatre's latest stretches them in new if still-unfinished ways If ambition were all, Groan Ups would get an A*. Marking the first of a very welcome three-show res…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:48AMSondheim's 1990 show gets more disturbingly pertinent with every revival “Every now and then the country goes a little wrong”: so goes one of the many lyrics from the Stephen Sondheim-Jo…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:06AMHenry Shields is an invaluable part of London’s invaluable and in-demand Mischief Theatre Company, having long doubled as both a writer and actor on such hits as The Play That Goes Wrong, …
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 04:36PMAthol Fugard's 1982 self-exorcism is searingly revived Time has been kind to Athol Fugard's "Master Harold"...and the Boys. It's a stealth bomb of a play that I saw in its world premiere pro…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:33AMLloyd Owen has one of the best, most resonant speaking voices in the business and has leant his vocal luster to such roles as Nick in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, opposite Diana Rigg, …
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 04:31PMFrom a member of Parliament in “Hansard” to the users of a threatened community center in “Faith, Hope and Charity,” London theaters are exploring how power works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33AMThe French writer Florian Zeller is rarely long absent from the London or New York stage. On Broadway he is represented at the moment by the transfer from the West End of The Height of the S…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 03:47PMOnetime Broadway flop has more charm in London but still needs work The work isn't finished on Big, if this stage musical of the beloved 1988 Tom Hanks film is ever to, um, make it big. A B…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:06AMJay McGuiness was a member of the popular English boy band The Wanted and won the 2015 edition of Strictly Come Dancing, the U.K. precursor to Dancing with the Stars. But he is currently ret…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 06:00AMA potentially compelling play is done in by its structure and an unhelpful staging An excellent director makes a rare misstep with Amsterdam, in which a compelling if tricksy play is given …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:42AMChicago actress Samantha Pauly has been in three previous productions of Evita, none of which can have been as conceptually daring as the director Jamie Lloyd’s provocative and edgy curren…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03AMChicago actress Samantha Pauly has been in three previous productions of Evita, none of which can have been as conceptually daring as the director Jamie Lloyd’s provocative and edgy curren…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 12:02PMTwo new productions, “The Doctor” and “Appropriate,” subvert ideas about identity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24AMThe Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a regular visitor to the London stage but there's never in my extensive experience been as likable an…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 10:00AMMatthew Needham has cut quite a swath through the American repertoire of late, between the Olivier Award-winning revival of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke and the U.S.-set stage adapta…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 01:59PMLaura Pitt-Pulford was a 2016 Olivier nominee for her zesty alfresco performance at Regent’s Park in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, but the English performer has cut a distinctive swathe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:12AMLaura Pitt-Pulford was a 2016 Olivier nominee for her zesty alfresco performance at Regent’s Park in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, but the English performer has cut a distinctive swathe…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 06:00AMTheatrical productions at the Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe give the impression of a world coming apart at the seams.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMWitness for the Prosecution, the Agatha Christie thriller directed by Lucy Bailey, has turned into a sleeper hit inside its unusual location of a onetime debating chamber at Westminster’s …
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