Monday, June 4, 2018
Adam Gillen recently finished an extended and electrifying run as Mozart in the National Theatre’s glorious revival of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, only to segue from the world of Eu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMLate Shakespeare collaboration is by turns engaging and daftThose who find the Bard tough going – wasn't that one of Emma Rice's admissions back in the day? – should beat a path to The T…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:36AMThursday, May 31, 2018
Brian Friel's luminous play fully lands in the National's largest space What sort of physical upgrade can a play withstand? That question will have occurred to devotees of Brian Fr…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:36AMMichelle Terry, the playhouse’s artistic director, defines her agenda with productions of “Hamlet” and “As You Like It.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
Caroline O’Connor was born in the north of England to Irish parents, grew up in Australia, and works regularly in the U.S., including most recently on Broadway in Anastasia. She is ret…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMFriday, May 25, 2018
Much-traveled play contains one twist too many Add Catalan writer Jordi Galcerán to the shortlist of European playwrights who are finding an international perch, in this case with a tricks…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:04AMThursday, May 17, 2018
Nancy Carroll won a 2011 Olivier Award for Best Actress for her searing and stylish performance at the National Theatre in After the Dance and is rarely long away from the London stage. Know…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06AMFriday, May 11, 2018
Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance” refracts gay American life through an English novel, while two new British plays choose a shorter, satirical path.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMSaturday, May 5, 2018
David Thaxton won the 2011 Olivier Award for his stunning performance as Giorgio in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, but the performer has been spending much of his career returning to Les…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMDavid Thaxton won the 2011 Olivier Award for his stunning performance as Giorgio in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, but the performer has been spending much of his career returning to Les…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Eighties musical remains a melodically rich muddle Its origins as a concept album cling stubbornly to Chess, the Tim Rice collaboration with the male members of ABBA first seen on the West E…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:42AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Romola Garai gives a storming performance in deliberately tricksy Ella Hickson playForget write what you know: writing what you feel would seem to be the impetus driving Ella Hickson's often…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:42AMAlfred Enoch hit the big time as Wes on ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder and played Dean Thomas in the Harry Potter films, but the fast-rising screen star is returning to the stage to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
Long-aborning stage version of the Baz Luhrmann film is a protracted cartoon A much tinkered-with show needs to go back to the drawing board, if this latest iteration of Strictly Ballroom: T…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:12AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
The screen and stage star invents herself anew, this time in song A onetime Martha and Maggie the Cat in the theatre, not to mention a screen siren of the sort they don't make anymore, might…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:18PMAll or Nothing, the self-described “Mod Musical” now at the Ambassadors Theatre directly following a run at the Arts, tells the story of the Small Faces, the English rock band fr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42AMThursday, April 19, 2018
Two London stage productions bring some razzle dazzle to the city: a musical biography of Tina Turner and the return of “Chicago.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06AMWednesday, April 18, 2018
Bat Out of Hell, the rock and roll stage extravaganza drawn from songwriter Jim Steinman and the iconic Meat Loaf album of the same name, has returned to London, this time to the Dominion Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMMonday, April 16, 2018
Bernadette Peters and company find their voice in the second act of this classic musical.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:12AMFriday, April 6, 2018
Josefina Gabrielle has been an invaluable West End presence in productions ranging from Oklahoma! as Laurey opposite Hugh Jackman to Gussie in the Maria Friedman-directed Merrily We Roll Alo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:56PMThursday, April 5, 2018
In “Brief Encounter” and “Summer and Smoke,” directors subvert the expectations of their audiences with fascinating results.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:00AMThursday, March 29, 2018
David Albury has gained attention in the verbatim musical Committee… at the Donmar and as Fleetwood in Michael Blakemore’s British stage debut of The Life and is now making his …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:29PMFriday, March 23, 2018
Adrienne Warren received a 2016 Tony nod for the Broadway musical Shuffle Along and is now making a hugely anticipated West End debut as none other than rock goddess Tina Turner in the new s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMThursday, March 22, 2018
Why is “the Scottish play” so hard to get right? Two productions in Britain show why Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy is also his trickiest.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:51AMWednesday, March 21, 2018
A familiar title transcends the schematic to land with renewed forceNo, this isn't the large-scale Kander and Ebb musical, which opened in 1992 in London before transferring for a sizable ru…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:47PMThe award winning musical returns in all its ferocity and glory It's long been a theatrical given, especially in musicals, that characters need to be seen to change: a climactic duo in the e…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:00AMMonday, March 19, 2018
Strictly Ballroom is fondly remembered as a 1992 Baz Luhrmann film and it is now coming to the West End courtesy of the Olivier Award-winning director/choreographer Drew McOnie. The cast is …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:43PMRSC's touring Hamlet is well worth catching anywhere en routeShakespeare's death-laden play is alive and well and breathing with renewed force in Hackney, the last British stop for an R…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:00AM★★★★ HAMLET, RSC, HACKNEY EMPIRE Paapa Essiedu's winning DaneRSC's touring Hamlet is well worth catching anywhere en routeShakespeare's death-laden play is alive and well and br…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 01:00AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Rosalie Craig is no stranger to musicals (Aspects of Love, City of Angels, The Light Princess) and classics like As You Like It at the National Theatre but can now be found leading the take-…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:57AMThursday, March 8, 2018
