Adaptations of “Fanny and Alexander” and “Harold and Maude” produce mixed results.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:58AMThe American actor Jeff Fahey last opened in the West End late in 2013 in a starry revival of Twelve Angry Men. Now he’s back with the same producer (Bill Kenwright) and co-star (1996 …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:02PMEmma Rice’s ravishing stage version of Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter is headed back to London, after international exposure that included an acclaimed Broadway run…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:48PMTwo solo plays and an American import allow an array of women to shine.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMLesley Manville is up for a supporting actress Oscar this year for her superb performance as Daniel Day-Lewis’s severe-seeming sister in Phantom Thread and is combining the o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:38PM★★★★★ THE YORK REALIST, DONMAR WAREHOUSE Pitch-perfect Peter Gill revival surpasses its originalPitch-perfect Peter Gill revival surpasses its original Peter Gill has been a q…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:31AMSam Troughton has long been steeped in the classics, from Williams to Chekhov to Shakespeare, the last of which he has performed in New York with the Royal Shakespeare Company. This ter…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:12PMLesley Manville makes Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” her own, and Nicholas Hytner delivers an electric, politically urgent “Julius Caesar.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00PMFew performers fresh out of drama school land the title role in a star-heavy revival of an Oscar Wilde classic, but that is the happy position in which 22-year-old Grace Molony finds herself…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMThe Almeida Theatre’s hypnotic revival of Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart finds the mighty Lia Williams and Juliet Stevenson tossing a coin each performance to see who…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:51PMProductions of Oscar Wilde’s “Lady Windermere’s Fan” and Harold Pinter’s “The Birthday Party” are currently playing on the West End.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:20PMRobert Cuccioli is a familiar and popular New York theater name, remembered from his Tony-nominated turn in 1997 in Jekyll and Hyde and as both Javert in Les Miz&nbs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:25PMGirl From the North Country was one of the surprise successes of last year. The Conor McPherson play scored to the music of Bob Dylan has since transferred from the Old Vic to the Noel …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:58PMThere were highs and lows in a triptych of Shakespearean plays set in ancient Rome at the Barbican Theater in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:44AMTom Lister is a renowned TV star in England on the back of the popular series Emmerdale but has lately been commanding the capacious Theatre Royal, Drury Lane as none other than the dir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:27AMThe West End transfer of the hit Broadway play shows that new work can make a splash in a city that usually favors the classics.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:05AMSummer Strallen was a 2013 Olivier nominee for her swellegant performance in the Olivier Award-winning musical Top Hat, since which time she has been largely absent from the London stage. Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42AMNew plays aplenty left their mark on the London theater this year, while musicals coupled time-honored, venerated titles with the arrival just before Christmas of a new kid on the block, who…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12AMIt’s a busy time for Australian performers in Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals in London, what with Anna O’Byrne appearing in the new revival of The Woman in White and Ben Lewis, her…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06AMThis mash-up of eight stories from the TV series, refashioned for the stage, wears its tendency to lecture like a misplaced badge of honor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMAustralian actress Anna O’Byrne has the distinction of playing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, directed by none other than Dame Julie Andrews, as well as starring as Christine Da…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36AMBroadway’s Marisha Wallace has had quite a London year, between stepping into the seismic role of Effie White in Dreamgirls at the Savoy Theatre, recording her first-ever album (Soul H…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMThe Sam Wanamaker Playhouse will celebrate its fourth birthday in January. Two contrasting plays in its repertory show a theater in good health.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMEverybody’s Talking About Jamie, the new British musical about a teenager’s triumphant redefinition of himself as a drag queen, has also been a major triumph for its leading acto…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:33PMDavid Seadon-Young’s performance as Adam, the piano-playing narrator of An American in Paris, has been one of the musical theater glories of this year: an unwavering presence across th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54AMSean Mathias’s adaptation of the 1973 horror film and a David Mamet classic fall flat, but “Big Fish The Musical” gives our critic hope.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33AMIrish actress Sarah Greene was a 2014 Tony nominee for her Broadway debut appearing opposite Daniel Radcliffe in the revival of The Cripple of Inishmaan and was on the London stage earlier t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMStanley Townsend is the distinguished Irish actor whose credits include Conor McPherson’s Shining City and The Weir, but he’s been on a bit of an American jag…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:04PMStanley Townsend is the distinguished Irish actor whose credits include Conor McPherson’s Shining City and The Weir, but he’s been on a bit of an American jag…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PMEve Best shines in a witty revival of “A Woman of No Importance,” Ibsen’s claustrophobia gets a Caribbean makeover, and a courtroom setting offers bird’s eye views.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AMJ.T. Rogers’ provocative and poignant Oslo has arrived in London not long after winning the 2017 Tony for Best Play and a further Tony for featured actor Michael Aronov playing the Isr…
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