Tuesday, April 24, 2018
All 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: The Arts Desk 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: The Arts Desk 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: The Arts Desk 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
Monday, March 5, 2018
The 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 06:02PMWednesday, February 28, 2018
Emma 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 02:48PMThursday, February 22, 2018
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Lesley 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 04:38PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
★★★★★ 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: The Arts Desk at 04:31AMMonday, February 12, 2018
Sam 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 05:12PMWednesday, February 7, 2018
Lesley 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 11:00PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
Few 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 12:00AMWednesday, January 31, 2018
The 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 04:51PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Productions 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 09:20PMFriday, January 19, 2018
Robert 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 04:25PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
Girl 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 02:58PMThursday, January 11, 2018
There 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 02:44AMMonday, January 8, 2018
Tom 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 11:27AMThursday, December 28, 2017
The 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 01:05AM 
