Wednesday, February 1, 2017
The playwright’s debut work packs a wallop, while a revival of the 1968 Broadway musical “Promises, Promises,” among other productions, is weak tea.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03AMMonday, January 30, 2017
Paul Ritter was a 2009 Tony nominee for his superb performance in Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests and now the British stage and TV stalwart is appearing with Rufus Sewe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMFriday, January 20, 2017
Florence Andrews is lending some sterling vocals and whiplash timing to the London premiere of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical School of Rock, based on the Richard Linklater/Jack Black film …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54AMFriday, January 13, 2017
Ben Turner's theater credits include the Eddie Redmayne Richard II at the Donmar and the Almeida's revival of Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing but the classically trained performer…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42AMSaturday, January 7, 2017
Matthew Seadon-Young's London musical credits include Billy Elliot, Urinetown and Les Miserables and now the ebullient performer is playing the American lyricist (and onetime husband of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54AMTuesday, January 3, 2017
No sooner had the gossamer-voiced Scarlett Strallen got herself a base in New York before the English star of such shows as Mary Poppins, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder and the W…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:04PMIt’s not that men were in any way denied a viewing, but Billie Piper, Glenda Jackson, Sophie Melville and others shined.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:26AMWednesday, December 28, 2016
Defining productions of Tom Stoppard and August Wilson classics raised the bar high for revivals in a classics-heavy year that also found Glenda Jackson, of all people, taking on the title r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:24AMFriday, December 23, 2016
Broadway's new season promises a diet of big stars – and the best cure for winter blues is that ray of sunshine Carrie FisherIt's a new year, but Broadway is up to its old tricks, with sho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24PMSaturday, December 17, 2016
Barbara Marten is a veteran presence on stage and screen with a sizable range of British TV credits that include a series regular on The Bill. The actress has returned to the West End t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06AMThursday, December 15, 2016
Monday, December 12, 2016
Jim Lichtscheidl has played London before, as part of an amalgam of Tony Kushner one-acts that came to the Tricycle Theatre in 2010 under the title Tiny Kushner. This season finds the Minnes…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMMonday, December 5, 2016
Philippa Stefani has a wide-ranging list of musical credits that include Imagine This, Wicked, GhostI Can't Sing! and In the Heights, and now the performer is taking on the role of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMFriday, December 2, 2016
The play by Lucy Kirkwood is at the Royal Court; also reviewed are “The Sewing Group” by E.V. Crowe and a revival of Somerset Maughan’s “Sheppey.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AMWednesday, November 23, 2016
Nathaniel Parker has twice played Broadway, first opposite Dustin Hoffman in 1989 in The Merchant of Venice and then in 2015 in his Tony-nommed performance as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall, f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48AMThursday, November 17, 2016
Samantha Barks came to worldwide attention as Eponine in the film of Les Miserables but has an extensive list of stage credits including Les Miz, Aladdin and City of Angels. The 26-year-old …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PMPeter Shaffer’s play about the relationship between Mozart and his rival gains a few tweaks at the National Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36AMFriday, November 11, 2016
Chicago-born actress and 1985 Oscar nominee (Twice in a Lifetime) Amy Madigan has done TV, film and stage and is now about to make her London theater debut in Sam Shepard’s 1978 play B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:31AMSunday, November 6, 2016
At 80, the Oscar winner has rejoined her profession after decades, much of them spent as a Labour member of Parliament, in Deborah Warner’s Old Vic production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PMThursday, November 3, 2016
Michael C. Hall is known for his award-winning work on TV’s Six Feet Under and Dexter but has been returning to the theater with increasing regularity of late, whether as one of Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:54PMRonald Harwood’s play features Ken Stott as a barnstorming actor who is devoted to the role of King Lear.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48AMFriday, October 28, 2016
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Newcomer Charlie Stemp looks set to be stamped for stardom when a revival of the 1965 British musical Half a Sixpence starts previews on October 29 at the Noel Coward Theatre, in advance of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PMFriday, October 21, 2016
Some have responded to the very notion of a musical about cancer as if the idea itself were breaking some unwritten code of what is permissible to put on stage
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:00AMRamin Karimloo needs little introduction as a onetime Phantom in both The Phantom of the Opera and its West End sequel, Love Never Dies, as well as a storming Jean Valjean in Les Misera…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:30AMMonday, October 17, 2016
British actor-singer David Hunter previously inherited the leading role of Guy in London in the Tony-winning musical Once and has now stepped into the co-starring role of Charlie Price …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:39PMAmbition trumps (if you'll forgive that verb) achievement in Ella Hickson's new play, a long-aborning exercise in time-travel whose audacity of vision can't override one's impression that th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:03AMFriday, October 7, 2016
Dutch actress-singer Celinde Schoenmaker will mark West End history on October 10 when she appears as Christine Daae opposite Ben Forster as the Phantom in the 30th-anniversary performance o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:10PMDutch actress-singer Celinde Schoenmaker will mark West End history on October 10 when she appears as Christine Daae opposite Ben Forster as the Phantom in the 30th-anniversary performance o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMPatrick Marber’s revival of “Travesties” brings out passion in a rich text, and a revival of “The Libertine.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45AMThursday, September 29, 2016
Ben Richards is a major TV name in Britain who has distinguished himself across a range of musicals, including Grease and Guys and Dolls to The Full Monty and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:30PM 
