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Thursday, September 29, 2016

The Bodyguard Star Ben Richards on Not Singing in a Musical & Why He Likes Being a Replacement by Matt Wolf

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
Friday, September 23, 2016

Gabriela Garcia on Meeting Lin-Manuel Miranda, Auditioning for Hamilton & Playing Nina in London's In the Heights by Matt Wolf

Gabriela Garcia has risen from ensemble player to the leading role of Nina in the much-acclaimed London production of In the Heights, the 2008 Tony-winning best musical now enjoying an exten…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:03PM
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Theater Review: In Pinter’s ‘No Man’s Land,’ Actor-Knights Wield Their Words by Matt Wolf

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart star in a new London production of the play at Wyndham’s Theater.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:12AM
Sunday, September 18, 2016

Damien Molony on the Length of his Sideburns & the Thrill of Working with Stewart & McKellen in London's No Man's Land by Matt Wolf

The fall theater season in London gets off to a starry start with the opening at Wyndham’s Theatre of No Man’s Land, the 1975 Harold Pinter play starring the actor-knights Ian Mc…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:02PM
Sunday, September 11, 2016

Heading to London This Fall? Here Are Five Hot New Shows to See! by Matt Wolf

Summer is slipping away, but that’s never a bad thing theatrically, especially in London where the fall brings with it an abundance of theater to make one drool. What follows are five …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:16AM
Monday, September 5, 2016

London Sunny Afternoon Star Oliver Hoare on Swinging from a Chandelier & Leaving a Note for Mark Rylance by Matt Wolf

Sunny Afternoon, the hit London show scored to the back catalog of iconic British rock group The Kinks, is entering its final months at the Harold Pinter Theatre. What better time, then, to …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:30AM
Friday, August 26, 2016

Simon Bailey on Visiting New Jersey, Joining Blockbuster Musicals and Playing Tommy DeVito in London's Jersey Boys by Matt Wolf

The Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Jersey Boys has been running eight years in London, first at the Prince Edward and now the Piccadilly Theatre, and earlier this year welcomed a new…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:45PM
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Theater Review: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Allegro’ by Matt Wolf

A fascinating slice of esoterica at Southwark Playhouse, and a raucous knees-up at the National.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:19AM
Monday, August 22, 2016

Alan Morrissey on Meeting Carole King, His Connection with Cynthia Erivo and Starring in the West End's Beautiful by Matt Wolf

Alan Morrissey is a well-known TV name in Britain from series like Holby City who has branched out of late into musicals. He co-starred opposite Tony winner Cynthia Erivo in I Can't Sing…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PM
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Groundhog Day, Old Vic by Matt Wolf

The New York theatre is so consistently awash in "star is born" moments when one or another British actor crosses the Atlantic to copious praise that it's lovely for a change to be able to r…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:54AM
Thursday, August 11, 2016

Aladdin Star Trevor Dion Nicholas on Sympathy for Standbys, Friendship with Broadway's Genie & Loving London by Matt Wolf

The Disney musical Aladdin has hopped a magic carpet to London for what looks set to be a long run at the Prince Edward Theatre in a West End premiere that has made a star out of American pe…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PM

Review: ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ ‘The Plough and the Stars’ and ‘The Game’s Afoot’ by Matt Wolf

A revival, an Irish classic and an interactive whodunit on London stages.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:43AM
Monday, August 8, 2016

Naomi Frederick on Comparisons to Margaret Thatcher & the Importance of Boots in London's Hobson's Choice by Matt Wolf

The 1916 Harold Brighouse play Hobson's Choice is an English theatrical warhorse, and its latest London run at the Vaudeville Theatre comes anchored by a commanding star turn from Naomi …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:39PM
Friday, August 5, 2016

Yerma, Young Vic by Matt Wolf

Billie Piper vaults to the top rank of British theatre actresses with Yerma, Australian writer-director Simon Stone's rabidly free rewrite of Lorca's 1934 play that posits its young star as …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:32PM
Thursday, August 4, 2016

Young Chekhov, National Theatre by Matt Wolf

"Yes, from life," Nikolai Ivanov (Geoffrey Streatfeild) says in passing of a painting midway through the early Chekhov play that bears his name. But the phrase could serve as the abiding ach…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:11AM
Monday, August 1, 2016
Thursday, July 28, 2016

1984's Andrew Gower on Coping with Rats, Big Brother & on Getting His Teeth Into Being Human by Matt Wolf

1984 is the London play that just won't quit and is now at the Playhouse Theatre for a third West End run, this time with an entirely new cast. Adapted from George Orwell's chilling …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PM
Monday, July 25, 2016

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Palace Theatre by Matt Wolf

Harry Potter lives to see another day. The Hogwarts wizard has made his stage debut in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a two-part play that pushes JK Rowling’s world-beating franchise b…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:25PM
Thursday, July 21, 2016

London Curious Incident Star Joseph Ayre on Meeting Alex Sharp, Playing a Teen & Beating His Alternate by Matt Wolf

Joseph Ayre only recently graduated from drama school and has already landed the leading role of Christopher, the mathematically gifted, socially challenged 15-year-old at the bruising heart…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:49PM
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Into the Woods, Menier Chocolate Factory by Matt Wolf

"Children will listen," or so goes a lyric to one of the most heart-rending numbers in Into the Woods, the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical that seems rarely to be long-absent from the …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:27AM

Linzi Hateley on 'Traumatic' Carrie Memories, Not Vacationing in Greece & Returning to the West End in Mamma Mia! by Matt Wolf

Linzi Hateley will be forever remembered for playing the title role in the musical Carrie in Stratford and on Broadway when she was still a teenager. Now 45 she is legging it in Lycra once a…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:02AM
Sunday, July 3, 2016

Review: ‘Comedy About a Bank Robbery’; ‘No Villain’; ‘It Is Easy to Be Dead’ by Matt Wolf

On the London stage, heist-related hilarity, a young Arthur Miller and a requiem for a poet.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PM
Friday, July 1, 2016

Breakfast at Tiffany's Star Matt Barber on the Lack of Nudity in His West End Debut & Catching Up with Downton Abbey Co-Star Lily James by Matt Wolf

Breakfast at Tiffany’s is rarely long absent from the stage, or so it seems. Recent London and New York productions in 2009 and 2013 are now followed by yet another incarnation of the …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39AM
Friday, June 24, 2016

Alexander Hanson on Telling Lies in London's The Truth, Loving Bernadette Peters & the Strain of Not Singing by Matt Wolf

French writer Florian Zeller has proven to be catnip for actors, with Kenneth Cranham and Frank Langella winning an Olivier and a Tony Award, respectively, for The Father and Gina McKee garn…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:54PM
Monday, June 20, 2016

Big Bang Theory's Kunal Nayyar on Becoming Buddies with Co-Star Jesse Eisenberg in London's The Spoils by Matt Wolf

Kunal Nayyar has acquired a vast following on the back of playing Raj Koothrappali on CBS TV’s ever-popular The Big Bang Theory, but the London-born Indian actor is spending his summer…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:49AM

Review: `The Go-Between' and `Aladdin' on the London Stage by Matt Wolf

Two West End openings: One that’s arty, the other a Disney extravaganza.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56AM
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Hobson's Choice, Vaudeville Theatre by Matt Wolf

Harold Brighouse's time-honoured English comedy from a century ago survives, its virtues mostly intact especially once attention shifts away from the snarling patriarch of the title, Henry H…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:49AM

Big Band Theory's Kunal Nayyar on Becoming Buddies with Co-Star Jesse Eisenberg in London's The Spoils by Matt Wolf

Kunal Nayyar has acquired a vast following on the back of playing Raj Koothrappali on CBS TV’s ever-popular The Big Bang Theory, but the London-born Indian actor is spending his summer…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:39AM
Friday, June 17, 2016

Richard III, Almeida Theatre by Matt Wolf

"I can add colours to the chameleon," Richard III remarks of himself early in his anguished, marauding ascent to the throne, and the description could equally apply to the electrifying actor…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:12AM
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Nicholas Afoa, Star of London's The Lion King, on Leaving Sports & Finding a Brotherhood of Simbas by Matt Wolf

Nicholas Afoa has only ever been in one professional musical ever and it happens to be that globe-trotting crowd-puller The Lion King. Having first played adult Simba in Australia, the 30-ye…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:49PM
Thursday, June 2, 2016

The Go-Between's Gemma Sutton on Getting to Play a Brit Again & the Joy of Co-Starring with the 'Extraordinary' Michael Crawford by Matt Wolf

Gemma Sutton played Julie Jordan in a radical off-West End production in 2014 of Carousel and has the distinction of having played both June and then Louise opposite Imelda Staunton in 2016 …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:44PM

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