Thursday, August 25, 2016
Monday, August 22, 2016
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[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2016
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[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2016
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[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2016
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[SHARE]Friday, August 5, 2016
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[SHARE]Thursday, August 4, 2016
"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[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2016
Thursday, July 28, 2016
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[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2016
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 bey…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 21, 2016
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[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2016
"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[SHARE]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[SHARE]Sunday, July 3, 2016
Friday, July 1, 2016
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[SHARE]Friday, June 24, 2016
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[SHARE]Monday, June 20, 2016
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[SHARE]Sunday, June 19, 2016
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[SHARE]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[SHARE]Friday, June 17, 2016
"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[SHARE]Wednesday, June 15, 2016
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[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2016
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[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2016
Simon Harrison has a wealth of classical credits to his name but is putting his Shakespeare pedigree to one side to co-star alongside Daniel Weyman in the U.K. stage premiere of Sideways at …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2016
Jenna Russell has a 2006 Olivier Award and a 2008 Tony nomination for her performance as Dot/Marie in Sunday in the Park with George, but the musical theater regular has since shifted to the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2016
The Mischief Theatre Company has now had three West End shows, starting with the ongoing and Olivier-winning The Play That Goes Wrong, then Peter Pan Goes Wrong and now The Comedy about a Ba…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2016
Jersey Boys has set up shop as a West End long-runner. The Olivier Award-winning musical all about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is now on its second London theater, the Piccadilly, and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Matt Wolf assesses Hamilton's record-breaking 16 nominations as Broadway braces for the Tony Awards
SOURCE: Telegraph at 04:08PM[SHARE] 
