Wednesday, August 26, 2015
The set turns out to be the thing now that Benedict Cumberbatch's star turn in Hamlet has finally arrived, trailing in its wake a level of expectation, hysteria and scrutiny that might well …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:36AMMonday, August 24, 2015
The Royal Shakespeare Company takes on Marlowe; Shakespeare's Globe presents an elegant "Richard II"; Open Air Theater in Regent's Park offers a lesson in manners.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:07PMWednesday, August 19, 2015
The sex will be in the heel as of this week at the Adelphi Theatre, where Kinky Boots is readying to open officially on September 15. The London production stars Matt Henry and Killian Donne…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:14PMSunday, August 16, 2015
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
It’s no bad idea in a play about a real-life father and son to cast a real-life father and son. This is the case with the Apollo Theatre production of Dear Lupin, in which the veteran …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:20PMWednesday, August 5, 2015
Lorna Want has appeared on the London stage in Parade, Footloose, and as Peron's mistress in the Michael Grandage production of Evita, but has reached a career high this year, winning an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:16PMFriday, July 31, 2015
Satire may famously be what on Broadway closes Saturday night, but last night's concert performance of the Gershwin brothers' Of Thee I Sing found many patrons fleeing the Festival…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:55AMWednesday, July 29, 2015
Some theater capitals go on late-summer hiatus, but not London, which has saved the year’s biggest opening for the dog days of August. (Not that there are tickets still to be had for B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:14PMTuesday, July 28, 2015
A revival of "Mack & Mabel" gets its energy from the show's star, Michael Ball, while "Songs for a New World'' displays its wit and rue.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PMWednesday, July 22, 2015
Hockadoo! Memphis the Musical has a new leading man. The West End incarnation of the Tony-winning Broadway hit recently welcomed stage first-timer Matt Cardle to the cast, playing radio…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:22PMFriday, July 17, 2015
Burt Bacharach, existentialist? That's among the surprising thoughts prompted by the searchingly titled What's It All About?, the altogether delightful but also touching musical revue that t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:50AMThursday, July 16, 2015
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
The National Theatre staging of War Horse has become a West End mainstay and continues at the New London Theatre after nabbing five Tony Awards on Broadway in 2011. The lead role of the equi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:07PMWednesday, July 8, 2015
The 25th-anniversary revival of Miss Saigon at the Prince Edward Theatre has had some cast changes as it enters its second year—among them the arrival of Broadway alum Chris Peluso to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:22PMFriday, July 3, 2015
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Summertime and the livin’ is full of theater in London, a capital whose cultural calendar remains full whatever the season. Highlights this month include the UK premiere of an off…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMWednesday, June 24, 2015
Kate Fleetwood was a 2008 Tony nominee for her performance opposite Patrick Stewart in Macbeth and a 2012 Olivier nominee for the hit National Theatre production of London Road. But her curr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PMThursday, June 18, 2015
A staging of “Aeschylus’s “Oresteia” looks at violence, and a production of Shakespeare’s “King John” looks at the monarch on the throne when the Magna Carta was produced in 12…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:11AMThe play that lost the 2011 Tony Award to War Horse is now receiving its British debut at the very address where War Horse premiered. But such theatrical coincidences won't register in most …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:04AMWednesday, June 17, 2015
The West End has a, well, beautiful new star in Katie Brayben, the English actress who won an Olivier Award in April for her performance as Carole King in the London production of Beaut…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:58PMThursday, June 11, 2015
Imelda Staunton has already won Olivier Awards for her Baker’s Wife in the London debut of Into the Woods and as Mrs. Lovett opposite Michael Ball in the 2012 West End revival of Sween…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:34PMMonday, June 8, 2015
The Brits had a bravura night on Broadway as the 69th annual Tony awards last night, but if you dig into the detail, particularly when it comes to musicals, it looks unlikely the triumph wil…
SOURCE: Telegraph at 06:59AMWednesday, June 3, 2015
They say there’s nothing like a dame—but what about two dames? That’s the situation currently with Peter Morgan’s London and Broadway hit The Audience, which has one …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:49PMSimon Russell Beale revisits the Occupy movement in “Temple,” and the Royal Shakespeare Company revives Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:33AMMonday, June 1, 2015
Beauty transforms itself into a beast but an inner grace shines forth regardless: such is the enduring power of Bernard Pomerance's stage play The Elephant Man, first seen in London almost 4…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:39AMWednesday, May 27, 2015
While Broadway slows down after the Tony Awards in June, London rolls merrily along, both on and off the West End. This month’s highlights include a stage musical premiere adapted from…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Simon Russell Beale, an era-defining Hamlet, takes a star turn at the West End rendition of a piece of theatrical hokum by Ira Levin that, 32 years after its New York debut, still delivers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Men Should Weep” is playing at the National and “Tribes” is at the Royal Court, with a fleeting glimpse of Stephen Sondheim at the Queen’s Theatre.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe Royal Court and the National dominated the London Evening Standard theatre awards, and rightly so. Non-subsidised theatre needs to get its act together. Is there any good new commercial …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMShe's hosted breakfast television in the UK as well as a Broadway-related reality show (Grease: You're The One That I Want). But Denise Van Outen is also a dedicated theater performer, with …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM 
