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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Clear Eyes, Full Hearts! Janie Dee on How Friday Light Nights Helped Her in London's Hand to God by Matt Wolf

Janie Dee has won two Olivier Awards and moved from classics to new plays, Shakespeare to musicals. But the protean talent is shifting gears big-time to inherit 2015 Tony nominee Geneva Carr…

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Thursday, February 4, 2016

Jennifer Mudge on Being Friends with Matthew Perry and Making Her West End Debut in The End of Longing by Matt Wolf

Jennifer Mudge has a slew of New York credits that range from The Philanthropist on Broadway opposite Matthew Broderick to the Witch in Fiasco Theatre’s revelatory Into the Woods off-B…

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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, National Theatre by Matt Wolf

"One... Two... You know what to do": that coolly delivered rehearsal intro from a trombonist called Cutler (Clint Dyer) could serve as a synoptic appraisal of the simply overwhelming Nationa…

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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Theater Review: Review: 'Five Finger Exercise,' 'Waste' and 'Amaluna' Take to London Stage by Matt Wolf

The Print Room offers a revelatory production of "Five Finger Exercise," but "Waste," at the National Theater's Lyttelton stage, and Cirque du Soleil's "Amaluna," at Royal Albert Hall waver.

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Matthew Perry's Longing, Adrian Lester in Red Velvet & More in the London Datebook by Matt Wolf

February is a busy month for American accents in London, with multiple Broadway titles emerging on the scene alongside a bevy of stars that includes a TV favorite (Matthew Perry), a two-time…

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Matthew Perry's Longing, Adrian Lester in Red Velevet & More in the London Datebook by Matt Wolf

February is a busy month for American accents in London, with multiple Broadway titles emerging on the scene alongside a bevy of stars that includes a TV favorite (Matthew Perry), a two-time…

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Review: 'Five Finger Exercise,' 'Waste' and 'Amaluna' Take to London Stage by Matt Wolf

The Print Room, a 180-seat playhouse in London's Notting Hill, has come up with the most revelatory production of this still-young theatrical year.

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Thursday, January 21, 2016

Jeremy Secomb, London's Javert, on Playing a Baddie and the Reason Les Miserables Has Endured for So Long by Matt Wolf

Jeremy Secomb moved to London from his native Australia over 17 years ago, since then he has risen through the ranks to become a West End leading man. Last year, he won raves in the title ro…

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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Thriller Live Star Haydon Eshun on Seven Years of Singing Like Michael Jackson in the West End by Matt Wolf

Now in its seventh year at the Lyric Theatre, Thriller Live has become a West End mainstay and a focal point for fans of Michael Jackson, who died not long after the show opened in January, …

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Review: 'Cymbeline,' 'Macbeth' and 'As You Like It' in London by Matt Wolf

It often seems with Shakespeare's works in London as if the titles are shown on a sort of perpetual loop, constantly subject to a renewed interpretation.

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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Grey Gardens, Southwark Playhouse by Matt Wolf

One of the more unusual Broadway offerings of recent times crosses the Atlantic with considerable style in an Off West End premiere of 2006 New York entry Grey Gardens that punches well abov…

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Thursday, January 7, 2016

Guys and Dolls, Savoy Theatre by Matt Wolf

The seemingly eternal British love affair with Guys and Dolls continues apace with the (somewhat recast) transfer to London of the Chichester production from two summers ago, and a more buoy…

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Wednesday, January 6, 2016

London's Kinky Boots Star Matt Henry on Finding His Inner Lola, Footwear Advice & Thoughts on Hamilton by Matt Wolf

Matt Henry has understudied across a range of West End hits, from The Lion King to Avenue Q, and was a finalist on popular British reality TV show The Voice. But only now as the cross-dressi…

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Friday, January 1, 2016

Review: A Year of Greek Revivals on the London Stage by Matt Wolf

Ancient tales of retribution and revenge rang out with fresh vigor in 2015.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

London Datebook: Roll the Dice with Guys and Dolls, Meet the Beales in Grey Gardens & More by Matt Wolf

It’s a New Year, and with it comes a wealth of fresh enticements on the London stage, from two Broadway musicals reborn in Britain to the premiere of a new play by arguably England'…

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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Best of 2015: Theatre by Matt Wolf

Say what you will about London theatre during 2015, and by my reckoning it was a pretty fine year, there certainly was a lot of it. I can't recall a year that brought with it a comparable vo…

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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Review: 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' and 'Linda' by Matt Wolf

These two tales of power and madness bring strong women characters to the front of the London stage.

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Friday, December 25, 2015

Review: Les Liaisons Dangereuses" and "Linda" by Matt Wolf

These two tales of power and madness bring strong women characters to the front of the London stage.

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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

West End Star Savannah Stevenson on the Wicked Sisterhood and Why She'll Never Play Elphaba by Matt Wolf

English actress-singer Savannah Stevenson has become a mainstay in the West End production of Wicked, playing Glinda at the Apollo Victoria Theatre opposite a host of Elphabas that range fro…

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Monday, December 21, 2015

Dr Seuss's The Lorax, Old Vic by Matt Wolf

You'll feel guilty for having bothered with a programme after seeing The Lorax, the Dr Seuss adaptation that puts saving the environment centre-stage at the Old Vic just as the recent climat…

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Thursday, December 17, 2015

Ron Cook on Comedy, Cruelty and Relishing His Role in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming in London by Matt Wolf

The veteran actor Ron Cook needs little introduction to devotees of the British stage, given that he moves from show to show with consummate ease. With credits ranging from Brian Friel&rsquo…

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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Review: 'Funny Girl' Has a Joyful Return in London by Matt Wolf

If you are going to confront the specter of a performance that haunts the decades still, it helps to possess a degree of charm that few performers can match.

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The Dazzle, FOUND111, Charing Cross Rd. by Matt Wolf

The proverbial pond that separates the New York and London theatres has had a seismic effect on The Dazzle, Richard Greenberg's ironically titled play from 2002 that in every way seems darke…

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Sunday, December 13, 2015

Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Apollo Theatre by Matt Wolf

The pleasures to be found in the pitfalls that are part of live performance rear their accident-prone head yet again in Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the latest exercise in controlled (or is it?) ch…

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Thursday, December 10, 2015

New London Beautiful Star Cassidy Janson Compares Carole King to Elphaba & Reveals the Broadway Star That Will Make Her a 'Blubbering Mess' by Matt Wolf

English actress-singer Cassidy Janson has appeared in many American shows in and around London, from blockbusters like Wicked to more intimate productions like Dessa Rose, opposite The Color…

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Hapgood, Hampstead Theatre by Matt Wolf

A supposed Stoppardian footnote gets a first-class reclamation in Howard Davies's sizzling revival of Hapgood, the espionage-themed drama from 1988 that resonates intellectually and emo…

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Theater Review: Review: 'Little Eyolf,' 'The Homecoming' and 'Medea,' on London Stages by Matt Wolf

Revivals of a lesser-known work by Ibsen, unbridled ferocity from Pinter and a shimmeringly intense Greek tragedy.

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Review: 'Little Eyolf,' 'The Homecoming' and 'Medea,' on London Stages by Matt Wolf

The director Richard Eyre's continuing inquiry into the plays of Henrik Ibsen reaches a new peak with "Little Eyolf."

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Hangmen Star Johnny Flynn on the Joy of Working with Martin McDonagh & Playing a Psychopath in London by Matt Wolf

Johnny Flynn juggles two lives—one as the singer-songwriter who has toured America with his folk-rock band Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit, the other as the fast-rising actor who has…

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Saturday, November 28, 2015

Here We Go, National Theatre by Matt Wolf

The great Caryl Churchill careers down a blind alley in Here We Go, and the results aren't pretty, especially within the cavernous confines of the National Theatre's Lyttelton " this wr…

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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Evening at The Talk House, National Theatre by Matt Wolf

A lot of people are going to be enraged, frustrated, or confused by Evening at The Talk House, and in the authorial world of Wallace Shawn, wasn't it ever thus? This is the playwright who ga…

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