Thursday, January 8, 2015
Jennifer DiNoia has traveled the world with Wicked, shifting between various American cities to perform the musical in Australia and South Korea and now in London, where she plays Elphaba at…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:30PMThursday, January 1, 2015
A new year always brings with it promise in abundance, especially for the London theater scene, which Is already kicking into gear. From the latest British reworking of a Broadway musical to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMTuesday, December 30, 2014
Monday, December 29, 2014
That old canard about there being no good roles for women needed revising time and again in the theatre year just gone, so much so that end-of-year judging panels for the year's best faced f…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:00AMWednesday, December 24, 2014
From a Noel Coward classic polished to within an inch of its life to a troubling Stephen Sondheim musical that packed a pistol-laden punch, London theater was characteristically varied and v…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMSaturday, December 20, 2014
Matt Wolf on high-concept Shakespeare and a new play that quite explicitly offers hope on the London stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:30AMFrom a boozy lunch at The Savoy to the star-studded red carpet of the London Palladium, Matt Wolf looks back at the glamour, the passion and the drama of 60 years of the Evening Standard The…
SOURCE: www.standard.co.uk at 08:08AMThursday, December 18, 2014
London offered a veritable feast of fine acting on stages large and small in 2014, whether in time-honored theatrical chestnuts (Angela Lansbury in Blithe Spirit) or bracing new plays (Russe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:03PMFriday, December 12, 2014
The musical that defined an era is back on the West End, allowing a new generation to see what all the fuss was about 33 years ago when a non-narrative extravaganza as heavy on dance and sce…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:30PMThursday, December 11, 2014
There are few supporting roles in musicals as fiery as that of John, the marine-turned-aid worker in Miss Saigon who gets the second act of the musical off to a powerful start with the anthe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:44PMWednesday, December 3, 2014
The holidays are officially here! In London, that means a spate of eagerly anticipated musical revivals, a seasonal romp at the National, and Shakespeare displaced to Las Vegas. For that and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:13PMOn the London stage, Jamie Lloyd’s production of “Assassins”; a revival of “Accolade”; and Mordaunt Shairp’s 1933 play “The Green Bay Tree.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:08AMWednesday, November 26, 2014
Lucy Punch is back in the West End for the first time in well over a decade, having in the interim shot to fame in Bad Teacher, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger and the forthcoming screen …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:26PMThursday, November 20, 2014
Grim new productions in the British capital include “’Tis Pity She’s a Whore,” “Wildefire” and “Hippolytos.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12AMWednesday, November 19, 2014
The West End has a sleeper success in The Play That Goes Wrong, the delicious play-within-a-play that chronicles all manner of onstage and offstage mishaps during a performance of an old-sty…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:29PMBehind the Beautiful Forevers, David Hare's adaptation of Katherine Boo's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, works as both play and portent. Viewed on its own terms, the evening grips throughout i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:20AMThursday, November 13, 2014
What ought to be a featherweight holiday confection emerges as a charmless slog in the belated West End bow of White Christmas, a title that at this point in November may induce panic in tho…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:24PMWednesday, November 12, 2014
Amid a busy fall season in London for musicals, Natalie Mendoza’s powerful performance as Imelda Marcos in the European premiere of Here Lies Love at the National Theatre stands apart.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMWednesday, November 5, 2014
Stage and screen star Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace, Tamara Drewe) has come a long way since she last appeared in the West End in the American comedy The Little Dog Laughed&nb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:14PMKatie Mitchell brings incision and insight to a new London production of “The Cherry Orchard.” “Neville’s Island” explores survival, while “Memphis” tackles race relations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:55AMFriday, October 31, 2014
The current crop of shows dealing with controversial subjects has breathed new life into the form
SOURCE: www.standard.co.uk at 12:32PMThursday, October 30, 2014
This production of The Real Thing by Sir Tom Stoppard
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 10:00PMWednesday, October 29, 2014
The October explosion of musicals continues into November with a heady mixture of new shows and revivals that mix beloved British names like Gemma Arterton and Catherine Tate with Broadway g…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:20PMSaturday, October 25, 2014
The famous siblings are making their Broadway debuts this autumn: who will take home the acting honours? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
Amid a busy month for musical upgrades to the West End from smaller playhouses elsewhere, the Kinks musical Sunny Afternoon, stands apart as a celebration of some of the most enduring songs …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PMA look at Phyllida Lloyd’s new all-woman “Henry IV,” and bumpy revivals of “Uncle Vanya” and “East Is East” in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:23AMSaturday, October 18, 2014
A template of the American theatre gets dusted off to quietly devastating effect in Our Town, the 1938 Thornton Wilder play that has never been especially beloved in Britain even as it gets …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:00AMThursday, October 16, 2014
Jenna Russell needs no introduction as a London musicals mainstay, with credits ranging from Sarah Brown in the Michael Grandage-directed Guys and Dolls to a range of Sondheim musicals that …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:34PMWednesday, October 15, 2014
The National Theatre's new Dorfman auditorium gets off to a kick-ass start with Here Lies Love, the Off Broadway musical transplant that does for the closing months of Nicholas Hytner's tenu…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:48AMWednesday, October 8, 2014
Tony nominee Brandon Victor Dixon (The Color Purple) was center stage in the original New York production of the John Kander and Fred Ebb musical The Scottsboro Boys in 2010, only to miss ou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMTuesday, October 7, 2014
The new London revival of David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow,” with Lindsay Lohan and Richard Schiff, seemed a little too cautious.
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