Monday, May 25, 2015
It's not always the case that an alternate leading lady ends up the star, but that is now happening at London's Savoy Theatre, where 27-year-old Dubliner Susan McFadden has replaced Sheridan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]The much heralded "Twelfth Night" is on at the National Theatre in London and "Becky Shaw," imported from America has its own handy glossary.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Harriet Thorpe may be best-known in the US as Patsy's chum Fleur in TV's Absolutely Fabulous, but the actress has been a mainstay of West End musicals for years. Thorpe played Fraulein Kost …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]Four years out of Cambridge University, Robyn Addison is making her professional stage debut opposite Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles in Sir Peter Hall's production of The Rivals, the 18th-c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]The 39 Steps ranks as the West End's longest currently running comedy, and Rufus Wright has just stepped into the leading role of stiff-upper-lipped hero Richard Hannay. This affectionate pa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]Ben Goddard accompanied himself on guitar and flute--among other instruments--as Joe Gillis in a pared-down West End revival of Sunset Boulevard and spent the better part of a year sleuthing…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]The hottest ticket of this still-young London theater year is the director Ian Rickson's scorching revival of The Children's Hour, Lillian Hellman's play about charges of lesbianism and the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]Few North Americans have made the swift impression on the London theater scene left by 25-year-old Sarah Goldberg, a Vancouver native who came to London six years ago to attend drama school …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]A TV talent show star plays Dorothy in the staged version of "The Wizard of Oz," while "Spelling Bee" looks at competitive culture and "Drowning on Dry Land" pits a loser against a children'…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Illinois native David Bedella may be the first performer actually from Chicago to play the invitingly sleazy lawyer Billy Flynn in the London production of Chicago: The engaging 48-year-old …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2015
"You make clothes that make the darkness in me matter": If such an accolade strikes you as profound, make a beeline for McQueen, the James Phillips play about the tortured, all-too-brief lif…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2015
It’s rare for a Broadway hit to cross the Atlantic intact, but that is currently happening with director Scott Ellis’ acclaimed revival of The Elephant Man, which has arrived in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PM[SHARE]"Everyman" lets Chiwetel Ejiofor show off a palpable soul, "American Buffalo" has John Goodman inhabiting a landscape of hucksterism, and "The Merchant of Venice" brings Jonathan Pryce home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:57AM[SHARE]Frank Loesser seems to be known in Britain for one show and one show only, which seems a shame given that the composer-lyricist of Guys and Dolls wrote other shows including the ravishing Th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Antony Sher, the actor-knight who was nominated for a Best Actor Tony Award in 1997 for his performance as the British painter Stanley Spencer in Stanley, has played many of the great Shakes…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:44AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 9, 2015
Thursday, May 7, 2015
After a passionate Broadway debut in the short-lived Sting musical The Last Ship, Belfast-born actress-singer Rachel Tucker has returned to London to head the cast of the Menier Chocolate Fa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2015
"I hear America singing," wrote Walt Whitman, the American poet whose language playwright Richard Nelson has co-opted for the title of the second (Sweet and Sad) of his remarkable quartet of…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:25AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 2, 2015
After US movie star John Goodman praised British theatre-goers following his UK stage debut last week, two leading critics discuss whether you get a better class of punter on one side of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2015
The sun is shining and as if to celebrate, the Dames are coming out to play on London stages this month. Fold in a musical theater favorite turning her attentions to Alan Ayckbourn and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2015
God love Christine Baranski: Eight years after the Tony and Emmy-winning actress played the supporting role of Carlotta Campion in a semi-staged 2007 production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Ruthie Henshall needs scant introduction as one of the West End’s leading musical theater lights, with credits spanning the Atlantic that include Chicago, Miss Saigon, Putting It Toget…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Thursday, April 16, 2015
J. Robert Oppenheimer has been called the father of the atomic bomb, and the American physicist has now given his name to a new Royal Shakespeare Company play, Oppenheimer. With a running ti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:44PM[SHARE]Matt Wolf wishes the score of this revamped production was less generic
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2015
The Play That Goes Wrong at the Duchess Theatre contains lots of men behaving badly—or, at least clumsily—but the Olivier-nominated hit comedy owes much of its success to the two…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Spring is in the air and with it a raft of high-profile openings that include the West End bow of Imelda Staunton’s show-stopping Rose in Gypsy, a gala concert of Follies in honor of S…
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