The audience couldn't get enough at Main Men of Musicals, a concert at Cadogan Hall last night featuring West End starsLuke Bayer, Ben Forster, Trevor Dion Nicholas, Liam Tamne, and some ver…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:17AMIt happens every now and then that a reputation becomes so prominent, it's hard to see the person inside of it. Sergei Polunin, the Ukrainian ballet dancer, is dwarfed by two gigantic reputa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06AMSergey Kuryshev is a titan of the Russian stage, a highly regarded interpreter of Chekhov, an occasional film star, and a mainstay of St. Petersburg's Maly Drama Theatre.Sergey and the Maly …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48AMAmour, which opens soon at the Charing Cross Theatre, isn't just a musical - it's a musical fantasy. Tinged with love, longing, and imagination, it's a show that not only provides, but deman…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:01AMI was sat outside the English National Opera reading a novel when Kelsey Grammer walked by, humming cheerfully about a bleak and unbearable world. He was getting ready for a rehearsal of Man…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:02AMLouis de Bernieres' novelCaptain Corelli's Mandolin, about the German occupation of the Mediterranean during World War Two, was a smash hit when it came out in 1994, selling millions of copi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:01AMYou never imagined Margaret Thatcher could be so vulgar, but then, it seems weirdly plausible. Like all good drag, Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho is outrageous and unreal, and sometimes fun.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AMPlaywrights, directorsand producers gathered at the May Fair Hotel on Monday for the third annual Tonic Awards, celebrating the achievements of women in theatre. In attendance, in addition t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:35AMWhether you know him as a contestant on The X Factor, as a member of Union J, or from his work on stage, there's a good chance you've heard Jaymi Hensley sing.Now, he's taking Joseph and the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMAn upright piano, a bottle of something strong, a door leading somewhere else. Billy Bishop Goes to War, on now at the Southwark Playhouse, after transferring from the Jermyn Street Theatre,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34PMDiana Vishneva earned a thunderous ovation at Sadler's Wells last night, not only from the audience, but from the beaming assembly of dancers who stood behind her.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15PMJonathan Hyde is currently starring in Gently Down the Stream, a new play at the Park Theatreexploringan intergenerational gay relationship.Jonathan told BroadwayWorldwhat makes this show po…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:20AMThis new production of Arthur Miller's rarely-produced play, on now at the Old Vic, offers some emotional and aesthetic rewards, but misses more often than it hits.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:19AMShelley Maxwell doesn't stop. Born in Jamaica, trained in Cuba, practised in New York, and based in London, she has turned heads as a choreographer and performer, in contemporary dance and m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:01AMA hail of cigarette boxes, bicycles, jazz, and divine intervention. Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre's The Good Person of Szechwan, at the Barbican Centre, is unpredictable, intense, and cathart…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:49PM'It's not always easy for foreigners to get to London,' the theatre's general administrator told me. 'They asked us a lot of questions Who are you What are you here for' But, he pointed out,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMA bird, a bunny, and a baby a shoemaker and a clock and a critter on a walk. Waltz of the Hommelettes is a breezy, charming distraction of a play, 50 minutes of children's illustrations brou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:27AMThe Sun Line is currently playingat Sadler's Wells. Russian stage director and actor Viktor Ryzhakovdiscusses the show, as well asthe universality of theatre, the relationship between art an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:46AMWhen I first saw The Sun Line, at The Meyerhold Centre, in Moscow, I was so jolted by its aggressively inventive technique that I started recommenidng it to all my friends.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:14AMIn Trevor Nunn's extraordinary new production of Fiddler on the Roof, at the Menier Chocolate Factory, a dimension of intimacy and immediacy recasts a familar show, dragging it, sometimes te…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:52PMNot many people know the name Claude-Michel Schonberg, but everybody knows his music as the composer of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, Claude-Michel is present in everyone's playlist, in a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:15PMGuys and Dolls has come to the Mill at Sonning, and brought with it all the sleazy music, flashy dancing, and good, clean fun you could want in an evening.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMChris's new book, Rise Up, looks at Broadway and American society from Angels in America to Hamilton. In an interview with fellow critic Matt Wolf, at the Bloomsbury Institute yesterday, Chr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMPut simply, Ruby's caricaturistic portrayal of Golda Meir, the former Prime Minister of Israel, does great injustice to the source material, and blends comedy and melodrama so unevenly as al…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:31AMNow, the London Musical Theatre Orchestra have added their own spin, mounting Girlfriends as a concert with only minimal narration, rather than a fully produced musical. It seems they've fou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:03AMOn November 11, 2018, people everywhere will commemorate the centenary of the end of World War One with events, speeches, prayers, and moments of silence. At The Progress Theatre in Reading,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24AMTroilus and Cressida begins with a thunder of drums that knocks the programme out of your hands.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMThere is a kind of macabre fun in Body Worlds. Some of the plastinates are posed majestically others demonstrate the strength and dynamism of the human body. Still others seem like they're j…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AMThe pupil comes prepared for her lesson pens, notepad, ruler. The professor apologises for being late. The lesson begins. And then, the lesson really begins. In Matthew Parker's clever new p…
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