Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Simon 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 05:58PMMichael Grandage directs the grand tragedy in the intimate space of the Donmar while, at the National Theater, Alan Ayckbourn registers the holiday season as only he can do.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMSamantha Bond may be best-known the world over as Moneypenny in the James Bond (no relation!) films, back when Pierce Brosnan was playing 007. But the distinctively smoky-voiced actress has …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PMJonathan Cake is marking a homecoming of sorts by spending a London winter co-starring with his old friend (and Cambridge University classmate) Tom Hollander in the Feydeau farce A Flea In H…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PMFine acting redeems "A Flea in Her Ear" at the Old Vic, but "The Invisible Man'' at the Menier Chocolate Factory falls flat.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIt'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 05:58PMThe 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 05:58PMHarriet 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 05:58PMFour 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 05:58PMThe 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 05:58PMBen 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 05:58PMThe 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 05:58PMFew 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 05:58PMA 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 05:58PMIllinois 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 05:58PMThursday, 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 04:29AMWednesday, 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"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 06:57AMFrank 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 03:03AMWednesday, 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 11:44AMSaturday, May 9, 2015
