Friday, June 16, 2017
Shows don’t get much more “rocktacular,” or so one assumes, than Bat Out of Hell – The Musical, the vaunted Jim Steinman hymn to youthful passion whose stag…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:54AMAs the cast of “Barber Shop Chronicles” gets a (simulated) trim and shave, the audience shares in the genuine, if sorrow-inflected, buoyancy of the piece.
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Two-time Tony nominee and onetime Nurse Jackie TV name Eve Best has returned to the London stage to give among the season’s most scintillating star turns in Love in Idle…
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Gary Trainor has been with the West End company of School of Rock since it opened, initially as the alternate to leading man David Fynn in the mega-voltage part of rock ‘n&rs…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:54PMFriday, June 2, 2017
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “An Octoroon” reaches London and offers a mixture of disbelief and awe, while John Boyega steps into a troubled role of a German soldier.
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Scottish actress Dawn Sievewright made her West End debut in 2010 in Legally Blonde and is now starring as the blowsy, take-no-prisoners Fionnula at the Duke of York’s Theatr…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:06PMWednesday, May 24, 2017
James McArdle has been gradually hitting the big-time ever since the he co-starred first on the West End in Chariots of Fire, then at the National Theatre in both The James Plays&n…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:48PMTuesday, May 23, 2017
James McArdle has been gradually hitting the big-time ever since the he co-starred first on the West End in Chariots of Fire, then at the National Theatre in both The James Plays&n…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:12PMFriday, May 19, 2017
A London revival makes a strong case for Martin Crimp’s play, while versions of “Arturo Ui” and “Salomé” fall short.
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Onetime Glee star Amber Riley has caused a sensation in her first major theatrical role, winning this year's musical actress Olivier Award for her performance as Effie White in…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:54PMTuesday, May 9, 2017
British actress and 2005 Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo has cut a major swath through Broadway in recent years, winning a 2014 Tony for A Raisin in the Sun and a nomination last year…
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Monday, May 1, 2017
Craige Els has appeared at the National and Chichester Festival Theatres as well as in the West End in the musicals Spamalot and Never Forget and is currently enjoying an…
Linked From Broadway.com at 07:18PMMonday, April 24, 2017
Portraying marriages under siege, Nina Raine’s blistering “Consent” and Edward Albee’s “The Goat” aim to shake up audiences.
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Tony-winning Spring Awakening composer Duncan Sheik is no stranger to opening shows in London before New York. That was the path taken in 2013 by American Psycho, which had its world pr…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:31PMWednesday, April 12, 2017
Joshua McGuire has lit up the London stage in plays ranging from James Graham’s Privacy to Laura Wade’s Posh, but the 29-year-old actor is currently sharing marquee billing with …
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:54PMMonday, April 10, 2017
It has been 20 years since Broadway powerhouse Lillias White won a Tony Award for her performance as the seen-it-all hooker Sonja in The Life and now here she is in London, frontli…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:36PMFriday, April 7, 2017
Patrick Marber directs his own “Don Juan in Soho”; Dorothea Myer-Bennett brings grace and gravitas to “The Lottery of Love”; and “The Kid Stays in the Picture” has a too-brief ru…
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Adam J. Bernard has appeared on the London stage in Thriller Live and I Can’t Sing! The X Factor Musical but is having a breakout year with his thunderous…
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Trevor Nunn presents an uneasy hybrid of the Terence Rattigan work, while a new play about the origins of the S.D.P. is punchy and vibrantly directed by Polly Findlay.
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The West End’s dance-heavy spring began with the U.K. premiere of An American in Paris and continues with a revival of 42nd Street, returning to the …
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:54PMFriday, March 17, 2017
S'marvelous indeed: there's no other way to describe the grace, panache and irresistible ease that ballet star Robert Fairchild is bringing to his starring part in the West End&rsquo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:36PMSaturday, March 11, 2017
A cast led by Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill, under the direction of James Macdonald, gives Edward Albee’s 1962 masterwork an unforgettable production.
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The Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Scarborough was last on the London stage early in 2014 when he played the Fool to Simon Russell Beale's King Lear and will soon be seen as the side…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:32PMA cast led by Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill, under the direction of James Macdonald, gives Edward Albee’s 1962 masterwork an unforgettable production.
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Donna McKechnie is that increasing rarity: a Broadway legend whose vitality defies the years (was A Chorus Line really four decades ago?). She can now be seen back on the London st…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:36AMFriday, February 24, 2017
The staging of the Broadway musical from 2000 can suggest “Follies” or “Chicago” on speed, but the score by Michael John LaChiusa remains treasurable.
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Conleth Hill may be best known as the manipulative eunuch Lord Varys on the international TV hit Game of Thrones, but the gifted Northern Irish actor has two Olivier Awards and a 2001 Tony n…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:48AMFriday, February 17, 2017
Freddie Fox has appeared on the London stage opposite Lindsay Duncan in Hay Fever and Rupert Everett in The Judas Kiss, among many other credits. but is currently giving …
Linked From Broadway.com at 09:54AMMonday, February 13, 2017
The director Annie Ryan turns up the volume in her production of the John Webster gore-fest from 1612. Two contemporary plays seem tepid.
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Broadway actor Michael Esper has made a sizable impression on the London stage of late, moving from his acclaimed performance opposite Michael C. Hall in the U.K. stage debut of the David Bo…
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