Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Emma Hatton has staked out a formidable name for herself playing two iconic roles, Elphaba in Wicked and Eva Peron in Evita. The second part has this summer earned her rave re…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:36PMThursday, August 10, 2017
Ashley Day has appeared in Evita, Mary Poppins, and as Elder Price in The Book of Mormon in the West End. Now, the English musical theater triple-threat has danced his way int…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:33PMThe staging of the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical not only sounds different from most revivals but also looks startlingly fresh.
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Stuart Neal has appeared on the West End in La Cage aux Folles, the Michael Grandage-directed Evita and alongside Dame Judi Dench in The Winter’s Tale, co-starring Kenneth Branagh, amo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:12PMSaturday, July 29, 2017
"Bat Out of Hell" does justice to the Meat Loaf songs that make up its score. "The Wind in the Willows" and "Yank! A World War II Love Story" pale beside it.
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Romola Garai found film renown early on in movies like Atonement and I Capture the Castle but returns often to the stage. In 2014, she appeared off-Broadway to transfixin…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:04PMMonday, July 24, 2017
Matthew Scott has appeared on Broadway in such shows as Sondheim on Sondheim and as Adam in An American in Paris and is now marking his first-ever trip to London with his…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:06PMTuesday, July 18, 2017
Matthew Croke started the summer by fulfilling any performer’s dreams: graduating from a career spent largely in supporting and understudy assignments to playing a bona fide star part …
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:33PMMonday, July 17, 2017
Surrogacy brings challenges, a childless queen is upstaged by her dearest friend, and two writers vie for supremacy — all on London stages this summer.
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Sara Poyzer didn’t graduate from drama school until she was 27, but in the two decades since has established herself as an invaluable company member of several long-running musicals. S…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:04PMFriday, June 30, 2017
James Graham’s play focuses on Mr. Murdoch as a news baron in the making; and “Anatomy of a Suicide” is a shimmeringly powerful puzzle play.
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It’s been more than 30 years since F. Murray Abraham won the Oscar for his indelible screen performance as Salieri in Amadeus, since which time he has appeared regularly on s…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:24PMFriday, June 23, 2017
Laura Donnelly appeared in London and on Broadway in Jez Butterworth’s intimate tease of a play The River and is now at the Gielgud Theatre in the West End in Butterworth&rsq…
Linked From Broadway.com at 07:04AMFriday, 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…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:54AMMonday, June 5, 2017
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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