Thursday, May 17, 2018
Nancy Carroll won a 2011 Olivier Award for Best Actress for her searing and stylish performance at the National Theatre in After the Dance and is rarely long away from the London stage. Know…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:06AMFriday, May 11, 2018
Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance” refracts gay American life through an English novel, while two new British plays choose a shorter, satirical path.
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David Thaxton won the 2011 Olivier Award for his stunning performance as Giorgio in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, but the performer has been spending much of his career returning to Les…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:42AMDavid Thaxton won the 2011 Olivier Award for his stunning performance as Giorgio in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, but the performer has been spending much of his career returning to Les…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:48AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Eighties musical remains a melodically rich muddle Its origins as a concept album cling stubbornly to Chess, the Tim Rice collaboration with the male members of ABBA first seen on the West E…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 06:42AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Romola Garai gives a storming performance in deliberately tricksy Ella Hickson playForget write what you know: writing what you feel would seem to be the impetus driving Ella Hickson's often…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 06:42AMAlfred Enoch hit the big time as Wes on ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder and played Dean Thomas in the Harry Potter films, but the fast-rising screen star is returning to the stage to…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:32AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
Long-aborning stage version of the Baz Luhrmann film is a protracted cartoon A much tinkered-with show needs to go back to the drawing board, if this latest iteration of Strictly Ballroom: T…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 08:12AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
The screen and stage star invents herself anew, this time in song A onetime Martha and Maggie the Cat in the theatre, not to mention a screen siren of the sort they don't make anymore, might…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 09:18PMAll or Nothing, the self-described “Mod Musical” now at the Ambassadors Theatre directly following a run at the Arts, tells the story of the Small Faces, the English rock band fr…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:42AMThursday, April 19, 2018
Two London stage productions bring some razzle dazzle to the city: a musical biography of Tina Turner and the return of “Chicago.”
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Bat Out of Hell, the rock and roll stage extravaganza drawn from songwriter Jim Steinman and the iconic Meat Loaf album of the same name, has returned to London, this time to the Dominion Th…
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Bernadette Peters and company find their voice in the second act of this classic musical.
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Josefina Gabrielle has been an invaluable West End presence in productions ranging from Oklahoma! as Laurey opposite Hugh Jackman to Gussie in the Maria Friedman-directed Merrily We Roll Alo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:56PMThursday, April 5, 2018
In “Brief Encounter” and “Summer and Smoke,” directors subvert the expectations of their audiences with fascinating results.
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David Albury has gained attention in the verbatim musical Committee… at the Donmar and as Fleetwood in Michael Blakemore’s British stage debut of The Life and is now making his …
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:29PMFriday, March 23, 2018
Adrienne Warren received a 2016 Tony nod for the Broadway musical Shuffle Along and is now making a hugely anticipated West End debut as none other than rock goddess Tina Turner in the new s…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:18PMThursday, March 22, 2018
Why is “the Scottish play” so hard to get right? Two productions in Britain show why Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy is also his trickiest.
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A familiar title transcends the schematic to land with renewed forceNo, this isn't the large-scale Kander and Ebb musical, which opened in 1992 in London before transferring for a sizable ru…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 02:47PMThe award winning musical returns in all its ferocity and glory It's long been a theatrical given, especially in musicals, that characters need to be seen to change: a climactic duo in the e…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 04:00AMMonday, March 19, 2018
Strictly Ballroom is fondly remembered as a 1992 Baz Luhrmann film and it is now coming to the West End courtesy of the Olivier Award-winning director/choreographer Drew McOnie. The cast is …
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:43PMRSC's touring Hamlet is well worth catching anywhere en routeShakespeare's death-laden play is alive and well and breathing with renewed force in Hackney, the last British stop for an R…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 01:00AM★★★★ HAMLET, RSC, HACKNEY EMPIRE Paapa Essiedu's winning DaneRSC's touring Hamlet is well worth catching anywhere en routeShakespeare's death-laden play is alive and well and br…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 01:00AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Rosalie Craig is no stranger to musicals (Aspects of Love, City of Angels, The Light Princess) and classics like As You Like It at the National Theatre but can now be found leading the take-…
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Monday, March 5, 2018
The American actor Jeff Fahey last opened in the West End late in 2013 in a starry revival of Twelve Angry Men. Now he’s back with the same producer (Bill Kenwright) and co-star (1996 …
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:02PMWednesday, February 28, 2018
Emma Rice’s ravishing stage version of Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter is headed back to London, after international exposure that included an acclaimed Broadway run…
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Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Lesley Manville is up for a supporting actress Oscar this year for her superb performance as Daniel Day-Lewis’s severe-seeming sister in Phantom Thread and is combining the o…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:38PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
★★★★★ THE YORK REALIST, DONMAR WAREHOUSE Pitch-perfect Peter Gill revival surpasses its originalPitch-perfect Peter Gill revival surpasses its original Peter Gill has been a q…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 04:31AMMonday, February 12, 2018
Sam Troughton has long been steeped in the classics, from Williams to Chekhov to Shakespeare, the last of which he has performed in New York with the Royal Shakespeare Company. This ter…
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