Monday, May 9, 2016
Jersey Boys has set up shop as a West End long-runner. The Olivier Award-winning musical all about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is now on its second London theater, the Piccadilly, and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Matt Wolf assesses Hamilton's record-breaking 16 nominations as Broadway braces for the Tony Awards
SOURCE: Telegraph at 04:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2016
Londoner Sam Mackay might seem an unexpected choice to inherit Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway role of the bodega-owning Usnavi for the British premiere of In the Heights, but Mackay ear…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:09PM[SHARE]Londoner Sam Mackay might seem an unexpected choice to inherit Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway role of the bodega-owning Usnavi for the British premiere of In the Heights, but Mackay ear…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
The Cotton Blossom looks mighty fine in its latest London iteration, Daniel Evans's winning Sheffield Theatre revival of Show Boat joining the ongoing runs of Guys and Dolls and Funny Girl t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:28AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2016
The South African director Yael Farber revives Lorraine Hansberry's ambitious "Les Blancs," and two plays at the Royal Court Jerwood Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:45AM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2016
Gina Beck has taken over leading roles in Wicked (as Glinda in the West End and also the U.S. tour) and The Phantom of the Opera (as Christine), but at long last the performer is opening a L…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2016
The surprise Pulitzer win by the Broadway musical Next to Normal has New York abuzz. Does that bode well for a West End run?Next to Normal has won the Pulitzer prize for drama, the first tim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2016
Richard Kind’s stage credits range from The Producers and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife to a 2013 Tony nomination for the Clifford Odets play The Big Knife, and now the ever-b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Contemporary London life in all its forbidding, faceless swirl makes for a visually busy evening at Boy, the Leo Butler play that finally isn't as fully arresting as one keeps wanting it to …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:19AM[SHARE]Friday, April 8, 2016
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Tamzin Outhwaite is a major TV name in Britain, where her West End credits include Di and Viv and Rose and the title role in Sweet Charity, but the actress is returning to her roots by co-st…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2016
With a cast led by British duo Ben Whishaw and the mighty Sophie Okonedo, this is a topical take on the Arthur Miller classic.
SOURCE: Telegraph at 01:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2016
A Broadway legend recreates her stage role as a screen legend of a bygone era in the same month that sees a fresh West End revival of what is widely considered the first great Broadway music…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2016
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Uzo Aduba is a two-time Emmy winner for her performance as Suzanne (a.k.a. "Crazy Eyes") in the prison drama Orange is the New Black and revealed her gifts as a belter as Glinda in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Irish actress Denise Gough has gone from comparative unknown to West End star on the back of her acclaimed performance as Emma, an actress battling addiction in Duncan Macmillan’s Peop…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 12, 2016
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Cedric Neal’s Broadway credits include After Midnight and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, but the Texas-born performer is now U.K.-based, to the benefit of audiences that can see …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:58AM[SHARE]Cedric Neal’s Broadway credits include After Midnight and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, but the Texas-born performer is now U.K.-based, to the benefit of audiences that can see …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Shorter feels longer in the West End iteration of Motown the Musical, a minor-league jukebox musical that became a Broadway hit courtesy an unbeatable back catalogue - keep those hits coming…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:07AM[SHARE]Monday, March 7, 2016
An innocently intended Friday night out turns into something fearsome indeed in I See You, a Royal Court co-production with the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, that puts the tensions of post-a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2016
Guys and Dolls transfers with a (largely) new cast, Motown the Musical grooves its way across the Atlantic, and a new musical that folds the atomic bomb, of all things, into its title are am…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:46PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 27, 2016
A prevailing sense of farewell ripples through this closing production in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse's hugely welcome season of Shakespeare's final quartet of plays. That valedictory feel i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
Tracie Bennett was a 2012 Tony nominee for best actress in a play for End of the Rainbow, in which the pint-sized Englishwoman played Judy Garland. And now the powerhouse performer has retur…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Ilan Goodman may be the son of Olivier Award-winning actor Henry Goodman (Assassins, Chicago) but the RADA-educated performer has been carving a name for himself as a fine talent in his own …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:52PM[SHARE]Monday, February 15, 2016
Uncle Johnny instead of Vanya, a passing reference to sharia law, and nary a samovar in sight: surely this can't be the Uncle Vanya that has long been a cornerstone of the British theatre, e…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 13, 2016
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Janie Dee has won two Olivier Awards and moved from classics to new plays, Shakespeare to musicals. But the protean talent is shifting gears big-time to inherit 2015 Tony nominee Geneva Carr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:27PM[SHARE]Janie Dee has won two Olivier Awards and moved from classics to new plays, Shakespeare to musicals. But the protean talent is shifting gears big-time to inherit 2015 Tony nominee Geneva Carr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:07PM[SHARE] 
