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 07:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 4, 2016
Jennifer Mudge has a slew of New York credits that range from The Philanthropist on Broadway opposite Matthew Broderick to the Witch in Fiasco Theatre’s revelatory Into the Woods off-B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 3, 2016
"One... Two... You know what to do": that coolly delivered rehearsal intro from a trombonist called Cutler (Clint Dyer) could serve as a synoptic appraisal of the simply overwhelming Nationa…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 28, 2016
The Print Room offers a revelatory production of "Five Finger Exercise," but "Waste," at the National Theater's Lyttelton stage, and Cirque du Soleil's "Amaluna," at Royal Albert Hall waver.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PM[SHARE]February is a busy month for American accents in London, with multiple Broadway titles emerging on the scene alongside a bevy of stars that includes a TV favorite (Matthew Perry), a two-time…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:50PM[SHARE]February is a busy month for American accents in London, with multiple Broadway titles emerging on the scene alongside a bevy of stars that includes a TV favorite (Matthew Perry), a two-time…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:38PM[SHARE]The Print Room, a 180-seat playhouse in London's Notting Hill, has come up with the most revelatory production of this still-young theatrical year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 21, 2016
Jeremy Secomb moved to London from his native Australia over 17 years ago, since then he has risen through the ranks to become a West End leading man. Last year, he won raves in the title ro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 14, 2016
Now in its seventh year at the Lyric Theatre, Thriller Live has become a West End mainstay and a focal point for fans of Michael Jackson, who died not long after the show opened in January, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:33PM[SHARE]It often seems with Shakespeare's works in London as if the titles are shown on a sort of perpetual loop, constantly subject to a renewed interpretation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 10, 2016
One of the more unusual Broadway offerings of recent times crosses the Atlantic with considerable style in an Off West End premiere of 2006 New York entry Grey Gardens that punches well abov…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 7, 2016
The seemingly eternal British love affair with Guys and Dolls continues apace with the (somewhat recast) transfer to London of the Chichester production from two summers ago, and a more buoy…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Matt Henry has understudied across a range of West End hits, from The Lion King to Avenue Q, and was a finalist on popular British reality TV show The Voice. But only now as the cross-dressi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:01PM[SHARE]Friday, January 1, 2016
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
It’s a New Year, and with it comes a wealth of fresh enticements on the London stage, from two Broadway musicals reborn in Britain to the premiere of a new play by arguably England'…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Say what you will about London theatre during 2015, and by my reckoning it was a pretty fine year, there certainly was a lot of it. I can't recall a year that brought with it a comparable vo…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 27, 2015
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015
English actress-singer Savannah Stevenson has become a mainstay in the West End production of Wicked, playing Glinda at the Apollo Victoria Theatre opposite a host of Elphabas that range fro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:51AM[SHARE]Monday, December 21, 2015
You'll feel guilty for having bothered with a programme after seeing The Lorax, the Dr Seuss adaptation that puts saving the environment centre-stage at the Old Vic just as the recent climat…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 17, 2015
The veteran actor Ron Cook needs little introduction to devotees of the British stage, given that he moves from show to show with consummate ease. With credits ranging from Brian Friel&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 16, 2015
If you are going to confront the specter of a performance that haunts the decades still, it helps to possess a degree of charm that few performers can match.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:59PM[SHARE]The proverbial pond that separates the New York and London theatres has had a seismic effect on The Dazzle, Richard Greenberg's ironically titled play from 2002 that in every way seems darke…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 13, 2015
The pleasures to be found in the pitfalls that are part of live performance rear their accident-prone head yet again in Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the latest exercise in controlled (or is it?) ch…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 10, 2015
English actress-singer Cassidy Janson has appeared in many American shows in and around London, from blockbusters like Wicked to more intimate productions like Dessa Rose, opposite The Color…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PM[SHARE]A supposed Stoppardian footnote gets a first-class reclamation in Howard Davies's sizzling revival of Hapgood, the espionage-themed drama from 1988 that resonates intellectually and emo…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Johnny Flynn juggles two lives—one as the singer-songwriter who has toured America with his folk-rock band Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit, the other as the fast-rising actor who has…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 28, 2015
The great Caryl Churchill careers down a blind alley in Here We Go, and the results aren't pretty, especially within the cavernous confines of the National Theatre's Lyttelton " this wr…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 25, 2015
A lot of people are going to be enraged, frustrated, or confused by Evening at The Talk House, and in the authorial world of Wallace Shawn, wasn't it ever thus? This is the playwright who ga…
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