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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…
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…
Three plays: A new take on Sarah Kane, an American import and a Matthew Perry debut.
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 …
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…
Three plays in London range the worlds of women on the verge, or simply breaking free.
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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, …
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.
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…
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…
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…
Ancient tales of retribution and revenge rang out with fresh vigor in 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'…
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…
These two tales of power and madness bring strong women characters to the front of the London stage.
These two tales of power and madness bring strong women characters to the front of the London stage.
