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A totemic play from (nearly) 20 years ago surfaces afresh in Stephen Daldry's West End revival of Skylight, the power of David Hare's intimate epic fully intact if somewhat redistributed as …
After nearly 20 years on Broadway, half-American, half-Canadian actor Peter Lockyer has crossed the pond to make his West End debut as Jean Valjean in the totemic musical Les Miserables…
Polly Stenham abandons her domestic English environs for an African resort in "Hotel." Kathleen Turner gets growly in "Bakersfield Mist." And Andrew Lippa shows why he is "The Life of the Pa…
Katherine Kingsley has received Olivier nominations in a variety of diverse shows, from Piaf to Singin’ in the Rain, to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The English actr…
New plays from the US are taking over London theatre
Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry are in the running for tonight's Broadway theatre awards - but will they win?
Ben Miles has had no shortage of high-profile stage roles—he played Bolingbroke to Kevin Spacey’s Richard II at the Old Vic and Kristin Scott Thomas’s husband in the West E…
Kevin Spacey is seen before he is heard in Clarence Darrow, the solo play that is doing a brief if ferociously bracing run at the Old Vic, but once the actor stops fiddling with his onstage …
London is whistling “Yankee Doodle” this month: a Rodgers and Hammerstein classic resurfaces, several off-Broadway hits get a British airing and two Americans continue their stel…
Laurence Connor's staging of "Miss Saigon'' in London shifts emphasis from the power of America's military to the suffering of the Vietnamese.
David Hunter has understudied the last two guys to play Guy in the West End incarnation of the hit musical Once—but earlier this month, he nabbed the starring role for himself. The new…
Plays don't come much more baleful than "Titus Andronicus" or chronicle moral decay better than "A Small Family Business.''
It’s been 35 years since Tom Conti won a Tony Award for his career-defining performance in Whose Life Is It Anyway?, followed five years later by his Oscar-nominated star turn in Reube…
It’s been a quarter of a century since Miss Saigon first opened on the West End, starring Lea Salonga, Jonathan Pryce and an unknown Filipino man named Jon Jon Briones in the ensemble.…
Two major musical revivals—a modern British classic and an enduring American one—would already mark out May as a big month for London theater. Add in star turns by two Tony-nomin…
Comment: Brits are on the sidelines in the Tony Awards nominations, finds Matt Wolf
Personal and public lives are exposed in the London plays "Privacy" and "Handbagged."
"I don't think it makes a good play, but it's a remarkable one," Sean O'Casey famously remarked of The Silver Tassie, his late-1920s drama about the depredations of war, and how simultaneous…
Leigh Zimmerman is known for her leggy allure on both sides of the Atlantic, having starred on either the West End or on Broadway (and sometimes both) in Chicago, The Producers and The Will …
Leigh Zimmerman is known for her leggy allure on both sides of the Atlantic, having starred in either the West End or on Broadway (and sometimes both) in Chicago, The Producers and The Will …
What is it with the London theatre and this particular Arthur Miller play? In 1987, Michael Gambon reached a career-best peak playing the Italian-American longshoreman, Eddie Carbone, in a d…
From "King Charles III" to a Noel Coward revival, new productions in London dissect the vagaries of class.
Stage debuts don’t come much more striking than that of 19-year-old Scotsman Martin Quinn, who plays the put-upon Oskar in Let the Right One In. Helmed by Tony winner John Tiffany…
Gavin Creel licked his trophy in delight, Zrinka CviteÅ¡ić spoke of making Croatian history, and Sharon D Clarke let out an exultant "wow" from the podium that was surely heard well be…
Broadway adaptation of Woody Allen film is hard-edged and charmless
