Scottish-born actor Stephen Ashfield is delighting London audiences as Elder McKinley in The Book of Mormon, giving a career-defining performance every bit as sweetly outrageous and full-thr…
Darius Campbell, the strapping Scottish-born Pop Idol alum, is no stranger to stage musicals that arrive with weighty pedigrees. His commanding Rhett Butler was the best thing about director…
Matt Wolf reviews two new London musicals, "The Light Princess'' and "The Commitments'' as well as Richard Eyre's play "Ghosts.''
The Commitments is the first in a series of high-profile musical premieres in London this fall, a lineup that includes The Light Princess, From Here to Eternity, and Stephen Ward. If there i…
It’s musical month in London, with major openings every week in October. Visitors can choose from the rollicking tale of an Irish soul band, a fairytale debut from Tori Amos, Tim Rice&…
An actor turns playwright while another directs Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream."
That slice of Broadway-upon-Southwark that is the Menier Chocolate Factory has a toxic treat in The Lyons, Nicky Silver's pitch-black and quintessentially New York comedy about a family so i…
Not so long ago, Kristen Beth Williams was a Broadway ensemble player and understudy in such shows as Promises, Promises and Nice Work If You Can Get It. But the 32-year-old Texan has been s…
As The Bodyguard heads towards its first birthday on the West End in December, the musical is welcoming two new leads: Beverley Knight has replaced Tony winner Heather Headley in the late Wh…
Productions of "Edward II," "The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas," and "Fleabag" show that London theater is in a fearsome mood these days.
The American repertoire has featured big-time on the London stage this year but perhaps nowhere more oddly than courtesy the ever-adventurous Orange Tree's staging of a World War Two play fr…
Rare is the Broadway performer who lands two London gigs in a single season, but Tony nominee Colman Domingo is celebrating his first-ever trip to the U.K. with back-to-back runs of his 2009…
Rare is the Broadway performer who lands two London gigs in a single season, but Tony nominee Colman Domingo is celebrating his first-ever trip to the U.K. with back-to-back runs of his 2009…
September’s here, which means it’s all systems go on London stages, on and off the West End. The lineup ranges from visiting American stars (James Earl Jones, Colman Domingo) to …
It's not just Shakespeare as the theater examines a fight for freedom with new female-centric plays like "Blue Stockings," by the director-turned-writer Jessica Swale.
After enjoying two sellout runs at London’s Young Vic, Hattie Morahan is bringing her acclaimed performance as the famously emancipated heroine Nora in A Doll’s House to the West…
Since his 2006 run as a teacher in the Broadway transfer of Alan Bennett’s much-laureled play The History Boys, English actor Stephen Campbell Moore has played Americans in the UK prem…
"The Same Deep Water As Me" takes an uncompromising view of Britain's so-called compensation culture and raises laughs where a more hectoring view of events would find a lament. &…
Douglas Hodge won Olivier and Tony Awards for his flamboyant yet poignant turn in La Cage aux Folles, catapulting this veteran of Shakespeare, Chekhov and Pinter into the musical theater pan…
Playbill.com offers an inside look at the original musical Love's Labour's Lost at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
Why give up on a lucrative thing? That’s the thinking behind the return of Dirty Dancing, which has arrived at London’s Piccadilly Theatre for an encore engagement after breaking…
London's stages currently are offering an unusual wealth of plays written and performed by black dramatists and actors.
Planning a late summer trip to London? There’s lots of great theater to choose from beyond the West End’s many long-running hits. If you’ve got a thirst for what’s ne…
Lenny Henry has long been known as one of Britain’s best and brightest comedians, but the strapping 6’3” talent has been no less impressive in recent shifts to “strai…
A new boss precedes her ascendancy with an exhilarating summer lineup.