At 26, and only a few years out of drama school, Cynthia Erivo is making the sort of London theater splash of which dreams are made. The diminutive powerhouse opened on July 15 at the Menier…
John Gordon Sinclair wasn’t yet 20 when he burst on to the screen in the 1981 Bill Forsyth film Gregory’s Girl, and the Scottish-born actor has distinguished himself on stage in …
The British comedian Lenny Henry is giving one of the performances of the year as the Pittsburgh sanitation worker whose world implodes around him in August Wilson's American tragedy. &…
Talk about absence making the heart grow fonder! I'm referring not simply to the news value of Kenneth Branagh making one of his comparatively rare returns to the theater, this from an actor…
Anna-Jane Casey has sung Sondheim at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Rodgers and Hammerstein at the annual Royal Albert Hall Proms and co-starred in the most recent London incarnation of Fo…
At last, warm weather has come to London, and the theater season continues to sizzle, as well. This month’s pickings include new projects from 2013 Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton…
Reviews of Tennessee Williams's "Sweet Bird of Youth," with Kim Cattrall, and Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan," with Daniel Radcliffe.
Can theatrical lightning strike twice? That certainly looks to be the case at the Donmar, which has followed Josie Rourke's expert revival of Conor McPherson's contemporary classic, The Weir…
London stage favorite Dianne Pilkington spent three years on the West End as Glinda in Wicked and was one of Tyne Daly’s students in the London transfer of Master Class early last year…
Patti LuPone says she loves London though one sometimes wonders why, given the treatment that Broadway's original Evita has endured at the hands of a particular English composer, who also ha…
Doug Lucie's signature spikiness remains intact, and then some, in the Defibrillator production of Hard Feelings, which is sure to pack out west London's tiny Finborough and might well be a …
At 28, Gary Wood is appearing in his third production of A Chorus Line, this time at the London Palladium. As Paul, the soft-spoken gay Puerto Rican whose monologue stops the show with no si…
Simon Godwin directs a new National Theatre production of an American drama for which the British would seem to have more of an affinity than compatriots back home.
Cyndi Lauper triumphs at New York's Tony Awards as British import Matilda fails to win the crucial Best Musical prize.
RSC musical Matilda may suffer for its sophistication at the Broadway awards when they take place tonight, says Matt Wolf.
Rufus Hound has made a sizable name for himself as a comedian on the British stand-up circuit and recently starred on screen in The Wedding Video. Now, the 34-year-old Englishman is spending…
Far from being put off by an overabundance of a certain play, audiences in Britain seem to enjoy collecting different experiences from each rendition the drama.
London theater is looking and sounding very American these days. But there are plenty of notable British-born ventures to lure early summer stagegoers, as well, including the long-awaited mu…
London theater is looking and sounding very American these days. But there are plenty of notable British-born ventures to lure early summer stagegoers, as well, including the long-awaited mu…
Robert Sean Leonard of "House" fame provides an American backbone for "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park.
Robert Sean Leonard of "House" fame provides an American backbone for "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park.
The fast-rising Broadway actor Seth Numrich began the season in Lincoln Center Theater’s acclaimed revival of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy, and now the Juilliard-trained 26-ye…
The pronouns have it in Alan Ayckbourn's career-defining comedy of spiralling misunderstandings, which has arrived on the West End 46 years after first hinting at the formidable talent of a …
Merrily We Roll Along may have flopped on Broadway in 1981, but the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical—the story of a three-way friendship that begins at the end and rewinds to the …
In revivals of "The Weir" and "Passion Play," time can be kind " or not so.