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Things didn't go well for Eva Perons past and present at this morning's announcement from New York of the nominations for Broadway's 2012 Tony Awards, honouring the best of the 2011/12 theat…
Winner of seven 2012 Olivier Awards, Matilda isn’t just about a literary-minded tot and a battle-axe of a headmistress (Bertie Carvel's Miss Trunchbull). The supporting cast of Mat…
So, what's the "problem"? All is right with the world - or the theatre at least - in the Maori-language staging of Troilus and Cressida from the Auckland-based Ngakau Toa troupe that pi…
Andrew Alexander is the eighth actor to play the debonair, tweed-suited Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps, London’s longest running comedy, at the Criterion Theatre. A graduate of King&rs…
Andrew Alexander is the eighth actor to play the debonair, tweed-suited Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps, London’s longest running comedy, at the Criterion Theatre. A graduate of King&rs…
A new production of "Uncle Vanya" at the Print Room and of "Sweeney Todd" at the Adelphi are impressive renditions of favorite vehicles for actors.
As previously reported, Matilda was the big winner at London’s 2012 Olivier Awards on April 15, taking home a record seven trophies—and the musical’s quartet of young Best …
The 36th Laurence Olivier Awards included a handful of indelible moments, including a joint Best Actress win and six other awards for Matilda. (Meanwhile, multiple nominees such as One Man, …
Matilda, the Royal Shakespeare Company-spawned musical about an extraordinary young girl, managed the extraordinary feat Sunday of snaring a record seven trophies at last night's 36th Lauren…
The effervescent Katherine Kingsley is celebrating her second Olivier Award nomination for the formidable style (and nasal squawk) she brings to sidelined silent movie actress Lina Lamont in…
Reviews of "The Duchess of Malfi'' and "Vera Vera Vera" in a busy London season.
Lindsay Duncan, winner of both a Tony and an Olivier Award for her scintillating performance as Amanda in Noel Coward’s Private Lives, is back on the West End a decade later leading a …
If it's possible to take a loving and empathic approach to decidedly intractable material, the director Michael Attenborough achieves precisely that with Filumena, in which Samantha Spi…
Gregory Doran was today named the incoming artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he will succeed Michael Boyd in the post later this year. The announcement came as no sur…
It’s not easy following in the steps of an Oscar winner like Colin Firth, but the gifted Charles Edwards, who will take the stage beginning March 22 as stuttering monarch George VI in …
The theater offers up a revival from Trinidad and another visit from some contentious Australians.
Phone rings, door chimes, in comes Company, this time sporting surround sound and high definition and at a cinema near you. Tonight marks a rare opportunity to see a New York gala - the sort…
Was it the players, or the play, that has made a phenomenon out of One Man, Two Guvnors, the prize-winning comedy now on its third London theatre and preparing to hop the pond to Broadway ne…
Richard Nelson's "Farewell to the Theatre" and Mike Leigh's "Abigail's Party" are studies in cruelty, the first among a group of expatriates on a U.S. college campus and the second at a cock…
The master's "Hay Fever" is a triumph, and, with a play called "Goodbye to All That," a new wise writer emerges.
The master of the modern musical adores London, a city he first visited in 1952, and it's safe to say that the capital more than repays Stephen Sondheim's affections. The veteran Broadway co…
Dean Chisnall, 29, a regular West End presence in the six years since he left West London’s Arts Educational drama school, is now stepping into the title role in Shrek the Musical at t…
Tyne Daly has won a Tony Award and multiple Emmys and interspersed her TV renown with stage work in the classics (The Seagull), musicals (Gypsy), and new plays (Rabbit Hole). Now she has add…
"Absent Friends'' mines its characters' woes for laughter and pathos, while another revival of "Singin' in the Rain'' leaves audiences damp, but delighted.
Oliver Tompsett made his West End debut in the Madness musical Our House before moving on to Mamma Mia! and a long run as Fiyero in Wicked. The engaging 30-year-old is now getting the vocal …
