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Notable theatrical offerings in London include a riveting play about Stalin, a strained take on intrigue around Wallis Simpson and a production about the early Beatles.
At 58, and with four Tony Awards to show for his sterling career, Boyd Gaines is only now making his U.K. theater debut alongside Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy,…
At 6’2”, Mark Evans may not be the tallest Fiyero ever in the London production of Wicked: That honor goes to Oliver Tompsett, 6’3”, who has subsequently moved across…
A sequence of London openings put various sorts of meltdowns center stage.
John Leguizamo has headlined three Broadway solo shows, not to mention countless movie and TV appearance, but only now is the 47-year-old performer making his London stage debut. The Colombi…
Andrew Knott was scarcely into his teens when the actor, 32 next month, appeared as Dickon in the 1993 screen retelling of The Secret Garden, starring Maggie Smith. Nearly two decades later,…
Bill McCabe uses Richard as his professional first name, since there was already a Bill McCabe in Equity, the actors’ union. But there is only one Scottish-born actor, now 51, who has …
Lisa Eichhorn was a celluloid “it” girl three decades ago, leaping to stardom opposite Richard Gere in the 1979 film Yanks, followed by the cult classic Cutter’s Way alongs…
Language is the key in a revival of "The Playboy of the Western World;" "Terrible Advice" centers on two cads, and a rock show is laden with hummable tunes.
The human spirit won't be easily vanquished, or so we're led to believe from Cool Hand Luke, which in itself should provide succour to those trapped at this stage adaptation of the novel tha…
Recording star Shayne Ward is a 2005 winner of Simon Cowell’s X Factor, but only now is the Twitter favorite making his West End debut. Ward, soon to be 27, has signed on through March…
At 23, newcomer Elisabeth Hopper isn’t that much older than Miranda, the teenage castaway she is playing in Trevor Nunn's hit London production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, op…
"Decade," a mosaic of responses to the Sept. 11 tragedy, acts as a textual tapestry of grief, rage and compassion -- and as first-rate theater, too.
Lucy Briers comes by her theatrical leanings naturally as the daughter of actress Ann Davies and the veteran English comic actor Richard Briers (a 1998 Tony nominee for his Broadway performa…
Alex Gaumond was adorable (and sang up a storm) as Emmett in Legally Blonde, garnering an Olivier Award nomination, and the Montreal native has since gone all rock-starry and cool (while sti…
Two plays toy with structure and time, and the cockeyed optimist comes to town.
Memo to William Shakespeare: could we have more, please, in The Tempest of the anxious, angsty Prospero, the mortality-minded magus played in his most riveting theatre performance in years b…
It's grin and bear it - even on occasion bare it - time at Shakespeare's Globe, which closes its 2011 season not with a bang but with a wearyingly facetious whimper. A nice idea that in diff…
Martin Marquez has worked extensively around London, often in the not-for-profit theater. For now, Martin is appearing at the Victoria Palace as Dad in Billy Elliot, the same role that won G…
He has opened in Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" for a limited run in which he plays a swaggering Irish stoker last played on Broadway in 1993 by Liam Neeson.
After years of exploring classic plays—from Shakespeare and Stoppard to David Hare and Alan Bennett—at the National Theatre, Adrian Scarborough is making his musical theater debu…
Who says little guys finish last? As the diminutive Lord Farquaad in the West End incarnation of the Broadway musical Shrek, Nigel Harman all but walks off with the Drury Lane production, pl…
Sam Attwater has done the British TV soap opera rounds, first in Hollyoaks and then EastEnders. In March, he hit it big on the reality competition Dancing on Ice, delivering a show-stopping …
Sam Attwater has done the British TV soap opera rounds, first in Hollyoaks and then EastEnders. In March, he hit it big on the reality competition Dancing on Ice, delivering a show-stopping …
The South Bank complex has just opened a fourth performance space to showcase a double bill of four new works by young playwrights, running in repertory through September.
