Alfie Boe earned a place in musical theater history when the opera star played Jean Valjean last fall at London’s O2 arena in two gala performances commemorating the 25th anniversary o…
Chris Ellis-Stanton is one of the UK’s most appealing young musical actors, having jumped from understudying and playing Billy Flynn in Chicago on the West End to Billy Crocker on tour…
From Ben Miles in "Betrayal" to Haydn Gwynne in "Richard III," supporting players have been stealing shows.
Shakespeare in the Park explores two of Shakespeare's thorny "problem plays" — Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well.
Sharon D Clarke has some of the best pipes in the business, as London audiences who have seen her in We Will Rock You, Hairspray, Once on This Island and Guys and Dolls can attest. The 46-ye…
Dominic West came to prominence in the U.S. playing the American working-class cop McNulty in TV’s much-lauded The Wire. The dashing actor has since forsaken the Baltimore climes of th…
In "The Village Bike," the wonderful new play from Penelope Skinner in the Royal Court's tiny Theatre Upstairs, the devouring sexuality of a village teacher takes center stage.
Samuel Barnett will be long remembered for playing the heartsick student Posner in Alan Bennett’s Tony-winning The History Boys, a performance that earned him a 2006 Best Featured Acto…
It was six years ago that Damian Humbley, not long in London from his native Australia, was cast alongside Ruthie Henshall in the replacement cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman in…
Kristin Scott Thomas tackles Harold Pinter in a revival staged by Ian Rickson.
Nineteen-year-old Danielle Hope is the latest performer to have landed a starring role in a big-budget West End musical via reality TV. Hope won out over some 9,000 girls to become “th…
Caissie Levy has starred in three iconic musicals: Wicked (in L.A., as Elphaba), Rent (on tour, as Maureen) and Hair (on Broadway and the West End, as Sheila). Now she’s taking the lea…
At 30, Cassidy Janson has made a considerable name for herself on the London stage, shifting from small-scale musicals (Tick Tick…Boom! opposite Neil Patrick Harris at the Menier Choc…
Simon Gray's 1971 bitter comedy "Butley" is being revived at the Duchess Theatre starring Dominic West, while the Young Vic sees a lively take on Gogol's dark 1836 play "Government Inspector…
Recent weeks have welcomed two new versions of Shakespeare's comedy to London. Why see one when you've seen the other? Well here's a reason: they seem by and large like two different plays.
Nigel Lindsay has performed Pinter and Stoppard, Patrick Marber (Dealer’s Choice) and David Eldridge (Under the Blue Sky). But the actor can currently be found at London's Theatre …
"The Cherry Orchard" at the National Theatre in London is deliberately jarring, and a young playwright ventures on "The Acid Test.''
Love Never Dies is now well into its second year at the Adelphi, where Celia Graham has replaced Olivier nominee Sierra Boggess as Christine Daae. Graham, a 35-year-old from Glasgow, has bee…
New productions in London tackle plays by Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams.
Sarah Lancashire has made a major name for herself in British TV, which is one of the reasons why her galvanic starring performance in the new Cameron Mackintosh/Richard Eyre musical Betty B…
Craig Parkinson is mighty tall (6’4 1/2”) and also inordinately talented: a calm, bespectacled figure of kindness who appears only in the second act of the highly acclaimed reviv…
It’s tempting to think of End of the Rainbow, Peter Quilter’s play-with-music set in London during the last months of Judy Garland’s tumultuous life, as a one-woman show, g…
''London Road'' and "The Holy Rosenbergs" share a stage, and the Royal Shakespeare Company takes on the space race.
Mark Rylance's 'Rooster' Byron is just one of the Britons wowing New York in Broadway shows this springIt's spring on Broadway, and that can only mean two things, both of them time-honoured:…
Sienna Miller is in high spirits as she arrives late one afternoon at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, her pooch Porgy happily in tow. (The newly groomed dog was sporting a green hair bow.) The…