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The actor, who has made a career of portraying famous people, will be doing a fresh take on the Lenten tradition of the Passion Play in Wales.
Michael Malarkey, a graduate of the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, is currently rocking out as Elvis Presley at the Noel Coward Theatre in Million Dollar Quartet&mdash…
The Donmar Warehouse's "Moonlight" lacks its creator's shimmer and wit.
There’s hardly a major musical, British or American, that West End veteran Diane Langton hasn’t done at one point or another, whether you’re talking Chicago (as Mama Morton…
"Rocket to the Moon" at the National Theater is the latest in the parade of American works showing on London stages.
Joanna Riding has two Olivier Awards to her name, one for Carousel and the other as a replacement Eliza in My Fair Lady—not to mention further credits ranging from The Witches of Eastw…
''Rocket to the Moon'' at the National Theatre is the latest in the parade of American works showing on London stages.
Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss is making a blazing West End debut in The Children’s Hour, the smash-hit revival of Lillian Hellman’s 1934 melodrama. Moss joins Keira Knightley as a …
It’s been more than a decade since London-born Olivia Williams, 42, made a Hollywood splash in Rushmore, The Sixth Sense and, more recently, as Carey Mulligan’s teacher in An Edu…
Two powerful revivals are on London stages: "Flare Path" and "Ecstasy."
Hannah Waddingham has impressed in numerous West End musicals, including The Beautiful Game, Monty Python’s Spamalot (playing the Lady of the Lake both in London and on Broadway), the …
Illinois native David Bedella may be the first performer actually from Chicago to play the invitingly sleazy lawyer Billy Flynn in the London production of Chicago: The engaging 48-year-old …
A TV talent show star plays Dorothy in the staged version of "The Wizard of Oz," while "Spelling Bee" looks at competitive culture and "Drowning on Dry Land" pits a loser against a children'…
Few North Americans have made the swift impression on the London theater scene left by 25-year-old Sarah Goldberg, a Vancouver native who came to London six years ago to attend drama school …
The hottest ticket of this still-young London theater year is the director Ian Rickson’s scorching revival of The Children’s Hour, Lillian Hellman’s play about charges of l…
A new production of Brian Friel's play at the Old Vic in Bristol is mesmerizing.
Ben Goddard accompanied himself on guitar and flute—among other instruments—as Joe Gillis in a pared-down West End revival of Sunset Boulevard and spent the better part of a year…
The 39 Steps ranks as the West End’s longest currently running comedy, and Rufus Wright has just stepped into the leading role of stiff-upper-lipped hero Richard Hannay. This affection…
"Greenland'' at the National Theatre in London offers worst-case scenarios for the planet, alongside the occasional fact and a heartening burst of pop culture.
Four years out of Cambridge University, Robyn Addison is making her professional stage debut opposite Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles in Sir Peter Hall’s production of The Rivals, the …
Harriet Thorpe may be best-known in the US as Patsy’s chum Fleur in TV's Absolutely Fabulous, but the actress has been a mainstay of West End musicals for years. Thorpe played Frau…
The much heralded "Twelfth Night" is on at the National Theatre in London and "Becky Shaw," imported from America has its own handy glossary.
It’s not always the case that an alternate leading lady ends up the star, but that is now happening at London’s Savoy Theatre, where 27-year-old Dubliner Susan McFadden has repla…
Jonathan Cake is marking a homecoming of sorts by spending a London winter co-starring with his old friend (and Cambridge University classmate) Tom Hollander in the Feydeau farce A Flea In H…
Fine acting redeems "A Flea in Her Ear" at the Old Vic, but "The Invisible Man'' at the Menier Chocolate Factory falls flat.
