62 stories by "Ruth Leon"
The monthly missive from Across the Pond offers an insider's look into the Royal National Theatre's new director and a first glimpse of Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson's new mu…
The monthly missive from Across the Pond offers an insider's look into immersive theatre and a glance at lunchtime theatre in Great Britain.
The monthly missive from Across the Pond educates readers on historical scandals, a globe-trotting Hamlet and scaled-down productions of The Color Purple and Titanic.
The monthly missive from Across the Pond introduces readers to summer in the city, Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor in Private Lives and Daniel Radcliffe in The Cripple of Inishmaan.
Subway travelers in London and New York are accustomed to being serenaded by a dizzying variety of musicians as we wend our weary way from one platform or line to another. We rarely pay atte…
The monthly missive from Across the Pond introduces readers to Helen Mirren taking The Queen to the streets, a cabaret concert and some puddle-jumping plays.
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The monthly missive from Across the Pond takes readers to John Logan's imaginative piece Peter and Alice, James Graham's political work This House and Henry Goodman in The Winslow Bo…
The monthly missive from Across the Pond looks at the historic London venue known as the Curtain, Morley Prize-worthy books and productions of Our Country's Good, The Vortex, Quartermain…
Look out, Miss Hannigan. Broadway has a new, deliciously wicked villainess, Miss Trunchbull, played by one Mr. Bertie Carvel, already an Olivier Award winner for the new musical Matilda.
The monthly missive from Across the Pond offers perspective on a handful of London's essential theatrical institutions, James Hogan's Ivy and Joan, the year's most engaging …
Maria Friedman, John Lithgow, Simon Russell Beale, Alex Bourne, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Harriet Walter, Phyllida Lloyd, Hannah Waddingham punctuate this month's look at London theatre.
This month's report from England looks at productions of Uncle Vanya, Berenice, 55 Days at Hampstead, Lolita Chakrabarti's Red Velvet, and explores how cabaret blooms at night in Lon…
A look at London's East Indian-set Much Ado About Nothing; Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon in All That Fall; Cabaret and its source material, I Am a Camera; A Chorus of Disapproval; and…
Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge and director Jamie Lloyd on why the verse classic Cyrano de Bergerac still speaks to us after more than a century. To wit: "Each of us has some kind of n…
An amble through the landscape of U.K. theatre, with stops at Matilda, the Donmar Warehouse, Lear at the Almeida and Hedda at the Old Vic and more.
This month's missive offers a reflection on World Stages London, a peek at the freaky London Wonderground, a reunion with Dickens' Women, plus The Last of the Haussmans, The Physicis…
In London, finally a late-night dinner option in the theatre district. Plus, a look at The Sunshine Boys, Birthday, Ragtime and actress-singer Janie Dee.
London attractions at the moment include David Hare's South Downs, paired with its inspiration, Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version, plus Helen Edmundson's Mary Shelley, a ne…
If you're not planning to see Singin' in the Rain, Long Day's Journey Into Night or Collaborators in London, how about a weekend in the country, far from the crowds?
A roundup of spring parties in London, including the presentation of the Sheridan Morley Prize to Stephen Sondheim, plus visits to his Sweeney Todd and the Old Vic's Duchess of Malfi sta…
With the spring arrival of two revivals of his past classics — Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar — Phantom composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will have three musicals on Broadway at the sa…
The monthly roundup of London's theatrical events past, present and future includes a peek into the Young Vic, the National, the Noel Coward and the Rose.
A look at London theatrical events, including Menier Chocolate Factory's Pippin, the Roald Dahl-based musical Matilda and the Broadway-bound One Man, Two Guvnors.
A walking tour of recent, current and upcoming London theatrical events, including programming for 2012 World Stages London, plus Broken Glass, Crazy for You, The Lion in Winter, Collaborato…
A walking tour of recent current and upcoming London theatrical events, including programming for 2012 World Stages London, plus Broken Glass, Crazy for You, The Lion in Winter, Collabators …