As she takes on the icon in musical drama End of the Rainbow, Monsoon recalls a childhood spent watching Wizard of Oz on repeat – and explains why audiences are ready for trans performers…
An incisive new book, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life," examines the extraordinary career of the master of the musical.
As she takes the words of Grenfell Tower fire survivors to the New York stage, the playwright talks about being drawn to painful subjects, and the disaster's worldwide relevance The night I …
An exhaustive account of ambition, insecurity, and one astonishing career It is hard to know where to start with My Name Is Barbra, the much reported on 1,000‑page memoir that took Ba…
On Broadway, there wasn't an empty seat in the house " and we finally saw how compelling stories of victimhood can be It comes around intermittently every few years; a show on Broadway that …
When his Broadway show became a global phenomenon, the rigours of daily performance kept the actor and songwriter grounded. Then Disney and Hollywood came calling. Now, the 'musical theatre …
The Good Fight star went from relative obscurity in the UK to primetime in the US. Now she's coming home on her own terms Even virtually, Cush Jumbo's energy enters the room before she does,…
The former MP is set to play King Lear in New York " her second take on the role. She talks acting, ambition, and her admiration for the woman 'slogging away' at Brexit Glenda Jackson, 82, e…
As the murderous $1bn musical returns to London, composer John Kander and Ann Reinking, one of the first Roxies, unpick the secrets of its successIn the spring of 1924, Maurine Watkins, a yo…
The creator ​of ​the hit musical, ​whose fans range from Barack Obama to Salman Rushdie​, reveals how​ ​mixtapes, hip-hop​ and America's foun…
Public Theater, New YorkThere is something deeply gratifying about seeing these characters, worn over centuries to archetypes, shaken into relevance by sheer force of performanceOne advantag…
There's no plot, no subtext and no apparent point, but the tunes " including Memory, sung by Leona Lewis " drill into your brain like a flesh-eating worm Related: Leona Lewis on joining Broa…
Lincoln Center festival, New YorkThough the production is traditional, with Jonathan Pryce as Shylock leading the cast, it has truths to impart about modern hatred, violence and prejudiceSo …
Lincoln Center Festival, New YorkThe Kander and Ebb musical gets a new lease of life and a kitsch encore thanks to a delightfully playful production by Japan's single-sex troupe Chicago, the…
Part docu-theatre, part love story, the innovative Privacy reveals that the more we share online, the less available our interior lives become to ourselvesAt the beginning of Privacy, James …
They are one of the greatest combos in the history of musicals. The Pulitzer-winning pair behind Into the Woods talk about bumpy first nights, how to read audience coughs " and why shows tod…
When Stephen Sondheim was in his 30s, he would get approached, occasionally, by out-of-town theatre companies, struggling with a production. He was the hot new thing, the lyricist of West Si…
An encyclopedic account of the American musical.
In Robert Gottlieb’s sharp, efficient biography of Sarah Bernhardt, the woman whose name is a byword for theatrics emerges as the first modern celebrity.
He may be adored for his portrayal of Hawkeye the wisecracking doctor in MASH, but Alan Alda has a second passion: science. Which is why he has written a play, Radiance, about the hounding o…
She made her name playing Queen Victoria and Meryl Streep's mean assistant " but is Emily Blunt as plain-speaking in real life? Continue reading...
The Broadway musical, The Last Ship, is struggling and there's only one way to save it. Sting has to join the cast himself Continue reading...
The comic actor, who has died aged 82, performed a version of herself that became as famous as the songs she sangI interviewed Elaine Stritch six years ago, when she was still in residence a…
Andrew Lloyd Webber's monster hit has all the subtlety of a plunging chandelier but it will soothe and transport youThe Phantom of the Opera is a perfect expression of the time it was writte…