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Denzel Washington cuts a serious figure as he sits opposite me, as we meet as part of a packed London press junket to
After the excesses of the Christmas season, hearty drinkers sometimes declare the following month to be ‘dry January’, where they self-impose temporary
Even the title promises songs: adapting the 1997 film The Wedding Singer was a natural fit for a Broadway musical. And so
Last week, the New York Times laid off its second-string full-time theatre critic, Charles Isherwood, who, since 2004, has covered the theatrical
The March 12 performance at the London Palladium will be conducted by composer Jason Robert Brown.
Hamlet for Free festival will also include a discussion with Game of Thrones actor Jacob Anderson.
The live action Disney movie musical Newsies famously flopped on its initial release in 1992, though later it acquired a cult following
Everybody should soon be talking about Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. This new British musical is by turns courageous and outrageous. Inspired by
The London-based playwright also writes the annual Drama Desk Awards and was formerly a producer of Broadway cast albums.
Helen Edmundson’s play stars Romola Garai and Emma Cunniffe.
The Menier Chocolate Factory revival will also feature Anthony Head and Helen George.
From 1944 with their first collaboration on Oklahoma! to The Sound of Music in 1959, Rodgers and Hammerstein dominated Broadway. It was
The BAFTA Awards presented February 12 are the U.K. equivalent to the Oscars
Sunset Boulevard will tour the U.K.; and The Ferryman and Young Frankenstein are both West End bound.
When this English National Opera production premiered in 2015, critical opinions were far from unanimous, with the Evening Standard’s Barry Millington, for
As Valentine’s Day approaches, love is in the air (“… everywhere I look around,” as the John Paul Young song has it);
Show will transfer to the Garrick Theatre after an out-of-town tryout in Newcastle.
The role, relevance and respect for the classics in British theatre has been thrown into the spotlight twice in the past few
Broadway is called the Great White Way because of the lights emanating from Times Square and the dozens of theatre marquees. But
There are times when The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin seems to trying on multiple personalities for size, only so
The production, directed by Sam Mendes, will transfer to the Gielgud Theatre.
If you go to see Half a Sixpence, you will see as many banjos as The Music Man has trombones. But something
Adrian Scarborough and Gawn Grainger will co-star with David Tennant.
The musical will premiere at Curve in Leicester and then tour.
Last Tuesday I hosted the annual Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, in my role as chairman of the drama section of the Critics’
