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Today I’m going to a graduation ceremony at Arts Educational Schools London for the musical theatre three-year course. Full disclosure: this is
Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51, seen in 2010 at Off-Broadway's Ensemble Studio Theater, receives its London premiere in a new production that stars Nicole Kidman, officially openin…
This week I had another birthday -- but it wasn't any birthday: Scott Alan threw a public birthday bash for me. And it was the best of my life!
There's no one quite like Harvey Fierstein on (or off) the Broadway stage. From fringe figure in the Off-Broadway scene of the
The 10th anniversary year of the Oscar-winning film "Brokeback Mountain" is to be marked by the first-ever theatre adaptation of Annie Proulx's short story it was based…
The forthcoming Kenneth Branagh Company season of plays, originally announced here, will see three of them broadcast live to U.K. and international cinemas in partnership with Picturehouse.
Some shows divide audiences and critics alike. Partly, of course, its about taste: I can’t abide celery, others love it. And I
Last week, in lieu of this column, there was an extensive London preview here of the coming fall season.
The busy autumn really starts getting into gear this week with three major West End openings, yet again showing just how important
The world premiere of Tamsin Oglesby's Future Conditional "" which inaugurates Matthew Warchus's first season at the helm of London's Old Vic (succeeding Kevin Spacey as artistic…
The European premiere of Harvey Fierstein's 2014 Broadway play Casa Valentina, which earned four Tony nominations, including a nod for Best Play, begins performances at London's Sout…
At a platform at the National Theatre last week to launch a new book The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the
West End Bares 2015: Take Off will be hosted by Graham Norton at the West End's Café De Paris in Coventry Street, W1, Sept. 20, with performances at 9:30 PM and midnight.
Cynthia Erivo, the Broadway-bound star of The Color Purple, who is set to reprise her London performance as Celie in the Menier Chocolate Factory production when it transfers to Broadway…
There’s nowhere in Britain quite like Blackpool. Jane McDonald, who’s just done a run there in Cats, told me when I interviewed
David Threlfall has been tapped to star in the title role of Don Quixote, which will begin performances Feb. 25 prior to an official opening March 3 at the Royal Shakespeare Company's S…
A few years ago, Sam Walters, then artistic director of the Orange Tree Theatre, publicly declared a zero tolerance policy against mobile
I did a week full of repeats of shows I've seen before - two of which I repeated again in the self-same week. (And one of them I even saw twice in less than 24 hours!)
Like most British theatre directors, Matthew Warchus began his directing career in the subsidised sector, first as an assistant at the Bristol
Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51, seen in 2010 at Off-Broadway's Ensemble Studio Theater, receives its London premiere in a new production that stars Nicole Kidman, beginning perform…
The West End is sending Broadway King Charles III and returning The Color Purple to sender as well (with the transfer of the Menier Chocolate Factory's production of the 2005 Broadway mu…
Full casting has been announced for a new U.K. production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's 1927 Broadway classic Show Boat, beginning performances Dec. 10 at Sheffield's Crucib…
Cassidy Janson is to replace the Olivier award winning Katie Brayben in the West End production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, to take over the title role beginning performances Nov.…
London's Almeida Theatre, currently in the midst of a three-play season of ancient Greek plays, has announced that in the fall and winter it will continue to re-invigorate the cl…
Close to You - Bacharach Reimagined, a retitled version of What's It All About? that completes its debut London run at the Menier Chocolate Factory Sept. 5, is to transfer to the Wes…
