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The surprise Pulitzer win by the Broadway musical Next to Normal has New York abuzz. Does that bode well for a West End run?Next to Normal has won the Pulitzer prize for drama, the first tim…
Richard Kind’s stage credits range from The Producers and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife to a 2013 Tony nomination for the Clifford Odets play The Big Knife, and now the ever-b…
Contemporary London life in all its forbidding, faceless swirl makes for a visually busy evening at Boy, the Leo Butler play that finally isn't as fully arresting as one keeps wanting it to …
A bounty of Shakespeare at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in London offers a rare opportunity to compare and contrast the works.
Tamzin Outhwaite is a major TV name in Britain, where her West End credits include Di and Viv and Rose and the title role in Sweet Charity, but the actress is returning to her roots by co-st…
With a cast led by British duo Ben Whishaw and the mighty Sophie Okonedo, this is a topical take on the Arthur Miller classic.
A Broadway legend recreates her stage role as a screen legend of a bygone era in the same month that sees a fresh West End revival of what is widely considered the first great Broadway music…
On the London stage, unexpected laughs in some unfunny comedies.
Uzo Aduba is a two-time Emmy winner for her performance as Suzanne (a.k.a. "Crazy Eyes") in the prison drama Orange is the New Black and revealed her gifts as a belter as Glinda in…
Irish actress Denise Gough has gone from comparative unknown to West End star on the back of her acclaimed performance as Emma, an actress battling addiction in Duncan Macmillan’s Peop…
On the London stage, "Welcome Home, Captain Fox!," "The Maids" and "The Patriotic Traitor."
Cedric Neal’s Broadway credits include After Midnight and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, but the Texas-born performer is now U.K.-based, to the benefit of audiences that can see …
Cedric Neal’s Broadway credits include After Midnight and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, but the Texas-born performer is now U.K.-based, to the benefit of audiences that can see …
Shorter feels longer in the West End iteration of Motown the Musical, a minor-league jukebox musical that became a Broadway hit courtesy an unbeatable back catalogue - keep those hits coming…
An innocently intended Friday night out turns into something fearsome indeed in I See You, a Royal Court co-production with the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, that puts the tensions of post-a…
Guys and Dolls transfers with a (largely) new cast, Motown the Musical grooves its way across the Atlantic, and a new musical that folds the atomic bomb, of all things, into its title are am…
A prevailing sense of farewell ripples through this closing production in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse's hugely welcome season of Shakespeare's final quartet of plays. That valedictory feel i…
Tracie Bennett was a 2012 Tony nominee for best actress in a play for End of the Rainbow, in which the pint-sized Englishwoman played Judy Garland. And now the powerhouse performer has retur…
Three plays: A new take on Sarah Kane, an American import and a Matthew Perry debut.
Ilan Goodman may be the son of Olivier Award-winning actor Henry Goodman (Assassins, Chicago) but the RADA-educated performer has been carving a name for himself as a fine talent in his own …
Uncle Johnny instead of Vanya, a passing reference to sharia law, and nary a samovar in sight: surely this can't be the Uncle Vanya that has long been a cornerstone of the British theatre, e…
Three plays in London range the worlds of women on the verge, or simply breaking free.
Janie Dee has won two Olivier Awards and moved from classics to new plays, Shakespeare to musicals. But the protean talent is shifting gears big-time to inherit 2015 Tony nominee Geneva Carr…
Janie Dee has won two Olivier Awards and moved from classics to new plays, Shakespeare to musicals. But the protean talent is shifting gears big-time to inherit 2015 Tony nominee Geneva Carr…
Jennifer Mudge has a slew of New York credits that range from The Philanthropist on Broadway opposite Matthew Broderick to the Witch in Fiasco Theatre’s revelatory Into the Woods off-B…
