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This production of The Real Thing by Sir Tom Stoppard
The October explosion of musicals continues into November with a heady mixture of new shows and revivals that mix beloved British names like Gemma Arterton and Catherine Tate with Broadway g…
The famous siblings are making their Broadway debuts this autumn: who will take home the acting honours? Continue reading...
Amid a busy month for musical upgrades to the West End from smaller playhouses elsewhere, the Kinks musical Sunny Afternoon, stands apart as a celebration of some of the most enduring songs …
A look at Phyllida Lloyd's new all-woman "Henry IV," and bumpy revivals of "Uncle Vanya" and "East Is East" in London.
A template of the American theatre gets dusted off to quietly devastating effect in Our Town, the 1938 Thornton Wilder play that has never been especially beloved in Britain even as it gets …
Jenna Russell needs no introduction as a London musicals mainstay, with credits ranging from Sarah Brown in the Michael Grandage-directed Guys and Dolls to a range of Sondheim musicals that …
The National Theatre's new Dorfman auditorium gets off to a kick-ass start with Here Lies Love, the Off Broadway musical transplant that does for the closing months of Nicholas Hytner's tenu…
Tony nominee Brandon Victor Dixon (The Color Purple) was center stage in the original New York production of the John Kander and Fred Ebb musical The Scottsboro Boys in 2010, only to miss ou…
The new London revival of David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow," with Lindsay Lohan and Richard Schiff, seemed a little too cautious.
The lazy days of summer are all but forgotten as the theater season kicks into autumnal overdrive. Highlights this month include a slew of New York musicals either making their London debuts…
What's the buzz at the Dominion Theatre on Evita's opening week? A star is born. Portuguese actress Madalena Alberto, who plays Eva Peron in the new revival, is w…
Enda Walsh's "Ballyturk" opens at the National Theater; the Royal Court stages Rory Mullarkey's "The Wolf From the Door"; and "The Comedy of Errors" shows at Shakespeare's Globe.
As Ewan McGregor and Rupert Grint take to the New York stage, Matt Wolf looks back at the most memorable Broadway debuts.
“Last Night of the World”—not to mention the rest of the now-iconic score of Miss Saigon—has provided the first flush of stardom for Eva Noblezada, the teenager …
The play "Little Revolution," about the 2011 London riots, falters, while two other plays, "Breeders" and "The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd" underwhelm.
American performer and YouTube sensation Christina Bianco hasn’t exactly been sitting idle since moving to London. Not only is she in previews for the West End transfer of Forbidden Br…
First it was our star actors, now it's our award-winning dramatists who are set to storm Broadway, as a host of British plays transfer from London to the New York stage
The role of Albert in the long-running War Horse has produced some highly distinguished alumni, starting with Luke Treadaway, who went on to win an Olivier Award for The Curious Incident of …
The days are getting shorter, and in the theater world, that’s good news! The fall season is revving up, and this month marks the West End arrival of both Olivier Award-winning veteran…
The London summer openings of "Medea," "Julius Caesar" and "Dogfight" give pride of place to the actresses.
This has been a busy season for Off Broadway musicals crossing the pond to London, from Dessa Rose and Dogfight to Forbidden Broadway and See Rock City. But for simplicity of approach couple…
Who says you can’t go home again? Kerry Ellis has returned to her defining role as Elphaba in Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre for a limited run through October, barring certain p…
Geronimo Rauch not only has one of the best names on the West End, but the Argentinian actor has also had two of the best jobs. He first played Jean Valjean in Les Miserables at the Queen&rs…
Lauren Bacall, who has died at the age of 89, was an iconic figure on screen. She spoke one of the immortal lines in film history when all but exhaling the remark, "You just put your lips to…
