Rare is the Broadway performer who lands two London gigs in a single season, but Tony nominee Colman Domingo is celebrating his first-ever trip to the U.K. with back-to-back runs of his 2009…
September’s here, which means it’s all systems go on London stages, on and off the West End. The lineup ranges from visiting American stars (James Earl Jones, Colman Domingo) to …
It's not just Shakespeare as the theater examines a fight for freedom with new female-centric plays like "Blue Stockings," by the director-turned-writer Jessica Swale.
After enjoying two sellout runs at London’s Young Vic, Hattie Morahan is bringing her acclaimed performance as the famously emancipated heroine Nora in A Doll’s House to the West…
Since his 2006 run as a teacher in the Broadway transfer of Alan Bennett’s much-laureled play The History Boys, English actor Stephen Campbell Moore has played Americans in the UK prem…
"The Same Deep Water As Me" takes an uncompromising view of Britain's so-called compensation culture and raises laughs where a more hectoring view of events would find a lament. &…
Douglas Hodge won Olivier and Tony Awards for his flamboyant yet poignant turn in La Cage aux Folles, catapulting this veteran of Shakespeare, Chekhov and Pinter into the musical theater pan…
Playbill.com offers an inside look at the original musical Love's Labour's Lost at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
Why give up on a lucrative thing? That’s the thinking behind the return of Dirty Dancing, which has arrived at London’s Piccadilly Theatre for an encore engagement after breaking…
London's stages currently are offering an unusual wealth of plays written and performed by black dramatists and actors.
Planning a late summer trip to London? There’s lots of great theater to choose from beyond the West End’s many long-running hits. If you’ve got a thirst for what’s ne…
Lenny Henry has long been known as one of Britain’s best and brightest comedians, but the strapping 6’3” talent has been no less impressive in recent shifts to “strai…
A new boss precedes her ascendancy with an exhilarating summer lineup.
At 26, and only a few years out of drama school, Cynthia Erivo is making the sort of London theater splash of which dreams are made. The diminutive powerhouse opened on July 15 at the Menier…
John Gordon Sinclair wasn’t yet 20 when he burst on to the screen in the 1981 Bill Forsyth film Gregory’s Girl, and the Scottish-born actor has distinguished himself on stage in …
The British comedian Lenny Henry is giving one of the performances of the year as the Pittsburgh sanitation worker whose world implodes around him in August Wilson's American tragedy. &…
Talk about absence making the heart grow fonder! I'm referring not simply to the news value of Kenneth Branagh making one of his comparatively rare returns to the theater, this from an actor…
Anna-Jane Casey has sung Sondheim at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Rodgers and Hammerstein at the annual Royal Albert Hall Proms and co-starred in the most recent London incarnation of Fo…
At last, warm weather has come to London, and the theater season continues to sizzle, as well. This month’s pickings include new projects from 2013 Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton…
Reviews of Tennessee Williams's "Sweet Bird of Youth," with Kim Cattrall, and Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan," with Daniel Radcliffe.
Can theatrical lightning strike twice? That certainly looks to be the case at the Donmar, which has followed Josie Rourke's expert revival of Conor McPherson's contemporary classic, The Weir…
London stage favorite Dianne Pilkington spent three years on the West End as Glinda in Wicked and was one of Tyne Daly’s students in the London transfer of Master Class early last year…
Patti LuPone says she loves London though one sometimes wonders why, given the treatment that Broadway's original Evita has endured at the hands of a particular English composer, who also ha…
Doug Lucie's signature spikiness remains intact, and then some, in the Defibrillator production of Hard Feelings, which is sure to pack out west London's tiny Finborough and might well be a …
At 28, Gary Wood is appearing in his third production of A Chorus Line, this time at the London Palladium. As Paul, the soft-spoken gay Puerto Rican whose monologue stops the show with no si…