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Highlights of 2011 included Richard Bean's "One Man, Two Guvnors" and a revisionist "Hamlet," starring Michael Sheen.
And what a year it was! Comedy was king on stages around town, while a variety of Shakespeare royals -- Richard III Ã deux courtesy Kevin Spacey and the lesser-known but far more electrif…
A generally grim year for musicals (Matilda and Crazy For You very much excepted) nears a belatedly emotional and rewarding close with the Crucible Theatre's revival of Company, which b…
Michael Crawford will be forever remembered as the original Phantom of the Opera, but he has made a splash across all disciplines during his long, awards-laden career. Turning 70 on January …
Pop stars and singers have been crossing over into theater more and more these days, from Shayne Ward (Rock of Ages) and Duncan James (Legally Blonde) in London to Harry Connick Jr (On a Cle…
The Donmar Warehouse's Richard II leads a pack of young male characters, their demons at the ready.
Sharon Gless has appeared three times on the West End but never before to the waves of empathy she is eliciting in A Round-Heeled Woman as Jane Juska, an American woman in her 60s who decide…
Should the people who made Tron - or for that matter James Cameron - ever decide to take on a Broadway musical, they owe themselves a trip to the Menier Chocolate Factory's ludicrous p…
In the six years since America Ferrera appeared off-Broadway in Dog Sees God, the actress, now 27, shot to TV fame in Ugly Betty, scooping up copious awards along the way. Ferrera is now bac…
Neil LaBute has a heart, it seems, and "Matilda" takes wing in song.
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Sean Palmer appeared an English National Opera production of On the Town in the spring of 2007, but this season has seen the Nevada-born co-star of Broadway’s The Little Mermaid move o…
Bertie Carvel made his name across London’s not-for-profit sector, winning raves at the Almeida (Rope), Royal Court (The Pride) and Donmar Warehouse (as Leo Frank in Olivier-nominated …
Don't be misled by the mini-history lesson with which Trevor Nunn's belated London stage premiere of The Lion in Winter begins, a sequence of dates, facts and maps that scroll up a decorativ…
Notable theatrical offerings in London include a riveting play about Stalin, a strained take on intrigue around Wallis Simpson and a production about the early Beatles.
At 58, and with four Tony Awards to show for his sterling career, Boyd Gaines is only now making his U.K. theater debut alongside Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy,…
At 6’2”, Mark Evans may not be the tallest Fiyero ever in the London production of Wicked: That honor goes to Oliver Tompsett, 6’3”, who has subsequently moved across…
A sequence of London openings put various sorts of meltdowns center stage.
John Leguizamo has headlined three Broadway solo shows, not to mention countless movie and TV appearance, but only now is the 47-year-old performer making his London stage debut. The Colombi…
Andrew Knott was scarcely into his teens when the actor, 32 next month, appeared as Dickon in the 1993 screen retelling of The Secret Garden, starring Maggie Smith. Nearly two decades later,…
Bill McCabe uses Richard as his professional first name, since there was already a Bill McCabe in Equity, the actors’ union. But there is only one Scottish-born actor, now 51, who has …
Lisa Eichhorn was a celluloid “it” girl three decades ago, leaping to stardom opposite Richard Gere in the 1979 film Yanks, followed by the cult classic Cutter’s Way alongs…
Language is the key in a revival of "The Playboy of the Western World;" "Terrible Advice" centers on two cads, and a rock show is laden with hummable tunes.
The human spirit won't be easily vanquished, or so we're led to believe from Cool Hand Luke, which in itself should provide succour to those trapped at this stage adaptation of the novel tha…
Recording star Shayne Ward is a 2005 winner of Simon Cowell’s X Factor, but only now is the Twitter favorite making his West End debut. Ward, soon to be 27, has signed on through March…
At 23, newcomer Elisabeth Hopper isn’t that much older than Miranda, the teenage castaway she is playing in Trevor Nunn's hit London production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, op…
