At 30, Cassidy Janson has made a considerable name for herself on the London stage, shifting from small-scale musicals (Tick Tick…Boom! opposite Neil Patrick Harris at the Menier Choc…
Simon Gray's 1971 bitter comedy "Butley" is being revived at the Duchess Theatre starring Dominic West, while the Young Vic sees a lively take on Gogol's dark 1836 play "Government Inspector…
Recent weeks have welcomed two new versions of Shakespeare's comedy to London. Why see one when you've seen the other? Well here's a reason: they seem by and large like two different plays.
Nigel Lindsay has performed Pinter and Stoppard, Patrick Marber (Dealer’s Choice) and David Eldridge (Under the Blue Sky). But the actor can currently be found at London's Theatre …
"The Cherry Orchard" at the National Theatre in London is deliberately jarring, and a young playwright ventures on "The Acid Test.''
Love Never Dies is now well into its second year at the Adelphi, where Celia Graham has replaced Olivier nominee Sierra Boggess as Christine Daae. Graham, a 35-year-old from Glasgow, has bee…
New productions in London tackle plays by Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams.
Sarah Lancashire has made a major name for herself in British TV, which is one of the reasons why her galvanic starring performance in the new Cameron Mackintosh/Richard Eyre musical Betty B…
Craig Parkinson is mighty tall (6’4 1/2”) and also inordinately talented: a calm, bespectacled figure of kindness who appears only in the second act of the highly acclaimed reviv…
It’s tempting to think of End of the Rainbow, Peter Quilter’s play-with-music set in London during the last months of Judy Garland’s tumultuous life, as a one-woman show, g…
''London Road'' and "The Holy Rosenbergs" share a stage, and the Royal Shakespeare Company takes on the space race.
Mark Rylance's 'Rooster' Byron is just one of the Britons wowing New York in Broadway shows this springIt's spring on Broadway, and that can only mean two things, both of them time-honoured:…
Sienna Miller is in high spirits as she arrives late one afternoon at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, her pooch Porgy happily in tow. (The newly groomed dog was sporting a green hair bow.) The…
The actor, who has made a career of portraying famous people, will be doing a fresh take on the Lenten tradition of the Passion Play in Wales.
Michael Malarkey, a graduate of the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, is currently rocking out as Elvis Presley at the Noel Coward Theatre in Million Dollar Quartet&mdash…
The Donmar Warehouse's "Moonlight" lacks its creator's shimmer and wit.
There’s hardly a major musical, British or American, that West End veteran Diane Langton hasn’t done at one point or another, whether you’re talking Chicago (as Mama Morton…
"Rocket to the Moon" at the National Theater is the latest in the parade of American works showing on London stages.
Joanna Riding has two Olivier Awards to her name, one for Carousel and the other as a replacement Eliza in My Fair Lady—not to mention further credits ranging from The Witches of Eastw…
''Rocket to the Moon'' at the National Theatre is the latest in the parade of American works showing on London stages.
Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss is making a blazing West End debut in The Children’s Hour, the smash-hit revival of Lillian Hellman’s 1934 melodrama. Moss joins Keira Knightley as a …
It’s been more than a decade since London-born Olivia Williams, 42, made a Hollywood splash in Rushmore, The Sixth Sense and, more recently, as Carey Mulligan’s teacher in An Edu…
Two powerful revivals are on London stages: "Flare Path" and "Ecstasy."
Hannah Waddingham has impressed in numerous West End musicals, including The Beautiful Game, Monty Python’s Spamalot (playing the Lady of the Lake both in London and on Broadway), the …
Illinois native David Bedella may be the first performer actually from Chicago to play the invitingly sleazy lawyer Billy Flynn in the London production of Chicago: The engaging 48-year-old …