Helena Blackman has come a long way since she was discovered on How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?. We talk about Seven Brides for Seven Brothers before it tours to Brighton.
The "Brief Encounter" that's at the Lansburgh Theatre for the next two weeks is hardly a campy parody of the beloved 1945 romantic film, thank heavens. It's a gorgeous, unexpected fever drea…
Clare Foster is trading musicals such as Merrily We Roll Along and Crazy For You for the challenge of performing two Tom Kempinski plays in repertoire at The Octagon Theatre. We caught up wi…
Clare Foster is trading musicals such as Merrily We Roll Along and Crazy For You for the challenge of performing two Tom Kempinski plays in repertoire at The Octagon Theatre. We caught up wi…
The story of Kneehigh Theatre's Brief Encounter, familiar to older readers and film buffs, is about a man and a woman, respectable, middle-class English folks, each married to other people, …
Cheyenne Jackson chats with Playbill.com about returning to the New York stage in the Encores! presentation of The Most Happy Fella.
Venerable plays get made into acclaimed movies (August: Osage County of recent note), and some movies translate successfully to the stage. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is that famous amalga…
Jessica Keenan Wynn, Alice Lee and Elle McLemore chat with Playbill.com about taking on the title roles of the three Heathers in the new musical adaptation of the cult 1988 movie.
Lena Hall, co-starring with Neil Patrick Harris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, chats with Playbill.com about taking on the role of Yitzhak in Hedwig's Broadway premiere.
Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus is doing double duty as the ringmaster of two major New York productions this season. The Tony-winning circus-inspired revival of Pippin is entering …
And it is fascinating. Longtime Times film critic, Kenneth Turan, is not only not happy with the production of Brief Encounter that just finished a run at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the…
Tyne Daly, a Tony Award winner for her work as overbearing stage mother Rose in Gypsy, re-examines motherhood with Katharine Gerard, the central role in Terrence McNally's new Broadway p…
Tam Ryan and John Thompson team up to entertain families in Manchester this Easter. We catch up with the man who peps up many a panto and find out more about the show his way of dealing with…
Playbill.com chats with Ryan McCartan, who stars as JD, the bad-boy love interest in the new Off-Broadway musical Heathers.
This March Sheffield Theatres will be presenting a dance-theatre adaptation of Kes. The story of Billy Casper, an isolated young boy growing up in industrial working class Barnsley who ...
Kindertransport is currently on the second leg of the UK tour. It's in Manchester from 25 March for a week. We catch up with the play's director Andrew Hall to find out more about th…
Award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris chats with Playbill.com about returning to Broadway in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
A group of some 8 or 10 people sit round a long table sharing their opinions and observations about a visit they've just made to a care home. When the time comes for their lunch break, the t…
Mark Babych has been in place as artistic director of Hull Truck Theatre for some nine months and the current programme distinctly shows his input in its structuring and community involvemen…
We caught up with Matthew Rose as he prepares for the world premiere of a new song cycle by Martin Suckling
Playbill.com chats with Barrett Wilbert Weed, who will be seen as Veronica, the rebellious heroine of the forthcoming new Off-Broadway musical Heathers.
Rupert Hill is perhaps best known for starring in Coronation Street. But he also has a successful career in theatre, owns pubs, is a father and he is about to direct one of of the mini plays…
Golden Globe Award nominee Annie Potts made her Broadway debut in the 2009 Tony Award-winning dark comedy God of Carnage. She returns this season, fulfilling a lifelong dream with the princi…
Although not yet 30, Glyndebourne's latest Alfredo has received one of opera's most prestigious awards
Jonathan Freeman, a Tony Award nominee for his performance in She Loves Me, was the voice behind the villainous Jafar in the 1992 movie musical "Aladdin." He's back for more an…