How does it feel to bring West Side Story back to London? Fantastic! London audiences are so supportive of our West Side, so it's a pleasure to bring this classic hit back to the Sadler's W…
What attracted you to West Side Story? The Challenge. West Side Story has with out doubt been one of the biggest influences on me as a creative artist. The themes explored through movement …
Are you excited to be revisiting A Doll's House for the third time? I am! It's very odd, you never really expect when you say yes to a job that you will still be doing it in a year's
The title - tell us more Nick Payne: It's a song title - I didn't come up with it, so I can't claim ownership. The Same Deep Water As Me is a song by a band called I Am Kloot. There are refe…
Tell us about [title of show] It's about four friends writing a musical and having a 'ball' doing it. Is the show being adapted at all for a UK audience? Not quite- we are keeping it tru…
Kinky Boots star Billy Porter speaks with Playbill.com about his first connection with Broadway, the cast albums that shaped his life and words of inspiration for his younger self.
Playbill.com sits down with Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Auburn at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's annual National Playwrights Conference.
You're an American who trained at RADA - how did that come about? Through a lifelong love of classical theatre. There aren't many drama schools in the States where you can get that sort of t…
How did you find the rehearsal process? Really good. It's been brilliant to take The Sound of Music and to strip it back and kind of start again with it. We have a lot of creative input - e…
Who or what was the biggest musical influence in your life? I'd say that there have been two major influences. The first was the time I spent at the Drakensberg Boys Choir School in South A…
Playbill.com sits down with Preston Whiteway, the executive director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.
Tell us a bit about Momentous Musicals Basically it's one of your musical theatre compilation shows, if you will, and all of the songs are from "Momentous Musicals". It's going to …
Kneehigh Theatre's Broadway and West End hit, Brief Encounter, is coming down under and promises to take audiences back to a bygone era of romance and the silver screen with its classic …
Playbill.com sits down with Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.
Playbill.com talks with songwriting team Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond about their musical The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes, the story of a man trapped inside a musical.
Who or what was the biggest musical influence in your life? What truly made me want to perform in the first place was Led Zeppelin. I wanted to be a rock star. To play like Jimmy Page or si…
Can you tell us a bit more about your season at the Coliseum? We're offering two programmes. We open on Wednesday (3 July 2013) with Balanchine's Serenade, Nijinsky's Afternoon of a Faun an…
Broadway and "Smash" star Wesley Taylor talks with Playbill about returning to The Eugene O’Neill Theater, the demise of "Smash," his big dreams and why he tweeted …
What drew you to the play? Firstly that it was written by Peter Ustinov, who has always been a fascinating figure within the arts for me - he was a master of so many forms. Although written …
Tell us about this version of Pride and Prejudice Simon Reade [the adaptor] has kept very true to the spirit of the book - so there's a lot of humour in there but he also focuses on the dar…
UK theatre company Kneehigh have announced a cast of both Australians and international stars for the upcoming tour of their Broadway and West End hit Noël Coward's Brief Encounter. Th…
Travis Wall, an Emmy Award nominee for his work on the hit reality television show "So You Think You Can Dance" and choreographer of the Off-Broadway rock musical Bare, wraps up hi…
Perhaps he got the idea watching the acting antics of playwrights like Tracy Letts, Christopher Denham, and Jonathan Marc Sherman — or, reaching farther back, to a member of his own ge…
Lee Mead, who rose to prominence after winning BBC casting show Any Dream Will Do in 2007 to play the title role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, is one of the stars of West …
Courtney B. Vance, who hasn't appeared on Broadway in over two decades, returned to the Great White Way in the Tony-nominated play by the late Nora Ephron, Lucky Guy, and received a 2013…