I have tried to like Full English, I really have. I love animated comedy " The Simpsons and South Park are two of my all-time favourite TV shows " and appreciate all the time, effort...
And what do they talk about in Lucile Lichtblau's elegant, smart, riveting new play, being given a knockout premiere production at Theatre Exile? The drudgery of daily work life. How to flir…
The intriguing drama doesn't offer any easy answers. But the mother of its most interesting character is correct when she tells her daughter that "the world is full of wickedness."
In The Music Man, Marian Paroo recognizes that Harold Hill is a crook, but falls in love with him anyway because she sees the hope and good will he inspires in people. In Theatre Exile's The…
English Beat at the Gothic Theatre The English Beat performs "I'll Take You There" at the Gothic Theatre Nov. 18, 2012. Dave Wakeling: "As far I was concerned, the 1980s …
Keep the Home Fires Burning: A Very Manderley Holiday, featuring cast members from the Broadway-aimed musical Rebecca, will be offered Dec. 3 at the Manhattan nightspot 54 Below.
INTERVIEW: ADRIAN AND TRACIE PANG The artistic directors of Pangdemonium Theatre (Full Monty, Closer, Spring Awakening, Swimming with Sharks) talk about moving to Singapore, working in the S…
Andrew Lloyd Webber criticised the governments decision to leave arts and culture out of the newly proposed English Baccalaureate exam system in the House of Lords yesterday.
Tony Award recipient Ben Davis, television star Edward Hibbert, "American Idol" finalist Anthony Fedorov and Elena Shaddow are among the cast of Paper Mill Playhouse's producti…
Tamara Rojo has pledged to be "more ambitious" than her predecessors as she looks to transform the English National Ballet into the country's best-loved company.
To revive a long-defunct play is dicing with death for a touring theatre company - was the play ahead of its time, or was it not good enough in any time? W Somerset Maugham was a commercial …
The discovery of a skeleton under a Leicester car park has reignited interest in the maligned monarchTo the headline writers, he's become "the king in the car park". To Shakespeare, he was t…
The Stage (UK) 08/23/12
English National Ballet has had its share of offstage dramas recently, from a sudden switch of directors to a visa crisis. On stage, the company dance Swan Lake with care and confidence, fro…
English Theatre Berlin says it will have to close as puppet Faust and Neil LaBute fail to satisfy German taste for the avant gardeSince its foundation more than 20 years ago, the English The…
Oliver! meets Les Miz. A charming, tuneful and most satifying surprise with a score that could one day become a classic.
Rachel Joyce, an actor turned playwright, has bracing insight into character. She first imagined "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" as a radio play for the BBC and then rewrot…
Our word maven Patricia T. O'Conner Discusses Elizabethan speech"the language that Shakespeare and his actors used, circa 1600, and how it was originally pronounced, which sounds similar to …
As Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters' 14th annual Broadway Barks!, the star-studded dog and cat adoptathon that will be held July 14 in Shubert Alley, approaches, Playbill.com offer…
Peacock, LondonBallet schools are turning out gifted hopefuls in numbers that far exceed the professional opportunities that await them. And it's the idea of giving some of them a temporary …
New English Ballet Theatre is an idealistic venture, a showcase company for young dancers and aspiring choreographers. It has influential patrons, including ballerinas Darcey Bussell and Mar…
Clement Crisp on a programme of new work and Lifar's 'Suite en blanc' to mark the City of London Festival's golden jubilee
Clement Crisp on a programme of new work and Lifar's 'Suite en blanc' to mark the City of London Festival's golden jubilee
The Broadway revival of Cole Porter’s classic musical Anything Goes will take its final voyage on July 8, starring Stephanie J. Block as evangelist nightclub singer Reno Sweeney and Bi…