Articles about The Encounter
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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…
So how did things get to this point, where war between Aquaman and Wonder Woman is tearing the world apart?
Park Theatre, situated near Finsbury Park station, officially opens tonight with the press performance of These Shining Lives. Here, its founding artistic director Jez Bond explains more abo…
Sara Kestelman is starring in Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles, which opens at the Print Room in Notting Hill tonight (14 May 2013).
Transferring from the Ustinov Studio at Bath Theatre Royal, the …
Samantha Bond stars opposite Zoe Wanamaker, Owen Teale, Annabel Scholey and Oliver Cotton in David Leveaux's revival of Peter Nichols' Passion Play, which opens at the West End's Duke of Yor…
As Merrily We Roll Along transfers to the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre, we talk to its debutante director Maria Friedman (pictured in rehearsals), who was nominated for a Whatsonstage.co…
Jonathan Harvey's seminal play Beautiful Thing is 20 years old. Following a recent production at the Royal Exchange, the play is back - this time in London and then on tour. We caught up wit…
What could be a more intriguing way to begin a show that covering the house of a theatre with strands of dismembers Barbie dolls hanging across the isles? There is no lack of spectacle or ta…
Tom O'Connell, a young producer who trained as an apprentice on the Stage One scheme (a former adopted charity of the Whatsonstage.com Awards) is producing the 20th anniversary rev…
James Dacre is currently directing the New Vic's production of The Thrill of Love, which has transferred to the St James Theatre this week (3 April 2013).
Dacre was also last week appointed…
Sharp-tongued renaissance man Tim Minchin turns a page in his Broadway debut as the composer of Matilda, the hit London musical that debuts on Broadway this spring at the Shubert Theatre.
Ian Talbot is an Olivier-Award nominated director, who is currently directing the debut of Dermot Canavan’s play, Third Finger, Left Hand, which opened at the Trafalgar Studios last ni…
Declan Bennett is currently appearing as Guy in John Tiffany's production of multi Tony Award- winning screen-to-stage musical Once, which receives its West End premiere at the Pho…
Steve Kazee, the Tony Award winner for playing Guy in the Broadway musical Once, talks about his sudden exit from the show — and addresses his social-media life, his health issues and …
