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Dorothy Duffy is about to star in Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney at the Print Room, which starts previews tonight (27 March) and opens on 2 April.
Her previous theatre roles include …
Stella Gonet is currently appearing in Matthew Dunster's revival of Rodney Ackland's Before the Party at the Almeida Theatre, which opens on Thursday (28 March 2013, previews from 21 March).…
Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife) talks about digging into his Texas roots to create the book of the new Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody, inspired by the film documen…
Janice Okoh won the 2011 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting for Three Birds, which transfers this week to the Bush Theatre following its premiere at the Royal Exchange.
Here, in the first of a…
There is something about Big Top events that brings back the thrill and wonderment of childhood at the circus. Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Human and Horse opened last night to an ov…
Professional dancer Jason Gilkison is the director/choreographer of Burn the Floor, which recently returned to the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre
For those who aren't familiar with the show…
Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown (Parade) talks about seeing his cult hit The Last Five Years from both sides now — as songwriter and director of the new Off-Bro…
Gavin Lee recently took over from Tom Chambers as Jerry Travers in Top Hat at the West End's Aldwych Theatre.
Lee, who originated the role of Bert in the London production of Mary Poppins,
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Charlotte Josephine's one-woman play Bitch Boxer, winner of the Soho Young Writers Competition, runs at Soho Theatre until 9 March ahead of a national tour.
Tell us about Bitch Boxer
It's a…
The film adaptation of Neil LaBute’s slick play Some Girls is poised to make its big debut at this year’s SXSW festival in March. Adam Brody stars in the film about a writer who …
Kerry Ellis is one busy performer. As well as solo concerts, auditioning for The Voice last year, stepping onto the musical stage and releasing albums, she is about to tour the UK - performi…
While the Broadway run of Mary Poppins is playing its final weeks, Playbill catches up with Richard M. Sherman, the surviving member of the Sherman Brothers songwriting duo, who crafted clas…
Mark Benton plays Edna Turnblad in the new tour of Hairspray, which kicks off at Manchester's Lowry Theatre tonight (13 February 2013).
Benton has clocked up previous credits onstage at the…
Mark Brokaw, lauded for directing the works of Paul Vogel, Douglas Carter Beane, Nicky Silver and Kenneth Lonergan, brings his magic to the Broadway premiere of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinde…
Actor and Tony Award-winning songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda will bring his Tony-winning Best Musical In the Heights to the United Palace of Cultural Arts in Washington Heights in a reunion co…
Actor-writer Martin Moran, a Drama Desk Award nominee for his autobiographical solo play, The Tricky Part, picks up the pieces of his story for his new work, All the Rage, about finding grac…
Musical theatre actress Julie Atherton is currently appearing in new musical Lift , which premieres tonight (1 February 2013, previews from 30 January) at Soho Theatre.Craig Adams' show is s…
Following a stellar 2012, which saw no less than five major productions of his work in the UK, playwright Simon Stephens has returned to one of his early plays, 2002's Port, with a revival a…
Lucy Bailey's new RSC production of The Winter's Tale,
starring Tara Fitzgerald and Jo Stone-Fewings, opens in the Royal
Shakespeare Theatre this week (30 January, previews from 25 January)…
Master lyricist Sheldon Harnick talks about his musical-theatre career on the occasion of a new Encores! concert revival of his Fiorello!, the biographical musical about New York City Mayor …
Meet Sharr White, now making his Broadway playwriting debut with his lean 75-minute drama, The Other Place, about the splintering of a woman's world.
Cal McCrystal is an award-winning clown and comedy director who has worked with the likes of The Mighty Boosh, Spymonkey and Cirque du Soleil.
Among recent projects he directed the physical…
Amy Herzog's praised new play The Great God Pan ends its extended run at Playwrights Horizons Jan. 13, but her Belleville is in the wings at New York Theatre Workshop's home downtown…
Michael G Smith is the artistic director of Kooza, Cirque du Soleil's latest show to play at the Royal Albert Hall.
Billed as "an adrenaline rush of acrobatics in a zany kingdom", Kooza ope…
British producer Cameron Mackintosh, who shepherded the musical Les Misérables from its French album/arena roots to the London, Broadway and international stage, talks about the new m…
