David Grindrod is a West End casting legend. Having enjoyed a long and fruitful partnership with Andrew Lloyd Webber, he now runs his own company based at the Palace Theatre (the former home…
Meet Bill Deamer, London's latest star theatre choreographer, the man behind the feet and movement of the screen-to-stage musical Top Hat.
New Adventures, which began in 1987 as “a group of friends who just wanted to get together to perform and choreograph”, is now one of the best known dance companies working today…
Composer and musical director Richard Beadle recently released his debut album, Songs. Here, he talks to Whatsonstage.com about the inspiration behind his music and reveals a few of his favo…
Following highly acclaimed performances as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz in the West End and the Witch in Into the Woods at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, Whatsonsta…
The playwright behind Freud's Last Session has crafted a new play about another doctor — sexpert Ruth Westheimer. Playbill catches up with Mark St. Germain.
I am always excited when I get a chance to host a class in the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. This year, my colleague and friend Fred Fehleisen …
Jude Owusu is currently appearing in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of Julius Caesar as Cinna the Poet, the short-lived character who becomes the innocent victim of a b…
The archetypal love triangle gets an intense twist in Cock, Mike Bartlett's controversial comedy about a young man torn between two lovers, one male and one female. Meet young star Cory …
Tony Award-winning Thoroughly Modern Millie choreographer Rob Ashford is celebrating his seventh Tony Award nomination for the first-ever Broadway revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice…
Rising star John Heffernan is currently appearing in The Physicists at the Donmar Warehouse, which opens on Thursday (7 June 2012, previews from 31 May). Since graduating Webber Douglas in …
Meet busy actor Jeremy Shamos, the Clybourne Park Tony Award nominee who successfully walks the line between leading man and character actor.
Busy director Pam MacKinnon talks about new plays, "table work" and the complexity of Bruce Norris' acclaimed American play Clybourne Park.
A brand new production of Ragtime the Musical, the show based on E L Doctorow's classic 1975 novel, opened at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre on 28 May. With a book by Terrence McNally, m…
"Beef Encounter is the only thing ever to have been conceived on a walking holiday," maintains Claire Carroll. British actress and playwright, Claire, had wanted to go on a cruise to the Nor…
Porgy and Bess never had the subtitle or, Clara and Jake, but Nikki Renée Daniels and Joshua Henry make such a strong impression in the new Broadway "revisal" of the George …
Gbolahan Obisesan's Mad About The Boy, which won a Fringe First at Edinburgh last year, receives its London premiere at the Unicorn Theatre tonight (17 May 2012, previews from 12 May) before…
Playbill catches up with Danielle Ferland, the original "Little Red" of Broadway's Into the Woods, now playing The Baker's Wife at Westport Country Playhouse.
Encounters, the Bush's double bill of one-woman plays opened last night and Friends star David Schwimmer who directed Dry Ice by Sabrina Mahfouz was at the after-party to celebrate the show'…
Newsies choreographer Christopher Gattelli, nominated for a 2012 Best Choreography Tony Award, talks about collaborating with his young cast to tell story through dance.
Tony Award winner Jonathan Pryce (Miss Saigon, Comedians) reflects on the work of playwright Harold Pinter on the occasion of a new British production of The Caretaker, now playing BAM&…
Louise Pitre, who received a Tony nomination for her performance as pop-star mother Donna Sheridan in Broadway's Mamma Mia!, takes on Auntie Mame at Goodspeed Opera House.
Cardiff-born Peter Gill has had a long and illustrious career in the theatre as an actor, a playwright and a director with major associate and artistic directorial stints at the Royal Court,…
This month we watch a new set of films from Noel Coward and David Lean, including "Brief Encounter"; the Titanic tale, "A Night to Remember"; Louis Malle's "Vany…
Songs by theatre lyricist Tim Rice — the wordsmith of "I Don't Know How to Love Him," "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?…