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Neil LaBute
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The Bush Theatre has announced its winter and spring season for 2009. Included in the season are works by Neil LaBute, Steve Waters and Alexi Kaye Campbell, as well as an audience-inspired new work by Bush playwrights.
First in the season will be Neil LaBute's Wrecks, which will run from February 10 to March 28. The one-man play, starring Robert Glenister and directed by Josie Rourke, is a passionate monologue about the nature of life and death and what society will accept in the name of love. It recently played off-Broadway starring Ed Harris....
Kathryn Evans
January 12, 2009 03:48 PM
Kathryn Evans in Sunset Boulevard
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Kathryn Evans is no stranger either to the West End or to musical theater, but the alumna of Evita, Mack and Mabel, and Anything Goes, among very many other titles, has surely never had as demanding an assignment as she is currently facing at the Comedy Theatre in Sunset Boulevard. Evans, who was the last West End Eva Peron in director Hal Prince's original staging, is now playing Norma Desmond—she of the outsized ego and misplaced dreams. She stars in an entirely fresh take on the show from director/choreographer Craig Revel Horwood that finds the cast—all except Evans's Norma—doubling as musicians: think of it as the John Doyle aesthetic minus John Doyle (though very much with his Tony-winning musical arranger, Sarah Travis, in tow). A different physical set—the designer is Diego Pitarch—allows for a focus on character, not hydraulics, and puts center stage a veteran performer at the top of her game. What follows are Evans' thoughts on playing, perhaps, the most extreme of actresses and on a career that, with this show, is marking its own, very real comeback. ...
Steven Berkoff
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Steven Berkoff’s stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning classic On the Waterfront will transfer to the West End. Conceived and directed by Berkoff and co-written by the screenplay’s original writers Budd Schulberg and Stan Silverman, performances begin at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on January 28, 2009 with opening night set for February 12.
Simon Merrells will reprise his performance as ex-fighter turned longshoreman Terry Malloy, which he first played in the show's premiere at the Nottingham Playhouse in April of 2008 and again in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August. His other theatre credits include The Life of Galileo and Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads, both for the National Theatre. On televsion, he's been seen in London's Burning. Berkoff himself is also set to join the cast as mobster Johnny Friendly. His plays, many of which he has also directed and appeared in, include Messiah, Shakespeare's Villains, East, West, Salome, Decadence, Kvetch, The Secret Love Life of Ophelia, Requiem for Ground Zero and Sit and Shiver.
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Jimmy Osmond
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Legendary singer Jimmy Osmond is set to star as Billy Flynn in the UK national tour of Chicago. The tour begins at the Alhambra in Bradford on March 9 and will run through June 13, where it ends at the Hippodrome in Birmingham. Osmond, who has signed on for the duration of the tour, will be joined by Emma Barton as Roxie Hart.
Best known for being the youngest member of the world-famous Osmond Family, Jimmy Osmond is currently making his West End debut as Teen Angel in Grease. He made his UK stage debut in 2004 when he appeared in Boogie Nights and was later a contestant on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. As a solo recording artist, he enjoyed success with the song "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" and has earned six gold records, one platinum record and two gold albums. ...
Kerry Ellis
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Wicked star Kerry Ellis will celebrate the British songbook with a series of intimate concerts. The evening, billed as Kerry Ellis Celebrates the Great British Song Book, will take place on June 20 & 21 at the Shaw Theatre.
Ellis most recently played Elphaba in both the West End and Broadway productions of Wicked. She made her first West End appearance understudying Martine McCutcheon in My Fair Lady. She went on to originate the role of Meat in We Will Rock You and has also been seen as Fantine in Les Miserables, Ellen in Miss Saigon, Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and Svetlana in the Chess concert at Royal Albert Hall. In 2008, she released her debut recording, Wicked in Rock, produced by Queen guitarist Brian May....
David Calder, King Lear
One can theorize for longer than it takes to act Shakespeare’s mightiest tragedy about the ways and means of the Bard but sometimes you’re best off purely surrendering to the emotional minefield his plays possess. That was made easier than is usually the case by Calder’s unusually empathic, intelligently spoken Lear at Shakespeare’s Globe: a portrait of a man adrift in a psychic wilderness who on this evidence has clearly only begun to howl....
2008 Best Shows of the Year
December 30, 2008 03:56 PM
With New Year almost upon us, it’s time to reflect on a London theater year just gone, a period during which a near-unknown (Jonathan Slinger) gave a Shakespearean performance for the ages in the Royal Shakespeare Company Richard II and various ensembles—both American and British—eclipsed individual star turns. What follows are my five favorite productions of the year, followed by five singular performances tomorrow. Inevitably, there is a bit of overlap, though the London stage, thank heavens, continues to be sufficiently rich and varied that one could begin naming standout talents and be doing so well into 2009.
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Harold Pinter
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Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter died of cancer on December 24, according to the Associated Press. He was 78.
The highly influential and political scribe was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born on October 10, 1930 in the London borough of Hackney. In 1948 he was accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He published his first poems in 1950 and by 1951 he was accepted at the Central School of Speech and Drama. That same year, he won a place in Anew McMaster's Irish repertory company, renowned for its performances of Shakespeare. Pinter toured again between 1954 and 1957, using the stage name of David Baron. ...
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