Dianne Pilkington enjoyed a long and acclaimed West End run as Glinda in Wicked and starred as Amalia in last year’s Chichester Festival revival of She Loves Me, with a stint in The 39 Steps (her first play) in between. Now, the English actress is back on the West End in yet another American title, Terrence McNally’s Master ...

Back in the 1990s, comedian and liberal activist Janeane Garofalo became the poster child for jaded twenty-somethings after starring in Reality Bites, The Truth About Cats and Dogs and The Larry Sanders Show. Now, Garofalo is making an ambitious career move in the New Group's premiere production of Russian Transport, a family drama by Erika Sheffer. Garofalo stars as ...

Ramin Karimloo spent many years wearing the most famous of musical theater masks, first in The Phantom of the Opera and then its sequel, Love Never Dies, for which he received an Olivier Award nomination as Best Actor. Now the 33-year-old performer has shifted mega-musicals to play Jean Valjean in Les Miserables at the Queen’s Theatre. Broadway.com caught ...

As Trip Wyeth in Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities, Justin Kirk does what Justin Kirk does best, walking the tightrope between providing comic relief and serving as the unlikely voice of reason. After his sister, Brooke (Rachel Griffiths), returns home with a shocking memoir that threatens to tear apart the wealthy, conservative Wyeth family, Trip becomes both a ...

Siobhan Dillon has spent a busy few years on West End stages, first in Grease and then as Elle Woods’ rival Vivienne in Legally Blonde. Now she has signed on for a yearlong run as the lovesick Molly in Ghost, replacing Caissie Levy, who is prepping for the musical’s Broadway debut. A few days after joining the cast at ...

As Jimmy Porter, the caustic, charismatic lead character in John Osbourne’s Look Back in Anger, Matthew Rhys is on constant alert, ready to lash out at his young wife, Alison (Sarah Goldberg), and a pair of interlopers in their garbage-strewn flat. For his New York stage debut, Rhys has abandoned the stylish suits he wore as gay lawyer Kevin ...

It’s been more than a dozen years since Adam Cooper stormed Broadway as the Swan in Matthew Bourne’s sexy, stylish, revisionist Swan Lake, earning a 1999 Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Musical in the process. Now 40, the former principal dancer with Britain’s Royal Ballet has embarked on a productive and varied freelance career that ...

Beau Bridges may be new on the Broadway musical scene, but this show-biz vet has more than a few theatrical productions under his belt. Bridges debuted on the Great White Way 45 years ago in William Inge's Where’s Daddy? and made a foray into musicals in the 2009 Hollywood Bowl production of Guys and Dolls. He co-starred with ...

Not everyone gets to make a West End splash as a lovesick, poshly spoken, faintly dimwitted chap who also happens to be wildly hairy and vaguely masochistic. “I, too, enjoy pain,” the character Stanley Stubbers declares well into the first act of One Man, Two Guvnors, arching a comic eyebrow. As Stanley, actor Oliver Chris is a major reason why ...

Priscilla Queen of the Desert star Nick Adams has worked consistently in Broadway ensembles for the past five years, showing off his dancing skills in shows such as La Cage Aux Folles, Guys & Dolls, The Pirate Queen and Chicago. Adams has come a long way since gaining tabloid attention for his buff physique in A Chorus Line (including a "rivalry ...