It’s a busy time for rising London star Tom Mison: He plays Emily Blunt’s missing-in-action boyfriend in the current film Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and will be seen on TV with Rebecca Hall and Benedict Cumberbatch in Tom Stoppard’s epic BBC/HBO adaptation of the Ford Madox Ford novel Parade’s End. West End playgoers can ...

One of Broadway's most dependable and versatile musical theater actors, Norm Lewis is celebrating his first Tony nomination for his starring role as the cripple Porgy in Porgy and Bess. Paired with Audra McDonald, Lewis undergoes a startling physical transformation and delivers a heart-wrenching performance in this new adaptation of the classic Gershwin opera. His distinct baritone voice has ...

Since winning back-to-back Tony nominations in 2007 and 2008 for A Moon for the Misbegotten and The Homecoming, Eve Best has hit the big-time on American TV alongside Edie Falco in Showtime's Nurse Jackie. Now the 40-year-old English star is now back on home turf, taking the title role in the electrifying Old Vic revival of The Duchess of ...

One of New York's most acclaimed actresses, Linda Emond has tackled tough roles in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide, received a Tony nomination for her featured role in Life (x) 3 and won two Jefferson awards for her work in Chicago productions of Pygmalion and The Winter’s Tale. Now, at age 52 ...

Michael Ball turns 50 on June 27, but the hugely popular British star has been the one gifting playgoers of late by giving the performance of his career in the West End revival of Sweeney Todd. The dimpled actor might seem unlikely casting for the murderous barber, but Ball and co-star Imelda Staunton have had Adelphi Theatre audiences jumping to ...

Two-time Olivier Award winner Tracie Bennett is not afraid of hard work. For her Broadway debut, the English stage star is giving a tour-de-force performance as an addicted and tormented Judy Garland in Peter Quilter’s End of the Rainbow. At age 50, Bennett racked up a Drama Desk nomination, an Outer Critics Circle nomination, a Drama League nomination and ...

Laurie Metcalf may be best known for her multiple Emmy-winning performance as Jackie on TV’s Roseanne, but she is above all a creature of the stage, as befits a longtime member of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company. At the moment, Metcalf is winning raves for her West End debut as the sorrowful, morphine-addicted Mary Tyrone in Long Day’s ...

Nicole Ari Parker is having one hell of a homecoming. For the first time since graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and heading for Hollywood, she’s back in town headlining the starry Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Parker made her name with roles in films like 200 Cigarettes, Boogie Nights ...

Winner of seven 2012 Olivier Awards, Matilda isn’t just about a literary-minded tot and a battle-axe of a headmistress (Bertie Carvel's Miss Trunchbull). The supporting cast of Matthew Warchus’ hit musical at the Cambridge Theatre includes a sympathetic turn from Melanie La Barrie, the 37-year-old, Trinidad-born performer who plays Mrs. Phelps, the librarian who helps to awaken Matilda ...

After leaping to TV stardom as smart-alecky high schooler Eric Forman in the hit sitcom That ’70s Show, Topher Grace moved on to feature films including Traffic, Mona Lisa Smile, Spider-Man 3 and Paul Weitz's In Good Company. Now Grace has re-teamed with Weitz to make his off-Broadway acting debut opposite Juno alum Olivia Thirlby in Lonely, I’m ...