Merrily We Roll Along may have flopped on Broadway in 1981, but the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical—the story of a three-way friendship that begins at the end and rewinds to the beginning—seems to lead a charmed life in London. Michael Grandage’s 2000 production won the Olivier Award for best musical, while Maria Friedman’s latest staging ...

Lauren Ward first impressed New York theater audiences with her performance as the title character in Violet, the 1997 off-Broadway musical that continues to be staged around the country. The rising star jumped to 1776 as Martha Jefferson, but her career took a turn after she played Young Sally in the 2001 Broadway revival of Follies and fell in love ...

It’s been 22 years since Robert Sean Leonard last appeared on stage in London as George Gibbs in Our Town. Half a lifetime later, the 44-year-old star of TV’s House is back in town prepping to play Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch in Christopher Sergel’s stage version of To Kill a Mockingbird. Timothy Sheader’s production of the ...

After two decades in the theater, Kristine Nielsen finds herself a first time Tony nominee for her hilarious and touching performance as spinster sister Sonia in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Nielsen has previously stood out in Christopher Durang’s Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them, Miss Witherspoon and Betty’s Summer Vacation, as ...

Annaleigh Ashford made a memorable Broadway debut in 2007 as ditzy sorority sister Margot in Legally Blonde. In the six years since then, Ashford has become one of NYC's most dependable and talented young stage stars with standout performances in Hair, Wicked, Rent and Dogfight. Now, Ashford is reteaming with her Legally Blonde director, Jerry Mitchell, as Lauren loyal ...

Luke Treadaway is one of eight 2013 Olivier Award nominees from the sellout London hit The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, now at the Apollo Theatre with Broadway in its sights. The 28-year-old actor plays 15-year-old Christopher Boone in Simon Stephens’ adaptation of the best-selling novel by Mark Haddon, which probes the enquiring mind of a young ...

After a 25-week national tour, Jekyll & Hyde has finally landed on Broadway, and landing with it is fan favorite Teal Wicks, who plays the role of innocent Emma Carew. Wicks first tread the boards on the Great White Way as Elphaba in Wicked, a role she has performed since 2008 in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Now Wicks is making ...

Declan Bennett was born and brought up in England, spent seven years living and working in New York, and is now playing a lovesick Irish musician in the newly acclaimed London production of Once. Bennett comes to the role of Guy (created by Tony winner Steve Kazee) after Broadway appearances in American Idiot and Rent, as well as a recording ...

For more than 25 years, Cady Huffman has been entertaining Broadway audiences as the big-belting, leggy standout in shows like La Cage aux Folles, Steel Pier and a Tony-nominated turn in The Will Rogers Follies. Of course, Huffman is best known for her Tony-winning performance as blonde bombshell Ulla opposite Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in The Producers. Now, she ...

A Chorus Line is back on the London boards for its first West End revival in almost four decades. In an Anglo-American cast of hard-working hoofers, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, 31 in May, stands out as Diana Morales, the Latina who sings to us in no uncertain terms of “what I did for love.” A veteran of Flashdance in town and Gypsy ...