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Rock 'n' Roll Confirms March 9 Closing Date

NEWS January 9, 2008 | 10:41AM

The Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll will close on March 9, a production spokesperson confirmed. Although the original press announcements did not specify a closing date, the marquee at the Jacobs Theatre bills the show as a "limited engagement," and press materials since the end of the stagehands strike had listed March 9 as closing.

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Nicole Ansari: Rock-ing to a Broadway Debut

FIRST PERSON December 18, 2007 | 11:11AM

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Among the many subplots in Tom Stoppard's new play Rock 'n' Roll is a flirtation and eventual romance between a Marxist professor at Cambridge played by Brian Cox and a free-spirited Czech poetry student played by Nicole Ansari. Both give skilled performances, but their personal chemistry came naturally: In real life, Cox and Ansari are married ... Read More...

Rufus Sewell

Q&A November 5, 2007 | 11:27AM

It's a couple of days before Rufus Sewell's fortieth birthday, and he is feeling good. "This is the age I was meant to be," the darkly handsome star says over tea shortly before an evening performance of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll. The actor is certainly in top form as the rock-obsessed Czech dissident Jan in Stoppard ... Read More...

Alice Eve

FRESH FACE November 1, 2007 | 10:16AM

Age: 25

Currently: Making her Broadway debut in the dual roles of young Esme Act One and Esme's daughter, Alice in Act Two, both opposite Sinead Cusack, in Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll.

Hometown: London, with three stints in living in Los Angeles for a total of eight years

Trans-Atlantic Crossings: As the daughter of British actors Trevor ...

Additional Casting Announced for Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll

NEWS October 2, 2007 | 3:46PM

Additional casting has been announced for Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, which begins previews on October 19 and opens on November 4 at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, directed by Trevor Nunn. Joining the previously announced Brian Cox, Sinead Cusack, Rufus Sewell, Nicole Ansari and Alice Eve will be Brian Avers The Lieutenant of Inishmore, King Lear, Mary ... Read More...

Original Brit Stars Including Cox, Cusack and Sewell Heading to Broadway for Rock 'n' Roll

NEWS May 16, 2007 | 6:49PM

Five members of the acclaimed original London company of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, Brian Cox, Sinead Cusack Rufus Sewell winner of the Olivier, London Evening Standard and London Critics' Circle Awards for his performance, Nicole Ansari and Alice Eve, will appear in the upcoming production. The play, directed by Trevor Nunn, will begin previews on October 19 and open on November 4 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.

Rock 'n' Roll spans the years from 1968 -1990 from ...

Tom Stoppard's London Hit Rock 'n' Roll to Play Broadway in Fall

NEWS February 16, 2007 | 3:32AM

Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, which is currently in its final weeks in London's West End, will land on Broadway this fall, according to Variety. Trevor Nunn will direct.

Rock 'n' Roll spans the recent history of Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution but from the double perspective of Prague, where a rock ‘n' roll ...