Topic: Matthew Warchus
High and low art collide deliriously in "La Bete," David Hirson's quirky comedy set in 17th-century France and spoken in verse.. . Back on Broadway ...
The comedy thriller is not exactly staple West End fare these days but Matthew Warchus's enjoyable revival of Ira Levin's 1978 play Deathtrap suggests that the genre still has legs. Clifford calls on Sidney and his put-upon wife Myra at ...
IT'S SHOWTIME BUT MAYBE NOT FOR LONG In Mel Brooks's new musical The Producers, based on his 1968 film of the same name, Nathan Lane plays a down-on-his-luck theater producer and a bookish Matthew Broderick is his bumbling accountant. The ...
`Billy Elliot' dominates Tonys, taking 10 awards, including best musical; `Carnage' best playThere was an outpouring of generosity from winners to losers at Broadway's Tonys, dominated by " It wasn't fair," said Lansbury, who took home her fifth Tony, this time ...
Broadway's big question seems to be: How many Tonys will 'Billy Elliot' take home?The big question seems to be: How many Tonys will "Billy Elliot" take home?If the Broadway theater gods are appeased Sunday, June 7, at Radio City ...
The Tony-winning revival of 'Boeing-Boeing' sets a Jan. 4 closing dateBroadway's high-flying " Boeing-Boeing" is landing.The 1960s farce, which won a 2008 Tony for best play-revival, will close Jan. 4 after a profitable, eight-month run.The play, which currently stars Mark ...
It's so easy to underestimate Alan Ayckbourn. Norman (Stephen Mangan) has been thwarted in his attempt to whisk sister-in-law Annie (Jessica Hynes) away for a dirty weekend in East Grinstead, much to the amusement of his wife Ruth (Amelia Bullmore) and ...
Alan Ayckbourn, so theatre lore has it, is the second-most performed British playwright after Shakespeare. Norman and his wife, Ruth; Ruth's brother Reg and his wife, Sarah; and Ruth and Reg's younger sister, Annie, and her putative boyfriend, Tom. After ...
The Old Vic is to be transformed into a theatre in the round to stage Alan Ayckbourn's comic trilogy, The Norman Conquests. The Old Vic cast will include Spaced and Son Of Rambow star Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson) and Stephen Mangan ...
It's not a good day to be talking to the director of The Lord Of The Rings. Matthew Warchus is tight lipped on why the ??1million set should have caused such problems so close to the official opening on June 19 ...