As You Like It - 2016 - West End Articles Page 14

54 BELOW will celebrate the happiest time of the year with an incredible lineup of performances by Tony winner Christine Ebersole with Billy Stritch, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star Darius de Haas, and more.

Amid achieving critical acclaim as Glinda in the two-part film of Wicked, Ariana Grande is eager to return to the stage. During a conversation with Nicole Kidman, the superstar shared that she would be open to appearing on Broadway again in the future.

Since this column began, I have always made it a point to acknowledge the people that are instrumental when it comes to putting these interviews together. It’s not just me asking an interviewee cold. There is generally a marketing or publicity person that helps to coordinate things.

Folger Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library revealed the plays and playwrights for the fourth annual Reading Room Festival, a four-day festival of staged readings, panel discussions, workshops, and community celebrations.

Recently, we had the chance to speak with George Blagden, who plays George in A Ghost In Your Ear. We discussed what made him want to be a part of the production, what it has been like to work on a show with binaural sound and even why a bit of horror can be good for audience members!

Next month, the play Daniel’s Husband will make its UK debut at the Marylebone Theatre. The show, written by Michael McKeever and directed by Alan Souza, follows Daniel [Joel Harper-Jackson] and Mitchell [Luke Fetherston] as a crisis makes them question even the basic foundation of their relationship. Recently, we had the chance to speak with McKeever and Souza about Daniel’s Husband’s upcoming London run. We discussed how each of them first got started in the world of theatre, what it’s been like to prepare the show for its upcoming run and what makes Daniel’s Husband more than just a show about gay marriage.

With Ariana Grande moving her primary focus to acting, she has shared that her 2026 Eternal Sunshine tour will likely be the last one for the foreseeable future.

Tony, EMMY, and five-time GRAMMY Award-nominated performer Josh Groban has announced his first world tour in 10 years, with Taipei, Singapore, Jakarta, Manila, Tokyo, Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and more.

A big-hearted, crowd-pleasing production that wraps nostalgia, comedy, and a festive score into one joyful package.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is November 18, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Broadwayworld had the pleasure of interviewing Leonel Baizan about his background, career and Taquería Condesa. 

Josh Groban has released Hidden Gems, a new collection bringing together some of his rarest tracks, many of which have never been available on streaming platforms. Check it out here.

GRAMMY winning artist Joe Jackson will present Hope and Fury and 2026 tour. The tour includes a stop at the Nancy and David Bilheimer Capitol Theatre.

To accompany the release of his new album, Joe Jackson and his band will embark on a major North American tour from May to July 2026, including a stop at BroadwaySF’s Curran Theatre.

A self-admitted “crazy person” for J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels who “stood in line at a bookstore whenever a new volume was released,” performer Larry Yando knows that portraying Dumbledore – onetime headmaster of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry – in the play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” is a high-profile piece of work.

While the large majority of plays that make it to Broadway were written in English, a small fraction of plays were originally penned in a different language and translated. 

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is November 8, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Joining Emmy and Tony Award-winner Billy Crudup and Olivier Award-winner Denise Gough are Billy Howle, Rosa Salazar, Simon Chandler, James Doherty, Misha Handley, Joshua Hill, Jonah Russell, Rebecca Lee and Tim Steed.

The original Tony-winning musical sensation JERSEY BOYS returns for its celebratory 20th Anniversary tour across the UK and Ireland, opening at New Wimbledon Theatre in June.

Comic strips and cartoons have long been the basis for stage plays and musicals – from “It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman,” “Annie,” “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” and “Doonesbury” to “Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark” and “The SpongeBob Musical” – and, of course, have also spawned the hugely profitable Marvel Universe and DC Comics film franchises.

Content creation is a growing and competitive market, making it difficult for newcomers to stand out and obtain lasting fame. Such was initially the case for the Australia-born content creator Alexandra Marasigan until she and her brother released a viral skit that kick-started her career from a young age.

There’s a fine line between genius and idiocy, and, in his determined effort to “save literature”, Garry Starr doesn’t so much walk it as perform the can-can on it wearing black tails, orange flippers and nothing else. In a show that drops jaws (and, in at least one case, drawers), he flaps through a catalogue of Penguin classics, bringing each to life in a gloriously stupid way.

Musical comedy creators Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair are self-described fans of 1930s screwball comedies, so when the pair decided to collaborate on a musical that only needed two actors and a piano, they asked themselves, “What if the Marx Brothers did an Agatha Christie story?”

Ariana Grande's 'Positions' Live EP is re-released for its fifth anniversary. Stream the six-song collection now on YouTube and more.

In 1991, American Novelist Bret Easton Ellis published the highly controversial novel American Psycho. Through the story, we dive headfirst into a greed, lust, and ego-filled world told through the eyes of Patrick Bateman. A man so narcissistic, so label-driven, money hungry, and at the root of it all the depths of his humanity lie in a blood lust. Sure, he dates, he sleeps around, and is sometimes very graphic regarding his escapades, but at the root of his very being, he can’t feel. He shows no emotion, claims to never have fallen in love, and yet what is it that drives him?