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Interview: 'OPERATION MINCEMEAT is a Team Sport': Actor Madeleine Jackson-Smith on Joining the Cast
by Kat Mokrynski - April 01, 2025


Recently, we had the chance to chat with Madeleine Jackson-Smith, who plays Jean Leslie & Others in the current cast of Operation Mincemeat. We discussed how she first got into theatre, what it has been like joining the show and even her recent debut as Ewen Montagu!...

Interview: 'There is So Much of Her Inside Me!': Actor Emma Flynn on The Life-Changing Role of Cher in CLUELESS THE MUSICAL
by Kat Mokrynski - March 25, 2025


Recently, we had the chance to chat with Emma about taking on the iconic role of Cher. We discussed her journey with Clueless the Musical, what she thinks has made the original film so popular and even how her own name is connected to the role...

Interview: ‘I've Never Been Into Football!’: Actor Ryan Whittle on Returning to DEAR ENGLAND
by Kat Mokrynski - March 24, 2025


Recently, we had the chance to talk with Ryan Whittle, who is playing the role of Harry Kane after playing Eric Dier in the last two runs of Dear England. We discussed his journey to the stage, what it’s like returning to the world of football for the third time and how his university degree relates...

Interview: From Kansas Sunflower Patch to Speakeasy Queen: Eddy Hackett on Belle Livingstone, the Inspiration for The Lost Estate's 58TH STREET
by Franco Milazzo - March 08, 2025


We speak to Eddy Hackett of immersive theatre specialists The Lost Estate about the jazz-infused 58th Street and its inspiration Belle Livingstone....

Interview: 'It's Just Camp At Its Highest Form!': Actor Mason Alexander Park on MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
by Kat Mokrynski - March 06, 2025


Recently, we had the chance to speak with Park about their experiences over the past few months in the two plays. We discussed what it has been like working in London for the first time, working on two shows at once and even why they think Shakespeare is still popular, centuries after his death....

Interview: 'British Theatre Has a Huge Problem With Tokenism': Playwright Naomi Westerman on Queer Joy, Anthropology and Her Play PUPPY
by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 28, 2025


Naomi Westerman's play Puppy is coming to the King's Head Theatre in April. Billed as  an outrageous, sex-positive, female-centric comedy about dogging, queerness, feminist porn, protest, the patriarchy, and Nick Clegg....

Interview: 'I'm Not a Horror Fan': Actor James Daly on Injuries, Superstitions and Bringing DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS to London
by Kat Mokrynski - February 27, 2025


After a run off-Broadway at New World Stages, Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors is flying into the West End, landing at the Menier Chocolate Factory in March. The show is a ninety-minute comedic adaptation of the Bram Stoker classic, which follows the story of the vampire Dracula. Expect lots of multi-ro...

Interview: 'It's a Brilliant Ride As a Play': ETT's Artistic Director Richard Twyman on MACBETH
by Sarah OHara - February 26, 2025


Following a successful tour in 2023/2024, the English Touring Theatre Company’s production of Macbeth is transferring to the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre from 5 March 2025....

Interview: 'I Feel Like I'm Blazing a Trail': Performer Marisha Wallace on Her Amazing Career and Upcoming Solo Concert In London
by Kat Mokrynski - February 21, 2025


Marisha Wallace will be bringing her “biggest ever headline show” to the Adelphi Theatre for one-night only on 11 March. Recently, we had the chance to chat with Marisha Wallace about her upcoming concert. We discussed her journey from the States to the UK, her return to the Adelphi Theatre after sh...

Interview: 'Everyone Is Aware of Bringing Chekov Into a Shakespeare Building": Actor Shannon Tarbet On THREE SISTERS at The Globe
by Gary Naylor - February 17, 2025


With a starry The Seagull opening soon at The Barbican, the peerless playwright is in vogue right now, his unstable worlds of uneasy transition chiming with the nervous times. On the banks of the Thames, the third of the fab four tragedies, Three Sisters, (or should that be comedies?) is receiving r...

Interview: 'There's Something About Northern Audiences': Actor Wendi Peters on GLORIOUS! at The Hope Mill Theatre
by Kat Mokrynski - February 11, 2025


Glorious!, the musical about Florence Foster Jenkins, who is referred to by some as “the worst singer in the world,” is arriving at the Hope Mill Theatre later this month. Witten by Peter Quilter and directed by Kirk Jameson, the show aims to tell the true story of the American socialite, played in ...

Interview: 'It's Irritating To Be Suddenly Old and Wise': Actor Elliot Levey on Playing Polonius in HAMLET
by Kat Mokrynski - February 08, 2025


A new production of Hamlet is arriving at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Directed by Rupert Goold and starring Luke Thallon in the titular role, the play, which is being described as “high concept,” promises to bring a new take to the iconic story. Recently, we had the chance to speak with Elliot Le...

Interview: 'It's Been a Dream Project to Figure Out': Actor Stephen Kunken on KYOTO
by Kat Mokrynski - February 07, 2025


After a run at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon, Kyoto has arrived at @sohoplace on the West End. The play, written by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson and directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin, brings audiences into the world of the Kyoto Conference Centre on 11 December 1997, where nations are st...

Interview: 'We're Throwing Everything At It': Kerry Ellis on IF/THEN in Concert at the Savoy Theatre
by Kat Mokrynski - February 05, 2025


After premiering on Broadway over a decade ago in 2014, IF/THEN will be arriving on the West End as a two-night-only concert production at the Savoy Theatre. The musical stars Kerry Ellis as Elizabeth, a 38-year-old woman whose life splits into two paths after making a choice. The concert’s cast als...

Interview: 'We Made an Album By Mistake': Hadley Fraser Talks Latest Studio Recording THINGS THAT COME AND GO
by Cindy Marcolina - January 31, 2025


As the release of his third studio recording, 'Things that Come and Go' approaches, we sat down with Hadley Fraser to discuss music, his influences, what he listens to, and what music means to him....

Interview: 'She's Her Own Worst Enemy': Actor Janet Moran on Returning to the Role of Mairead in Eugene O’Brien's HEAVEN
by Aliya Al-Hassan - January 27, 2025


BroadwayWorld spoke to Janet Moran, who plays Mairead, about bringing Eugene O’Brien's play to London for the first time and what the show means to her....

Interview: “It’s An Extraordinary Experience”: Conductor Ben Woodward on Buying Regents Opera and Completing Wagner’s RING CYCLE
by Erica Miner - January 24, 2025


An intrepid British fringe opera company and its dauntless conductor-arranger have taken on a bold project that has defeated any number of high-profile companies. ...

Interview: 'How Would We Feel If Someone Wrote a Musical About Us?': Writers Flo & Joan Unpack Their Show ONE MAN MUSICAL
by Kat Mokrynski - January 21, 2025


Recently, we had the chance to chat with Flo & Joan, AKA sisters Rosie and Nicola Dempsey. E discussed how they first got started in musical comedy, the creative process for a show like One Man Musical and even some favourite fun facts they’ve found while researching for the show!...

Interview: 'Love Makes Every Character a Fool': Andrew Richardson on RSC's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
by Kat Mokrynski - January 16, 2025


The RSC’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has transferred from Stratford-upon-Avon to the Barbican Centre for the winter. Starring Mathew Baynton as Bottom, the Shakespeare comedy tells the tale of four young lovers from Athens who escape into a magical forest where they come face-to-face wi...

Interview: 'It's 100 Minutes of Uninterrupted Joy': Director and Co-Author Tye Blue on TITANIQUE
by Kat Mokrynski - January 07, 2025


Titanique, the hit off-Broadway musical, has finally docked in London. Currently playing at the Criterion Theatre, the show mixes the iconic story of Titanic with the equally iconic music of Céline Dion, transforming the “Ship of Dreams” into a “hysterical musical fantasia.”...

Interview: 'It's Surreal': Vasco Emauz on Making His West End Debut in BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL
by Sarah OHara - January 03, 2025


BroadwayWorld sat down with Vasco Emauz to find out more about Back To The Future: The Musical and how it feels to making his West End debut as Marty McFly....

Interview: 'Sword Fighting? No Problem!': Actor Max Harwood on THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL
by Kat Mokrynski - January 02, 2025


The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical has been taking The Other Palace by storm since it opened in November 2024. Recently, we had the chance to speak with Max Harwood, who plays Percy Jackson, the titular hero of the tale who goes on a quest after discovering the truth behind his parentage...

Interview: 'It's Very Emotionally Intense': Actor Aaron Sidwell on Playing Bill Sikes in OLIVER!
by Kat Mokrynski - December 23, 2024


Recently, we had the chance to talk with Aaron Sidwell, who takes on the infamous role of Bill Sikes. We discussed what made him want to be involved in Oliver!, how he is able to take on such an emotionally demanding role and what makes this production so special compared to other versions of the mu...

Interview: ‘It’s Like All My Birthdays Have Come At Once’: Actor Selina Cadell on Surrendering to Shakespeare in THE TEMPEST
by Sarah OHara - December 16, 2024


The Jamie Lloyd Company’s production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, starring Sigourney Weaver, opened at Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 7 December 2024....

Interview: Actor Producer Charlie MacGechan of Run At It SHOUTING
by Gary Naylor - December 09, 2024


An Actor / Producer / Executive talks about how he got started, what he's done and what the future might hold....

Interview: ‘It’s Such a Ride': Actors Jessica Rhodes and George Smale on Making Their West End Debuts in STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW
by Sarah OHara - December 05, 2024


Broadway World sat down with Jessica Rhodes and George Smale, who have recently made their West End debuts as Joyce and Hopper in Stranger Things: The First Shadow....

Interview: 'People Are In For a Real Treat!': Actor Declan Bennett on NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812
by Kat Mokrynski - December 03, 2024


Seven years after it closed on Broadway in 2017, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 is finally arriving in London at the Donmar Warehouse in December. The show, written by Dave Malloy, takes a seventy-page segment of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace (Part Eight, to be specific) and transforms it...

Interview: 'We've Really Figured Her Out': Performer Amy Di Bartolomeo on Her Dream Role of Emily in THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
by Kat Mokrynski - December 02, 2024


Recently, we had the chance to speak with Amy Di Bartolomeo, who plays Emily Charlton, Miranda’s first assistant. We discussed how she first got started in the world of theatre, the world of The Devil Wears Prada and even what it has been like to contribute to this new version of Emily on the stage!...

Interview: 'I've Always Hated the Play': Tracy-Ann Oberman on Antisemitism, Changing Attitudes and Adapting THE MERCHANT OF VENICE 1936
by Kat Mokrynski - November 29, 2024


After a successful run at the Criterion Theatre earlier this year, The Merchant of Venice 1936, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s work by Brigid Larmour and Tracy-Ann Oberman, with Oberman starring as a female version of the Jewish moneylender, Shylock. Larmour and Oberman have moved the setting to Lon...

Interview: 'The Hardest Thing Has Been Not Laughing at Everyone!': Actor Marc Antolin on Mel Brooks, Intimacy and Corpsing in THE PRODUCERS
by Kat Mokrynski - November 26, 2024


The award-winning musical The Producers is finally returning to London in its first revival since debuting on the West End in 2004. The show, based on the iconic 1967 film of the same name by Mel Brooks, tells the story of two producers who discover that a producer could make more from a Broadway fl...

Interview: 'It Has Been Overwhelmingly Wonderful': Actors Clare Foster and John Dagleish on THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
by Kat Mokrynski - November 22, 2024


Recently, we spoke with John Dagleish, who plays the titular Benjamin Button, and Clare Foster, who plays his love interest, Elowen Keene. We discussed what it has been like to be joining the show for its West End run, playing for the stage versus the screen and even the impact they hope the show ha...

Interview: 'It's Been a Source of Joy': Hadley Fraser and Ramin Karimloo on LES MIS, Friendship and DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
by Kat Mokrynski - November 20, 2024


Recently, we had the opportuinty to chat with Karimloo and Fraser about bringing the concert to life. We discussed how they got into the world of theatre, the importance of comedy and even how one of their Dirty Rotten Scoundrel castmates nearly broke them during Les Misérables!...

Interview: ‘It’s Fun and It’s Festive’: Lindzi Germain and Lydia Rosa Morales Scully on SCOUSE RED RIDING HOOD
by Sarah OHara - November 13, 2024


Liverpool’s Royal Court are bringing their latest twist on a fairytale classic to the stage with Scouse Red Riding Hood....

Interview: 'It Provides Unbridled, Life-Giving Joy': Actor Adam Gillen on Taking on The Emcee in CABARET
by Kat Mokrynski - November 12, 2024


Recently, we had the chance to speak with Adam Gillen about taking on the role of The Emcee in Cabaret on the West End. We discussed how he first got started in the world of theatre, his love for Cabaret and even how he has developed the character of The Emcee in his own way. ...

Interview: Christina Bianco on Playing The Narrator in JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
by Natalie O'Donoghue - November 11, 2024


BroadwayWorld catches up with actress and singer Christina Bianco to chat about playing the narrator in the upcoming tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat....

Interview: World Record-Breaking Pianist Chilly Gonzales: 'Jarvis Cocker and Peter Serafinowicz are My Best British Buddies'
by Franco Milazzo - October 22, 2024


As much a persona as a musician, the Canadian rapper and classical pianist Chilly Gonzales comes to the Royal Albert Hall on 28 October to promoting his latest album Gonzo with special guest Jarvis Cocker and Peter Serafinowicz as Elvis Presley....

Interview: ' I Just Want to Make Sure I Get it Right': Actor Joel Harper-Jackson and Musician Andrew Lippa on I AM HARVEY MILK
by Kat Mokrynski - October 18, 2024


I Am Harvey Milk, with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, will be making its European premiere at Cadogan Hall on 27 October. Joel Harper-Jackson will star alongside Sierra Boggess. The work, part choral and part theatre piece, tells the story of Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist and politician in t...

Interview: 'It's My Role to Keep Everything Under Control': Actor Nathan Caton on Playing The Narrator in THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
by Kat Mokrynski - October 14, 2024


Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show, “the world’s favourite rock n’ roll musical, is currently touring the UK. Recently, we had the chance to talk with Nathan Caton, who is playing the role of The Narrator. We discussed his journey from standup comedy to becoming a part of Rocky Horror Show and even...

Interview: COME ALIVE! Creative Director Simon Hammerstein: 'Our Production Absolutely Would Not Work in a Traditional Theatre'
by Franco Milazzo - October 11, 2024


This month sees the grand arrival of Come Alive!, a live blend of circus and musical theatre inspired by the 2017 film The Greatest Showman....

Interview: Shanay Holmes on the Origins and Creation of MUSICAL CON
by Kat Mokrynski - October 08, 2024


Musical Con, the world’s biggest musical theatre fan convention, is returning to London for its third year. Recently, we had the chance to talk with Shanay Holmes, one of the creators of Musical Con. We discussed how she first became a producer, the creation of Musical Con and what panels she is mos...



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