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‘Too much to bear’: Black actors condemn racial abuse of Romeo & Juliet star

More than 800 performers signed a letter after Francesca Amewudah-Rivers was targeted with online abuse

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The racist hounding of Francesca Amewudah-Rivers for her Romeo & Juliet role is painfully stupid

The best revenge is success. So news that Jamie Lloyd’s staging of Romeo & Juliet with Tom Holland has apparently secured a Broadway transfer before it’s even opened in London feels like a victory. Last week the show’s producers were compelled to issue a statement deploring the “barrage of deplorable…

Evening Standard

Director Condemns Racial Abuse Against Cast Member In West End

Director Jamie Lloyd speaks out against racial abuse in West End Romeo & Juliet revival, emphasizing a safe environment for all involved.

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Romeo & Juliet theatre star suffers ‘barrage’ of online racial abuse

Jamie Lloyd Company says abuse came after cast list made public for show with Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers

The Guardian - UK

Olivier Awards 2024: nominations in full including nods for Nicole Scherzinger and Sarah Jessica Parker

The National Theatre’s stellar year is recognised with 15 nominations

Evening Standard

Sarah Jessica Parker and David Tennant among 2024 Olivier nominees

Football drama Dear England receives nine nominations in a year that featured a string of celebrity castings

The Guardian - UK

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Tom Holland's West End return causes hysteria online as 50,000 fans scramble to get pre-sale tickets

The Hollywood star will play Romeo in Jamie Lloyd’s production of Romeo & Juliet at the Duke Of York Theatre this summer

Evening Standard

Sunset Boulevard wins big at the WhatsOnStage awards

Nicole Scherzinger-led musical bags seven prizes at awards show voted for by theatregoers

The Guardian - UK

Tom Holland is latest superstar name in bumper year for London theatre

West End even more packed than usual with big-name talent, but insiders say star casting is not only route to successful productions

The Guardian - UK

Tom Holland to Star as Romeo in New West End Production

Tom Holland will star as Romeo in a new stage production of Romeo and Juliet on London's West End. Tickets go on sale Feb. 13 for the limited 12-week run s...

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Tom Holland leaps from Spider-Man to Shakespeare’s Romeo in West End

Jamie Lloyd will direct the star in ‘a pulsating new vision of the immortal tale of wordsmiths, rhymers, lovers and fighters’

The Guardian - UK

Spiderman star Tom Holland makes West End return in new production of Romeo & Juliet

The Hollywood star is returning to the West End where his career began

Evening Standard

One Halloween Star Is Still Hoping Their Signature Character Returns, And I’m Into It

The Halloween franchise is always getting new life, and one final girl wants back in.

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The 67th Evening Standard Theatre Awards: a glittering night with the brightest stars of London theatre

Nicole Scherzinger, Sam Mendes, Ian McKellen... the glamour quotient was off the scale

Evening Standard

Sir Elton John, Nicole Scherzinger, Ruth Wilson and Sir Sam Mendes star at Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Nicole Scherzinger shared her delight at winning in our starry celebration of the London stage

Evening Standard

OPINION - Ian McKellen's thrilling new show is just the kind of innovation the Evening Standard Theatre Awards celebrate

Our annual celebration of theatre is packed with fresh takes and new stories

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Death of England: Closing Time; Sunset Boulevard – review

The fourth in Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation play series is precise, fierce and moving, while Nicole Scherzinger hammers home the drama as Norma Desmond

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Nicole Scherzinger: Sunset Boulevard ‘truly changed my life’

In Jamie Lloyd’s production of the 1993 musical, Scherzinger plays Norma Desmond, a delusional silent movie star discarded by Hollywood amid the arrival of talking pictures

Evening Standard

Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy Theatre review: Ready for her close up? Nicole Scherzinger smashes it

It’s a physically and emotionally exposing performance in a tour de force of a show

The Guardian - UK

Sunset Boulevard review – Nicole Scherzinger dazzles in Jamie Lloyd’s radical rework

Lloyd brings hipster edginess, style and unpredictability to this revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical – though it’s more surface-level than penetrating closeup

The Guardian - UK

Nicole Scherzinger: ‘One of my favourite British things is the roasts. Last Sunday I had two’

The Honolulu-born singer on playing Norma Desmond in the West End, the heartbreak of the Hawaiian wildfires, and the roots of her work ethic

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Effect; Makeshifts and Realities – reviews

Jamie Lloyd galvanises Lucy Prebble’s drama about two patients who on a drug trial, while a trilogy of pre-first world war playlets captures a forgotten world

The Guardian - UK

The Effect review – Lucy Prebble’s intense and intoxicating encounter

A love affair between two participants in a drug trial is staged by Jamie Lloyd with a stellar cast including Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell

Evening Standard

The Effect at National Theatre: a mind-bending experience

Jamie Lloyd’s production is a 100-minute emotional arc

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