Eleanor 'Nell' Gwynn (or Gwyn or Gwynne) is a London heroine with a rags-to-riches story to rival both Cinderella and Eliza Doolittle. The embodiment of the bawdy Restoration era, the orange ...

If I was a producer, I would bring this Folger Theatre production of Nell Gwynn to Broadway. Why you may ask? First, it was a huge success in London. It was commissioned by London's Shakespeare ...

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The atmospheric portrayal of Restoration London focusing on a cockney dance hall girl who caught the eye of Charles II and became his favourite mistress. The uncultured Nell Gwyn dismayed many of ...

Gemma Arterton will take the lead role in Nell Gwynn when the critically acclaimed new play by Jessica Swale transfers to the West End. The production has been playing at London's Shakespeare's ...

More than 350 years ago, Nell Gwyn became one of the first women to act on an English stage. The theater where it happened, off of Drury Lane in London 's West End, was destroyed and rebuilt ...

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In Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King, Beauclerk explains how Gwyn's upbringing -- learning how to entertain and charm the men around her while serving rum to customers -- helped her later woo the king ...

PRETTY WITTY NELL—Clifford Bax—Morrow ($3). Nell Gwyn's 37 years were not all beer & skittles, ... Born in the slums of London, her father dead and her mother already a drunkard, ...

Who’d have thought that the bawdy darling of the Restoration stage would be gracing two London theatres simultaneously in 2016? As the Globe’s production of Jessica Swale’s Nell Gwynn moves ...

‘Nell Gwynn’: Theater Review. Gugu Mbatha-Raw returns to the London stage after her film successes to play the original tart with heart, the orange-seller-turned-royal mistress, at the Globe.