Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Two-time Olivier Award winner Michael Ball, who has won the Best Actor in a Musical Award for Hairspray in 2008 and Sweeney Todd in 2013, is to host this year's Olivier Awards, being…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 21, 2016
Top ten of the week, with new addition for Simon McBurney's phenomenal The Encounter.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:43PM[SHARE]Friday, February 19, 2016
Casting and full dates have been announced for a slew of new National Theatre productions, including the London transfer of Annie Baker's The Flick, new productions of Brecht\/Weill…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:29AM[SHARE]Casting and full dates have been announced for a slew of new National Theatre productions, including the London transfer of Annie Baker's The Flick, new productions of Brecht/Weill's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:29AM[SHARE]London's Hampstead Theatre is to present the world premieres of Howard Brenton's Lawrence After Arabia (which follows the announcement that Chichester Festival Theatre is to revive R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:20AM[SHARE]London's Hampstead Theatre is to present the world premieres of Howard Brenton's Lawrence After Arabia (which follows the announcement that Chichester Festival Theatre is to revive…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:20AM[SHARE]While the West End's Guys and Dolls readies for a transfer (and many new cast members, as revealed here) to the Phoenix Theatre, Gordon Greenberg's production will simultaneously e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:12AM[SHARE]While the West End's Guys and Dolls readies for a transfer (and many new cast members, as revealed here) to the Phoenix Theatre, Richard Greenberg's production will simultaneously …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:11AM[SHARE]While the West End's Guys and Dolls readies for a transfer (and many new cast members, as revealed here) to the Phoenix Theatre, Richard Greenberg's production will simultaneously …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:11AM[SHARE]I don’t think I love a theatre anywhere in London more than the Union, a scruffy little fringe space underneath a railway
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AM[SHARE]It's safe to say that an interview with Simon McBurney, like an evening at one of his shows, is a challenging experience.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 18, 2016
Hugh Bonneville, best known nowadays for playing Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham, in TV's "Downton Abbey," is to return to the stage to star in Ibsen's An Enemy of the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:02AM[SHARE]Hugh Bonneville, best known nowadays for playing Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham, in TV's 'Downton Abbey,' is to return to the stage to star in Ibsen's An Enemy of t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:02AM[SHARE]I’m playing a bit of catch up regionally myself this week, going to Theatr Clwyd where Tamara Harvey, who I shall be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 17, 2016
The War of the Worlds, a much-traveled stage version of Jeff Wayne's album of the same name that has played regular arena tours around the U.K. and the world for eight years, is fina…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AM[SHARE]The War of the Worlds, a much-traveled stage version of Jeff Wayne's album of the same name that has played regular arena tours around the U.K. and the world for eight years, is finally…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AM[SHARE]Joe DiPietro and David Bryan's The Toxic Avenger, a stage musical version of the 1984 film of the same name that was first seen at George Street Playhouse in New Jersey in 2008 prior to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47AM[SHARE]Joe DiPietro and David Bryan's The Toxic Avenger, a stage musical version of the 1984 film of the same name that was first seen at George Street Playhouse in New Jersey in 2008 prior to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47AM[SHARE]I’ve already written about the lack of female representation in musical theatre, at least at the composing end. Right now there are
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2016
The current West End production of Guys and Dolls, running at the Savoy Theatre through March 12, has announced casting for when it resumes performances at the Phoenix Theatre March 19, whil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM[SHARE]I’ve previously discussed the under-representation of female writers of musicals on Broadway. But it’s not just musicals. Last week, we welcomed a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tracie Bennett, Tony-nominated for the Best Leading Actress in a Play Tony Award for playing Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow on Broadway in 2012, reprises her role in the West End tra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 15, 2016
A Broadway comedy and two British created musicals arrive in the West End this week – one from last summer’s season at Bath’s Theatre Royal, the other after a long stage li…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:27AM[SHARE]The Broadway comedy Hand to God, which recently closed at the Booth Theatre after a run of nine months and 337 performances, opens officially at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre Feb. 15…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 12, 2016
Tracy Letts's play Bug is to revived at London's Found111, beginning performances March 24 prior to an official opening March 29, for a run through May 7. It will star James Norton, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:01AM[SHARE]Strictly Ballroom—the Musical, a stage version of the 1992 Australian film of the same title by Baz Luhrmann, is heading to the U.K. stage, to premiere at West Yorkshire Playhouse …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:09AM[SHARE]A new British production of Kern and Hammerstein's Broadway classic Show Boat first seen at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre last Christmas is to transfer to the West End's New Londo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 11, 2016
The script for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II, which tells the eighth in the series of "Harry Potter" stories and is written by original creator J.K. Rowlin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:53AM[SHARE]The West End transfer of Motown the Musical begins performances Feb. 11 prior to an official opening March 8 at the Shaftesbury Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 10, 2016
They always say that the only things you can’t avoid are death and taxes (though Amazon, Google et al are doing a
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