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
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Alan Ayckbourn's How the Other Half Loves — which premiered in Scarborough in 1969, and was then seen in the West End in 1970 and on Broadway in 1971 (the first of his…
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Full casting has been announcef or the U.K premiere of Florian Zeller's The Truth, the third of the French playwright's plays lined up to open in London this side of April.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:34AM[SHARE]Hand to God has just begun previews in the West End prior to an official opening on February 15 with an all-new
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…
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LIFT 2016 — London International Festival of Theatre — running June 1 to July 2 will feature over 30 events from 14 countries, playing at venues that in addition to estab…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:49AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the new U.K. national tour of American Idiot, the musical based on Green Day's eponymous album that played last year at London's Arts Theatre. It …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:43AM[SHARE]Mark Shenton's top ten of the week, including new entries Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Rabbit Hole, two Broadway plays now on London stages, plus this week's big openings, including Matthew …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:19AM[SHARE]One of the biggest behind-the-scenes jobs I have is juggling my diary " there are always far more shows to see than
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 5, 2016
The Broadway comedy Hand to God, which recently closed at the Booth Theatre after a run of nine months and 337 performances, begins performances at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre Feb.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM[SHARE]T he last time I interviewed Diana Rigg was five years ago, when she was appearing in Chichester's revival of Pygmalion that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]Michael Crawford is returning to the West End to star in the new British musical The Go-Between, adapted from L.P. Hartley's novel of the same name.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:58AM[SHARE]The Rose Theatre in Kingston, situated on the Thames just southwest of London, has announced that John Malkovich, who has previously appeared on the West End stage in the transfer of Burn Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:41AM[SHARE]Amber Riley, best known for her role as Mercedes Jones in "Glee," is to take to the stage to play Effie White in the long-overdue British premiere of Dreamgirls that will begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:19AM[SHARE]The Father, a new play by Florian Zeller that premiered in Paris and then received its U.K. premiere at Bath's Ustinov Studio followed by runs at London's Tricycle Theatre and Wyndha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:03AM[SHARE]Beverley Knight is to reprise her starring role in a West End return of The Bodyguard, a stage musical based on the 1992 film of the same name that she previously took over playing from orig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:59AM[SHARE]The new London production of Funny Girl — starring Sheridan Smith in the title role of Fanny Brice — has extended bookings for a second time on its imminent West End tran…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56AM[SHARE]Amber Riley, best known for her role as Mercedes Jones in "Glee," is to take to the stage to play Effie White in the long-overdue British premiere of Dreamgirls that will begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19AM[SHARE]No small theatre in Britain has a larger impact on the theatrical ecology than the tiny Finborough in Earl’s Court. This minute
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 4, 2016
David Lindsay-Abaire's 2006 Broadway play Rabbit Hole, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is to finally receive its U.K. premiere, opening officially Feb. 4, follo…
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Andrew Garfield is to return to the National Theatre in 2017 to star in a new production of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America that originally received its Briti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AM[SHARE]I’ve written a lot about critics over the decade I’ve been filing this daily column, and indeed consider this evolving column as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Last week I was directly involved, as I’ve mentioned, in a number of theatre awards events, from this year’s Critics’ Circle Theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 1, 2016
Producers of the forthcoming London blockbuster Harry Potter and the Cursed Child have released a video taking fans inside the West End's venerable Palace Theatre, whic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AM[SHARE]Sian Thomas is to step into the cast for Welcome Home, Captain Fox!, a new version of Jean Anouilh's Le Voyageur Sans Bagage, replacing the originally announced Francesca Annis who accor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AM[SHARE]The full cast has been announced for the production of The Painkiller that will see Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon starring in Francis Veber's French farce at the West End's Garrick …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AM[SHARE]Mark Shenton's top ten of the week, including Florian Zeller's The Mother that has followed his play The Father (soon to return to the West End) to London from Bath. Plus, this week's bigges…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:14AM[SHARE]Last week was a serious week for theatre awards, with the presentation last Tuesday of the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards and last
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 31, 2016
I've not been here with my usual weekly diary of a theatre addict for a month now. 

So today I'm catching up, not on a week, but on an entire month " during which time I've been…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:37AM[SHARE]Friday, January 29, 2016
Dominic Cooper, one of the original troupe of Alan Bennett's The History Boys — on stage and screen — is to return to the London stage in a new production of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:06PM[SHARE]The West End's Jersey Boys is to welcome four new leads to the show. They will begin performances March 15, as the hit musical prepares to celebrate its eighth anniversary March 18 at th…
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