Friday, January 29, 2016
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:52AM[SHARE]Here’s a central London venue in a hitherto unloved spot near Victoria Station that was built as replacement for the Westminster Theatre,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 28, 2016
New York actor, writer and columnist Ben Rimalower, who writes for Playbill.com amongst other things, is to bring his two acclaimed solo shows, Bad with Money and Patti Issues, to L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:08PM[SHARE]London's Royal Court Theatre, which is celebrating its 60th birthday as a home for new writing, kicks off the year in its main house Jerwood Downstairs Theatre with Escaped Alone, a new …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:10AM[SHARE]The previously announced new production of Richard Greenberg's Broadway version of Breakfast at Tiffany's that will star singer/songwriter and actress Pixie Lott as Holly Golightly h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:44AM[SHARE]While this year's Oscar nominations have been criticised for a lack of diversity, London has two openings on consecutive nights in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 27, 2016
"Game of Thrones" star Kit Harington is to play the title role in a new London production of Doctor Faustus.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 26, 2016
The Olivier Awards have announced that this year's ceremony, taking place April 3 at the Royal Opera House, is to partner with Mellow Magic, a new station being launched by the ceremony&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:46AM[SHARE]Monday, January 25, 2016
London's Hampstead Theatre is to present the U.K premiere of Neil LaBute's 2013 play Reasons to Be Happy, a companion piece to LaBute's Reasons to Be Pretty that was seen on Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:07AM[SHARE]Keith Huff's A Steady Rain, which starred Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig in its 2009 Broadway bow, is to receive its London premiere, beginning performances Feb. 10 prior to an official o…
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Florian Zeller, the French playwright who will be represented on Broadway by the March U.S. premiere of The Father starring Frank Langella, has three London openings lined up this sid…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 24, 2016
Top ten of the week, including Bend it Like Beckham, Close to You and In the Heights, three shows I've already re-visited again and again, and intend to yet again!
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:43PM[SHARE]Friday, January 22, 2016
The current West End production of Guys and Dolls is to continue its run thereafter in another West End house, resuming performances at the Phoenix Theatre March 19. A second mounting of the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AM[SHARE]Further casting has been announced for the new London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, in which as previously announced Glenn Close is to reprise the role of Norma D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 21, 2016
Andy Nyman is, by his own reckoning, first and foremost an actor; but he's also well-known for his offstage support " as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[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 to f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:42AM[SHARE]This year’s nominees for the Oscars have just been announced and include such luminaries as Eddie Redmayne, Mark Rylance, Cate Blanchett and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Cameron Mackintosh has revealed a few more aces that are up his producing sleeve. They include producing a new version of the 1963 British musical Half a Sixpence at Chichester Festival Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:34AM[SHARE]Cameron Mackintosh has revealed a few more aces that are up his producing sleeve. They include producing a new version of the 1963 British musical Half a Sixpence at Chichester Festival Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 19, 2016
The Play That Goes Wrong, a comedy about an amateur university production that goes hopelessly awry, has gone blissfully right; it won last year's Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:34PM[SHARE]Broadway is famously seasonal in a way that the West End is simply not. That’s because the Tony Awards have a very
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 18, 2016
Full casting has been announced for a new production of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker that will begin performances March 26, prior to an official opening April 6, at London's Old Vic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Miss Atomic Bomb, a new musical comedy that will begin performances at London's St. James Theatre March 7 prior to an official opening March 14, will star Catherine…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AM[SHARE]I’ve been on holiday in Barbados for the past week, where there’s no theatre at all " but I’m making it up
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 15, 2016
A new exhibition, Curtain Up: Celebrating 40 Years of Theatre in London and New York, will be presented in both cities, running first at London's Victoria and Albert Museum (Feb. 9-A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald is to reprise the most recent of those Tony-winning performances when she makes her dramatic stage debut in the West End this summer: She wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AM[SHARE]Casting has been set for the previously announced world premiere of Nick Payne's Elegy that will begin performances at London's Donmar Warehouse April 21 prior to an official opening…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:44AM[SHARE]Sheridan Smith shares more than just a surname with Maggie Smith. Though Maggie has nearly half a century on her age-wise, Sheridan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 14, 2016
The National Theatre production of War Horse that has been a global hit from the West End (where it finally shutters March 12, 2016, as previously announced, after an eight year run) and Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25AM[SHARE]I’m not in London myself to see this week’s openings " I’m currently in Barbados (please don’t weep for me), then in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 13, 2016
The world-premiere production of Bend It Like Beckham, a new British musical version of the 2002 film of the same name, is to shutter at the West End's Phoenix Theatre March 5 at the…
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