Thursday, December 24, 2015
Mark Goucher, producer of the current new U.K. touring production of Hairpray, is setting his sights on bringing the show to the West End.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:48AM[SHARE]Mark Goucher, producer of the current new U.K. touring production of Hairpray, is setting his sights on bringing the show to the West End.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:48AM[SHARE]The West End companies of the musicals Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Kinky Boots and Wicked are to stage a series of late-night cabaret shows at the London Hipp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35AM[SHARE]Ben Forster has been on a bit of a roll lately. In September, he reprised the role of Brad Majors in The Rocky
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]There are no new shows opening over Christmas. But as this is the last theatre picks column until January 7, I should
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 23, 2015
This weekend (27 December 2015), Imelda Staunton reprises her recent Chichester and West End performance in GYPSY in a filmed version of the production. In this 2012 interview I did with Sta…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:43PM[SHARE]The full schedule for the previously announced film season featuring the RSC on screen has been finalized. It will be presented at London's Barbican Centre as part of the Shakespeare400 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]Extracts from recent interviews with British actors Nicola Walker and Cynthia Erivo, both now on Broadway, plus Noma Dumezweni and Jim Broadbent on London stages.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:31AM[SHARE]In the good old days of mass CD sales and book publishing, cast albums and play scripts occupied a significant niche. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Round-up of reviews and news from Broadway, including Fiddler on the Roof and Xmas productions of Elf and Annie, plus a Spring Awakening cast video and remembering those who's died in 2015.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:26AM[SHARE]The commercial theatre, on both sides of the Atlantic, is heavily dependent on musicals for much of its financial health. While most
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 21, 2015
I sometimes dread going to shows that have large parties of young people or school parties in attendance. How rowdy will they
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 20, 2015
You're not going to find any pantos on my top ten list this season " I've just not been to any at all this year, thanks to my double round of surgery for a hip replacement, then displacement.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:15PM[SHARE]Lead casting has been announced for the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the eighth story in the "Harry Potter" series and the first official Harry Potter story…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42PM[SHARE]Lead casting has been announced for the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the eighth story in the "Harry Potter" series and the first official Harry Potter story…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42PM[SHARE]"The Sound of Music Live," a made-for-television production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic that is being transmitted live from soundstages at London's Three Mil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:22AM[SHARE]Review extracts from four shows that got 5-star reviews: The Lorax at the Old Vic, Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Donmar, Show Boat at Sheffield's Crucible & The Dazzle at Found111.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:57AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 19, 2015
Friday, December 18, 2015
The Royal Shakespeare Company's previously announced production of Hamlet, starring Pappa Esseidu in the title role under the direction of Simon Godwin, has announced casting.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AM[SHARE]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, beginning performances Jan. 29, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:54AM[SHARE]The National Theatre has revealed casting for the previously announced productions of Sarah Kane's Cleansed and Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]Principal adult casting has been announced for the first-ever U.K./Ireland tour of Billy Elliot the Musical, which, as previously reported, is to bow out of the West End April 9, 2016, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:38AM[SHARE]The Donmar Warehouse is like a cat with nine lives. It’s onto around the fifth of them now, I reckon; it keeps
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 17, 2015
What do the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Donmar Warehouse, Almeida, Chichester Festival Theatre and Sheffield's Crucible Theatre all have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]In 2013, Derren Brown brought his show "Infamous" to the West End's Palace Theatre, and I interviewed him at the time for the SUNDAY EXPRESS, republished below. Now he's back at the same the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:44AM[SHARE]The West End openings continue apace, almost up to the Christmas wire. On December 17, there’s are a quartet of London press
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 16, 2015
A lot is written about the theatre every week " not just reviews, of course, but also preview features, interviews and "think" pieces. Keeping track of them all is a hard task. I try to twee…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:59AM[SHARE]We’ve already seen the shape of the West End changing significantly with the arrival of residencies by directors such as Michael Grandage
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 15, 2015
In an interview in The Sunday Times, playwright Mike Bartlett spoke feelingly of how theatre is “a very unusual art form where
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 14, 2015
London's Menier Chocolate Factory have just scored their fourth Broadway hit: after previously transferring Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music, and Jerry Herm…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:54PM[SHARE]Last week Cynthia Erivo officially arrived on Broadway to reprise the role of Celie in John Doyle’s production of The Color Purple
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