Monday, December 14, 2015
Last week Cynthia Erivo officially arrived on Broadway to reprise the role of Celie in John Doyle’s production of The Color Purple
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 13, 2015
I've been consciously taking it easy (or at least easier than I usually do!) over the last week after dislocating my newly replaced hip the week before, as I described in a posting here last…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:21AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 12, 2015
Big musicals news of the week: Billy Elliot is closing at the Victoria Palace, School of Rock is coming to the London Palladium, Bugsy Malone is returning to the Lyric Hammersmith, and Gypsy…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:36AM[SHARE]Friday, December 11, 2015
Sunny Afternoon, a musical that tells the story of Ray Davies and the Kinks and features some of their best-loved songs including "You Really Got Me," "Waterloo Sunset&quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:37AM[SHARE]Further casting has been announced for Robert Icke's new production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in a version that he has also created that will begin performances Feb. 5 prior to an off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:57AM[SHARE]Sean Holmes's production of Bugsy Malone, a stage adaptation of Sir Alan Parker's 1976 debut film of the same name, is to return for a 12-week summer season in 2016.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:37AM[SHARE]December 19 will be the second anniversary of a dreadful night. That was the date the ceiling at the Apollo Theatre, in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 10, 2015
Billy Elliot: The Musical is to bow out of the West End, closing April 9 2016, after celebrating its 11th birthday at the Victoria Palace Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:15PM[SHARE]The Lytham Festival, a seven-day live music event planned for the seaside town of Lytham in Lancashire Aug. 1-7, 2016, will this year feature an all-star line-up of West End …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]The rush towards the Christmas finishing line sees another push of shows opening in London and beyond " many, but not all,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Extracts from interview features with the Royal Opera House's (soon departing) Director of Opera Kasper Holten, Sheffield Crucible's (soon departing) artistic director Daniel Evans, Broadway…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:57AM[SHARE]Performances begin Dec. 10 for the West End transfer of Guys and Dolls, first seen at Chichester Festival Theatre in summer 2014. The classic musical is staged in London's Savoy Theatre,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2015
As rumored since 2013, the London musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which features a score by Tony Award winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, will have a Broadway run, but it won…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]Last Sunday, Andrew Lloyd Webber " the ultimate showman among composers " opened his latest show on Broadway, School of Rock. It’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]In 2013, I interviewed John Gordon Sinclair and Ralf Little " both of whom started out acting as teenagers in youth theatre, became stars young (at 19 and 18 respectively), but had no formal…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:04AM[SHARE]Following previews that began Nov. 30, the West End production of A Christmas Carol starring Oscar winner Jim Broadbent as Scrooge, officially opens Dec. 9 at the Noel Cowa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2015
As Britain and the rest of the theatrical world prepare to mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in 2016, BBC TV has announced a new sitcom in which he will be featur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]The internet is a noisy place. There are always lots of voices, shouting to be heard. One of the reasons I put
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]There's currently a flurry of big openings in New York, with the return of The Color Purple to the Great White Way, via London's own Menier Chocolate Factory, coming this Thursday (December …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:04AM[SHARE]Monday, December 7, 2015
Waitress, a new musical heading to Broadway in the spring with a score by contemporary pop singer and composer Sara Bareilles, book
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 6, 2015
What's opening in London and beyond this week, plus my personal Top Ten of the Week including Bend it Like Beckham and The Winter's Tale
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:11PM[SHARE]Reviews digest of openings in London, Leicester and Leeds from national critics for new productions of Linda, Funny Girl, The Girls, Oliver!, Barbarians and Macbeth.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:46AM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2015
The Oliviers in Concert, a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Olivier Awards that is to be held at London's Royal Festival Hall Jan. 25, 2016, will feature previous Olivier winne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AM[SHARE]After opening to rave reviews at the Menier Chocolate Factory Dec. 2, the new production of Funny Girl — starring Sheridan Smith in the title role of Fanny Brice — has no…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47AM[SHARE]Matthew Perry, the television star who is best known for "Friends" and "The Odd Couple" and who previously appeared in the West End in 2003 in David Mamet's Sexual Pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AM[SHARE]Jamie Muscato, previously seen on the London stage in the U.K. premiere of Dogfight at Southwark Playhouse and recently seen as Anthony Hope in the Welsh National Opera production of Sweeney…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:58AM[SHARE]Sheffield Theatres, the official umbrella name for the Crucible, Lyceum and Sheffield Studio combined, was named regional theatre of the year for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 3, 2015
It feels odd to be offering up my picks of the week when I’m having to scale back my own theatregoing drastically
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Northampton's Royal & Derngate, a two-theatre complex in the U.K.'s Midlands town, has announced that it will offer the European premiere of Rick Elice's Peter and th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PM[SHARE]I'm being forced to take a theatre break thanks to dislocating my brand-new hip! But perhaps I can finally catch up some movies and TV series.....
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