Wednesday, December 2, 2015
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.....
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:14AM[SHARE]The spring 2016 season at London's Donmar Warehouse will consist of three plays: Welcome Home, Captain Fox! (a new version of Jean Anouilh's Le Voyageur Sans Bagage, the world premie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:29AM[SHARE]Daniel Evans, currently artistic director at Sheffield Theatres and a Tony Award nominee on Broadway for his starring role in Sunday in the Park with George, is to succeed Jonathan Church as…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:06AM[SHARE]Brevity is the soul of wit. So says Polonius in Hamlet, and as much as I love going to the theatre, there
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]A new, sold-out London production of Funny Girl, starring Sheridan Smith as Fanny Brice, officially opens Dec. 2 at the Menier Chocolate Factory. It features a revised book by Tony Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 1, 2015
I go to a lot of first nights. While it’s true that more producers are following the New York model of admitting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Martin McDonagh's latest play, Hangmen, his first to be staged on a London stage in over a decade, begins performances Dec. 1 at the West End's Wyndham's Theatre, prior to an off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 30, 2015
Audra McDonald, who previously played an intimate concert run as part of the Divas at the Donmar season in London in 1999, is to return to the U.K for her first solo concert since then. She …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AM[SHARE]Though this column is a free forum for me to opine about the theatre world, I’m trying to bring more structure to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 29, 2015
Imelda Staunton concluded her sell-out run as Rose in Gypsy at the West End's Savoy Theatre Nov. 28 to a series of standing ovations, including mid-performance at the end of '…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:54AM[SHARE]Andrew Scott, soon to appear on the London stage in the U.K premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Dazzle, is reported to be in "advanced discussions" to play Hamlet at London'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:41AM[SHARE]Friday, November 27, 2015
Gemma Arterton will return to the West End to star in the transfer of Jessica Swale's Nell Gwynn, about the 17th century actress and royal mistress, at the Apollo Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:43AM[SHARE]Gemma Arterton will return to the West End to star in the transfer of Jessica Swale's Nell Gwynn, about the 17th century actress and royal mistress, at the Apollo Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:54AM[SHARE]I’m back on home turf for my latest top venue. Previous picks on my doorstep include Southwark Playhouse and the Menier Chocolate
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 26, 2015
It’s a week of big openings " including the first of the inevitable pantos " but it is two revivals of Broadway
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 25, 2015
I love the theatre, so it stands to reason I like shows about the theatre. Over the years a whole bunch of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Great theatre directors may, ultimately, be born, not made; but great shows are always made, not born. And there’s inevitably a process
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Wallace Shawn's Evening at the Talk House, with a cast that features the playwright as well as Broadway actor Josh Hamilton, takes place at the National's Dorfm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2015
Full casting has been announced for the West End premiere of Disney's Aladdin, beginning performances at the Prince Edward Theatre May 27, 2016 prior to an official opening June 15. The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27AM[SHARE]Last week I had a(nother) hip replacement " almost three years to the day I had my left hip replaced, I now
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 22, 2015
Kinky Boots and The Motherf**ker with the Hat,, both by American authors and previously seen on Broadway, were among top winners Nov. 22 of the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]Friday, November 20, 2015
The British musical revolution of the 1980s and beyond had a number of major players associated with it, including composer Andrew Lloyd
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]There’s just a week left to catch the best musical revival in London, with one of the finest, fiercest performances I’ve ever
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The new London production of Funny Girl begins an already sold-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory Nov. 20 prior to an official opening Dec. 2, for a run through March 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2015
American actress Kim Cattrall has withdrawn from the title role in the London production of Linda, citing an unspecified illness.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]I’ll be seeing the inside of a different kind of theatre again this week " an operating theatre, where I’ll be for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 18, 2015
London's Barbican Centre is to present a film season featuring the RSC on screen as part of the Shakespeare400 Celebrations in 2016, marking the 400th year of Shakespeare's death.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM[SHARE]It used to be that selling out meant that a production had sold every last seat " and maybe standing room, too,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 17, 2015
The Royal Shakespeare Company has gone through some big crises during its lifetime, but it is now in a buoyant place. During
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PM[SHARE]A new U.K. national tour of John Kander and Fred Ebb's Chicago, which will begin performances at Oxford's New Theatre Feb. 12, 2016, is to feature John Partridge as Billy Flynn, Hayl…
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