Tuesday, November 17, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AM[SHARE]Broadway has just got one more thing to be miserable about: while Les Miserables continues its popular way at the Imperial Theatre,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 16, 2015
Critics don’t usually go to early previews, and we certainly don’t review them. (In New York " and increasingly in London "
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The Illusionists – Witness the Impossible, which played a sell-out season at Broadway's Marquis Theatre last November, makes its West End debut, opening officially at the S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 15, 2015
In 2008 I interviewed the veteran actor Warren Mitchell, who died yesterday (November 14) at the age of 89, ahead of his final West End appearance in a play called VISITING MR GREEN that ca…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:43AM[SHARE]Friday, November 13, 2015
By coincidence, two of London's smaller producing theatres have taken on Broadway in the same week. Here's a look at which shows crossed the pond and what television stars are coming…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]The return of Lin-Manuel Miranda's first Broadway musical, In the Heights, originally seen in London at Southwark Playhouse in 2014, has been extended a second time. It is now bookin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AM[SHARE]I kicked off this new series last week with a venue on my doorstep " the Southwark Playhouse. This week I continue
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 12, 2015
Last week Ben Brantley, the powerful chief theatre critic of the New York Times, wrote a rare rave review for the latest
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:15AM[SHARE]There’s a brief lull before the annual storm of Christmas openings. The big events are limited runs for variety turns, with each
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]A live reading of Homer's The Odyssey, being held Nov. 12 and live-streamed free from unusual and iconic locations across London, marks the culmination of the Almeida Greeks season. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2015
An audience member became seriously ill during the closing minutes of the National Theatre's production of Harley Granville Barker's Waste at its press-night opening Nov. 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PM[SHARE]Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, which premiered in the West End in 1989, where it ran for over 12 years, originally at the Victoria Palace Theatre and subsequently the Strand (now the Ivor Nov…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:39AM[SHARE]A live reading of Homer's The Odyssey, being held Nov. 12 and live-streamed free from unusual and iconic locations across London, will mark the culmination of the Almeida Greeks seas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Kath M. Mainland, who has been chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society for the last seven years, is to step down from the post, to take up a new position as executive direct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's New Testament musical Jesus Christ Superstar is to receive an outdoor staging at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in London in 2016, to mark the 45th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2015
One of the side-effects of the social media culture we now live in, is that everyone’s a critic " on Facebook and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 8, 2015
I've had ten days in London between a holiday in Gran Canaria and heading to New York -- and have been to fifteen shows. But I'm finally giving up on going to live concerts.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:46AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 7, 2015
The opening productions of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's season at the West End's Garrick Theatre officially open with a press day Nov. 7, following previews that began Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 6, 2015
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the two-part new play co-created by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany that tells an original eighth "Harry Potter" story, is rep…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM[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 05:19AM[SHARE]Uzo Aduba, the double Emmy Award winning star of "Orange is the New Black," is to play opposite "Downton Abbey" star Laura Carmichael and Zawe Ashton in a new contemporar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48AM[SHARE]Earlier this week, I was one of the judges of the Empty Space Peter Brook awards, that every year acknowledges fringe and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 5, 2015
The Menier Chocolate Factory's 2013 production of The Color Purple re-appears on Broadway, beginning performances Nov. 10 at Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. It is the latest in a line of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]It’s a week of big prices and big stars, the return of the Royal Shakespeare Company to the Barbican, and yet another
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The West End premiere of Elf takes place at London's Dominion Theatre Nov. 5, following previews that began Oct. 24, for a 10-week season through Jan. 2, 2016, following the show'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 4, 2015
I suppose it was inevitable, but in a world where theatre critics (and lots of other journalists) now work for free, some
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 3, 2015
U.K.'s regional theatres have seen an increase in both attendance and revenue in the last year, according to a new report published by UK Theatre, the trade body that represents major th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AM[SHARE]Longtime Rodgers & Hammerstein vice president Bert Fink is leaving to join Musical Theatre International, the largest musical theatre licensing agency in America, as Chief Creative O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AM[SHARE]Longtime Rodgers & Hammerstein senior vice president Bert Fink is leaving to join Music Theatre International, the largest musical theatre licensing agency in America, as Chief Creat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AM[SHARE]Fame has long been a passport to power: one-time B-movie actor Ronald Reagan managed to become president of the United States, the
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