Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Fame has long been a passport to power: one-time B-movie actor Ronald Reagan managed to become president of the United States, the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2015
The shortlist of nominees for this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards has been announced, with the awards themselves to be given in a ceremony Nov. 22 at London's Old Vic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:36AM[SHARE]The U.K. premiere of Xanadu, the 2007 Tony-nominated Broadway musical version of the cult 1980 film about a woman who makes dreams come true, opens officially Nov. 2, following previews …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:16AM[SHARE]The new James Bond film Spectre opened in British cinemas last week, and I took a rare afternoon off from the theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 1, 2015
Kenneth Branagh turns 55 next month, but he still exudes the same youthful exuberance and ready enthusiasm for the theatre that he
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2015
Having watched nearly seven months' worth of tickets sell out in a matter of two days to people who signed up for pre-sale, producers of the upcoming London stage play Harry Potter a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]Having watched nearly seven months' worth of tickets sell out in a matter of two days to people who signed up for pre-sale, producers of the upcoming London stage play Harry Potter a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AM[SHARE]Having watched nearly seven months' worth of tickets sell out in a matter of two days to people who signed up for pre-sale, producers of the upcoming London stage play Harry Potter a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AM[SHARE]Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has gone on sale to the general public Oct. 30, after the initial priority booking period for those that pre-registered sold out in hours.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Martin McDonagh's Hangmen, from the Royal Court (where it ran through Oct. 10) to Wyndham's, where it begins performances…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:20AM[SHARE]It’s a true sign of grumpy middle-age when you start complaining that things aren’t the way they used to be. And the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2015
The previously announced London production of Funny Girl, which sold out its entire run at the Menier Chocolate Factory within 90 minutes of going on sale, has now set West End dat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00PM[SHARE]Producers of the upcoming London stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II are warning ticket buyers that they will not accept any ticket they find has been resold. F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM[SHARE]Michelle Dockery, best known for her screen role as Lady Mary Crawley in "Downtown Abbey," has withdrawn from the new Donmar Warehouse production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in whi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:42AM[SHARE]It’s a week of some very high-profile openings, with multiple press night clashes night after night. It’s impossible to be in two,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Earlier Oct. 28, producers of the upcoming London stage sequel Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II announced that the first three-month block of tickets had sold out w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PM[SHARE]All tickets for the first booking period (June 7-Sept. 19, 2016) for the London stage sequel Harry Potter and the Cursed Child sold out within hours during priority sale Oct. 28. As a re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AM[SHARE]Monday, October 26, 2015
An audience member who insisted on singing "loudly and badly" during an Oct. 24 performance by the national touring company of The Bodyguard in Nottingham, U.K., was removed from t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 24, 2015
I am writing this sitting beside a pool, in glorious sunshine, at a private hotel across the street from a beach in Gran Canaria. This is the sort of holiday my husband and I always give our…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:44AM[SHARE]Friday, October 23, 2015
The world premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a new play based on an original new story by "Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, has announc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PM[SHARE]When the current Benedict Cumberbatch Hamlet (currently playing at the Barbican, with the final week of the run next week through Oct. 31) went on sale a year ahead of its opening, it sold o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Andrew Scott is to star in the U.K. premiere of Richard Greenberg's 2002 Off-Broadway play The Dazzle, originally produced by Roundabout Theatre Company at the Gramercy Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:44AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a new play based on an original new story by "Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, has announc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:23AM[SHARE]Cats begins its return engagement at the London Palladium Oct. 23, which, as previously revealed, stars Beverley Knight as Grizabella for an 11-week season through Jan. 2, 2016.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 22, 2015
It’s a week of returns of previous plays, productions, players and companies. So if you missed them before, or want to see
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 21, 2015
It really is, when you come down to it, a nice problem to have: the fact that there’s just so much happening
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Now that we live in a short-attention-span society, where an hour and a half of theatre is quite enough, thank you very
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
The National Theatre's sold-out production of Duncan Macmillan's People, Places and Things, currently in the rep of the Dorfman Theatre though Nov. 4, is set to transfer to the W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:27AM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber has long been the world's most commercially successful theatre composer. And without taking anything away from the shows themselves,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 18, 2015
Gypsy was named Best Musical Production and its star Imelda Staunton, who plays Rose, won the award for Best Performance in a Musical in the U.K Theatre Awards, presented in a ceremony Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Michael Flatley may have dubbed himself Lord of the Dance, but really the title belongs, on the British stage at least, to
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