Thursday, October 8, 2015
The 30th anniversary performance of the West End's longest-running musical, Les Miserables, is marked by a charity gala Oct. 8, in aid of Save the Children Syria Children's Appea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Veteran British stage and screen star Eileen Atkins, whose career has spanned seven decades, is to be honored at this year's U.K. Theatre Awards, being presented Oct. 18 at London's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:01PM[SHARE]Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell are to star in the U.K premiere of the 2006 Broadway musical Grey Gardens, beginning performances Jan. 2 prior to an official opening Jan. 7 at Londno's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29AM[SHARE]Theatre is a two-way street " not all the drama happens on stage. We, the audience, are also there helping to make
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2015
My theatre addiction still saw me seeing 7 shows in New York last week - but it all faded into insignificance next to the show I presided over: the wedding of my friends Dana P Rowe and Andr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:35AM[SHARE]The 2016 season at London's Tricycle Theatre will open with the transfer of Florian Zeller's The Mother from Bath's Ustinov Theatre. The theatre will also see artistic director I…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]Curve in Leicester is to present an all-new production of the 2007 Broadway musical Legally Blonde, directed by artistic director Nikolai Foster in his opening slate of productions worki…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:31AM[SHARE]French film and stage star Isabelle Huppert is to return to the London stage to play the title role in Pheadra(s) at the Barbican Theatre. Also represented at the Barbican in 2016 will be di…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:47AM[SHARE]London's Old Red Lion Theatre, a pub theatre in Islington, is to present the world premiere of Arthur Miller's previously lost first play No Villain, beginning performances Dec. 8 pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:44AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the West End premiere of Motown the Musical, beginning performances Feb. 11, 2016, prior to an official opening March 8 at the Shaftesbury Theatre. The cast wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:25AM[SHARE]The National Theatre has set dates for the previously announced London premiere of Annie Baker's The Flick, as well as for new productions of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:21AM[SHARE]It’s fashionable " and inevitable " to bemoan the state of Broadway " both for its financial wealth (tickets for Hamilton are
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
Ian Kelly's Mr. Foote's Other Leg, currently running at Hampstead Theatre in its premiere run through Oct. 17, is to transfer immediately to the West End's Theatre Royal, Haymark…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:46AM[SHARE]The shortlist for the Radio 2 Audience Award for Best Musical, which will be presented as part of the 2015 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, has been announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:30AM[SHARE]Let’s hope this doesn’t become a self-fulfilling prophesy, but in New York the news that the city’s two big tabloids – the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 3, 2015
Vicky Featherstone, director of London's Royal Court theatre, has said audiences are less at ease with female leads than with male ones. Is she right?Mark Shenton, joint lead critic and asso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AM[SHARE]The return of Lin-Manuel Miranda's first Broadway musical, In the Heights, originally seen in London at Southwark Playhouse in 2014, begins performances at the King's Cross Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The controversy-generating previously announced new production of The Wars of the Roses opens officially at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, Oct. 3, following previews that began Sept. 16, fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Close to You - Bacharach Reimagined, a retitled version of What's It All About? that recently had its London debut at the Menier Chocolate Factory, begins performances at the West En…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2015
The curse of cellphone usage and disruption in the theatre — whether deliberate or inadvertent — is being addressed in the U.K. with the launch of the "Cumberphone&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]The previously announced return of Lin-Manuel Miranda's first Broadway musical, In the Heights, originally seen in London at Southwark Playhouse in 2014, has announced casting.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AM[SHARE]The West End production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Sam Mendes, is to hold open auditions for the first time, to find performers to play the iconic roles of the Oompa&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AM[SHARE]London's Crazy Coqs cabaret room, located within Brasserie Zedel restaurant off Piccadilly Circus, is to host runs by Tony winner Frances Ruffelle, New York's Christine Pedi and vete…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:47AM[SHARE]The previously announced The Wind in the Willows, a new musical adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's celebrated novel that has a book by "Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:21AM[SHARE]Martin McDonagh's latest play, Hangmen, his first to be staged on a London stage in over a decade that is now running at the Royal Court through Oct. 10, is to transfer to the West End&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:57AM[SHARE]There are currently 21 musicals playing on Broadway. All but four of them are entirely written by men, and mostly directed by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2015
Theatre exists, of course, in the here and now, but it also has a habit of looking forwards as well as backwards
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Jane Horrocks, who created the title role of Little Voice in the original National Theatre production of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and its subsequent film version and who is also bes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:03AM[SHARE]The West End is living in boom times: year on year, the box office take has increased and attendances have also generally
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
The Observer critic Susannah Clapp began her weekly review column last Sunday by declaring: “This is one of the best weeks I
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2015
The full cast has been announced for the return of Cats to the London Palladium, which, as was previously revealed, will star Beverley Knight as Grizabella, beginning performances Oct. 23 fo…
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