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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:46AM[SHARE]I wrote the other day about how the Evening Standard was undermining the credibility of its annual theatre awards, already severely diminished
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 27, 2015
You Me Bum Bum Train isn't exactly a train journey, but it provided the ride of my life; I also made two separate train journeys to Yorkshire that provided musical and comic diversions of th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:28AM[SHARE]Michael Feinstein is a one-man living encyclopaedia of American popular song, and its keenest promoter and most active performer on stages large
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AM[SHARE]During Dominic Cooke's seven-year tenure as artistic director of the Royal Court, which he left in 2013, he turned it into one
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AM[SHARE]Friday, September 25, 2015
The previously announced world premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child that will take place at the West End's Palace Theatre in the summer of 2016 has revealed that it will be pres…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PM[SHARE]The Cumberphone Campaign has been launched in the U.K, named in honour of Benedict Cumberbatch who made a direct appeal to his fans to stop using their cellphones during his current run of H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM[SHARE]The Cumberphone Campaign has been launched in the U.K, named in honour of Benedict Cumberbatch who made a direct appeal to his fans to stop using their cellphones during his current run of H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the London return of Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Dinner with Friends that will begin performances Oct. 27 prior to an official openin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AM[SHARE]The previously announced world premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child that will take place at the West End's Palace Theatre in the summer of 2016 has revealed that it will be pres…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:39AM[SHARE]This week the Critics’ Circle Annual Award for Services to the Arts was presented to Nick Hytner at a lunch held at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AM[SHARE]Bringing a journey of scientific discovery — which turned out to the one of the most significant of the last century, providing a window into the very foundations of our existence …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2015
Glenn Close, who famously usurped Patti LuPone to don the turban of Norma Desmond in the 1995 Broadway premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, is to play the role for the fir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PM[SHARE]Glenn Close, who famously usurped Patti LuPone to don the turban of Norma Desmond in the 1995 Broadway premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, is to play the role for the fir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]The 30th anniversary performance of the West End's longest-running musical, Les Miserables, is to be marked by a charity gala Oct. 8, in aid of Save the Children Syria Children's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:27AM[SHARE]The 30th anniversary performance of the West End's longest-running musical, Les Miserables, is to be marked by a charity gala Oct. 8, in aid of Save the Children Syria Children's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:27AM[SHARE]As the London production of Gypsy, starring Imelda Staunton as Rose, enters its final stand before it shutters Nov. 28 at the Savoy Theatre, there is a cast switch of her daughters: Gemma Su…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:11AM[SHARE]You wait ages for a new British musical, and then 80 arrive all at once: I’m referring, of course, to the nightly improvised
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 23, 2015
This week, the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards " the most long-established of all of London’s theatre awards ceremonies " marks its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Glenn Close is to reprise the role of Norma Desmond, 21 years after winning a Tony Award for appearing in the original Broadway transfer of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:27AM[SHARE]Glenn Close is to reprise the role of Norma Desmond, 21 years after winning a Tony Award for appearing in the original Broadway transfer of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:38AM[SHARE]Once a year, The Stage 100 takes the pulse of the movers and shakers of Theatreland and lists the top practitioners in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Steven Berkoff returns to the London stage to play Saddam Hussein in the world premiere of Anthony Horowitz's Dinner with Saddam, officially opening Sept. 22 at the Menier Chocolate Fact…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58AM[SHARE]Monday, September 21, 2015
Cynthia Erivo, the Broadway-bound star of The Color Purple, who is set to reprise her London performance as Celie in the Menier Chocolate Factory production when it transfers to Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:35AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the new production of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape that will begin performances Oct. 17 at London's Old Vic, prior to an official opening Oc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AM[SHARE]Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games, which previously played a six-month season at the West End's Dominion Theatre, will be reprised at the Playhouse Theatre, re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:28AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Guys and Dolls, first seen at Chichester Festival Theatre in summer 2014. The classic musical will begin performances at the Savo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:19AM[SHARE]This year's London Evening Standard Theatre Awards are to be presented Nov. 22 in a ceremony at London's Old Vic, co-hosted by Judi Dench and Ian McKellen with the paper's ow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:38AM[SHARE]Over the last week, I saw no fewer than three shows with Harvey Fierstein connections " either that he’d written or originally
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Broadway's Tom McGowan makes his West End stage debut in Wicked, reprising the role of the Wizard that he's previously played on Broadway in three separate engagements at the Gershwi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 20, 2015
I make up with Robert Lindsay and meet with the wonderful Mark Rylance, but I have more mixed emotions about Harvey Fierstein, even as I've seen three shows connected to him in the space of …
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