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 …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:05AM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2015
No fewer than three major London critics came up with the same pun while describing the U.K homecoming of Broadway version of the British film Kinky Boots, with The Guardian's Michael Bi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, whose Broadway hit Kinky Boots has just opened in the West End, has been tapped to revise the original book to Funny Girl in advance of the musical's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]A 50th anniversary production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming is to be staged at the West End's Trafalgar Studios, beginning performances Nov. 14 prior to an official opening Nov. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AM[SHARE]The last time Rufus Norris, the National’s artistic director in succession to Nicholas Hytner, held a press conference, he did so in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2015
Annie Baker's The Flick, currently playing a commercial run at Off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre after transferring from Playwrights Horizons, is to receive its U.K. premiere …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PM[SHARE]The original production of War Horse, that transferred from the National's Olivier Theatre to the New London Theatre, is to finally shutter March 12, 2016, after a run of eight years dur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PM[SHARE]There are lots of high-profile openings in London and beyond over the next week, with major actors (David Morrissey, Reece Shearmith, Simon
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Martin McDonagh's Hangmen, with a cast that features David Morrissey (last seen on the London stage in Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House at the Almeida), Reece…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Theatre is a living education. I've heard actors say how playing different roles and inhabiting different skins allows them to live many
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Tom Stoppard's Hapgood, first produced in the West End in 1988 and subsequently in New York at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theatre in 1994, is to be revived for the first time in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:32AM[SHARE]My fellow critic Matt Trueman recently wrote a piece on the challenges faced with reviewing friends, and as he noted, “It's not
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Killian Donnelly and Matt Henry lead the company for the West End premiere of Broadway's Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots, opening officially Sept. 15 at the Adelphi Theatre (following…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 14, 2015
The original London cast of Dogfight, Pasek and Paul's 2012 musical based on the 1991 film of the same name, is to be reunited at the St James Theatre in a concert staging that will be g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AM[SHARE]Today I’m going to a graduation ceremony at Arts Educational Schools London for the musical theatre three-year course. Full disclosure: this is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51, seen in 2010 at Off-Broadway's Ensemble Studio Theater, receives its London premiere in a new production that stars Nicole Kidman, officially openin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 13, 2015
This week I had another birthday -- but it wasn't any birthday: Scott Alan threw a public birthday bash for me. And it was the best of my life!
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:10PM[SHARE]There's no one quite like Harvey Fierstein on (or off) the Broadway stage. From fringe figure in the Off-Broadway scene of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 11, 2015
The 10th anniversary year of the Oscar-winning film "Brokeback Mountain" is to be marked by the first-ever theatre adaptation of Annie Proulx's short story it was based…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AM[SHARE]The forthcoming Kenneth Branagh Company season of plays, originally announced here, will see three of them broadcast live to U.K. and international cinemas in partnership with Picturehouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:29AM[SHARE]Some shows divide audiences and critics alike. Partly, of course, its about taste: I can’t abide celery, others love it. And I
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 10, 2015
Last week, in lieu of this column, there was an extensive London preview here of the coming fall season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]The busy autumn really starts getting into gear this week with three major West End openings, yet again showing just how important
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Tamsin Oglesby's Future Conditional "" which inaugurates Matthew Warchus's first season at the helm of London's Old Vic (succeeding Kevin Spacey as artistic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The European premiere of Harvey Fierstein's 2014 Broadway play Casa Valentina, which earned four Tony nominations, including a nod for Best Play, begins performances at London's Sout…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2015
At a platform at the National Theatre last week to launch a new book The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 8, 2015
West End Bares 2015: Take Off will be hosted by Graham Norton at the West End's Café De Paris in Coventry Street, W1, Sept. 20, with performances at 9:30 PM and midnight.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PM[SHARE]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 01:00PM[SHARE]There’s nowhere in Britain quite like Blackpool. Jane McDonald, who’s just done a run there in Cats, told me when I interviewed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 7, 2015
David Threlfall has been tapped to star in the title role of Don Quixote, which will begin performances Feb. 25 prior to an official opening March 3 at the Royal Shakespeare Company's S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:10AM[SHARE]A few years ago, Sam Walters, then artistic director of the Orange Tree Theatre, publicly declared a zero tolerance policy against mobile
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