Monday, September 7, 2015
A few years ago, Sam Walters, then artistic director of the Orange Tree Theatre, publicly declared a zero tolerance policy against mobile
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 6, 2015
I did a week full of repeats of shows I've seen before - two of which I repeated again in the self-same week. (And one of them I even saw twice in less than 24 hours!)
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AM[SHARE]Like most British theatre directors, Matthew Warchus began his directing career in the subsidised sector, first as an assistant at the Bristol
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 5, 2015
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, beginning perform…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The West End is sending Broadway King Charles III and returning The Color Purple to sender as well (with the transfer of the Menier Chocolate Factory's production of the 2005 Broadway mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2015
Full casting has been announced for a new U.K. production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's 1927 Broadway classic Show Boat, beginning performances Dec. 10 at Sheffield's Crucib…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AM[SHARE]Cassidy Janson is to replace the Olivier award winning Katie Brayben in the West End production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, to take over the title role beginning performances Nov.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AM[SHARE]London's Almeida Theatre, currently in the midst of a three-play season of ancient Greek plays, has announced that in the fall and winter it will continue to re-invigorate the cl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AM[SHARE]Close to You - Bacharach Reimagined, a retitled version of What's It All About? that completes its debut London run at the Menier Chocolate Factory Sept. 5, is to transfer to the Wes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AM[SHARE]Cassidy Janson is to replace the Olivier award winning Katie Brayben in the West End production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, to take over the title role beginning performances Nov.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:22AM[SHARE]I know I’m one of the (really) lucky ones: I get paid to do what I love, namely go to the theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 3, 2015
You can run, but you can’t hide, from some theatre names these days: while the man of the moment used to be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Bryan Batt — the Broadway actor best known for his TV appearances in "Mad Men" — is to appear in London as part of the Bayou Banquest Festival, celebrating the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:51AM[SHARE]In the early days of lottery funding for capital projects, arts organisations quick off the mark found a lot of financial help
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Joe McElderry, who won the sixth series of the U.K.'s "The X Factor" and subsequently won two more reality TV shows (the second series of ITV's "Popstar to Operastar&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:52AM[SHARE]Jim Broadbent, the Oscar-winning actor (for "Iris") who is also well known for his appearances in the "Harry Potter," "The Iron Lady," Woody Allen's &qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:47AM[SHARE]So this year's Edinburgh Fringe is finished for another year " though its effects will continue to ripple through in the months
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 (replacing Kevin Spacey as a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 31, 2015
The annual Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award, presented by the Carol Tambor Theatrical Foundation to fund a New York run of the winner, has been presented to Key Change, a play devised by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AM[SHARE]Taking issue with contrary opinions on Twitter, an audience member taking photos at the Union, and visiting Southampton and Bath -- and of course seeing Cumberbatch's Hamlet.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 30, 2015
Michael Grandage has, for as long as I've known him, been something of a life force: not content with running one theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AM[SHARE]Friday, August 28, 2015
Benedict Cumberbatch's parents — both of them also actors, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton — were first to praise their son after the opening of Hamlet at the Barbi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Lionel Bart's classic musical Oliver! is to receive its first-ever Arabic language adaptation, featuring a cast of 36 Syrian refugees and under-privileged Jordanian children when…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]I’m supposed to be in Edinburgh right now: I’d promised myself that I’d do the last five days of the festival before
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2015
Edinburgh enters the home stretch with a final five-day flourish that includes Bank Holiday Monday " and features one more international festival
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 26, 2015
The West End would already be a pale shadow of itself were it not for subsidised theatre: look at War Horse and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2015
The annual competition for the Funniest Joke of the Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival, awarded by TV comedy channel "Dave," has been won by comic Darren Walsh for his joke, "I …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AM[SHARE]Julia Murney is to appear in concert London's Hippodrome Casino Nov. 2. There will be performances at 8 PM and 11 PM; the late show will include duets with current West End stars, who ar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM[SHARE]New York-based writer and performer Peter Michael Marino, whose stage musical version of the film "Desperately Seeking Susan" opened at the West End's Novello Theatre in 20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM[SHARE]In mid-July, I wrote a column for The Stage that noted ticket prices for Elf at the Dominion were “stretching to a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Willemijn Verkaik, the only actress to have played Elphaba in Wicked in multiple languages, including appearances on Broadway, the West End, in Germany and the Netherlands, appears in concer…
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