The sold-out production of Aeschylus' Oresteia, re-imagined for the modern stage by director/adaptor Robert Icke, is to transfer from the Almeida to the West End's T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29AM[SHARE]I’ve long said there’s no right and wrong in theatre criticism: our response to a particular show is always a matter of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]It’s a bit of a rush to the finishing line before (some of) the UK’s theatremakers and critics decamp to Edinburgh. (But
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Peter Brook is to re-visit one section of the great Indian epic "The Mahabharata" for a new play called Battlefield that will come to London's Young Vic beginning performan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AM[SHARE]Richard Bean's The Mentalists is to shutter early at the West End's Wyndham's Theatre, closing Aug. 29 instead of the originally scheduled Sept. 26. The play opened officially Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:34AM[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, is to stage conce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16AM[SHARE]Is it really 30 years since the first play responding to the AIDS crisis " As Is " reached Broadway? William H
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Three American musicals from the last three decades have made major waves in London over the last week, even though their original American runs only created minor ripples.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PM[SHARE]It’s the critic’s lot " if not purpose " to moan about the state of theatre, and God knows there’s always a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Full casting has been revealed for the previously announced U.K. premiere of Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51, which begins performances Sept. 5 prior to an official opening Sept. 14 at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AM[SHARE]The Edinburgh Fringe kicks off next week (running from August 7-31, with the International Festival finally taking the eminently sensible step (under
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Another busy week: I loved 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Songs for a New World, As Is, The Spitfire Grill and revisiting Memphis, but had problems with Sinatra, Mack and Mabel and American Idiot.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:42AM[SHARE]Just over a year ago, Alex Sharp was still at Juilliard, probably New York's (not to mention America's) foremost drama school, completing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM[SHARE]Major cast changes have been announced for the original London production of The Phantom of the Opera, running at the West End's Her Majesty's Theatre. The production will see John O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]Major cast changes have been announced for the original London production of The Phantom of the Opera, running at the West End's Her Majesty's Theatre. The production will see John O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]There are some big openings over the next week, but fewer smaller ones around them as the fringe starts slowing down ahead
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The Spitfire Grill, a musical based on the 1986 film of the same name that was seen Off-Broadway in a production by Playwrights' Horizons at the Duke Theatre on 42nd Street in 2001, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Spider-Man Turn off the Dark may hold the record for the longest preview period in Broadway history, finally opening officially after running for some six and a half months and 182 perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark not only holds the record for the most expensively produced show in Broadway history to date "
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]A brand-new London production of American Idiot, the musical based on Green Day's eponymous album that premiered at Berkeley Rep in 2009 before transferring to Broadway in 2010, offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The current U.K. touring production of Calamity Jane, directed by Nikolai Foster (artistic director of Curve in Leicester) and starring Jodie Prenger in the title role, has been filmed in a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A new production of Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart's 1974 Broadway musical Mack & Mabel, starring Michael Ball and Rebeccca LaChance in the title roles, opens officially at Chi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10AM[SHARE]Everywhere you look, it seems, there's a jukebox musical playing in the West End and/or Broadway, celebrating iconic music figures from Michael
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:15AM[SHARE]Dusty, a new multi-media show celebrating the music of pop icon Dusty Springfield, has been previewing at London's Charing Cross Theatre since May and has twice postponed its opening…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AM[SHARE]James Phillips' McQueen, a play about the late fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen that received its world premiere at London's St. James Theatre in May, is set to transf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AM[SHARE]The Lughnasa International Friel Festival, celebrating the work of the Tony-winning playwright Brian Friel — whose plays Dancing at Lughnasa, Wonderful Tennessee, Philadelphia …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM[SHARE]Evie Hone and Lizzie Wells are to join Anna-Louise Knight and Lara McDonnell in sharing the title role in the original West End production of Matilda The Musical, beginning Sept. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AM[SHARE]“Apart from that, Mrs Lincoln,” goes the famous quip about the last trip to the theatre paid by Abraham Lincoln and his
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:43AM[SHARE]Long before Susan Boyle was launched to global fame via Britain's Got Talent, another unheralded singer called Jane McDonald found herself the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM[SHARE]Michael Ball has never been an actor to choose the easy option. In a West End career that has now spanned some 30
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