Michael Ball has never been an actor to choose the easy option. In a West End career that has now spanned some 30
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Bend It Like Beckham, the new British musical version of the 2002 film of the same name, is getting set to original its cast album and has released teasers for two tracks from the score, whi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM[SHARE]It is an almost universally recognised truth that revivals never run as long as the originals. (The glorious exception, of course, is Chicago, whose 1996 revival — still running on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]London's Royal Court has announced that casting for its production of Martin McDonagh's Hangmen will include David Morrissey (last seen on the London stage in Neil LaBute's In a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:44AM[SHARE]It’s a week of concert and theatrical returns for me (and not just because I, too, am returning from a week in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Michael John LaChiusa's musical See What I Wanna See , is to receive its London premiere. It will begin performances Sept. 8 at Jermyn Street Theatre, prior to an official opening Sept. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PM[SHARE]It's not just the audiences whose bad behaviour, recently highlighted by Patti LuPone, needs fixing. According to reports from Manchester, the Turner Prize winning artist Douglas Gordon …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:17AM[SHARE]It's not just the audiences whose bad behaviour, recently highlighted by Patti LuPone, needs fixing.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:17AM[SHARE]The new season at London's Royal Court will include the world premiere of Hangmen, Martin McDonagh's first new play in London for more than a decade, plus Brooklyn-based ensemble…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12AM[SHARE]Last week Juliet Stevenson railed publicly against the cost of going to see her friend Harriet Walter in the current revival of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined, which originally premiered at Off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop in 2013, opens officailly at London's Menier Chocolate Facto…
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 3…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]The West End return of Miss Saigon, currently running at the Prince Edward Theatre where it opened May 2014, is to shutter Feb. 27, 2016 after a run of less than two years. The original prod…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:55AM[SHARE]Audiences are now so umbilically attached to their mobile phones that they seem to be actually affronted when asked not to use
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]I’ve long campaigned for West End theatres to be properly refitted, not just patched up along the way. I’ve also kept wondering
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]I'm in a sweltering New York right now -- but I've kept the heat on for myself with lots of shows and interviews planned.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:11AM[SHARE]David Suchet isn't an actor shy of reading his reviews. (He invariably has no reason not to). But it was one review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]London is already awash with jukebox shows, drawing on the pop repertoires of everyone from the Beatles and Michael Jackson to Frankie
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Kings of Broadway, a one-night concert to be held Nov. 29 at the West End's Palace Theatre, will celebrate the music of Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim and Jule Styne.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:14AM[SHARE]Zoë Wanamaker and John Dagleish have joined the line-up of the opening productions of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company at the West End's Garrick Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:58AM[SHARE]It’s hardly surprising, given my passion for musicals, that I measure big chunks of my life by them " and inevitably, their
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Some of the best theatre, in London as in New York, happens in the smallest spaces, like the Donmar Warehouse, Almeida, Young Vic, Southwark Playhouse and Finborough Theatres — not…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PM[SHARE]On the eve of performances beginning for the Broadway transfer for Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (from July 13 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre), his previous Tony winning musical In t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:05AM[SHARE]On the eve of performances beginning for the Broadway transfer for Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (from July 13 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre), his previous Tony winning musical In t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:05AM[SHARE]I head to New York (again) from July 11-17, so I’m missing some of these openings (though I’m being allowed in early
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]An Intimate Evening with Liza Minnelli, which will mark the return of the star to the London Palladium, where she has appeared regularly over the years, will see her joined by Sir Bruce Fors…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]There’s a first time for everything. Even Michael Billington, our most senior theatre critic (in every sense), is still making new discoveries
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Derren Brown, psychological stage and television illusionist, is to bring his latest show, Derren Brown: Miracle, to the West End's Palace Theatre, beginning performances Nov. 11 prior t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]Tracie Bennett, Tony-nominated for the Leading Actress in a Play award for playing Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow on Broadway in 2012, is to replace the previously announced Janie De…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]Ann Hampton Callaway and her sister Liz Callaway are reprising their show Sibling Revelry, which was previously presented in London in 1998 as part of the inaugural Divas at the Donmar seaso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]Hollywood has always looked not just across the US to Broadway, but even further afield across the Atlantic to find some of
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