The Smallest Show on Earth, a new musical based on the 1957 film of the same name that is known as "Big Time Operators" in the U.S. (starring Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford, Bi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:05AM[SHARE]Some directors seem born to run companies. Peter Hall, for instance, founded the Royal Shakespeare Company, then was the National’s second director,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Jonathan Church, who as previously announced is to step down from the artistic directorship of Chichester Festival Theatre at the end of the 2016 season which he has helmed since 2005, is to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54PM[SHARE]In New York, unlike London, they have a designated theatre season that revolves around one crucial annual event " the Tony Awards.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]I completed my list of 50 favourite musicals of all time this week, and my top 10 had London Road at number
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Xanadu, the 2007 Tony-nominated Broadway musical version of the cult 1980 film about a woman who makes dreams come true, is to receive its U.K. premiere at London's Southwark Playous…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PM[SHARE]There’s a paradox at the heart of the revival of The Elephant Man. The play has transferred to the West End’s grandest
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]It's all about Sunday's Tony Awards on Broadway this week, and London-originated shows feature strongly, notably in the play departments, with multiple nominations for Wolf Hall,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The new season at London's Donmar Warehouse is to feature Abi Morgan's Splendour in its first major London run, the U.K. premiere of Christopher Shinn's Teddy Ferrara and the 30t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PM[SHARE]Finally " here’s my personal top 10 musicals of all time. This is my list and my list alone " I make
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]As we wallow in all things musical theatre this week (including a special musical theatre issue of the newspaper, published on May 28),
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]A 10lot has happened to Maria Friedman in the decade since she last originated a role in a new musical and took
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:10AM[SHARE]Back in 2007 Chita Rivera was described by The New York Times critic Charles Isherwood as "one of the last living embodiments
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM[SHARE]Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, a 1989 Off-Broadway AIDS-themed song cycle originally titled The Quilt, is revived at the West End's Criterion Theatre May 31 for a o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Brand new musicals have become something of a rarity in the West End. Even the producing and composing giants of the 1980s
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:52AM[SHARE]Performances begin tonight for A Damsel in Distress, a stage version of the 1937 film of the same name with songs by Ira and George Gershwin at Chichester Festival Theatre, prior to an offic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]An Intimate Evening with Liza Minnelli will return the star to the London Palladium, where she has appeared regularly over the years, for one night only Sept. 20. It is presented by Rocco Bu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM[SHARE]As we wallow in all things musical theatre this week (including a special musical theatre issue of the newspaper, out on May
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Broadway sends a couple of leading player Brits back home this week: one is the title character of a biographical account of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Following on from the first instalment of my personal favourite musicals of all time (numbers 41-50), today I chalk up another 10
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]There's no one hotter in London theatre right now than Cynthia Erivo, a diminutive firebrand of an actress who sings and acts with an astonishing ferocity, veracity and vitality. Her cre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]As we wallow in all things musical theatre this week (including a special musical theatre issue of the newspaper, out on May
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The only people with nothing to worry about are producers David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers, who have another solid West End hit on their hands and a sure-fire Broadway transfer ahead.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58PM[SHARE]A new musical, based on Pedro Almodovar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, started previewing last Friday on Broadway.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58PM[SHARE]But perhaps Almodovar ultimately resists theatricalisation. A West End version of his 1999 film All About My Mother, at the Old Vic in 2007, similarly floundered as it sought a theatrical la…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58PM[SHARE]Pacino has the kind of charismatic intensity that means you can’t take your eyes off him whenever he is onstage, but the particular pleasure of Daniel Sullivan’s production is th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58PM[SHARE]London's annual Lost Musicals season - a pre-cursor to New York's Encores! -- which has been in existence for over 20 years now, will this year present semi-staged performances of The Band W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Shakespeare's Globe in London has confirmed plans to move forward with the completion of an indoor Jacobean theatre, the shell of which already exists on the Globe site in Southwark.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, seen at Off-Broadway's Second Stage in 2009, receives its British premiere at London's Almeida Theatre Jan. 20 (following previews from Jan. 13), for a run thro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Keira Knightley returns to the Comedy Theatre, where she made her West End debut in 2008 in The Misanthrope, to star opposite "Mad Men" star Elisabeth Moss in a new production of Lilian Hell…
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