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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Trevor Nunn will inaugurate a season as artistic director of the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company by directing Sienna Miller in a new production of Terence Rattigan's 1942 play Flare Path. It…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner has announced plans for the theatre for 2011-12, including a new musical by Tori Amos, to open in the Cottesloe in April 2012 under the dir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]James Purefoy and Sheridan Smith will join the previously announced Sienna Miller in Trevor Nunn's production of Terence Rattigan's Flare Path, beginning performances at the Theatre Royal, H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The West End has posted record results for the seventh year running, with box office revenues achieving a new high of £512,331,808, up 1.46 percent on a like-for-like basis on 2009 and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Love Story, a West End musical version of the Erich Segal novel that became the famous tear-jerker film of the same name, is to shutter Feb. 26 at the Duchess Theatre. It opened Dec. 6, 2010…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Additional details have been announced for the Young Vic Theatre's new season through March 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Richard Grieve, best known for his TV role as Jonny Foster in ITV1's "Emmerdale," will take over as Tick in the original West End production of the Broadway-bound Priscilla Queen of the Dese…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London has received a major lead gift of £1 million from American international publisher Sara Miller McCune for its fundraising campaign to raise a tar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Matthew Kelly and Gerard Kearns will star in Sign of the Times, a new comedy by Tim Firth, who wrote the recent hit stage version of Calendar Girls based on his own screenplay. It will begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park, which has already won two major U.K. theatre prizes for Best New Play after its London premiere at the Royal Court last year, transfers to the West End's Wyndh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]La Soirée, the cabaret, variety and circus entertainment formerly titled La Clique, which has previously played seasons at London's Hippodrome and Roundhouse, is to return to the latt…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]A new record was set last night for the regular “top” price for a play in the West End, with the opening of The Children’s Hour at the Comedy Theatre which has, at a stroke…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58PM[SHARE]This is commercial theatre not just at its most pricey but also best.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58PM[SHARE]Keira Knightley returns to the Comedy Theatre, where she made her West End debut in 2009 in The Misanthrope, to star opposite "Mad Men" star Elisabeth Moss in a new production of Lillian Hel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Derren Brown, best known for his numerous TV shows of psychological illusions that have included "Mind Control" (also screened in the U.S. on NBC's Sci-Fi Channel), "Trick of the Mind" and "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Early casting for this year's summer season at Shakespeare's Globe in London has been announced and will include starring appearances by Janie Dee, Eve Best, Charles Edwards and Paul Hilton,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]A tiny fringe theatre in Kilburn, North London is to commemorate this year's Tennessee Williams centenary with the world premiere of two previously unperformed plays. The Cock Tavern Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Mark Ravenhill, best known for his plays that include Shopping and Fucking and Mother Clap's Molly House, is to make his directing debut with a new jazz version of Monteverdi's 1640s opera T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Digital Theatre, the online initiative in which major theatrical productions are recorded live and then made available for download via their website at www.digitaltheatre.com, have announce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Smash!, the late Jack Rosenthal's autobiographical play based on his experiences in turning his hit TV play "Bar Mitzvah Boy" into a stage musical, will receive its London premiere at the Me…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Kissing Dance, Howard Goodall and Charles Hart's musical adaptation of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer that was originally written for and premiered by the National Youth Music …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Dirty Dancing, the West End stage version of the classic 1987 film of the same name, has announced that it will shutter at the Aldwych Theatre July 9, prior to embarking on a previously anno…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The new West End production of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, which opened officially at the Comedy Theatre Feb. 9, lost a performance Feb. 14, owing to "essential building repairs" …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Imelda Staunton, Lucy Cohu and Tim Pigott-Smith will join the previously announced Penelope Wilton in the forthcoming revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance at London's Almeida Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Nicholas Hytner's production of Hamlet, starring Rory Kinnear in the title role that was a sell-out success in the Olivier Theatre last year, will return for a season to the South Bank, begi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]This year's annual summer season at Chichester Festival Theatre and its adjoining Minerva Studio will go big on musicals, including new productions of She Loves Me (starring Wicked's Dianne …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which played at Broadway's Circle in the Square for over 1,100 performances from 2005 to 2008 and won the Tony Award for Rachel Sheinkin's book an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Dominic West, last seen on the London stage in Life is a Dream at the Donmar Warehouse but best known for his starring role in the U.S. TV series "The Wire," will play the title role in a n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle, of "Slumdog Millionaire" fame, returns to to directing for the theatre for the first time in 15 years with a new stage version of Mary Shelley's Frankenst…
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