Jason Robert Brown's song cycle Songs for a New World, which originally premiered Off-Broadway in 1995 when its writer was just 25, is to receive a 20th anniversary revival productio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00AM[SHARE]Jason Robert Brown's song cycle Songs for a New World, which originally premiered Off-Broadway in 1995 when its writer was just 25, is to receive a 20th anniversary revival productio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00AM[SHARE]I’ve been a regular visitor to New York for some 32 years now " but I’ve never been to the Brooklyn Academy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Manchester International Festival of plays has announced a series of theatre commissions for the 2015 festival, including collaborations with Charlotte Rampling, Maxine Peake and Damon Albar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:40AM[SHARE]I’m in New York until Sunday, but there’s so much happening back home over the next week that I (almost) can’t wait
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The program for the third London Festival of Cabaret (LFoC), running April 28-May 11, will include appearances by Kerry Ellis, Jack Jones, Scott Alan with Cynthia Erivo, Janie Dee, Anita…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for a new U.K. tour of Hairspray that will begin performances at Leicester's Curve Sept. 9, then embark on a 40-week nationwide tour.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32AM[SHARE]Nominations for the Olivier Awards 2015 with MasterCard are to be announced March 9 by Lesley Manville (winner of the 2014 Best Actress Olivier) and James McAvoy (currently starring in The R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:30AM[SHARE]You’re already in the best online place, of course, for all British theatre news, reviews and opinion by reading this on The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Anna-Jane Casey, Ria Jones and Sarah-Louise Young headline a London revival of the 1985 Broadway revue Jerry's Girls that celebrates the work of composer Jerry Herman and officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33AM[SHARE]"House of Cards" star Kevin Spacey reprises his solo turn in the title role of Clarence Darrow beginning performances at London's Old Vic Theatre March 3-April 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM[SHARE]London's Royal Court Theatre is to premiere new plays by Michael Wynne, debbie tucker green and Gary Owen, and has also confirmed that it will take Nick Payne's Constellations, origi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:20AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the U.K. premiere of Simon Stephens' Carmen Disruption that begins performances at London's Almeida Theatre April 10 prior to an official opening April…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:48AM[SHARE]Final casting has been announced for Lonny Price's production of Sweeney Todd that begins performances at the London Coliseum March 30, prior to an official opening March 31, for a run t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:44AM[SHARE]"History is happening in Manhattan," says a character in Hamilton, the new musical about a particular chapter in American constitutional history that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Jonathan Slinger is to take over as Willy Wonka in the London production of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, beginning performances May 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AM[SHARE]Mel Brooks is to present his first-ever solo U.K. show, Mel Brooks Live in London, at the West End's Prince of Wales Theatre for one-night only March 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:43AM[SHARE]Alan Ayckbourn is to premiere his 79th play, Hero's Welcome, as part of the 60th anniversary season at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre that he used to run, and which ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:31AM[SHARE]Peter Davison will join the company of Gypsy in the role of Herbie when Chichester Festival Theatre's production transfers to the West End; he will star opposite Imelda Staunton…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:11AM[SHARE]Lorna Luft will star in Judy — The Life and Music of a Hollywood Legend, which will begin performances May 8 at Edinburgh's Playhouse Theatre ahead of a U.K. tour. Also in the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:56AM[SHARE]For passionate theatre fans, the other great theatre city in the English-speaking world after London is surely New York. I’ve been visiting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]"Pickpocket entertainer" James Freedman will reveal the tricks of his dicey trade in his solo show Man of Steal for six performances only, April 12-27, at London's Menier C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AM[SHARE]Tristan Bernays' new musical Teddy, with a score by Dougal Irvine, is to premiere at London's Southwark Playhouse, beginning performances June 4 prior to an official opening June 8, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:49AM[SHARE]Charles Edwards, who recently starred opposite Angela Lansbury in the West End and in the L.A., San Francisco and Washington DC runs of Blithe Spirit is to play the title role in William Sha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:41AM[SHARE]Tom Morton-Smith's Oppenheimer, which tells the story of ‘the father of the atomic bomb’ J.Robert Oppenheimer, is to transfer to the West End's Vaudeville The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:27AM[SHARE]In last week’s print edition of The Stage, I highlighted Islington in a feature as a hotbed of theatre, and it is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Hampstead Theatre is to premiere Matchbox Theatre, described as "an evening of short entertainments" by Michael Frayn, beginning performances April 25 prior to an official opening …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54AM[SHARE]The Broadway engagement of Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, based on the history novels by Hilary Mantel about Henry VIII, which will begin performances March 20 at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PM[SHARE]Chichester Festival Theatre has announced its line-up for the 2015 summer season, which will include a major new production of Mack & Mabel starring Michael Ball, Rob Ashford dir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:29AM[SHARE]Few announcements are more keenly awaited in theatre than what's being promised for Chichester Festival Theatre's annual season. This is not just
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Kevin Spacey is to receive a Special Award at the 2015 Olivier Awards, being presented April 12 at London's Royal Opera House, to acknowledge his "extraordinary contribution" t…
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