Friday, February 13, 2015
Sinatra: The Man & His Music will begin performances at the London Palladium July 10, prior to an official opening July 20, to mark the centenary year of his birth. The only show off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AM[SHARE]The West End return for Peter Morgan's The Audience has announced the actors who will play U.K. Prime Ministers past (and present) opposite the previously announced Kristin Scott Thomas …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AM[SHARE]Initial casting has been announced for the previously reported West End premiere of Elf that begins performances at London's Dominion Theatre Oct. 24 prior to an offici…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM[SHARE]Further casting has been revealed for the previously announced Follies in Concert performance, to be held April 28 for two performances only at London's Royal Albert Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM[SHARE]Principal casting has been announced for a new production of Cole Porter and Arthur Kopit's High Society, based on the 1956 film musical of the same name and Philip Barry's play The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:56AM[SHARE]Carrie: the Musical, which premiered under the auspices of the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1988 before going on to a short-lived Broadway run, is to recei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32AM[SHARE]You shouldn’t judge any theatre by commercial success, and especially not by an ability to transfer shows to the West End or Broadway. Those are ruthless marketplaces where the things …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 12, 2015
Soho Theatre, London: The age of the 'mega-musical', which was all about scale and turning shows into theme park rides with a set-piece thrill, has inevitably, it seems, been repla…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:02AM[SHARE]A relatively low-key week in London offers a chance to catch up on things further afield (including, for me, stocking up on two regional openings) and catching a repeat or two. A View from t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Performances of a two-year tour of the West End production of The Bodyguard begin Sept. 12 at Southampton's Mayflower Theatre. Alexandra Burke is reprising the role of Rachel Marron …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Last year's London fringe production of Sondheim and Wheeler's Sweeney Todd that was presented in a site-specific staging at a real-life London pie and mash shop in Tooting i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:24AM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse, London: Russell Labey, also represented in London by a revival of his musical adaptation of Mary Hayley Bell's Whistle Down the Wind (that predated Lloyd Webber…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:56AM[SHARE]One swallow does not a summer make, goes the famous saying, but I’m always fascinated by how critics " seeing two shows around the same theme or subject " start immediately detecting t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Salisbury Playhouse: This stage version of Helene Hanff's 1970 memoir of her love affair with rare books and the London bookshop that regularly shipped them to her in New York has come …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:25AM[SHARE]A few years ago, I remember telling a theatre producer, “You’ll miss us when we’re gone.” And then I hesitated and corrected myself, “You’ll miss some of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The West End production of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical begins performances Feb. 10 prior to an official opening Feb. 24 at the Aldwych Theatre. It is currently booking thro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2015
Further casting has been announced for a new production of Nöel Coward's Hay Fever, beginning performances April 29 prior to an official opening May 11 at the West End's Duk…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:53AM[SHARE]The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced plans for the winter season at its Stratford-upon-Avon headquarters, that will include a new production of Henry V directed by artistic di…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:48AM[SHARE]Elf, which played a Broadway season at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in 2010, is to receive its London premiere at the West End's Dominion Theatre, beginning performances Oct. 24 prior to an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25AM[SHARE]Gatehouse, London: A brave fringe attempt to resuscitate a fast Broadway flop from 1993 unfortunately flounders all over again, despite the best efforts of a hard-working cast led by two Wes…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:06AM[SHARE]I recently wrote about coming late to shows that other critics have both panned and raved about, and making up my own mind. But what about coming back to a show I’ve raved about myself…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 6, 2015
London's Young Vic Theatre has announced a slate of seven new shows to be produced in 2015, including main house productions of O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness!, Rory Kinnear in Kafka&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:39AM[SHARE]Kinky Boots, winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Musical, is to receive its U.K. premiere at the West End's Adelphi Theatre, beginning performances Aug. 21 prior to an official openin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:59AM[SHARE]Actors are sometimes warned that if they’re going to believe their good reviews, they have to believe their bad ones, too " so its probably safer to disregard both (at least until some…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 5, 2015
A quieter week ahead in London theatre sees most of the activity on the fringe, apart from one major piece of new writing at the Royal Court. But there’s plenty of interesting work aro…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2015
For most people who work in the theatre, it is more than a job " it is a way of life. Theatre has a way of working its way into your soul, and I know…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AM[SHARE]Theatre Royal, Stratford East: The current London import of Broadway's The Scottsboro Boys tells its chastening tale of a major but previously mostly forgotten instance of 1930s America…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Anna-Jane Casey, Ria Jones and Sarah-Louise Young will star in the previously announced London revival of the 1985 Broadway revue Jerry's Girls that celebrates the work of compos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:25AM[SHARE]Loserville, an original British musical originally created for Youth Music Theatre UK in 2009 before being given a professional outing at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds — wh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:48AM[SHARE]We’re in the middle of awards season. And while the world ponders over whether Eddie Redmayne or Benedict Cumberbatch (two actors who began their careers on the London stage) will emer…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 2, 2015
Michael Ball has been confirmed to lead the cast of a new production of Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart's 1974 Broadway musical Mack and Mabel that will begin performances at Chichester…
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