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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:39AM[SHARE]It's probably happened to us all, and now it’s happened to me. That dreadful sensation of feeling fit to burst " and you’re trapped in the middle of a row in the middle of a̷…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 31, 2015
The three stars beautifully convey their characters' quirks, individuality and hurts with an open-hearted generosity and rapport that makes it entirely captivating.
SOURCE: shentonstage.com at 06:10AM[SHARE]There's no doubting the boldness of this bonkers play about a special kind of madness, and its alternately outrageous and courageous view of a titled - and heavily entitled - family's feud, …
SOURCE: shentonstage.com at 06:05AM[SHARE]Stoppard, now 77, is still spinning the plates of philosophical enquiry and discourse in the world premiere of his latest play, but it presents hard dramatic, as well as intellectual, proble…
SOURCE: shentonstage.com at 05:58AM[SHARE]Jonathan Church's production, which originated at Chichester's Minerva Theatre late last year, is a handsome, thoughtful addition to the West End roster. It may sometimes be gruelling to wat…
SOURCE: shentonstage.com at 05:47AM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2015
The 2005 Off-Broadway musical Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story, which received its London premiere at the Tristan Bates Theatre in 2011, will be revived for a new U.K. tour, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AM[SHARE]A new version of August Strindberg's The Father, previously seen at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre in 2012 and subsequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3, will receive its London pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 29, 2015
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SOURCE: shentonstage.com at 08:26PM[SHARE]It’s a big week for fresh sightings of old shows " a play first seen at Hampstead’s downstairs studio in 2011 now finally reaches the West End, while Oh What a Lovely War returns…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Jenna Russell, Tony-nominated in 2008 for Best Actress in a Musical when she reprised her West End performance as Dot in Sunday in the Park with George, and Samantha Spiro join original …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Yesterday I hosted the annual Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards in my role as chairman of the drama section of the circle. It was my job to preside over the giving out of praise (and priz…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tom Stoppard, currently represented in the West End by a stage adaptation of Shakespeare in Love, for which he wrote the original screenplay, returns to the National Theatre, where his new p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Both the revivals of Gypsy and A View from the Bridge, first premiered in 2014 at Chichester Festival Theatre and London's Young Vic Theatre, respectively, have won awards in the U.K'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AM[SHARE]This is no circus, but a massive barn-like structure big enough to accommodate a real-life train engine and a carriage.
SOURCE: shentonstage.com at 07:03AM[SHARE]The Nicks " Hytner and Starr " were always going to be a tough act to follow at the helm of the National Theatre. But they’ve also given their successors Rufus Norris and Tessa Ross…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 26, 2015
Mark Hayhurst's Taken at Midnight, which received its world premiere at Chichester's Minerva Theatre last November, transfers to the West End's Theatre Royal, Haymarket, opening …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM[SHARE]Made in Dagenham, an original musical version of the 2010 film of the same name that has been running at the West End's Adelphi Theatre since October prior to an official opening Nov. 5,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AM[SHARE]Aaron Tveit is to depart the London revival of Assassins, currently running at the Menier Chocolate Factory though March 7, early, with West End regular and two-time Olivier Award nomine…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM[SHARE]No Broadway composer who writes more than one or two shows is immune to the notorious flop: even Stephen Sondheim has had two, Anyone Can Whistle and Merrily We Roll Along. And Jerry Herman,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 23, 2015
The previously announced new production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest that will star David Suchet as Lady Bracknell has announced its full cast, as well as its West En…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:15AM[SHARE]Lara Pulver is to reprise her role as Louise and Peter Davison is newly joining the cast to play Herbie opposite the previously announced Imelda Staunton in the West End transfer of Chichest…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01AM[SHARE]John Goodman and Tom Sturridge will join the previously announced Damian Lewis in the new West End revival of David Mamet's 1975 play American Buffalo, which begins performances April 16…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40AM[SHARE]Bradley Cooper is to reprise his performance in Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man, currently running at Broadway's Booth Theatre through Feb. 21, at London's Theatre Royal, Ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:18AM[SHARE]I’ve had an exhilarating few days catching up with new productions of a couple of classic modern musicals and revisiting an already classic brand-new show, too. Musicals, of course, ar…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 22, 2015
Tony-winning actor Jim Dale is to return to the West End to the same venue where he made his West End musical debut 50 years ago when he brings his recent Off-Broadway biographical s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:06PM[SHARE]Gary Watson is to join the London cast of Jersey Boys, taking over the role of Nick Massi, beginning performances March 10. He joins Michael Watson as Frankie Valli, Edd Post as Bob Gaudio a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]It’s a big week for London theatre, with the premiere of a new Stoppard at the National (his first new play since 2006′s Rock ‘n’ Roll which transferred from the R…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Rufus Norris, who is to take over from Nick Hytner as director of the National Theatre in April, has announced plans for the opening year with new chief executive Tessa Rose. It will include…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AM[SHARE]Critics claim not to like the star rating system because it reduces our work to a simple symbol, and discourages people from actually reading the words to find out what you really thought. B…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tom Stoppard, currently represented in the West End by a stage adaptation of Shakespeare in Love, for which he wrote the original screenplay, returns to the National Theatre, where his new p…
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