Wednesday, January 21, 2015
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 20, 2015
In a recent feature in The Guardian, Michael Billington wrote, "I find myself in pre-match training for a new Stoppard play at the National Theatre. All I know about The Hard Problem is that…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 19, 2015
Greg Wise is to star in the European premiere of Brad Fraser's Kill Me Now, beginning performances at London's Park Theatre Feb. 19 prior to an official opening Feb. 24, for a run th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced the world premiere of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ - The Musical at Leicester's Curve, beginning performances March 4 prior to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:52AM[SHARE]You Won’t Succeed on Broadway If You Don’t Have Any Jews, a one-night celebration of the ongoing Jewish contribution to musical theatre, is to be staged at the West E…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:38AM[SHARE]Simon Russell Beale has been appointed the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University. He will succeed Stephen Fry in the post in February and wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:24AM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse: In 1987, four black candidates were elected to the House of Commons for the first time: Dianne Abbott and Keith Vaz (still MPs), the now-retired Paul Boateng and the lat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:16AM[SHARE]I’ve recently seen three shows that between them run for the same amount of time it takes to see Les Miserables once. Minute-for-minute Les Mis is obviously much better value, but each…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 17, 2015
The Donmar Warehouse's revival of Kevin Elyot's 1994 Olivier Award-winning play My Night with Reg, which played a sell-out run at the Covent Garden venue last year, transfers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 16, 2015
Ask most producers, and they’ll tell you that the hardest job of all is securing a theatre. On Broadway, it sometimes feels like shows hover like vultures over each other: one showR…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The first-ever West End revival of Peter Barnes' 1968 play The Ruling Class begins performances Jan. 16 at the West End's Trafalgar Studios, prior to a gala opening Jan. 28, for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 15, 2015
Felicity Kendal is to star in Noel Coward's Hay Fever at the West End's Duke of York's Theatre, beginning performances April 29 prior to an official opening May 11 for a run thro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse, London: Bat Boy - the Musical is in the direct line of the pedigree of shows from The Rocky Horror Show and Little Shop of Horrors to Urinetown: cult musicals that began…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:14AM[SHARE]A new production of Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1944 comedy Harvey is set to receive a West End revival at London's Theatre Royal Haymarket, beginning performances March …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:11AM[SHARE]The West End transfer of Ivo van Hove's Young Vic production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge will be broadcast live March 26 as part of NT Live to over 1,500 venue…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:52AM[SHARE]Regional theatre, as ever, feeds London, and this week there are transfers for two highly acclaimed plays first seen outside the capital. These kick off this week’s round-up followed b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews, which received its U.K. premiere in a season at Bath's Ustinov Studio in 2013, transfers to London's St. James Theatre, where it begin performances Jan.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 14, 2015
If at first you don’t succeed, goes the old saying, try, try, try again. But I prefer Samuel Beckett’s advice: “Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Bat Boy: The Musical, seen Off-Broadway in 2001 and subsequently at the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre in 2004, is receiving its first London revival, officially opening at Southwark…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Railway Children, a Laurence Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's novel of the same name that previously played at Waterloo Station for two seasons, has returned…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Playhouse Theatre, London: When this musical version of the Almodovar classic first premiered on Broadway in 2010 for a short-lived run of less than three months under the auspices of Lincol…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AM[SHARE]It’s nearly the middle of January already, so it’s just as well that it’s too late to start making some new year resolutions. Whereas some people might commit to seeing mor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 12, 2015
Beyond Bollywood is to receive its U.K. premiere at the London Palladium, beginning performances May 8 prior to an official opening May 11, for a run of 60 performances only that is booking …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AM[SHARE]I've just returned to London from a month in New York, but already I can’t wait to go back. This is shaping up to be one of the most interesting seasons for new shows in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The West End premiere of a revised version of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane's 2010 Broadway musical version of the 1988 film of the same name b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 9, 2015
The hit London revival of Miss Saigon, which opened May 21, 2014, at the West End's Prince Edward Theatre, has extended its booking through Sept. 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the West End world premiere of Bend It Like Beckham, a new British musical version of the 2002 film of the same name that begins performances May 15 prior to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AM[SHARE]Critics are routinely accused of closing shows, but an overwhelmingly negative response from them usually only confirms the truth: that a show is not very good. But is the opposite true " ca…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Bat Boy: The Musical, seen Off-Broadway in 2001 and subsequently at the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre in 2004, is receiving its first London revival, beginning performances Jan. 9 p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2015
I recently provided my London theatre picks for 2015, which also included some of the shows that London is sending Broadway this year, including The Audience (soon also to be reprised in the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Broadway keeps breaking its own records. According to the Broadway League (the US equivalent to the Society of London Theatre), 2014 exceeded the previous year in both revenue and attendance…
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