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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of Zinnie Harris' How to Hold Your Breath, beginning performances Feb. 4 prior to an official opening Feb. 10 at London…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of Zinnie Harris' Hold Your Breath, beginning performances Feb. 4 prior to an official opening Feb. 10 at London's Roy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM[SHARE]Two-time Tony winner Jonathan Pryce is to star as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice that opens the 2015 season at Shakespeare's Globe, beginning performances April 23 prior to an off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AM[SHARE]Last weekend alone seven shows closed on Broadway:Â as playbill.com’s editor-in-chief Adam Hetrick wrote last week, “January turnover on Broadway is common, with producers cutt…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 5, 2015
Cats has extended its season at the London Palladium and is now booking through April 25, with Kerry Ellis joining the company Feb. 9 to take over as Grizabella from Nicole Scherzinger. It w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:52AM[SHARE]So that was 2014 " we’ve drawn up our various lists of the best of last year and The Stage 100 of the most influential people in theatreland, but now it is time to look…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 4, 2015
An autumn rich in musicals in the West End may yet bring better ones, but it'll be difficult to find a more eye-poppingly lavish show anywhere than Wicked. And a musical about the castings o…
SOURCE: shentonstage.com at 10:31PM[SHARE]Straight after coming home from seeing War Horse, the now annual National Theatre production based on a children's book and designed for family audiences, I went online to book tickets to se…
SOURCE: shentonstage.com at 10:29PM[SHARE]The first half, alas, passes by in a lot of sluggish exposition and character development as we are introduced to the pirate band, before the second half takes more imaginative flight when t…
SOURCE: shentonstage.com at 10:25PM[SHARE]All the hits are here -- Man in the Mirror, Billie Jean, Bad, Don't Stop Till You Get Enough, Can You Feel It etc -- and more (yes, Heal the World is in there, too).
SOURCE: shentonstage.com at 10:22PM[SHARE]Edward Hall's production has more room to breathe on the West End stage, with the action spilling happily beyond it into the stalls via a ramp that bisects the front rows. There is also some…
SOURCE: shentonstage.com at 10:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 1, 2015
Jerry Herman's 1979 Broadway flop The Grand Tour receives its European premiere, beginning performances Jan. 1, 2015, at London's Finborough Theatre prior to an official opening Jan.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13AM[SHARE]Jerry Herman's 1979 Broadway musical The Grand Tour receives its European premiere, beginning performances Jan. 1, 2015, at London's Finborough Theatre prior to an official opening J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Kristin Scott Thomas has been made a dame, and John Hurt has been knighted in the annual Queen's New Year's Honors list announced by Buckingham Palace, both for "services to dra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Looking ahead to the 2015 spring theatre season in London and the U.K., theatregoers will see the first production of Gypsy in more than 40 years while Emma Thompson serves up the worst pies…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 26, 2014
Mark Shenton selects his peaks and troughs among the capital's musicals and plays over the past year, noting that the West End seems to have found its way back to the 1980s. While last year&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 24, 2014
At this time of year, Classic FM " my station of choice while I work " becomes virtually unlistenable thanks to the constant stream of Christmas music it plays. But here’s an alternati…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Glenn Carter, who played the the title role in the 2000 Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar that he had previously played in the West End, is to return to the role for a new U.K. tour…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AM[SHARE]Critics inevitably look at what’s happening onstage in our end-of-year round-ups, and I’ve already provided my 10 best London musicals of the year and a critical round-up of the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 22, 2014
It’s the time of year when critics and commentators routinely draw up their best of the year lists, and I’m no exception. In the bumper Christmas edition of The Stage, you can fi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 19, 2014
A new production of Jerry's Girls, the 1985 Broadway musical revue that celebrated the work of composer Jerry Herman, is to receive a new production at London's St James Studio, begi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AM[SHARE]A new production of Jerry's Girls, the 1985 Broadway musical revue that celebrated the work of composer Jerry Herman, is to receive a new production at London's St James Studio, begi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AM[SHARE]The West End production of The Commitments, a stage version of Roddy Doyle's best-selling novel of the same name, has extended bookings at the Palace Theatre through Sept. 13, 2015.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the new U.K. touring production of David Hare's 1993 play The Absence of War, that is being jointly produced by Headlong, Rose Theatre Kingston and Sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AM[SHARE]I’m currently enjoying the luxury of a month-long visit to New York, my favourite city on the planet " and it is giving me a chance to catch up with everything that’s playing her…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 18, 2014
The U.K.'s Playful Productions, which in April 2015 will celebrate its fifth anniversary as an independent production company, has confirmed that its plans for the New Year will include …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47AM[SHARE]The current U.K. and Irish tour of Jersey Boys has added further dates to its touring schedule for 2015, with visits now scheduled for Bradford's Alhambra Theatre, Cardiff's Wales Mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AM[SHARE]The West End premiere run of the 2005 Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is to shutter at the Savoy Theatre March 7, 2015. It follows the announcement that Gypsy is to begin performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:13AM[SHARE]The revival of the 1959 Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents musical Gypsy that ran at Chichester Festival Theatre in October and November has confirmed its West End transfer to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:55AM[SHARE]There’s a final flurry of new shows opening in London and around the country ahead of Christmas " and not much of a break after it as the theatre schedule resumes almost immediately in…
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