Thursday, December 18, 2014
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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Donmar Warehouse, London: This heavenly musical premiered on Broadway in 1989, bringing a decade of British domination of musicals there to an end. It did so with a jazz-based score in the c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AM[SHARE]I’ve long had to remind myself that I simply can’t get to everything, much as I try. Sometimes, though, I get a second bite of the cherry. As I've written about previously, I mis…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The West End premiere of a heavily 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 sam…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Casting has been announced for a new Royal Shakespeare Company production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman that will begin performances at Stratford-upon-Avon's Royal S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AM[SHARE]Almeida Theatre, London: One of the presumably unintended consequences of the Royal Shakespeare Company no longer having a permanent London home has been that its productions are nowadays on…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:04AM[SHARE]I’m in New York for the next month, and of course will be drawing on the hospitality of New York theatre publicists as much as I can " Broadway theatre is, often, simply unaffordable t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]London's first major revival of Cy Coleman, David Zippel and Larry Gelbart's 1990 Broadway musical City of Angels opens officially Dec. 16, following previews that began Dec. 6, for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 15, 2014
Jack Thorne’s Hope recently opened at the Royal Court, offering a fictional account of the difficult choices local councils have to make when trying to achieve the sort of cuts that ar…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2014
London Palladium: Twelve years on from when Cats completed a 21-year run at the New London Theatre, setting a record for the longest running West End musical up to then, it is now back for a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AM[SHARE]Damian Lewis is to return to the West End to star in a new production of David Mamet's 1975 play American Buffalo that will begin performances at Wyndham's Theatre April 16, 2015, pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:03AM[SHARE]A (not so) little theatrical firestorm ignited this week when Janet Suzman declared, "Theatre is a white invention, a European invention, and white people go to it”. Suzman, a South Af…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 11, 2014
There’s no let up in theatrical activity as we approach Christmas, with a series of repeats, reprises and returns around town, including the first London revival of Cats since the orig…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Nicole Scherzinger is making her West End stage debut as Grizabella in the return of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, opening officially at the London Palladium Dec. 11 (following pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2014
London's Olivier Awards are seeking members of the public to join their panel of professional and public judges for the 2016 Olivier Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:51PM[SHARE]T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, first performed in 1935, is to receive an 80th anniversary revival in a production that will play at London's Temple Church, beginning a run of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55AM[SHARE]If you were a guest in someone's house, you wouldn't just get up and leave without saying goodbye, or making extravagant excuses for your early exit. The rules of etiquette apply. If, on the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Gods and Monsters, written and directed by Russell Labey, will begin performances Feb. 5, 2015, prior to an official opening Feb. 10 at London's Southwark Playhouse, for a run through Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AM[SHARE]Crucible Theatre, Sheffield : There's no more joyous sound in musical theatre than that of laughter, and it comes in great tumultuous waves in Anything Goes. That's partly thanks t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:58AM[SHARE]Theatre is an inherently social activity, and a place where we come together to share a communal experience. But it is not just the auditoria we share, but also the box offices where we coll…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 8, 2014
The Play That Goes Wrong, a play featuring a cast of unknown actors that began its life on the London fringe in Dec. 2012 at Islington's Old Red Lion before transferring to the West End&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PM[SHARE]James Dreyfus and Maureen Lipman are to star in a new production of the Broadway classic Harvey, beginning performances at Birmingham Repertory Theatre Feb. 6, 2015, for a run through Feb. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]Let It Be, which played a return summer season to the West End's Garrick Theatre earlier this year, is set to play there again, beginning performances Feb. 28, 2015 for a run through Sep…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PM[SHARE]A strange feeling of deja vu regularly hangs over Broadway. Of 36 shows currently playing there, no fewer than 15 are new productions of plays or musicals that have had previous runs on or O…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 6, 2014
Nicole Scherzinger makes her West End stage debut as Grizabella in the return of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, beginning performances Dec. 6 at the London Palladium prior to an off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 5, 2014
The London company of The Book of Mormon will see Nic Rouleau, Broadway's current Elder Price, and Brian Sears, currently Elder Cunningham standby on Broadway, take over those roles at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AM[SHARE]A new cast is to take over in the West End production of Shakespeare in Love, currently running at the Noel Coward Theatre. They will begin performances Jan. 12, 2015, with the production &a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]The Tony-nominated actress Harriet Walter will appear in the premiere of Clara Brennan's BOA, which will begin performances at London's 98-seater Trafalgar Studios 2 on Feb. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:11AM[SHARE]In the theatre, as in life, it is always best to avoid jumping to conclusions before you see the evidence. It’s obviously all too easy to arrive at the theatre freighted with expectati…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Linda Gray makes her U.K. pantomime debut, playing the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella at London's New Wimbledon Theatre, beginning Dec. 5 prior to an official opening Dec. 9, for a run th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Performances begin Dec. 6 for London's first major revival of Cy Coleman, David Zippel and Larry Gelbart's 1990 Broadway musical City of Angels. Opening is scheduled for Dec. 16 for …
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