Friday, December 5, 2014
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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2014
Curve, Leicester: How do you solve a problem like The Sound of Music? It has one of the most beloved scores in musical theatre history, globally popularised by the scenically enchanting film…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AM[SHARE]The West End production of Thriller Live, currently in its sixth year at the West End's Lyric Theatre, is to add new songs to its playlist, re-stage its opening and introduce new vid…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:50AM[SHARE]As we roll into December, it’s a big week for Christmas show openings, both in London and around the country. Treasure Island " Olivier, the National, London The National launches its …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The Old Vic production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, which had a sell-out run June 21-Sept. 13, is screened in 350 cinemas in the U.K. and Ireland Dec. 4 and 7 only, with furt…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2014
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to embark on a major restoration project of the Swan Wing of its Stratford-upon-Avon base, the oldest part of the company's theatres there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AM[SHARE]I feel like I’ve written a lot of columns about the 'crisis in criticism' over the years, so I’m not going to go over those arguments here again. It’s nice, instead, to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Menier Chocolate Factory, London: It's official - the Menier Chocolate Factory, which has done so much to re-investigate and reclaim Sondheim's work in vivid, striking new ways, is…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AM[SHARE]This time last year I wondered aloud about the results of that year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards. It seemed to me that the process " which produced a longlist of potential nominee…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 1, 2014
Union Theatre, London: Charles Busch's play, first premiered Off-Broadway in 1985 and now revived in New York by its author every year for the past decade for a one-off Christmas staged…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AM[SHARE]The Stage, as I noted here, reviews more shows around the country than any other national publication, a daunting task at any time of year but especially now with the mad rush of Christmas e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]A new production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins, which premiered at Off-Broadway's Playwright's Horizons in 1990 and received its British premiere at the Do…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 30, 2014
Tom Hiddleston, Gillian Anderson and the London productions of The Scottsboro Boys and Here Lies Love are amongst the winners of the Evening Standard Theatre Awards, presented Nov. 30 in a c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PM[SHARE]Friday, November 28, 2014
London's King's Head Theatre is to offer Shock Treatment, a stage premiere of Richard O'Brien's 1981 film of the same name that was a sequel to "The Rocky Horror Picture…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AM[SHARE]Charles Strouse and Lee Adams's short-lived 1966 Broadway musical It's a Bird… It's a Plane…. It's Superman is to get a short West End run, beginnin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AM[SHARE]Danielle Hope, who won the BBC's "Over the Rainbow" reality casting show to star as Dorothy in the London Palladium stage production of The Wizard of Oz in 2011, is to star in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM[SHARE]British comedy favorite Ross Noble is set to make his musical theatre debut in the new U.K. touring production of The Producers. He will join the the tour May 18, 2015, when it plays Woking&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the first-ever West End revival of Peter Barnes' 1968 play The Ruling Class that will begin performances Jan. 16 at the West End's Trafalgar S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:30AM[SHARE]Hackney Empire, London: The best local in-house pantomimes don't just create a sense of community ownership; they create their own sense of community in themselves. Nowhere is this bett…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AM[SHARE]The show, they always say, must go on, and in the theatre, that means understudies are a fact of life. Actors are only human and will succumb to illness, like the rest of us. I’ve̷…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 27, 2014
It’s not all pantos and Christmas fare just yet, though my own week actually starts by reviewing one at Hackney Empire and then continues with the Union’s seasonal UK premiere fo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Phoenix Theatre, London: Once first arrived in the West End in the immediate juggernaut wake of The Book of Mormon, so it inevitably slipped a little below the radar. But in some ways this i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AM[SHARE]Critics are only human " and we all do a bit of navel gazing from time to time. I’ve often written about the future of theatre reviewing here, as I observe a fast-changing landscape wh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 25, 2014
A season of four new plays has been announced for London's Bush Theatre, all of which deal in different ways with a struggle for justice, including the British premiere of American write…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:37AM[SHARE]Liverpool Playhouse is to open its 2015 spring season with a new, 35th anniversary production of Willy Russell's Educating Rita, beginning performances Feb. 6 prior to an official openin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:17AM[SHARE]Last Sunday, Chicago " already the longest-running American musical revival in either West End or Broadway history " set yet another new record to become Broadway’s second-longest runn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2014
Northampton's Royal & Derngate Theatre is to offer the world premiere of Arthur Miller's The Hook, co-produced with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse. It will begin …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:33AM[SHARE]I recently wrote about how punters enjoy bad reviews " and how those that draw attention by objecting publicly to them can end up attracting more publicity than they bargained for. Just last…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 21, 2014
London's Hampstead Theatre is to revive Peter Souter's debut play Hello/Goodbye, a comedy that premiered at the theatre's Downstairs Studio last year and now transfers to the mai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AM[SHARE]Shakespeare's Globe has announced details for the final season that Dominic Dromgoole will preside over as artistic director in 2015.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AM[SHARE]The other day I returned to Wicked again. I’d been invited to see Jennifer DiNoia, a sparky American performer who has been associated with the show for over eight years, and who has n…
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