Friday, November 21, 2014
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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2014
London's Young Vic has announced a series of plays for its smaller studio theatres that will include the London premiere of Mike Bartlett's Bull, a triple bill of plays by Tennessee …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:56AM[SHARE]You Me Bum Bum Train, a unique interactive theatrical experience previously nominated for an Olivier Award in 2013 for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, is to return to London…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:33AM[SHARE]London's Old Vic Theatre is to present the London premiere of Daniel Kitson's Tree, which was previously presented at Manchester's Royal Exchange, and a new production of Cole Po…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:22AM[SHARE]It’s the lull before the Christmas show storm in London, with no West End openings at all over the next seven days. But that doesn't mean there's nothing to see… Forbidden Broadw…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Brodie Donougher, an 11-year-old from Blackpool, becomes the 39th boy to play the title role in Billy Elliot the Musical, beginning performances Nov. 19. Also joining the company is …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AM[SHARE]Professor Brian Cox is to write and direct The Age of Starlight that will be presented at the 2015 Manchester International Festival that, according to press materials, is "a world firs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AM[SHARE]We’re in the midst of awards season again, with the publication of the Evening Standard shortlist for its annual Theatre Awards, and nominations opening for both The Stage Awards and t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Elephants, a new comedy by debut playwright Rose Heiney, is to begin performances at Hampstead Theatre's Downstairs Dec. 11 for a run through Jan. 17, 2015.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, currently running at the West End's Savoy Theatre, where it is booking through March 7, 2015, is to launch a U.K. national tour that will begin performances at B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AM[SHARE]St James Theatre, London: In 2011, the ever-invaluable Finborough in Earl's Court uncovered another of its regular rediscoveries with the first-ever revival, since its original producti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:09AM[SHARE]Awards are, of course, not the reason people work in the theatre. But they’re always nice to have " a recognition of work done well, and a badge of professional pride to mark a particu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2014
The shortlist for the 60th Annual London Evening Standard Theatre Awards — London's longest-standing theatre awards ceremony — has been announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AM[SHARE]Off the Page, a new series of online "micro-plays" that are being presented in a collaboration between Royal Court playwrights and theatre directors and Guardian journalists, h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Jennifer Haley's The Nether, which received its U.K. premiere at London's Royal Court in Jeremy Herrin's co-produ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:36AM[SHARE]Broadway no longer produces the same dizzying number of new musicals it once did, nor for that matter the number of outright flops, either, that used to make seeing them before they folded s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2014
Louie Spence will join the previously announced Jason Manford in a new U.K. touring version of The Producers that will begin performances at Bromley's Churchill Theatre in Southeast Lond…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:27AM[SHARE]Ivo van Hove's production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, which played a sell-out season at London's Young Vic Theatre, where it opened in April, is to transfer to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:15AM[SHARE]The Donmar Warehouse's revival of Kevin Elyot's 1994 play My Night with Reg, which played a sell-out run at the Covent Garden venue from July to September this year, is to transf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:54AM[SHARE]Minerva Theatre, Chichester: It's one surprise to find Chichester's 'summer season' now stretching to play all the way into early December. But it's an even bigger s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:16AM[SHARE]This week, London saw the long overdue stage debut of a New York theatrical veteran, even legend. But no, it wasn’t at the Royal Albert Hall " or even the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. It was…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2014
Godspell — last presented in the West End for a one-night concert gala that was held May 19 at the Lyric Theatre, featuring the orchestrations of the 2011 Broadway rev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AM[SHARE]Going to the theatre is partly a job for me, of course, but it remains (at least most of the time and above all) a pleasure first. My own theatre diary for the next week…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Jeyll and Hyde is to be staged in a new adaptation by Jo Clifford for a U.K. tour that will begin performances at London's Greenwich Theatre Feb. 11, 2015, prior to an official opening F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM[SHARE]Radiant Vermin, a new comedy by Philip Ridley, is to receive its world premiere at Bristol's Tobacco Factory Theatre, beginning performances Feb. 27, 2015, for a run through March 7, bef…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AM[SHARE]Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre's Winter Festival, London: Ten years on from its first appearance on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2004, La Soiree is now an established feature of the glo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AM[SHARE]We live in an age where the price tag for everything is no longer what is stated on the official label. The price for a lot of things, it seems, is subject to variable conditions….
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Jonathan Miller is to return to the U.K.'s touring company Northern Broadsides to direct a new production of King Lear, beginning performances at Halifax's Viaduct Theatre Feb. 27, 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:19AM[SHARE]Talawa Theatre Company, Britain's primary black-led theatre company, is to revive its 2013 production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, which it co-produced with Manchester'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:54AM[SHARE]The members of Mischief Theatre company, currently represented in the West End by their production of The Play That Geos Wrong, will bring Lights! Camera! Improvise! to join it ther…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:33AM[SHARE]Comedian and stage actor Phill Jupitus is to join the cast of Urinetown, beginning performances Dec. 1. He takes over from Simon Paisley Day as Cladwell B. Cladwell, who departs Nov. 29.
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