Tuesday, November 11, 2014
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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:30AM[SHARE]Last week, I looked at the future of the fringe, amid a fevered debate that is being waged by Equity (and recently in the employment tribunal courts) about the enforcement of legal minimum w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2014
Charles Busch's 1985 play Times Square Angel, which still gets an annual one-night-only outing at New York's Theatre for a New City when it stars Busch himself, is to receive…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:55AM[SHARE]Nothing, they always say, lasts forever (apart from herpes). But just as I still mourn the loss over here of Dress Circle, which provided a social hub for musical theatre fans as well as a&#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2014
The full cast has been announced for the revival of Nina Raine's Tiger Country, which premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 2011 and is now returning there to begin performances Dec. 8 prior…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:19AM[SHARE]Three-time Laurence Olivier Award winner Philip Quast is to reprise the role of Sweeney Todd's Judge Turpin — a part he played at New York's Avery Fisher Hall …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:04AM[SHARE]I’ve often said that there’s no such thing as right and wrong when it comes to reviewing " it is always a matter of opinion, and our job is only to write as persuasively as…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2014
A film version of Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre production of Hamlet, which completed its run Oct. 25, has been made, and is set to open in approximately 200 cinemas in the U.K. in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AM[SHARE]Additional tickets will be released for sale for three West End musicals: Memphis the Musical, Mamma Mia! and Jersey Boys, which will now all be taking bookings through October 2015.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:02AM[SHARE]Adelphi Theatre, London: The template for Made in Dagenham is clearly Billy Elliot: an all-new, made in Britain musical based on a film about a true-life industrial dispute that led to lasti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AM[SHARE]It's a busy week for transfers from the regions to London (including productions from Canterbury, Colchester and Birmingham), plus a return to London for La Soiree for the first time in thre…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2014
A reimagining of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado will begin performances at London's Charing Cross Theatre Nov. 27, prior to an official opening Dec. 2, for a six-week run thro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings: you’ve just missed one of the musical theatre productions of the year. The trouble is it only ran for seven performances that ended on November 4…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 4, 2014
David Seidler's The King's Speech, originally written as a play before it was adapted as the Oscar-winning 2010 feature film, is to launch a national U.K. tour in a production th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AM[SHARE]Unless you were around in 1933, when Terence Rattigan’s debut play premiered at the Q Theatre in Kew and subsequently transferred to the West End’s Comedy Theatre in January 1934…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2014
London's Donmar Warehouse is to present a revival of Patrick Marber's 1997 play Closer with a cast that includes Rufus Sewell, plus offer the premieres of James Graham's The Vote…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29AM[SHARE]Union Theatre, London: The Union Theatre concludes its mini-retrospective of Howard Goodall's musicals with a production of Girlfriends that proves to be the biggest revelation yet. Whi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:11AM[SHARE]Jermyn Street Theatre, London: Director Tom Littler's Primavera continues to make intriguing dramatic rediscoveries of lost or neglected plays by now unearthing Terence Rattigan's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:09AM[SHARE]Establishing your exact employment status is a tricky matter when it comes to bringing cases to an employment tribunal, as I recently found to my own personal cost when I claimed unfair dism…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2014
Tickets are now on sale for the Broadway engagement of Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, based on the history novels by Hilary Mantel about Henry VIII, which will begin …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:42PM[SHARE]The multiple Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Hairspray, which premiered on Broadway in 2002 and won the Tony for Best Musical in 2003, is to embark on a new 40-week tour to 29…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AM[SHARE]Bat Boy: The Musical, seen Off-Broadway in 2001 and subsequently at the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre in 2004, is to receive its first London revival, beginning performances Jan. 9,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]Peter Morgan's The Audience is to return to the West End, with Kristin Scott Thomas inheriting the role of Queen Elizabeth II originated by Helen Mirren, as Mirren reprises the role on B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:09AM[SHARE]Bend It Like Beckham, a new British musical version of the 2002 film of the same name, is headed to the West End, where it will begin performances May 15, 2015, prior to an official opening …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:54AM[SHARE]Theatre, both offstage and on, is often a question of timing. And it was the unfortunate timing of Once to arrive in the West End last year in the immediate juggernaut wake of The Book…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2014
This week saw the West End transfer of one new British created musical, Sunny Afternoon, which wowed the critics, including me at Hampstead Theatre and again now at the Pinter. But can we cr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Harold Pinter Theatre, London: "Will they still be playing it in 30 years' time?", asks Ray Davies of his song Sunny Afternoon when it is first released in 1966. Not only are …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AM[SHARE]I’ve somehow managed to miss Tooting in my 35 years of living in London so far. But until Monday night, I had no reason to go there. Then the Tooting Arts Club put on a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2014
London's Regent's Park Open Air Theatre is to stage new productions of Peter Pan, The Seagull and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in its 2015 season, as well as a reprise of its 2011…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:12AM[SHARE]Harrington's Pie and Mash Shop, London: I've seen Sweeney Todds large and small from the Royal Opera House to the Union Theatre, and now from Broadway to Tooting Broadway. Visiting the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AM[SHARE]Look through the listings of what’s playing on Broadway right now and you’ll recognise most of the titles and/or the casts and/or the authors. It’s unusual for a show to ge…
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