Thursday, October 16, 2014
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London: Though David Baddiel's stage musical version of his 2010 hit comedy film The Infidel inevitably recalls shows such as The Book of Mormon, Monty Pyt…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AM[SHARE]In Twelfth Night, Duke Orsino declares, “If music be the food of love, play on; /Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, /The appetite may sicken, and so die.” But if theatre is …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2014
One of the first things Nick Hytner programmed after he took over the reins at the National Theatre was Jerry Springer " the Opera, with its famous song I Just Wanna (Fucking) Dance, thrilli…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2014
The Twickenham Theatre, London's newest fringe theatre that was established above the London Road pub in the south-west London suburb of Twickenham, has shuttered after its sell-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AM[SHARE]A late-night concert performance of Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald's 1995 Off-Broadway musical John and Jen is to be staged at the Delfont Room at the West End's Prince of Wa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AM[SHARE]Sell a Door Theatre Company and Richard Darbourne Ltd., who toured Avenue Q for six months earlier this year, will tour it again in 2015-16 in the U.K., beginning performances April 22, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AM[SHARE]Jason Robert Brown, the three-time Tony winning-composer of such shows as Parade, The Bridges of Madison County and 13, will appear in concert at London's Royal Festival…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]Dorfman, National, London: By sheer coincidence, the London transfer of the Off-Broadway hit Here Lies Love coincides with a West End revival of Evita, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AM[SHARE]The overriding reason for going to the theatre is, of course, to see what it is that is being presented on its stage. "The play's the thing", to borrow a phrase of Shakespeare's. But it's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]A new production of the classic 1959 Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents musical Gypsy officially opens at Chichester Festival Theatre Oct. 14, following previews that began Oct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2014
Bugsy Malone, a stage version of Alan Parker's 1976 debut film feature of the same name, will reopen London's Lyric Hammersmith after a multi-million pound redevelopment. It will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:10AM[SHARE]The Old Vic production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, which had a sell-out run June 21-Sept. 13, is to be screened in 350 cinemas in the U.K. and Ireland Dec. 4 and 7 only, wit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:25AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Sinatra 100, a concert celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra, will begin performances at the London Palladium Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41AM[SHARE]It may be difficult to credit nowadays, but tabloid newspapers were once home to serious and important critics. Kenneth Tynan cut his teeth on the Evening Standard before going to The Observ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:30AM[SHARE]Here Lies Love, currently running at Off-Broadway's Public Theater, officially opens Oct. 13 following previews that began Sept. 30 at the new Dorfman Theatre (formerly the Cottesloe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 10, 2014
A new London fringe theatre Bridge House Theatre SE20, in Penge in South East London, is to be officially launched with Tony Palermo's It's a Wonderful Life, performed as a live radi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:21AM[SHARE]A one-night concert performance of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's 1973 Broadway musical A Little Night Music to be held at the West End's Palace Theatre Jan. 26, 2015, will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for a new production of Cole Porter's Anything Goes that will begin performances at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre Nov. 28 prior to an official opening …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:09AM[SHARE]Just this week I was writing about how Twitter often means having to say you’re sorry. As they always say, speak in haste and repent at leisure. But Twitter does bring out the defensiv…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2014
Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews, which received its U.K. premiere in a season at Bath's Ustinov Studio in a production that began performances July 31 prior to an official opening Aug. 12, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AM[SHARE]Ruby Wax is to bring her new solo show, Sane New World, based on her best-selling 2013 book, "Sane New World: Taming the Mind," to London's St. James Theatre. It …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AM[SHARE]I’ve long said there’s no right and wrong when it comes to reviewing: it’s always a matter of personal opinion. But critical judgement is also usually applied against a con…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:26AM[SHARE]Ambassadors Theatre, London: Director Ed Hughes gives his necessarily youthful reading of Macbeth for the National Youth Theatre an arresting opening that could have come straight out of the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AM[SHARE]Apollo Theatre, London: It's not every day that an entirely original, Brechtian-inspired socialist show that also acts as a meta-musical, commenting on the form it is itself inhabiting,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Landor Theatre, London: Sport and the theatre don't often go together, but the two worlds collided at Clapham's Landor pub. While the bar was packed with football fans watching tha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:40AM[SHARE]Ambassadors Theatre, London: Oscar Wilde's story of The Picture of Dorian Gray has been given a radical but dramatically arid modern makeover for the "me" generation.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AM[SHARE]The Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Once has announced that it will complete its West End run March 21, 2015, at the Phoenix Theatre, following Ronan Keating's stint in the sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:02AM[SHARE]There are some shows you fall in love with at first sight. In the case of a musical, at first listen. That, for me, was the experience I had when I saw the premiere of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Finborough Theatre, London: The Finborough Theatre is well known for its rediscoveries of long lost plays, but it has also been making great strides in reclaiming neglected musical gems. Com…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AM[SHARE]Even if theatre ultimately turns into a professional job and work for many of those engaged in the putting on of a show, it invariably begins as a passion project: something that has to be&#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
Jerry Herman's 1979 Broadway flop The Grand Tour is to receive its European premiere, beginning performances Jan. 1, 2015, at London's Finborough Theatre prior to an official opening…
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