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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AM[SHARE]London's current standby for the role of Elphaba, Emma Hatton, is to graduate to that lead role, beginning performances Feb. 2, 2015. She will succeed Kerry Ellis (who plays the role thr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:20AM[SHARE]Further National Theatre plans for productions through April 2015 have been announced, including dates and casting for new plays by Shahid Nadeem and Sam Holcroft and a new production of Sha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58AM[SHARE]Harlow Playhouse, then touring: Barry Manilow's 1978 hit single Copacabana provided the springboard for a made-for-TV film, first aired in 1985, and then a stage musical, developed via …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AM[SHARE]Tom Stoppard, currently represented in the West End by a stage adaptation of Shakespeare in Love, for which he wrote the original screenplay, is to return to the National Theatre, where his …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30AM[SHARE]Friday, October 3, 2014
London's National Theatre has revealed the title and casting for its previously announced world premiere of a play by Tom Stoppard.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AM[SHARE]The Railway Children, a Laurence Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's novel of the same name that previously played at Waterloo Station for two seasons, is to return…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]After previews began for Speed-the-Plow at the Playhouse Theatre, I asked whether Lindsay Lohan would have learned her lines by the time press night came around? I was reporting reactions fr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AM[SHARE]Playhouse Theatre, London : David Mamet's 1988 play is an arresting but derivative satire on Hollywood's shallow values, but its staging now inadvertently provides its own commenta…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AM[SHARE]Broadway's Aaron Tveit is to make his U.K. theatre debut to play John Wilkes Booth in the Menier Chocolate Factory's production of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, which begins perf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05AM[SHARE]Just the other day I was remarking on the number of musicals Broadway is sending us, and the number of plays the West End is sending to Broadway. Broadway plays, of course, also come to̷…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2014
The Old Vic, London: Sophocles' intense and timeless Greek revenge tragedy affords Kristin Scott Thomas another important change of dramatic register in the title role. In the last few …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AM[SHARE]Critics are not in the business, by and large, of being famous. One or two may have become infamous and dreaded and feared in their time, but it invariably passes when they stop reviewing. N…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The London stage musical From Here To Eternity, penned by Tim Rice, Stuart Brayson and Bill Oakes, is broadcast in cinemas across the U.S. beginning Oct. 2. A 2015 Broadway production may fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Lindsay Lohan makes her professional stage debut in the new West End production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, which officially opens Oct. 2 following previews that began Sept.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Miss Havisham's Expectations and Sikes & Nancy, a pair of solo shows based on Dickens characters, will be performed by Linda Marlowe and James Swanton, respectively, beginning pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AM[SHARE]Composer Georgia Stitt will showcase her work at the West End's Garrick Theatre Oct. 26 in a concert entitled My Lifelong Love. She will be joined by guests Simon Bailey, Norman Bowman, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:39AM[SHARE]I've said it before and I'll say it again, new musicals are made, not born. They never arrive fully formed on the stage without a long preparation process. And even then there are endless pi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Here Lies Love, currently running at Off-Broadway's Public Theater in an open-ended commercial run following its premiere there last year, begins performances at the new Dorfman …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:29AM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse, London: Off-Broadway actor, director and playwright Geoffrey Nauffts was also formerly artistic director of the New York theatre company Naked Angels, under whose auspic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AM[SHARE]We all pay, through our taxes, to support subsidised theatres, so there is a duty on those theatres to reach as many taxpayers as they possibly can. Of course, theatre is largely static (unl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2014
Nikolai Foster's 21st anniversary production of Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing, seen at London's Arts Theatre in 2013, is to be re-staged for an 18-week U.K. national …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:17AM[SHARE]Theatre Royal Haymarket, London: It was a masterstroke by the National back in June to have this play waiting in the wings as the verdict in Rebekah Brooks' trial was announced, and the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AM[SHARE]Once again, the transatlantic exchange of shows is buzzing in both directions. They’re sending us a bunch of musicals, either in identical recreations of the original productions there…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 28, 2014
Nicole Scherzinger is set to make 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:39PM[SHARE]Nicole Scherzinger is set to make 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 27, 2014
The London revival of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's Miss Saigon celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Vietnam War-set musical's premiere with a Sept. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:19PM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2014
Initial West End casting has been announced for Beautiful – the Carole King Musical that will begin performances Feb. 10, 2015, prior to an official opening Feb. 24 (a change from …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25AM[SHARE]Theatre rehearsals are a safe and sacred place where actors and the people guiding them " directors, choreographers, musical directors, fight directors, dialogue coaches etc " can investigat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2014
The London productions of Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, based on the history novels by Hilary Mantel about Henry VIII, will arrive on Broadway this spring at the Winter Garde…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PM[SHARE]A brand-new production of the Broadway musical Annie is to launch a new U.K tour, beginning performances July 11 at Newcastle's Theatre Royal, starring Craig Revel Horwood as Miss Ha…
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