Thursday, September 25, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AM[SHARE]Damn Yankees, the 1955 Broadway musical that revolves around baseball and was last revived in the West End at the Adelphi Theatre in 1997 in a tansfer of the 1994 Broadway revival, is to be …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AM[SHARE]The updated 2006 Off-Broadway edition of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, a musical revue based around the work of the prolific late Belgian singer-songwriter, is …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:44AM[SHARE]This week Evita returned to the West End’s Dominion Theatre, and as I declared in my review for The Stage, “It's the oldest cliche in showbiz to stay a star is born, but one has&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Tony winner Frances Ruffelle (the original Eponine in Les Miserables) is to reprise her solo cabaret show Paris Original at London's St. James Studio for three performances Oct. 1-3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PM[SHARE]A new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway classic Oklahoma! is to be staged for an extensive U.K. tour, beginning performances at Northampton's Derngate Theatre Feb. 19,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM[SHARE]For as long as I’ve been going to the South Bank, the skateboarding arena below the Queen Elizabeth Hall have been providing a wonderful example in urban colonisation and the creative …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Lindsay Lohan makes her professional stage debut Sept. 24 in the new West End production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow at the Playhouse Theatre. The production, which officiall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Southwark Playhouse, London: The Forest of Arden is summonsed to the industrial shed of Southwark Playhouse with the mere flutter of a few hundred (or maybe thousand) strips of multi-coloure…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AM[SHARE]Dominion Theatre, London: It's the oldest cliche in showbiz to stay a star is born, but one has arrived in Madelena Alberto in the title role of the West End's new Evita. I first s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AM[SHARE]As a critic, you have to get used to sometimes being unpopular. And sometimes it comes at a price: just last week, Charles Spencer wrote a heartfelt farewell to his Daily Telegraph reader…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2014
This week I had a spare free guest ticket for a play, and put a call out on Facebook to see if anyone wanted to join me. It was snapped up in a minute. But…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The London revival of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's Miss Saigon celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Vietnam War-set musical's premiere with a Sept. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2014
A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. But only one word was needed when English National Opera released publicity stills of Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson in character and in costum…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2014
Thriller Live has extended booking at the West End's Lyric Theatre through Sept. 6, 2015, with a further 138,000 extra tickets now on sale. It had previously been booking thorugh April 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AM[SHARE]The West End run of King Charles III, Mike Bartlett's play that imagines a future when Prince Charles takes over the monarchy from his mother Queen Elizabeth, has extended its run at Wyn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:33AM[SHARE]Shakespeare's Globe, London: Shakespeare's Globe is one of the most embracing public theatre spaces in the capital, and in a year of inevitable remembrance for the 100th anniversary of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AM[SHARE]This week a new London production of Sweeney Todd was announced that will come to the London Coliseum next year, initiating a new partnership between ENO and new commercial managers GradeLin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2014
London's Barbican Centre is to offer new productions that include Belgian director Ivo van Hove directing Juliette Binoche in a new English translation of Sophocles' Antigon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:53AM[SHARE]London's Barbican Centre is to host a three-week International Beckett Season, featuring nine pieces performed by six international companies and artists.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:29AM[SHARE]Twickenham Theatre: A brand-new intimate fringe theatre above a pub in Twickenham gets off to a rousing and inspiring start with a musically and scenically stunning production of Sondheim�…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AM[SHARE]Regular readers will know I see a lot of theatre. Too much, I sometimes think. My husband regularly tries to wean me off the relentless schedule, but I can never manage it. I wonder if…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Casting has been announced for a new production of John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's A Whore that will open the second season at the new indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespare…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:27AM[SHARE]Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson will reprise the roles that they performed in a semi-staged production of Sweeney Todd, produced by the York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center earlier this yea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AM[SHARE]Vaudeville Theatre, London: In New York, Forbidden Broadway always stands consciously (and sometimes self-consciously) on the sidelines, throwing potshots at its illustrious targets from the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM[SHARE]Last week every single West End theatre went simultaneously dark. Fortunately it wasn’t a massive power outage, or worse a catastrophic run of bad shows, that caused it, but a planned …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2014
A live cast album preserving the London stage musical From Here To Eternity, penned by Tim Rice, Stuart Brayson and Bill Oakes, has been released by Omniverse Vision in anticipation of the p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PM[SHARE]One of London's oldest pie shops is to host a new intimate production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd, beginning performances Oct. 21 at Harrington's Pie and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:01AM[SHARE]Full casting has been confirmed for the West End return of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita that will begin performances Sept. 16 at the Dominion Theatre, prior to an of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:50AM[SHARE]Jenna Russell, Tony-nominated in 2008 for Best Actress in a Musical when she reprised her West End performance as Dot in Sunday in the Park with George, and Samantha Spiro are to join or…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:37AM[SHARE]Duchess Theatre, London: It's hardly an original idea: the spectacle of plays going wrong have long provided comic delight from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to Mich…
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