Monday, September 15, 2014
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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AM[SHARE]Some shows, it has to be said, are cruel to audiences, simply by dint of making them watch. Others are cruel to their clothes. Though the front rows are issued with special protective gear f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2014
Director Jamie Lloyd has answered accusations of animal cruelty made against his West End production of Richard III for its treatment of a live goldfish.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:44AM[SHARE]London's Hampstead Theatre is to present two plays about two essential public services in the U.K.: the world premiere of Roy Williams' Wildefire about the Metropolitan Poli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:28AM[SHARE]The West End is to dim its lights Sept. 12 at 7 PM (2 PM EST) in memory of Sir Donald Sinden, who died at home, aged 90, Sept. 11 after suffering a long illness.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:10AM[SHARE]While White Christmas, a stage version of the 1954 Irving Berlin film musical of the same name, is to be presented at the West End's Dominion Theatre this Christmas season, a different p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:53AM[SHARE]U.K. television presenter and author Alan Titchmarsh, best known for such shows as "Gardener's World," "Ground Force" and "The Alan Titchmarsh Show," is to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:29AM[SHARE]If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again. Or, as Beckett once put it, “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” Theatre producers …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2014
Love Story, Howard Goodall and Stephen Clark's 2010 musical based on the 1970 film of the same name and Erich Segal's best-selling novel, is to be revived at London's Union T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM[SHARE]Punchdrunk is to premiere a new exhibit called Against Captain's Orders: A Journey Into the Uncarted, beginning March 28 at London's National Maritme Museum, which will run through A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]Ruthie Henshall will take part in the Last Night of the Proms — the televised event that marks the end of the annual BBC festival of live classical and popular music — wh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AM[SHARE]Curve Theatre, Leicester: A 1980 Broadway hit about PT Barnum, the 19th-century circus entrepreneur and self-styled "greatest showman on earth", has now been revived, co-produced a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, London: The title of Becky Mode's short, fast, sketch-like play refers to the reservations diary of a fashionable New York restaurant, but 'fully committe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM[SHARE]My column on young producers made a very brief passing reference to the fate of young critics. To wit: “There are plenty of budding actors, writers, directors and even critics (though …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 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, may arrive at Broadway's now-vacant Winter Gard…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PM[SHARE]London's Almeida Theatre has announced plans for the winter and spring season that will include a belated London showing for artistic director Rupert Goold's 2011 RSC production of T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]Tricycle Theatre, London: The American dream unravels dramatically in Sam Shepard's combustible masterpiece, revived in a constantly alert, eventually scorching production that was firs…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AM[SHARE]This week Forbidden Broadway transfers from the Menier Chocolate Factory to the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre, while the first show it ever transferred " Fully Committed, which was ori…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Further casting has been announced for the U.K. premiere of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which begins performances Dec. 18 prior to an official opening Jan. 12, 2015, at the W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:47AM[SHARE]St James Theatre, London: Ben Ockrent's new comedy Breeders is bright and breezy, acted with a fresh vigour and has some pertinent things to say about the desire to parent (whether you&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AM[SHARE]A flood of new musicals will be arriving in the West End from New York this autumn. There are British premieres for the 2010 Tony-winning Memphis and the current Off-Broadway hit Here Lies L…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2014
Initial casting has been announced for the previously announced new production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins that will begin performances at London's Menier Chocol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]Union Theatre, London: Here's a gorgeous, musically enveloping dream of a show that takes a beloved Shakespeare play and delicately transposes it to a pre-First World War English countr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AM[SHARE]We’ve long known there are lots of theatres in London, but it wasn’t until the London Theatre Report was published that we could finally put a definitive number on them. There we…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2014
The full cast has been announced for the new production of Cy Coleman, David Zippel and Larry Gelbart's 1990 Broadway musical City of Angels that will begin performances Dec. 5 at London…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:09AM[SHARE]Bonnie Langford and Gary Wilmot will join the West End company of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, currently running at the Savoy Theatre, beginning performances Sept 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:52AM[SHARE]New Wimbledon Studio, London: This new British musical shows a degree of confidence and spirit that has a bit too much of everything, but also has promise and some flair. It features a stron…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AM[SHARE]Twenty-seven former and current Billy Elliots will perform a specially choreographed mash-up finale of Billy Elliot the Musical when a performance is broadcast live from the West End…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:39AM[SHARE]An interesting development: the Almeida held two press performances directly after each other on the same day for its new production, Alecky Blythe’s latest verbatim play Little Revolu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2014
Ben Forster, who previously starred in the title role of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar on its U.K. arena stage tour after winning the TV talent show "Sup…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PM[SHARE]La Soirée, last seen in London in 2011, is to return to the capital following a world tour that included a residency at New York's Union Square Theatre. It will begin performa…
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