Thursday, September 4, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:06AM[SHARE]One of the great things about fringe theatre is that you might be seeing future stars for the first time. The cover star on last weekend’s Culture section in the Sunday Times, for inst…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Royal and Derngate, Northampton: This centenary year of the outbreak of the First World War has compelled us to look again at the sacrifices and repercussions of that deadly conflict, even a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AM[SHARE]Dogfight, the new musical that has arrived at Southwark Playhouse from Off-Broadway where it was originally premiered in 2012, is a challenging and provocative show that packs a surprising p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2014
The late Milton Shulman reviewed theatre for the Evening Standard until he was well into his 80s, a run of some 38 years. Michael Billington, now 74, has been at it even longer: he has…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 1, 2014
Park Theatre, London: Richard Bean is as ubiquitous in UK theatre as beans on toast. Wedged between his new play Pitcairn and his book for Made in Dagenham is this reminder of where it all b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AM[SHARE]I've often had cause to pause here and speculate here about the future of theatre criticism: in a world where everyone is a critic, or at least has the ability to disseminate their opinions …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 29, 2014
Minerva, Chichester: Pitcairn is the middle of three new shows, all by Richard Bean, that are being presented across a little over three months, in between the surprise late June premiere of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AM[SHARE]Size, they always say, doesn’t matter. It’s what you do with it that counts. And it’s just as true in theatre as it is in other areas of life. I’ve just seen, for the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 28, 2014
During the dark days of the Lord Chamberlain’s Office, which controlled British theatrical output between the years of 1824 and 1968, all new plays were read for “unfavourable or…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Some critics clearly do not read their programmes closely enough. (And yes, that includes me: I've occasionally miscredited actors and other creative personnel.) But sometimes the billing ca…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 26, 2014
My Sunday Telegraph colleague Tim Walker recently asked aloud why the West End is such a wasteland in August when it comes to the opening of new shows. There was just one significant new ent…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2014
The British premiere production of Theresa Rebeck's 2011 Broadway play Seminar at London’s Hampstead Theatre has now announced the full cast as well as an extension to its run.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]The West End production of Shakespeare in Love, a stage version of the 1998 Oscar-winning film of the same name that is currently running at the Noel Coward Theatre, is to extend booking thr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:29AM[SHARE]Chichester Festival Theatre: The style and panache of Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows's distillation of Damon Runyon's classic story and characters, set to Frank Loesser's tuneful…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AM[SHARE]Critics don’t usually set their own timetables. We go to shows when we’re asked to, unlike members of the public who typically go at a date of their own choosing (or when they ca…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2014
It has just been announced that Miss Saigon will mark the 25th anniversary of its original 1989 premiere with a gala performance on September 22 of the current, almost entirely re-staged ver…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Just recently I was writing how I'd seen three consecutive musical gems in London with three American musicals, but that week wasn't over yet. By the time it was over, I had seen one more…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Full casting has been confirmed for the new West End production of Ayub Khan Din’s 1996 comedy East Is East, which begins performances Oct. 4 at the Trafalgar Studios, prior to an offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PM[SHARE]Miss Saigon is to mark the 25th anniversary of its original opening with a special gala performance Sept. 22, in which the cast of the current new production will be joined by members of the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PM[SHARE]Last week the National Gallery in London confirmed that it had dropped its no photography policy, with the Evening Standard reporting that gallery staff found it "increasingly difficult" to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2014
Jon Lee, former member of the U.K. pop group S Club 7, whose stage credits include playing Marius in Les Miserables and Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys in the West End, is to star with Richard …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PM[SHARE]Theatre buildings exist, first and foremost, to offer a place for actors to perform their shows and for audiences to pay to see them do so. They are places where those two communities …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2014
Full casting has been announced for the Donmar Warehouse's new all-female production of Henry IV that will begin performances Oct. 3 prior to an official opening Oct. 9, for a run throug…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:56AM[SHARE]The next couple of months are bringing a slew of new musicals to the West End: the locally-created Made in Dagenham to the Adelphi, plus two imports from New York, Here Lies Love (to theR…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2014
Full casting has been confirmed for a new production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, co-produced by Newcastle's Northern Stage, Northampton's Royal & Derng…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Pasek and Paul's critically praised 2012 Off-Broadway musical Dogfight, based on the 1991 film of the same name, officially opens Aug. 13 at London's Southwark Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Richard Schiff and Nigel Lindsay will join the previously announced Lindsay Lohan in the new West End production of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow, beginning performances Sept. 24 at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:59AM[SHARE]Tickets finally went on general public sale (after priority booking for Barbican members) on August 12 for a new production of Hamlet that will play at the Barbican a full year away. By 1…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2014
I was in New York last week, and for once I immersed myself less overall in the life of the theatre than in the theatre of life in this buzziest of all cities. Instead of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:59AM[SHARE]The new season at the U.K.'s Theater Royal Plymouth is to include new commissioned work by playwrights who include James Graham, D.C. Moore and April de Angelis.
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