Tuesday, August 12, 2014
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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AM[SHARE]Philip Ridley's Ghost from a Perfect Place, which premiered at London's Hamsptead Theatre in 1994, is to receive a 20th anniversary production at London's Arcola Theatre, beginni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:25AM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2014
Lucy Punch is to replace Billie Piper in the West End transfer of the National Theatre’s production of Richard Bean’s Great Britain, beginning performances Sept. 9 prior to an of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PM[SHARE]This year is my 30th anniversary of visiting the Edinburgh Fringe regularly, but I'm not there to mark it myself. While all media outlets, including this one, rightly focus much of their cri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:34AM[SHARE]Broadway and Hollywood composer Jule Styne’s work is to be celebrated in Everything’s Coming Up Roses, a revue that will be presented at London’s Crazy Coqs beginning perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:36AM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2014
The London production of Wicked, now running at the Apollo Victoria, has just set a new record, overtaking the 1985 revival of Me and My Girl to become the 14th longest-running musical in We…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AM[SHARE]Paul Clarkson, who won an Olivier Award for starring in the original 1984 London premiere of Howard Goodall’s The Hired Man, is to now direct the London professional premiere of Goodal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2014
We live in an age of big data: Big Brother isn’t just watching us, but big businesses (and smaller ones, too) are collecting information about us every time we go online. Of course …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2014
Geoffrey Nauffts' 2010 Tony-nominated play Next Fall is to receive its U.K. premiere at London's Southwark Playhouse, beginning performances Sept. 24 prior to an official opening Sep…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM[SHARE]Theresa Rebeck's 2011 Broadway play Seminar is to receive its U.K. premiere at London's Hampstead Theatre, beginning performances Sept. 25 prior to an official opening Oct. 1, for a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]Friday, August 1, 2014
Alan Bennett's Single Spies, a double-bill stage adaptation of his television films An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution, is to be revived at the Rose Theatre, Kingsto…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:36AM[SHARE]Altar Boyz, the 1985 Off-Broadway musical that played for over five yeas and more than 2,000 performances during its run at New World Stages, is to receive its London premiere at Greenwich T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:04AM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for the world premiere of Made in Dagenham, the new musical version of the 2010 film of the same name that will begin performances Oct. 9 prior to an offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 2014
A new production of David Hare's The Vertical Hour, which premiered on Broadway in 2007 and was subsequently seen at London's Royal Court in 2008, is to be staged at London's Par…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 30, 2014
In 2012-13 more than 22 million people attended London theatre performances, according to the London Theatre Report, the first-ever comprehensive study across all professional sectors of Lon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AM[SHARE]Hamlisch, a concert celebrating the music of the late Broadway composer Marvin Hamlisch, will be staged for two performances only Aug. 24 at London's St. James Theatre, with performances…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 29, 2014
The first new Broadway musical of the 2014-15 season Holler if Ya Hear Me has already closed. Billed as Broadway’s first hip-hop jukebox musical, it was based on the poetry and music o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AM[SHARE]Monday, July 28, 2014
Forbidden Broadway, which is currently running at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, where it recently extended its run through Aug. 30, will transfer to the West End's Vaudeville Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2014
Liam Mower, the first boy ever to play the title role of Billy Elliot the Musical onstage when the show first opened at the Victoria Palace Theatre in 2005, is to return to the show for one …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Full casting has been announced for the return of To Kill a Mockingbird to the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, where it was previously staged in 2013 and will begin performances Aug. 28…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AM[SHARE]A new production of Sweeney Todd that will mark the first in-house show at the new Twickenham Theatre in West London will star David Bedella in the title role with Sarah Ingram as Mrs. Lovet…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:49AM[SHARE]The Bodyguard, the West End musical version of the 1992 film of the same name, is to embark on a two-year U.K. and Ireland tour after its current run at the Adelphi Theatre ends Aug. 29. The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AM[SHARE]The current London stand of Gerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway has extended its run by a fortnight, to end Aug. 30. It was previously booking through Aug. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:08AM[SHARE]Liame Tamne will take over as Raoul in London's The Phantom of the Opera beginning performances Sept. 1. He will join Gerónimo Rauch and Harriet Jones who continue as The Phantom …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Becky Mode's Fully Committed, the Off-Broadway hit which received its British premiere at London's Menier Chocolate Factory in 2004, is to be revived there in a new production, direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PM[SHARE]I’m in Provincetown at the extreme tip of Cape Cod this week and next on holiday, and even here I can’t seem to get away from the theatre. The place " a tiny, historic seaside…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:14PM[SHARE]London's Hampstead Theatre will live-stream the final performance of its current production of Wonderland free online July 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:41AM[SHARE]Full casting has been revealed for the previously announced The Infidel - the Musical, a stage adaptation of David Baddiel's hit film comedy of the same name that was released in 2010. I…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:31AM[SHARE]Clive Rowe is to reprise the title role of Mother Goose, for which he was Olivier-nominated in 2009, in the pantomime that will begin performances Nov. 22, prior to an official opening Nov. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:11AM[SHARE]Monday, July 21, 2014
Monty Python's Spamalot is to resume a U.K. tour following its three year West End run at the Harold Pinter and then Playhouse Theatre, beginning performances Jan. 15, 2015, at Mancheste…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:33AM[SHARE]Craig Els will join the West End company of Matilda The Musical in September to star as Miss Trunchbull.
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