Monday, July 21, 2014
Craig Els will join the West End company of Matilda The Musical in September to star as Miss Trunchbull.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:14AM[SHARE]Friday, July 18, 2014
Here Lies Love, the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical currently running at Off-Broadway's Public Theater, will receive its U.K. premeire at the new Dorfman Theatre at London's National…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of Alecky Blythe's Little Revolution, beginning performances Aug. 26 at London's Almeida Theatre prior to an official opening S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2014
I’ve regularly moaned here that there’s simply too much to cover at any one time to ever see it all. But I also know that no one, except the noisy voice of an addict in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:15PM[SHARE]A new production of A Streetcar Named Desire, which begins performances at London's Young Vic Theatre July 23 prior to an official opening July 28, is to be broadcast live from the theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Kerry Ellis, who was the first British actress to play Elphaba when she took over from Idina Menzel soon after the show first opened at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre, is to return to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:55AM[SHARE]There was a lot of talk about redistributing funding away from the capital in favour of the regions during the recent Arts Council funding round. But though it did see funding restored to De…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AM[SHARE]Monday, July 14, 2014
A semi-staged concert performance of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, to be performed Aug. 2 as part of the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, will feature Ben Davis, Alexandra Silber, Tony…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AM[SHARE]Tony nominee Jenna Russell, Jonathan Slinger and Marc Elliott will reprise their roles as Penelope Pennywise, Officer Lockstock and Mr. McQueen, respectively, in the West End transfer of Uri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AM[SHARE]Broadway actors Billy Harrigan Tighe and A.J. Holmes will take over the lead roles of Elder Price and Elder Cunningham, respectively, in the London production of The Book of Mormon, beginnin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:09AM[SHARE]Last night another Olympic sportsman officially came out: after Tom Daley’s announcement of his sexuality last December, Australian five time Olympic gold medal winner Ian Thorpe revea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2014
Minerva Theatre, Chichester: Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy was originally commissioned by the National Theatre to be produced as a companion piece to Strindberg's Miss Julie, and pr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2014
Everyone, as the oft-repeated phrase goes, is a critic nowadays, so criticising the critics is fair game. Lord knows we’ve bashed enough things in our time to withstand the occasional …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:26AM[SHARE]The Get Out, a late revue style show of new writing, will be presented at the Jerwood Upstairs Theatre at London's Royal Court, beginning performances July 31 for a run through Aug. 2 on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Last night, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time returned officially to the Gielgud, across the street from the Apollo where it originally transferred from the National. The ori…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:57PM[SHARE]Gielgud Theatre, London: More than six months on from the incident that saw the original West End transfer of the National's production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 8, 2014
The Young Vic's imminent production of A Streetcar Named Desire, which begins performances July 23 prior to an official opening July 28 and has already become the fastest-selling Young V…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM[SHARE]Anything Can Happen!, a new musical revue featuring songs by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, is to be workshopped at London's St. James Theatre, where it will be presented for one perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:04AM[SHARE]London's Jermyn Street Theatre is to offer a season of three plays, all originally premiered in 1933 and 1934, including Terence Rattigan's debut play, as well as plays by John Van D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AM[SHARE]The other day The Stage reported claims that the Charing Cross Theatre had told its front-of-house staff of a plan to replace their paid services with unpaid interns instead. The thea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AM[SHARE]Monday, July 7, 2014
The premiere of Ben Ockrent's Breeders at London's St. James Theatre, which begins performances Sept. 3 prior to an official opening Sept. 8 for a season through Dec. 13, will featur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AM[SHARE]The new season at the U.K.'s Bristol Old Vic — which Tom Morris and Emma Stenning are marking celebrating their fifth anniversary in charge of this fall — will include …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AM[SHARE]Brad Alexander and Adam Mathias' See Rock City and Other Destinations, originally seen as part of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's New Musical Festival in 2008 and su…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:42AM[SHARE]I’m re-visiting The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time tomorrow for the first time since it originally transferred from the National to the West End’s Apollo Theatre. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:46AM[SHARE]The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ - the Musical, based on Sue Townsend's best-selling debut novel of the same name that was first published in 1982, is to receive its worl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:38AM[SHARE]Union Theatre, London: Pacific Overtures may just be the most audacious and courageous of all the mould-breaking shows Stephen Sondheim has written, and Michael Strassen's sombre, shatt…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AM[SHARE]Friday, July 4, 2014
Nicole Kidman has revealed that she's eying a West End theatrical return for the first time since she appeared in Sam Mendes's production of The Blue Room at the Donmar Warehouse in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:06AM[SHARE]You don’t expect critics to necessarily agree, and we often don’t: I’ve often pointed out here how one critic’s one star pan is another’s five star rave. But a …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:58AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the British premiere of Ahrens' and Flaherty's Dessa Rose, that as previously revealed here will begin performances July 29 at London's Trafalgar S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 3, 2014
Simon Callow is to tour the U.K. in Matthew Hurt's The Man Jesus, a play that looks back 2,000 years to witness key moments in the life of Jesus through the eyes of the people who knew h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AM[SHARE]Nicholas de Jongh, formerly the long-serving chief theatre critic of London's Evening Standard newspaper, is to have his latest play premiered at the Drayton Arms pub theatre in South Ke…
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