Thursday, July 3, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM[SHARE]Southampton's Nuffield Theatre's creative and exeuctive director Sam Hodges is marking the theatre's 50th anniversary season by appointing a team of new associate actors: Samanth…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM[SHARE]Birmingham Hippodrome: To call Show Boat a transporting musical is not just to refer to the fact it is set aboard a river vessel that houses a travelling theatre show. It's also a show …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AM[SHARE]As the fall-out from the allocation of Arts Council funding continues to ripple across the land, as I wrote here yesterday, it’s true there has been some wailing and gnashing of teeth …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, London: Forbidden Broadway has been cutting an irresistible and merciless satirical swathe through Broadway's hits and misses for more than 30 years now, as we…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Return to the Forbidden Planet, the musical first seen in the West End in 1989 that trumped Miss Saigon to the 1989-90 Olivier Award for Best Musical, is to be re-staged by its original crea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:08AM[SHARE]Adam Bock’s latest drama premieres overseas — Actors from Broadway and Hollywood make frequent forays to London’s theatreland, just as West End actors are often Broadway re…
SOURCE: TDF at 09:00AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for a new production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard that will begin performances Oct. 10 at London's Young Vic Theatre, prior to an official opening Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:36AM[SHARE]Anything Goes, a concert celebration of the music of Cole Porter, will begin performances Aug. 20 at London's Cadogan Hall, near Sloane Square, for five performances through Aug. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:21AM[SHARE]Yesterday the Arts Council England broke the news to their clients, prospective clients and some soon-to-be-former clients for the next funding rounds from 2015-18 in a series of e-mails sen…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2014
In what could very well be the fastest West End transfer announcement in history, Richard Bean's new play Great Britain that opened at London's National Theatre June 30 has, less tha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:01PM[SHARE]Urinetown — the Musical, which received its U.K. premiere at the St. James Theatre earlier this year in a production that opened officially March 11 for a run that ended May 3, is to t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AM[SHARE]The National Theatre has confirmed further plans and casting for new productions that will open through January 2015, including a new play by David Hare, a new verbatim dance-theatre work co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:54AM[SHARE]Here Lies Love, currently running at Off-Broadway's Public Theater in an open-ended commercial run following its premiere there last year, has been confirmed to receive its U.K. premeire…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:33AM[SHARE]Lyttelton, National, London: It was certainly audacious of the National Theatre to have an entirely unannounced play waiting in the wings as the main verdicts in the hacking trial - the long…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AM[SHARE]Monday, June 30, 2014
A new London production of Toast, Richard Bean's first professionally produced play, will star Matthew Kelly and Simon Greenall. It will begin performances at The Park Theatre Aug. 27, p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the European premiere of the 2012 Off-Broadway musical Dogfight, based on the 1991 film of the same name, that will begin performances at London's Southwar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:48AM[SHARE]The simultaneous announcement last week that not one but two Andrew Lloyd Webber classics are to return to the West End later this year has once again demonstrated his undisputed knack for a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:04AM[SHARE]The West End and U.K. touring companies of Wicked are to welcome new cast members. They will take over at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre Oct. 27, and on tour Sept. 16 at Liverpool Empi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:36AM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2014
London's Royal Court Theatre has announced its new season of work that will run from September 2014 through May 2015, including new plays from Molly Davies, Zinnie Harris, Rory Mullarkey…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, which ran for a then record-breaking 21 years during its original run at the New London Theatre, is to return to the West End for the first time since it clos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AM[SHARE]I’ve often written in the past about disruptive behaviour in the theatre – including, on occasion, my own (when I got chastised by a member of the audience for writing notes duri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2014
Benjamin Scheuer is to reprise his performance in his own solo musical The Lion, currently running at The Studio at Mahattan Theatre Club's Stage II through July 14, in London following …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AM[SHARE]Sunny Afternoon, a new musical which recently enjoyed a sell-out run at London's Hampstead Theatre and tells the story of the early life of Ray Davies and the rise to stardom of The Kink…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]Theatre can be a fast response mechanism in the way that film can’t. But who knew that the National had a play ready and waiting in the wings to announce a play about press intrusion&#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:40AM[SHARE]Nikolai Foster has been appointed artistic director of the U.K.'s Curve in Leicester, taking over in January 2015 and succeeding Paul Kerryson who, as previously announced, is to step do…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AM[SHARE]Tricycle Theatre, London: The Tricycle's artistic director Indhu Rubasingham is looking beyond the box of London's usual new writing avenues, and duly found Adam Bock's The Co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AM[SHARE]Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London: Over a year into its run at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory now plays, at least technically, like a well-oiled machine. Bu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Thoroughly Modern Millie, the 2002 Broadway musical based on the 1967 film of the same name, is to receive its U.K. fringe premiere in a new production that will begin performances Oct. 1, p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AM[SHARE]Denise van Outen is to reprise the one-woman musical play Some Girl I Used to Know that she co-wrote (with Terry Ronald) and toured in the U.K. earlier this year for a run at London's Ar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AM[SHARE]The National Theatre has made a late addition to its summer program, announcing the premiere of Richard Bean's Great Britain just six days ahead of its June 30 opening. It will begin per…
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