Wednesday, May 28, 2014
There are two headlines on The Stage website today that grabbed my attention, and prove the financial extremes of this business we called show. On the one hand, business on Broadway is boomi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AM[SHARE]Fashion Victim – the Musical, originally staged as a pop-up theatre event to coincide wth London Fashion Week in 2013, is to be revived for a two-week run at London's Cinema Museum…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:58AM[SHARE]Duchess Theatre, London: Lionel Percy is an art expert, a former director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and now a lecturer and best-selling author of cultural texts such as T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2014
A media and Twitter storm erupted last week around a series of reviews of an operatic performance " all of them written by what National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner once called “d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AM[SHARE]London's Donmar Warehouse will produce the first major revival of Cy Coleman, David Zippel and Larry Gelbart's 1990 Broadway musical City of Angels with a cast that includes Hadley F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AM[SHARE]Friday, May 23, 2014
A trio of West End leading ladies — Kerry Ellis, Joanna Ampil and Ria Jones — will launch a U.K. tour of a show called West End Women in Concert, beginning performances Nov. 17 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PM[SHARE]The original West End run of Billy Elliot will continue to play "for at least the next two and a half years," its producers have announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AM[SHARE]Cameron Mackintosh has been making a lot of theatre headlines over the last week. No sooner did he open a new production of Miss Saigon on Wednesday night " after which I could hear the̷…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:51AM[SHARE]David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole, which premiered on Broadway in 2006 under the auspices of Manhattan Theatre Club and won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is to receive its U.K. pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2014
Cameron Mackintosh has added two more West End theatres to his theatrical stable, with the acquisition of the Victoria Palace and Ambassadors Theatres, bringing his theatre-owning portfolio …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]Cameron Mackintosh has added two more West End theatres to his theatrical stable, with the acquisition of the Victoria Palace and Ambassadors Theatres, bringing his theatre-owning portfolio …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PM[SHARE]Cameron Mackintosh has added two more West End theatres to his theatrical stable, with the acquisition of the Victoria Palace and Ambassadors Theatres, bringing his theatre-owning portfolio …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:28PM[SHARE]Following the National Theatre's decision to axe five musicians who were made redundant from the West End production of War Horse — currently running at the New London Theatre &mda…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AM[SHARE]The London revival of Miss Saigon, which opened May 21 at the West End's Prince Edward Theatre, has recouped its £4.5 million investment, according to the Stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]Matthew Warchus will succeed Kevin Spacey at the helm of London's Old Vic, taking over as artistic director in fall 2015 when Spacey steps down.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AM[SHARE]Comparisons, they always say, are invidious; but the truth is that they are impossible to avoid, at least in your head, when you’ve got something to compare a new thing against. As I d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AM[SHARE]Eric and Little Ern, an homage to the legendary British comedy double act of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, is to return to London, beginning performances Dec. 16 prior to an official openin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:04AM[SHARE]Prince Edward Theatre, London: Miss Saigon was the last of the original mega-musicals created in the West End when it originally premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1989. Its retur…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Upcoming cast changes to the West End production of Les Misérables will see the arrival of Broadway actor Peter Lockyer, reprising the role of Jean Valjean that has has played for a y…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AM[SHARE]Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London: It is only four years since Arthur Miller's bracing 1947 masterpiece All My Sons was last given a revival in the West End, but now the play makes…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AM[SHARE]In a newspaper interview in the Daily Telegraph a few years ago, it was revealed that Timothy Sheader, artistic director of the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, tells the cast on the f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AM[SHARE]Miss Saigon, which premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1989 — where it ran for a record-breaking run of over ten years — returns to the West End's Prince Edward The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 20, 2014
David Schneider's Making Stalin Laugh is to premiere at London's JW3, a purpose-built Jewish Community Centre, on the Finchley Road in Hampstead, which has also commissioned the play…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM[SHARE]Daytona, a new play by actor-turned-playwright Oliver Cotton that premiered at London's Park Theatre last year as part of its inaugural season, is to transfer to the West End, beginning …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]The London Hippodrome, which already features a live performance space called The Matcham Room — which regularly hosts live cabaret appearances, where previous attractions have include…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:44AM[SHARE]Theatre is not a museum – look at what happened, after all, when they tried to set up a Theatre Museum in Covent Garden. It was static and deadly – the very opposite of what̷…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:54AM[SHARE]Monday, May 19, 2014
Veteran U.K. comedy cabaret trio Fascinating Aida will reprise their hit show Charm Offensive at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, followed by a national tour and a return season at London&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:48AM[SHARE]A new production of the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II classic The Sound of Music will be staged at Leicester's Curve this Christmas, beginning performances Nov. 28 prior to an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:40AM[SHARE]The Ring Cycle Plays, a series of plays based on Wagner's operas but performed without their usual operatic scores, is to be staged at London's The Scoop, beginning performances Aug.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:47AM[SHARE]The 40th anniversary of Frank Sinatra's legendary concert return Sintra: The Main Event, which was held Oct. 13, 1974, at New York's Madison Square Garden, following a self-impo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:21AM[SHARE]The West End production of Orwell's 1984, presented in a new adaptation created and co-directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, has extended booking for five weeks through Aug. 23. …
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