Monday, May 19, 2014
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. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:04AM[SHARE]There was a sudden gnashing of teeth " or at least a sharp intake of breath " when three high-profile musicals recently fell over after much shorter runs than were being expected. There was …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AM[SHARE]Friday, May 16, 2014
Southwark Playhouse, London: This sassy, sexy sensation of a show reaches such dizzying highs of theatrical ecstasy that it is surely destined to burst beyond south London - for now, though,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Producer Cameron Mackintosh plans to bring the new London production of Miss Saigon to Broadway in 2015 if the reviews are strong in Britain and a suitable theatre becomes available in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:36PM[SHARE]Further casting has been announced for the forthcoming productions of Amadeus and the double-bill of Miss Julie and Black Comedy at Chichester's Festival Theatre complex.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for a new production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible that begins performances at London's Old Vic June 21 prior to an official opening July 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PM[SHARE]Just yesterday I was writing here about differences of critical opinion, and how some shows divide us into starkly different views. I’d written how, in my view, “There's nothing …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AM[SHARE]Shaftesbury Theatre, London: When I saw this production at Chichester last summer, it seemed constrained by the Minerva's studio space. Now, what had felt a bit squashed is utterly libe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2014
There’s nothing worse in the theatre than indifference: the sort of shows that leave you with a mere shrug and nothing more to say on the way out than to talk about where you’re …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AM[SHARE]Monday, May 12, 2014
As Billy Elliot marks the 9th anniversary of its premiere at the West End's Victoria Palace May 12, the show will also welcome its 37th boy to play the title role.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AM[SHARE]The second season at the new indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe in London will be bookended with two plays by John Ford, with another Jacobean play by Middleton inbetw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM[SHARE]Union Theatre, London: Even in 1950, when Noel Coward's Ace of Clubs was first premiered at the West End's Cambridge Theatre after a regional try-out, The Times referred to "i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AM[SHARE]It is sometimes said that subsidised theatre can afford to take the sort of risks that the commercial theatre, with its eye constantly on the bottom line and recouping its investment, can…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AM[SHARE]Friday, May 9, 2014
Ben Foster will make his London stage debut in a new production of Tennessee Williams' A Streeetcar Named Desire, beginning performances July 23 prior to an official opening July 28…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AM[SHARE]Kerry Ellis is to embark on her first solo U.K. tour, following her successful solo debut at the London Palladium in May 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AM[SHARE]Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace, best known for their appearances on TV's "Strictly Come Dancing," will bring their current touring dance show, Dance 'Til Dawn, to th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the new U.K. tour of Simon Beaufoy's play version of The Full Monty; Beaufoy also wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AM[SHARE]Michelle Collins will star in Martyn Hesford's The Glass Supper, beginning performances June 25 at Hampstead Downstairs at Hampstead Theatre, prior to an official opening June 30 for a f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AM[SHARE]Jane Horrocks will star in the first major London revival of Ayub Khan Din's East Is East since it was first seen at the Royal Court in 1996 after premiering at Birmingham Rep. She will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AM[SHARE]As part of London's Southbank Centre's Festival of Love, Simon Russell Beale and Harriet Walter will lead a complete reading of all 154 Shakesparean sonnets. This event will also mar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:44AM[SHARE]Jermyn Street Theatre, London: Life is about change, and a lot has changed in the quarter of a century since David Shire and Richard Maltby's tender, tuneful and surprising song cycle r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2014
Fergus Linehan, who takes over as director of the Edinburgh International Festival from Oct. 1, 2014, and is currently planning the 2015-19 festivals, has announced a re-alignment of the dat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:13AM[SHARE]Tony Kushner's early play A Bright Room Called Day, first workshopped in New York in 1985 before premiering in San Francsico in 1987, is to be revived at London's Southwark Playhouse…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:57AM[SHARE]Great artists always surprise you (and also, no doubt, themselves), by constantly entering uncharted waters. Fiona Shaw has done interesting things throughout her career, especially in colla…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:26AM[SHARE]David Hunter and Jill Winternitz will take over as Guy and Girl, respectively, in the West End production of Once, now playing at the Phoenix Theatre, beginning performances May 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:17AM[SHARE]Dogfight, the 2012 musical featuring music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and a book by Peter Duchan, based on the 1991 Warner Bros. film and screenplay by Bob Comfort, is to recei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:54AM[SHARE]Juliette Binoche will star in a new English-language production of Sophocles' Antigone, to be directed by Belgian theatre director Ivo van Hove in a new version by Anne Carson, that…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:42AM[SHARE]Barbican Theatre, London: Describing the writing of the original stage version of The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin has said that the tone for the voice of Mary, the mother of Jesus, "…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Of course critics go to the theatre a lot. It’s our job, after all. But we also (most of us, anyway) love the theatre; it’s why we do it. And you can’t keep some of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:59AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for Morphic Graffiti's new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel that will begin performances June 18 at London's Arcola Theatre, prior…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:08AM[SHARE]Further casting has been announced for Richard III — the opening production in Jamie Lloyd's second season at the helm of Trafalgar Transformed — which will be presented in t…
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