Wednesday, May 7, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:36AM[SHARE]Curve, Leicester: After Broadway's now infamous Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark took the musical into new territory with aerial feats that had actors hurtling all over the auditorium and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Jerry Hall, model, actress and former wife of rock star Mick Jagger, will star as the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Richmond Theatre this Christmas in Southwest London. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AM[SHARE]As a critic, I am used to being contradicted " by other critics, by readers, and by followers on Twitter. And I’ve always said that I find that healthy; we can’t all like the sam…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AM[SHARE]Minerva Theatre, Chichester: This revival of a quietly unassuming 1977 play about the poet Stevie Smith kicks off a season that will include three world premieres (two co-produced with Edinb…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2014
West End Live, an annual free outdoor celebration of West End theatre, will take place in London's Trafalgar Square over the weekend of June 21-22. This marks the event's 10th annive…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:08AM[SHARE]Friday, May 2, 2014
Ian McKellen and Trudie Styler will play Peter and Isobel, respectively, in a staged reading of Thomas Kilry's Irish version of Chekhov's The Seagull at the St. James Theatre in Lond…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:26AM[SHARE]I’ve written before in this blog about the depressions I’m prone to, and have suffered ever since I was a teenager. There’s absolutely nothing to be ashamed of about depres…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AM[SHARE]Hampstead Theatre, London: Hampstead comes up with a sunny summer surprise to offer an alternately tender and joyous jukebox show constructed out of Ray Davies' greatest hits to chart a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 1, 2014
Neil Morrissey will join the cast of the West End production of Noel Coward's Relative Values, which begins performances May 26 for a run through June 21. He takes over the role of Crest…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:08AM[SHARE]With ticket prices now breaching the £100 mark for some West End musicals (and for The Book of Mormon now hitting £152.25, with tickets in the very back row of the stalls for this Satu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Full casting has been announced for the previously reported return of Gerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway to London's Menier Chocolate Factory, where it last played in 2009 and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:57AM[SHARE]Playwright Nick Payne is to reprise his one-man piece The Art of Dying at London's Royal Court Theatre. It premiered there in 2013 as part of The Big Idea: Death season as part of The Ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:45AM[SHARE]Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews, which premiered in October 2013 at the Roundabout's Black Box Theatre as part of the Roundabout Underground season before transferring to the upstairs Laura…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:36AM[SHARE]The Royal Shakespeare Company is to stage four new plays as part of Midsummer Mischief, a festival that will be held at Stratford-upon-Avon in June that will take place in a purpose-built st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:22AM[SHARE]The annual race for Broadway’s most commercially important awards has begun in earnest, with the announcement of the nominations yesterday for this year’s Tony Awards. It saw an …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 29, 2014
A season of cabaret, presented under the umbrella title Live in the Delfont Room: An Evening With..., is to feature West End performers Danielle Hope, Joanna Riding and Daniel Boys. The Delf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]John Kander and Fred Ebb's 2010 musical The Scottsboro Boys is to have another life. Its British premiere production, which was seen at London's Young Vic Theatre last year, is to tr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]It’s a perennial theme, alas, of this blog to find myself pointing out breaches of theatrical etiquette and manners. At this point, I thought I’d seen it all " whether it be ex-w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AM[SHARE]Michael Watson will take over as Frankie Valli in the London production of Jersey Boys, beginning performances April 29 at London's Piccadilly Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:09AM[SHARE]English National Opera, the U.K. opera company headquartered at the London Coliseum, has announced plans for the 2014-15 season that include a new production of The Pirates of Penzance to be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:02AM[SHARE]Greenwich Theatre, London: When Avenue Q first burst upon New York in 2003, it followed Rent from seven years earlier to offer a vivid, vital expression of youthful concerns among those livi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM[SHARE]Monday, April 28, 2014
Full casting has been announced for the U.K. premiere of Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns that will begin performances at London's Almeida Theatre June 5 prior to an official opening June 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1976 Broadway musical Pacific Overtures will be revived at London's Union Theatre in Southwark, beginning performances July 2 prior to an official…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AM[SHARE]The Infidel — the Musical, a stage adaptation of David Baddiel's hit film comedy of the same name that was released in 2010, is to premiere at London's Theatre Royal, Stratford…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AM[SHARE]Hackney Empire, London: Blues in the Night was first seen in the UK at the Donmar Warehouse long before it became the full-time producing theatre it now is in 1987, before transferring to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AM[SHARE]The failure of a West End musical is never a cause for celebration – unless you’re Steve Brookstein, that is, winner of the first series of The X Factor, and who proves the lie o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 27, 2014
I Can't Sing, the new musical based on TV's "The X Factor" that opened officially at the West End's London Palladium March 26, will stop singing there May 10, after an …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2014
The annual BBC Proms – a celebration of global classical music that runs at London's Royal Albert Hall from July 18 to Sept. 13 and is also broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC TV and onl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the new production of Guys and Dolls, being staged as the first musical in the re-opened Chichester Festival Theatre following its major redevelopment. It…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 24, 2014
It is one of the pleasures of my life " but simultaneously the bane of it " that I’m besieged daily with an endless stream of invitations and press releases advising me of a shows̷…
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