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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:52AM[SHARE]The Play That Goes Wrong, which premiered on the London fringe at the Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington last year before a season at the Trafalgar Studios 2, is to transfer to the West End&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the premiere of Tim Crouch's Adler & Gibb, which will begin performances June 13 at London's Royal Court Theatre prior to an official opening …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:59AM[SHARE]Picture Perfect, a contemporary song cycle featuring songs by American composer Scott Evan Davis, will premiere at London's St. James Studio in a production that will play four performan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2014
We live in an era of unprecedented public and private surveillance. As Edward Snowden showed, our every move – whether physical or electronic – is being watched and recorded. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:09AM[SHARE]Further casting has been announced for Shakespeare in Love, a stage version of the hit film of the same name that playwright Lee Hall (Billy Elliot, The Pitmen Painters) is adapting from Mar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AM[SHARE]The fall season at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, which marks the first full season that Sarah Frankcom has been sole artistic director for, will include Maxine Peake starring in t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AM[SHARE]Forbidden Broadway, previously seen at London's Menier Chocolate Factory in 2009 and before that in seasons at Jermyn Street Theatre and the West End's Fortune Theatre, is to return …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AM[SHARE]Charlotte Cornwell is to star in the world premiere of Between Us, a new play by Sarah Daniels that will begin performances at London's Arcola Theatre (which also commissioned the play) …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:13AM[SHARE]New cast members will join the original London production of Mamma Mia!, now running at the Novello Theatre, beginning performances June 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:45AM[SHARE]Donmar Warehouse, London: For once, you are requested to leave your phone on at the theatre. It will become an integral part of the first act of Privacy, James Graham's interactive new …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2014
The world stage premiere of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, adapted and directed by Jethro Compton from the original short story by Dorothy M. Johnson, will feature a recorded narration by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AM[SHARE]St James Studio, London: It's a slight paradox to put a pair of songwriters who didn't write for the theatre at the centre of a theatrical entertainment, even if two of the biggest…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AM[SHARE]I’ve long said that once is not enough for Once, the stage version of the 2006 Irish indie movie that transferred from Broadway and is now in its second year at the West End’s Ph…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:31AM[SHARE]Friday, April 18, 2014
Here Lies Love, the musical which received its world premiere at New York's Public Theater last year and has recently resumed performances there for an open-ended commercial run prior to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 17, 2014
Seth Numrich, the Broadway actor who was named Best Newcomer in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2013 for his London debut in Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic, is to return to the Londo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AM[SHARE]London's Hampstead Theatre is to offer the world premiere of Beth Steel's Wonderland to mark the 30th anniversary of the Miners' Strike that changed the fabric of Britain forever…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]Tony winner Liliane Montevecchi, who has previously appeared in cabaret in London at Jermyn Street Theatre and Pizza on the Park and on the U.K. theatrical stage in Sandy Wilson's Divorc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:53AM[SHARE]Thérèse Raquin, a new musical adaptation of Émile Zola’s classic French novel of the same name that is currently running at London's Finborough Theatre through…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:27AM[SHARE]Richard E. Grant is to appear in the world-premiere production of Water Babies, a new musical by Chris Egan, Ed Curtis and Guy Jones, which will begin performances at Leicester's Curve A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:40AM[SHARE]Just yesterday I mentioned here how producer Robert Fox had advised me, via a Twitter response to a comment I’d made about his production of Fatal Attraction, “time you got a lif…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2014
The five musicians who were recently made redundant from the West End production of War Horse, currently running at the New London Theatre, have lost their court bid to be reinstated.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AM[SHARE]Everyone can nowadays air private grievances publicly, of course, thanks to Twitter, and broadcast them to as many followers as they have. But there’s also a sense in which Twitter enc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2014
London's Union Theatre is to offer a rare outing for Noël Coward's 1950 musical Ace of Clubs, beginning performances May 7 prior to an official opening May 9, for a season throu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM[SHARE]Richard Armitage, best known for playing Thorin Oakenshield, leader of the Dwarves, in "The Hobbit" film trilogy and the villain Heinz Kruger in "Captain America: The First Av…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM[SHARE]Who among us doesn’t tire of our daily (or in my case mostly nightly) routines just occasionally? Going to the theatre as critics are required to do can become a bit of a chore, especi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:24AM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2014
In the West End’s “Blithe Spirit,” Angela Lansbury’s past is always present — Editor’s note: I’m delighted to welcome London critic and reporter Mar…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:00PM[SHARE]I’ve been back from New York for precisely a week now, and still the Broadway openings of shows I saw when I was there keep coming. Last night, it was the turn of five-times Tony…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2014
The West End transfers of Broadway's The Book of Mormon and Once took major Laurence Olivier Awards, as did the West End transfers for two productions first seen at the Almeida (Ghosts a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:54PM[SHARE]This year's Laurence Olivier Awards will be announced April 13 in a ceremony at London's Royal Opera House. It will be broadcast live to the adjoining outdoor Piazza, and a full edit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 11, 2014
The Life of the Party, a celebration of the songs of Andrew Lippa, is to premiere at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, beginning performances May 27 prior to an official opening May 30,…
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