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,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AM[SHARE]David Suchet will return to the West End to star as Lady Bracknell in a new production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in 2015. The theatre has not been announced yet, b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AM[SHARE]The Confession Room, a new original British musical with music and lyrics by Dan Looney and book by Patrick Wilde, is to be presented in a one-off concert version July 13 at London's St.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AM[SHARE]The recent production of Ibsen's Ghosts, which premiered at London's Almeida Theatre last year before transferring to the Trafalgar Studios, will be screened in over 200 U.K. and Iri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AM[SHARE]Simon Green, a West End veteran of productions from The Boy Friend and Follies to Beauty and the Beast, is to premiere his latest cabaret show, So, This Then is Life, at London's Crazy C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AM[SHARE]Lightning, in the theatre as in life, rarely strikes twice. But it doesn’t stop people from trying. In 2001, director/choreographer Susan Stroman had a megahit with a stage musical ver…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 10, 2014
I saw 12 shows during my eight-day stint in New York last week, most of them with multi-million dollar budgets and massive casts. But the two shows that touched me most were both, interestin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 9, 2014
The original West End production of War Horse, which continues to run at the New London Theatre after transferring from the National Theatre, where it premiered in October 2007, has made its…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19PM[SHARE]Olivier, National, London: Alan Ayckbourn has become a regular visitor to the National Theatre over the years, but in the mid-80s he took a temporary break from his usual home base of Scarbo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AM[SHARE]Never mind Monty Python’s Holy Grail; Broadway’s holy grail has long been trying to attract men to the theatre. And that, famously, was one of the reasons why Monty Python’…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 8, 2014
A new musical by British singer-songwriter Nick Fogarty that was previously scheduled to premiere at London's Arts Theatre last summer as The Golden Voice has been retitled Best of Frien…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for a new production of Antony and Cleopatra that begins performances May 17 prior to an official opening May 29, for a run in repertoire through May 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AM[SHARE]When Les Miserables celebrated its 25th London anniversary in 2010, it marked the occasion by becoming the first musical to ever receive three separate, but simultaneous, London stagings. As…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]Apollo Theatre, London: The peripatetic National Theatre of Scotland has, since it was launched in 2006, created more than 200 productions in nearly as many locations. Now, it plants its fee…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2014
The U.K.'s Ambassador Theatre Group has appointed David Lazar, chief executive officer of its New York office where he oversees ATG's North American activities, to the newly created …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM[SHARE]Friday, April 4, 2014
Killian Donnelly will star in the West End premiere of Memphis, which begins performances Oct. 9 prior to an official opening Oct. 23 at the Shaftesbury Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the West End return of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which will resume performances June 24 prior to an official opening July 8 at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:45AM[SHARE]Jamie Lloyd will direct Martin Freeman in the title role of Richard III as the opening production of Lloyd's second season for Trafalgar Transformed at the West End's Trafalgar Studi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:35AM[SHARE]Revivals frequently dominate in New York, from established classics like Waiting for Godot and No Man’s Land (recently produced in repertoire with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart) to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2014
It is exactly 20 years since the mouse first arrived on Broadway: on April 18, 1994 Disney opened the first of its film-to-stage adaptations of one of its own properties Beauty and the Beast…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:17PM[SHARE]Rags, the short-lived 1986 Broadway musical with a book by Joseph Stein, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and music by Charles Strouse, is to receive its West End premiere in a special concert ada…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2014
The National Theatre has announced dates and further casting for new productions scheduled to open through October. In addition, it has been announced that The Curious Incident of the Dog in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Jodie Prenger has returned to Monty Python's Spamalot for the final fortnight of its West End run at the Playhouse Theatre, through April 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 1, 2014
This is traditionally the busiest time of the year, openings-wise, in New York’s theatre season; between last month and the one that starts today, there are 18 Broadway openings schedu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2014
Tim Acito's 2002 Off-Broadway musical Zanna, Don't! is to be revived at London's Landor Theatre, beginning performances June 4 for a run through June 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PM[SHARE]This week I’m reporting live from New York, one of my most regular stamping grounds beyond the West End, which I partly consider a home from home: yesterday my husband and I celebrated…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 29, 2014
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice have issued a joint statement on the late Alan Doggett, the music master at Colet Court, a school where he commissioned and staged the very first incarnation…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30PM[SHARE]Four West End shows bow out March 29, three of them prematurely: Stephen Ward, From Here to Eternity and The Full Monty were all booked for longer runs. Only The Duck House is closing as sch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2014
Alexandra Burke, who won the fifth series of the U.K.'s "The X Factor," will take over the role of Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard, the stage musical version of the film current…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AM[SHARE]Finborough Theatre, London: Musicals can come in all sorts of colours and moods, but you don't often see one as uncompromisingly dark as has been made here of Emile Zola's eponymou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 27, 2014
Hampstead Theatre, which is currently presenting a quartet of plays by Simon Gray under the umbrella title In the Vale of Health at its downstairs studio through May 17, is to move them to t…
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