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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM[SHARE]Further casting has been announced for productions that will play at London's Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park this summer, including Tony-winning actress Brid Brennan (who will appea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the week-long West End run of Cool Rider, which begins performances April 15 at the Duchess Theatre prior to an official opening April 16, for a run throu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AM[SHARE]Okay, it always sounded like a wildly improbable idea " a West End musical that puts TV’s X Factor centre stage seemed like it could be a madly self-cannibalizing phenomenon. And when …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:29AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the London premiere of In the Heights, the 2008 Tony Award winner for Best Musical that also won its composer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony for Best Origi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30AM[SHARE]London Palladium: It was, I suppose, inevitable: amid all the film-to-stage musical adaptations, we now have a TV-to-stage show, a fictional behind-the-scenes look at The X Factor.
Read the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Richard Maltby, Jr. will direct a new production of his and David Shire's 1989 song cycle revue Closer Than Ever at London's Jermyn Street Theatre, beginning performances May 6 prior…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PM[SHARE]Future plans at London's Barbican Centre include a new production of Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role as part of an extended Shakespeare season at the theatre, and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PM[SHARE]Tessa Ross, currently controller of Film and Drama for Channel 4 television, is to join the National Theatre as chief executive. She will join the theatre in November, working alongside Nich…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:41PM[SHARE]Max Stafford-Clark's revival of Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good will tour again, ahead of U.S. and Canada engagements. Stafford-Clark originally directed the wor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:39AM[SHARE]Somewhere Under the Rainbow, a one-woman show written and directed by Cillian O’Donnachadha and performed by Sharon Sexton, is to play London's Landor Theatre, beginning performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:16AM[SHARE]William Gaminara will join the previously announced Tom Conti in the continuing production of Twelve Angry Men, beginning performances March 31, at the Garrick Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:06AM[SHARE]A new stage version of Fatal Attraction opened last night at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, for which my review will be online here today. But one of the more urgent questions I was asked on&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AM[SHARE]Theatre Royal Haymarket, London: You can buy the DVD of the original 1987 film Fatal Attraction for less than a fiver online, or alternatively spend up to £93 for a single premium …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AM[SHARE]I Can't Sing!, the new musical based on TV's "The X Factor", opens officially at the West End's London Palladium March 26, following previews that began March 5. (The o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Fathom Events and Omniverse Vision have announced plans to film the London stage musical From Here To Eternity, penned by Tim Rice, Stuart Brayson and Bill Oakes, which will arrive in U.S. m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PM[SHARE]The Olivier Award-winning Slava's Snowshow, which has previously enjoyed West End seasons at the Piccadilly Theatre and Old Vic, and played both Broadway and Off-Broadway, is to return t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:04AM[SHARE]Juliet Stevenson, who recently completed a sold-out run in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days at London's Young Vic, is to reprise that performance for a second run in February 2015.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AM[SHARE]Old Vic Theatre, London: When Other Desert Cities transferred to Broadway's Booth Theatre in 2011, after premiering earlier that year at Lincoln Center's off-Broadway Mitzi Newhous…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AM[SHARE]Tomorrow night the Apollo Theatre re-opens with the transfer of Let The Right One In, and I for one can’t wait to see the extensive refurbishment that has taken place inside since the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2014
Tracie Bennett, Tony-nominated for reprising her West End role as Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow on Broadway, will lead the cast of The WestEnders: The World’s Most Popular Musical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM[SHARE]A brand-new production of Saturday Night Fever is to be staged at the Theatre Royal, Bath, beginning performances Nov. 12 for a run through Nov. 22, prior to a national tour.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:31AM[SHARE]The partial collapse of the ceiling at the West End's Apollo Theatre in December 2013, which left some 76 theatregoers injured and led to the suspension of performances of The Curious In…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:17AM[SHARE]Just last Monday I was noting here how nobody knows anything when it comes to hits and flops in the theatre. The stage version of The Full Monty had just unexpectedly posted closing the Satu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:56AM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2014
A new production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is to begin performances June 27 at the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre, prior to an official opening July 17, for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the previously reported new U.K. touring production of Avenue Q, which begins performances April 23 at London's Greenwich Theatre prior to an official open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AM[SHARE]This year's Olivier Awards will be hosted by West End stage and screen stars Gemma Arterton and Stephen Mangan, taking place at the Royal Opera House April 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:20AM[SHARE]Just over a year ago I saw one of the best productions I’ve ever seen of the troubled but terrific musicals Chess, staged at Southwark’s Union Theatre, which I reviewed for The S…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AM[SHARE]The British premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, currently enjoying a sell-out run at North London's Hampstead Theatre through April 5, is to transfer immediately to the W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 20, 2014
Nicholas Hytner has announced his final season at the helm of the National Theatre, which will include the opening of the Dorfman (previously the Cottesloe) as part of the theatre's curr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AM[SHARE]Nicholas Hytner has revealed plans for his final season at the National Theatre, including new plays by Tom Stoppard and Richard Bean. Both plays are as yet untitled. Stoppard's play will pr…
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