Thursday, March 20, 2014
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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:23AM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, London: Ray Cooney pays homage to Feydeau's A Little Hotel on the Side with his deliriously funny 1981 farce likewise revolving around thwarted efforts to cond…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AM[SHARE]Mercury Theatre, Colchester: A musical set in the post-war austerity Britain in 1947 is now staged with an appropriate sense of austerity of its own. Gone are the splashy sets and expensive …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 19, 2014
The West End production of The Commitments, which opened at the Palace Theatre in October 2013, has extended bookings through April 19, 2015.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:53AM[SHARE]The London Festival of Cabaret, launched in 2013, will return for a second season, running in eight venues across London May 6-22. Amongst artists who will be appearing are Maria Friedman, A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:41AM[SHARE]Angela Lansbury’s return to the London stage – for the first time in nearly forty years, since she played Gertrude to Albert Finney’s Hamlet for the National at the Old Vic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AM[SHARE]Gielgud Theatre, London: Madame Arcati may summon the chill wind of ectoplasm in Noel Coward's comedy of spirits but it is a rare and enveloping warmth that pervades the auditorium, on …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 18, 2014
The new season at London's Old Vic will see the return of artistic director Kevin Spacey to his own stage to star in a solo play, Clarence Darrow, in June (directed by Thea Sharrock), fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:28AM[SHARE]It is not unheard of for West End actors to find out that they are to be imminently unemployed by reading about their show’s closure in Baz Bamigboye’s weekly Daily Mail column, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AM[SHARE]Richmond Theatre, Surrey: Originally created as part of the Theatre Royal Haymarket's Masterclass project and first performed two years ago at the theatre for two charity fund-raising e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AM[SHARE]Angela Lansbury opens in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit March 18 at the West End's Gielgud Theatre, following previews that began March 1, marking her first stage appearance in Lon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 17, 2014
The previously announced revival of Jean-Jacques Bernard's Martine, translated by John Fowles, will star Hannah Murray and Susan Penhaligon in its first U.K. production at London's F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AM[SHARE]De Profundis, a new musical based on the Oscar Wilde letter of the same name, is to receive its world premiere in the Lounge space at London's Leicester Square Theatre, after winning the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AM[SHARE]The new stage version of The Full Monty, based on the 1997 British film of the same title, is to shutter prematurely at the West End's Noel Coward Theatre March 29. It opened officially …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:19AM[SHARE]As the screenwriter and playwright William Goldman once famously put it in his book about the film business Adventures in the Screen Trade, “Nobody knows anything.” (He also wrot…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:40AM[SHARE]Friday, March 14, 2014
Ralph Fiennes, who can currently be seen on screen in "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "The Invisible Woman" (the latter of which he also directed), is to return to the Nat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AM[SHARE]Landor Theatre, London: Frank Wildhorn's musicalisation of the Jekyll and Hyde story may have run for more than 1,500 performances on Broadway after it opened in 1997 (though a revival …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AM[SHARE]It should be the most obvious thing in the world, but all too often it’s ignored: theatre is, above all, for the audience. Critics are, of course, part of that audience, but are we are…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2014
The new production of Oh What a Lovely War — currently running at Theatre Royal, Stratford East through March 15 where its entire run sold out shortly before its Feb. 10 opening &mdash…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AM[SHARE]Fame Forever, an official sequel to the stage musical Fame, will receive its professional world première in a fully staged production at the West End's Lyric Theatre that will be …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM[SHARE]Oscar-nominated actress Anne Archer, who has previously appeared onstage in the West End in The Graduate, will return to the U.K. stage to star in the world premiere of Terry Jastrow's T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM[SHARE]Tom Conti will take over as Juror Number 8 in the West End production of Twelve Angry Men, currently running at the Garrick Theatre. He will succeed Martin Shaw, beginning performances March…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:02AM[SHARE]Everyman Theatre, Liverpool: "If music be the food of love, play on", are the opening lines of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Artistic director Gemma Bodinetz, directing the ope…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:07AM[SHARE]Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre has been re-born, after 10 years of planning, 2 years of construction and a £27m budget (including buying an adjoining plot of land to allow the new bui…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 12, 2014
“Only hard-core Queen fans can save it from an early bath," wrote Robert Gore-Langton in the Daily Express when it first opened at the Dominion Theatre in May 2002, while I myself call…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:47AM[SHARE]St James Theatre, London: Musicals from The Producers to Monty Python's Spamalot and The Book of Mormon have long capitalised on sending up the genre they exist within, cross-referencin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Marti Webb and other members of the original London cast of Godspell, including Gay Soper, Tom Saffery, Deryk Parkin and Jacquie Ann Carr, will join the previously announced David Essex, who…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:55AM[SHARE]We Will Rock You will shutter at the West End's Dominion Theatre May 31, 2014, after a 12-year run of 4,600 performances during which it has been seen there by over 6.5 million people.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:44AM[SHARE]London Theatre Workshop: I have in the past reviewed both London incarnations of Adam Gwon's Ordinary Days for The Stage, a little musical with a big story. Its 2008 British premiere wa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AM[SHARE]I am looking forward to visiting the all-new Everyman Theatre in Liverpool tomorrow, re-opening – 50 years after it was first founded – after a £27m rebuild. But last night I …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2014
Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of James Graham's Privacy, which will begin performances April 10 prior to an official opening April 22, for a run through May 31.
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