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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PM[SHARE]The full cast has been announced for the return of Lucy Bailey's 2006 production of Titus Andronicus to Shakespeare's Globe, beginning performances April 24 prior to an official open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PM[SHARE]In addition to the previously announced Alex Jennings taking over from Douglas Hodge as Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Choclate Factory at the West End's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, other…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PM[SHARE]Nominations for the 2014 Olivier Awards, which were announced March 10, are led by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Merrily We Roll Along (with seven nominations each), with the London …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AM[SHARE]Friday, March 7, 2014
I spent most of yesterday regretting that I hadn’t crossed the Atlantic to go see the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s four night run of Sweeney Todd that opened on Wednesday ni…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:09AM[SHARE]Daniel Evans, artistic director of Sheffield Theatres and currently represented in the West End by the transfer of his Sheffield production of The Full Monty to the Noel Coward, has announce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM[SHARE]Priscilla Presley, former wife of Elvis Presley to whom she was married from 1967 to 1973 and is best known for starring in the "Naked Gun" films and for playing Jenna Wade on TV&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AM[SHARE]Kristin Chenoweth, who had been scheduled to do a short U.K. tour last March that included dates at London's Coliseum and in Manchester, Edinburgh and Cardiff but was canceled at the las…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AM[SHARE]1984, a new stage adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece jointly written and co-directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, will transfer to the West End's Playhouse T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]Park Theatre, London: "Things are impossibly lyrical", we hear in the title song to Do I Hear a Waltz?, a deeply bittersweet 1965 Broadway musical about a Venice-based holiday roma…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 6, 2014
The 2014 summer season will see the reopening of the Chichester Festival Theatre, following a £22 million refurbishment that has transformed the auditorium, public and backstage spaces…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AM[SHARE]Savion Glover is to present the U.K. premiere of SoLe Sanctuary, beginning performances April 3 at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre, for a run through April 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]I’ve written before in this blog about the wonder that is Imelda Staunton, and I will no doubt do so again in the future. The wonders literally never seem to cease for this most versat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AM[SHARE]Hampstead Theatre, London: The opening scene of David Lindsay-Abaire's tough yet tender play Good People is set in an alley behind a dollar store in South Boston. The shop manager is fi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2014
The Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, based on Hilary Mantel's novels and adapted for the first time for the stage in two parts by Mike Po…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00PM[SHARE]The nominations for this year's Laurence Olivier Awards, which are being announced March 10 at 11:30 AM London time (6:30 AM ET) at Rosewood London, will be live streamed at www.oliviera…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AM[SHARE]West End and Broadway writing team George Stiles and Anthony Drewe and Broadway's Gavin Creel, who is currently headlining the West End production of The Book of Mormon as Elder Pri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM[SHARE]The Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography 2014 has been awarded to Michael Blakemore for "Stage Blood," his account of his years at the National Theatre first under Laurence …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:52AM[SHARE]As commonplace or jaded as theatregoing can become from going night after night as I do, I always hope to re-ignite the first spark every time I go. It’s a tall order, I know, but...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Nicholas Wright's A Human Being Died That Night, originally seen at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs last May, is to return to the same address, beginning performances May 21 prior to an off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:43AM[SHARE]A Spoonful of Sherman, a revue devoted to songs by three generations of songwriters from the same family, including Robert and Richard Sherman, will be reprised at London's St. James Stu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:40AM[SHARE]Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m a serial repeater " I go back to shows I’ve loved (sometimes again and again!), but perhaps more strangely, I sometimes go back to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2014
Holliday Grainger, Olivia Hallinan, Emily Taaffe and Paul McGann will head the cast for Anya Reiss's contemporary reworking of Chekhov's Three Sisters, which will begin performances …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:09AM[SHARE]The Nash Ensemble, the chamber ensemble in residence at London's Wigmore Hall, will present a one-off concert March 8 devoted to songs written by Richard Rodgers in the third act of his …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:42AM[SHARE]It’s a long way from Tooley Street, SE1 to Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, but actually they’re both part of the same, interconnected world. And last night, as this year’…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 2, 2014
Gemma Arterton is to star in the West End world premiere of Made in Dagenham, a musical version of the 2010 film of the same name that will begin performances Oct. 9 at the West End's Ad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:59PM[SHARE]Run, Fat Boy Run, a one night charity concert featuring West End singers, is to be held March 16 at St Paul's Church, Covent Garden, as part of actor Andrew Bateup's fundraising effo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:34PM[SHARE]The winners of this year's Offies (the off-West End Theatre Awards), presented March 2 in a ceremony at London's Unicorn Theatre, saw the Broadway-bound production of Titanic that wa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, February 28, 2014
I Can't Sing!, the new musical based on TV's "The X Factor," has announced another postponment. Originally due to begin performances Feb. 27, previews were delayed to March…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:48PM[SHARE]A company of performers who are regularly seen in the West End will appear in a one-night charity benefit May 18 at London's Cadogan Hall to raise funds and celebrate the work of Target …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AM[SHARE]Final casting has been announced for the forthcoming sixth (and final) U.K. arena tour of Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of the Worlds – Alive on Stage, which begins perfo…
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