Friday, February 28, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AM[SHARE]Full casting has now been announced for the world premiere of Water Babies, a new musical inspired by Charles Kingsley's novel that will begin performances April 24, prior to an official…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AM[SHARE]Ruthie Henshall, the Olivier Award-winning West End star who has also appeared on Broadway in Miss Saigon, Chicago (as both Roxie Hart, which she originated in the West End, and Velma Kelly)…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:52AM[SHARE]The Stage was founded in February 1880 " so it is now officially 134 years old. But here’s a striking fact: you can count the number of editors it has had on just two hands...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AM[SHARE]Donmar Warehouse, London: While <a href="http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/39563/oh-what-a-lovely-war-">Oh What a Lovely War, running at Stratford East</a>, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2014
Touring dates have been announced for a new U.K. tour of the recent Cameron Mackintosh/Chichester Festival Theatre production of Cy Coleman, Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble's 1980 Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:38AM[SHARE]I usually love going to venues that I’ve never been to before, and especially newly created ones. But last night I went with a lot of trepidation to the new Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2014
We’re well used to seeing films adapted for the stage as musicals: the music adds an extra means of storytelling and brings new textures to the way the story can be told. But when well…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:31AM[SHARE]The full cast has been announced for the world premiere of Simon Stephens' Birdland, which begins performances at the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Downstairs April 3 prior to an officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Comedienne and actress Dawn French, whose West End stage credits include a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (in which she played Bottom) and My Brilliant Divorce, is to embark on …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse, London: This is a brand-new British musical that is all over the map, in every sense. It's an intriguing musical adaptation of the true-life story of Phyllis Pearsa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AM[SHARE]Last year started with two Broadway imports " which won the Tony awards for best musical in 2011 and 2012 respectively " opening back to back in the West End, when The Book of Mormon...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:21AM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2014
Stephen Ward, Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest musical with book and lyrics by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, is to shutter at the West End's Aldwych Theatre March 29, after a run of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:14PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the world premiere of Mike Bartlett's King Charles III, described as a "future history play" about the U.K.'s next monarch, that will begin p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of Sunny Afternoon, a musical telling the story of the early life of Ray Davies and the rise to stardom of The Kinks, that will begin p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AM[SHARE]Blues in the Night, the revue that uses 26 great blues and jazz songs of the 1920s and '30s to tell the story of the lives of three women and a saloon singer in a cheap hotel during the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be, a new production of the Lionel Bart musical at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East that was originally premiered the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AM[SHARE]The National Theatre's production of The Elephantom, based on Ross Collins' children's book of the same name about a little girl who is unexpectedly visited by a giant blue ghost…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AM[SHARE]I Can't Sing!, the new musical based on TV's "The X Factor," which was due to begin performances Feb. 27 at the London Palladium, has canceled the first two previews due to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]The West End's Apollo Theatre, shuttered since a partial collapse of its ceiling plaster injured more than 80 people, seven of them seriously, mid-performance of The Curious Incident of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:49AM[SHARE]I wasn’t at the Whatsonstage Awards last night " I’d gone to Hackney Empire to catch up with the Union Theatre’s transfer of its production of HMS Pinafore instead. That sh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton's musical The Beautiful Game, which originally premiered at the West End's Cambridge Theatre in 2000, is to receive its first London revival, beginn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:52AM[SHARE]The Pheasantry, London: The US-born Ray Shell has been a fixture in West End musicals for more than 30 years now, from Starlight Express (in which he created the role of Rusty in its 1984 st…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:36AM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2014
Arthur Darvill will reprise his Broadway role as Guy in the West End edition of Once, beginning performances March 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AM[SHARE]In the Heights, the 2008 Tony Award winner for Best Musical that also won its composer Lin-Manuel Miranda the Tony for Best Original Score, will receive its London premiere in a brand-new pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AM[SHARE]Memphis, the 2010 Tony winner for Best Musical that also won Tonys for its book (by Joe DiPietro) and score (with music by David Bryan, and lyrics by Bryan and DiPietro), is eyeing a West En…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:33AM[SHARE]There’s got to be a first time for everything, no matter how often you go to the theatre. It slightly surprised me, though, to realise that I was seeing Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2014
London's Tricycle Theatre has announced its spring/summer season, which will include the world première of award-winning Canadian playwright Adam Bock's The Colby Sisters of P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:08AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for a new U.K. touring production of the musical 20th Century Boy, based on the life and music of Glam Rock legend Marc Bolan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:41AM[SHARE]The West End play Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, currently running at the Duke of York's Theatre through Sept. 20, is to immediately launch a U.K. tour after it closes there, be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:26AM[SHARE]Godspell will be presented in a one-night concert May 19 at the West End's Lyric Theatre, in a charity gala to be hosted by David Essex, who starred as Jesus in the original West End pro…
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