Thursday, February 20, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:11AM[SHARE]Theatre is a transporting place, of course " you leave the world you’re in for a couple of hours and go somewhere else, all from the safety of your theatre seat. But sometimes you also…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AM[SHARE]Mark Benton and Jodie McNee will star in a new production of Hobson's Choice at London's Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. It will begin performances June 12, prior to an official…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Broadway actors Rufus Bonds Jr. and Tony nominee Phillip Boykin will star in a new production of Porgy and Bess at London's Open Air Theatre; performances will begin July 17, prior to an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:41AM[SHARE]February 18-March 8: Thirty-five years after Marti Webb first premiered Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black's solo song cycle at the private Sydmonton Festival, she has returned to sing i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AM[SHARE]I met the man who became my husband online first, so I know full well how some of the most important relationships in my life can be forged in a virtual landscape. We usually say,...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2014
The National Theatre's production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, adapted by Simon Stephens from Mark Haddon's novel of the same name, is to embark on a U.K. na…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM[SHARE]Harvey Fierstein's two short plays On Tidy Endings and Safe Sex will receive their U.K. premieres in a double bill that will be presented at Covent Garden's Tristan Bates Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:55AM[SHARE]West End Recast, which will be presented March 16 at London's Duke of York's Theatre, will feature West End musical theatre artists performing songs from roles they have always wante…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:36AM[SHARE]Ann Hampton Callaway will bring her show Diva Power!, which celebrates the great ladies of song from Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland, to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Edi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:32AM[SHARE]What goes around, comes around, they always say, and it’s absolutely true in the theatre. Just tonight Marti Webb’s life comes full circle, as she returns to the West End for a s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:51AM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2014
An "emerging artists" season to showcase the work of emerging British-based writers and performers presenting original work is to be staged at London's Crazy Coqs on three nigh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:32PM[SHARE]Rare revivals of plays by Pinero, Rattigan and Bernard are to be staged by the London-based theatre company Primavera.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]The shortlist for the annual Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography this year comprises director Michael Blakemore for "Stage Blood," actor Michael Simkins for "The Rules…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PM[SHARE]Clare Higgins and Tim Pigott-Smith are to star in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Alison Steadman will appear in Therese Raquin, and Felicity Kendal is to play Judith Bliss in a new pro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21PM[SHARE]Union Theatre, London: There's definitely a pot of gold at the end of <a href="http://www.uniontheatre.biz/#/finians-rainbow/4582173026">Finian's Rainbow</a>,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:28AM[SHARE]As if the theatre diary wasn’t routinely packed enough " and performers, at least those in work, already stretched enough " hardly a Sunday goes by without finding me (and them) at som…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:07AM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2014
Who doesn’t indulge in a bit of hero worship from time to time? For my own part, I have, in my time, seriously genuflected at the altar of the talents of Stephen Sondheim, Liza Minnell…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:48AM[SHARE]Stephen Daldry is to direct a cast that comprises Carey Mulligan, Bill Nighy and Matthew Beard in a new West End production of David Hare's 1995 play Skylight. It will begin performances…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM[SHARE]John Lloyd Young will reprise his Tony-winning performance as Frankie Valli in the West End's Jersey Boys, when the show moves from its current home at the Prince Edward Theatre to begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AM[SHARE]Tom Bateman and Lucy Briggs-Owen will star as star-crossed lovers Will Shakespeare and Viola De Lesseps in the previously announced production of Shakespeare in Love, Lee Hall's new West…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:45AM[SHARE]The Maria, Young Vic, London: Can a play transcend both the circumstances of its original creation and the memory of its original creators? Sizwe Banzi is Dead was devised by John Kani, Wins…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2014
Just the other day the programme for this year’s International Festival of Theatre was announced, promising 30 productions staged across 15 venues, including a car park opposite the Na…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2014
The world premiere of the new musical Thérèse Raquin, based on Émile Zola’s novel of the same name, will feature Julie Atherton in the title role, amongst a cast t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AM[SHARE]Comedian David Baddiel will bring his latest show, Fame: Not the Musical, to London's Menier Chocolate Factory for an extended run, beginning performances April 29, prior to an offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:38AM[SHARE]London's Almeida Theatre will offer the world premiere of Mike Bartlett's King Charles III, described as a "future history play" about the U.K.'s next monarch, and the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:26AM[SHARE]Simon Callow will reprise his solo show Being Shakespeare, which has already had two West End runs at the Trafalgar Studios in June 2011 and March 2012, for a further 22 performances, this t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:08AM[SHARE]Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London: This is a remarkable revival of the First World War satire premiered here by Joan Littlewood 51 years ago. It marks the centenary of the start of the w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Lily Cole will star in the world premiere of The Last Days of Troy, a new play by poet and author Simon Armitage that is described in press materials as a visceral reworking of Homer's T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AM[SHARE]A new production of the Tony-winning Broadway musical Avenue Q is to be presented at London's Greenwich Theatre, beginning performances April 23 prior to an official opening April 28, fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM[SHARE]Cool Rider, previously presented as a one-night-only concert at London's Lyric Theatre in January, is to return to the West End for a week-long run, beginning performances April 15 prior…
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