Tuesday, February 11, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AM[SHARE]Trevor Nunn's production of Noel Coward's Relative Values, which premiered at Bath's Theatre Royal last June, is to transfer to the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre, beginnin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:52AM[SHARE]I’ve long known I’m spoilt. One of the privileges of going to the theatre for a living (of sorts) is that we’re routinely provided with great seats " and for free. It is, o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:36AM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2014
Bonnie Langford will return to the cast of Monty Python's Spamalot at the West End's Playhouse to reprise her performance as The Lady of the Lake beginning Feb. 24. She will be newly…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM[SHARE]Arts Theatre, Cambridge: When Howard Brenton's play about the fabled but ill-fated 12th-century romance of philosopher and teacher Peter Abelard and his ardent young student Heloise pre…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:46AM[SHARE]Dave Willetts, who became the first person in the world to have played the roles of both Jean Valjean and The Phantom in, respectively, Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera, when…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:09AM[SHARE]Greg Hersov, who has been an artistic director of Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre since 1987, is to step down at the end of the spring/summer season after 27 years.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:53AM[SHARE]As Oscar Hammerstein II so eloquently put it in ‘Sixteen Going on Seventeen’ from The Sound of Music, “A bell is no bell till you ring it/ A song is no song till you sing...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 2014
Three-time Laurence Olivier Award winner Alex Jennings will take over as Willy Wonka in the West End's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He will replace Douglas Hodge, who originated th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:33AM[SHARE]Today’s news that Alex Jennings is to take over from Douglas Hodge as Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in May is intriguing on several levels. Of course Alex is no stra…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2014
Just yesterday the Evening Standard ran a photograph of a ticket booth clerk " one of those threatened with redeployment or voluntary redundancy if and when the booths are closed and that th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the previously announced U.K. touring production of Betty Blue Eyes that will begin performances at Colchester's Mercury Theatre March 14, prior to an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2014
I’m not ashamed to say that I’m a voracious consumer of journalism about the theatre, just as I am of theatre itself: the passions feed each other. And it is one of the reasons I…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:52AM[SHARE]Eve Best – a two-time Tony nominee for Best Actress in a Play for her appearances in A Moon for the Misbegotten in 2007 and The Homecoming in 2008 – will return to Shakespeare…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AM[SHARE]Martha Plimpton will make her London stage debut in the U.K. premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, joining the previously announced Sinéad Cusack and Clare Higgins in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Who’d have thought it? Last night, I walked past the Aldwych Theatre " home to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Stephen Ward " en route to the Duchess, where a triple bill of short Beckett …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:53AM[SHARE]The U.K.'s Royal Shakespeare Company will stage new productions of Love's Labour's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing, featuring a single company of actors led by Edward Bennett and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:39AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the new U.K. and Ireland touring production of Shrek the Musical, which will begin performances July 23 at the Grand Theatre, Leeds before continuing around th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:08AM[SHARE]Julian Mitchell's 1982 play Another Country, whose original stage and screen versions famously launched the careers of Rupert Everett, Kenneth Branagh, Daniel Day Lewis and Colin Firth, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AM[SHARE]Owen Teale, who won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a play for A Doll's House on Broadway in 1997 and who plays series regular ser Alliser on HBO's "Game of Thrones,&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:43AM[SHARE]London's Hampstead Downstairs Theatre will offer a quartet of plays by the late Simon Gray, three of them previously unperformed that revolve around the same characters, found in the sam…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:23AM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2014
Adam Long, best known as the co-writer and director of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), which ran in the West End for nine years and had two Off-Broadway seasons, will w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM[SHARE]Mark Heap and Robert Webb will take over as Jeeves and Wooster, respectively, in Perfect Nonsense beginning April 7 at the West End's Duke of York's. They will succeed Stephen Mangan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM[SHARE]Next Tuesday (February 11), Broadway’s latest film-to-stage musical arrives at the Winter Garden Theatre with the beginning of previews for the stage version of the 1976 sleeper hit Ro…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2014
Back to the Future, a new stage musical based on the 1985 film of the same name, is set to open in the West End in 2015, the 30th anniversary year of the film's release.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 30, 2014
Regular readers of this column will know what a fervent fan I am of the Union Theatre and its powerhouse productions of musicals. It is one of the most resourceful spaces in London, and I...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:45AM[SHARE]Jule, Jerry & Steve, a one-night charity concert featuring the music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim, is to be staged at the U.K.'s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:25AM[SHARE]Michael Praed, who has starred on TV in the title role of "Robin of Sherwood" and as Prince Michael of Moldovia in "Dynasty," and Josefina Gabrielle, who reprised her rol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Leigh Zimmerman, who won an Olivier Award for playing Sheila in last year's London revival of A Chorus Line, and her husband Dominick Allen will reprise their show A Love Affair from A2Z…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PM[SHARE]Jersey Boys, currently running at the West End's Prince Edward Theatre before moving to the Piccadilly Theatre in March, is to launch its first U.K. tour to run concurrently beginning in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg's 1947 Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow is to be revived at London's fringe Union Theatre beginning performances Feb. 12 prior to an official openin…
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