Wednesday, January 29, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AM[SHARE]The West End has had another record year, with overall attendance up by 4 percent and revenues up by 11 percent on last year's figures, representing almost 600,000 more admissions on the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:40AM[SHARE]The Crazy Coqs, London: Liz Callaway, a Broadway belter who is blessed with one of the purest, most radiant voices in the theatrical firmament, is now making her long overdue return to Londo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AM[SHARE]The Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, over which I presided yesterday at the Prince of Wales Theatre, are now in their 25th year, and intriguingly, as a colleague wrote to me earlier tod…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Moira Buffini's Handbagged, a play that charts the relationship between the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the ruling monarch Queen Elizabeth II that premiered at Lond…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AM[SHARE]Kristin Davis, best known for playing Charlotte in TV's "Sex and the City," will make her West End debut in the world stage premiere of Fatal Attraction, beginning performances…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2014
London's Olivier Awards with MasterCard, to be held April 13 at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden for the third year running, will be broadcast by ITV in a ceremony highlights progr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:06PM[SHARE]London's Bush Theatre will offer the U.K. premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury's We Are Proud to Present…, which premiered at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theatre and was subseq…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AM[SHARE]Martyn Ellis will join the London company of Wicked, currently running at the West End's Apollo Victoria, beginning performances Feb. 17. He will take over as The Wizard from Sam Kelly, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AM[SHARE]Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, currently running at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, has announced that it has set the West End record for the highest weekly gross sales, with takings of &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:27AM[SHARE]The week ahead brings us right into the thick of the theatre awards season, though of course the cycle lasts a lot longer than a week. We’ve already had the heavily disputed Evening St…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2014
Just the other day I was writing here about first night mishaps, and how, “if something can go wrong on a first night, it will " the night where the stakes are highest for a...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:28AM[SHARE]U.S. writing duo Kait Kerrigan (words) and Brian Lowdermilk (music), who made their Off-Broadway debut in 2006 with their adaptation of Henry and Mudge, will make their U.K. debut in a serie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AM[SHARE]Sinéad Cusack and Clare Higgins, respectively, two-time and one-time Tony nominees for appearances on Broadway, will star in the U.K. premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Ci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:52AM[SHARE]Kathleen Turner will return to the West End to star opposite Tony-winning actor Ian McDiarmid in the U.K. premiere of Stephen Sachs' Bakersfield Mist, beginning performances May 10 at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2014
The U.K's National Theatre will revive Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business — premiered by the theatre in 1987 — in a new production starring Nigel Lindsay, and Sean …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AM[SHARE]Critics live with the fact that we are inevitably conscripted into the publicity machine, as our reviews are pored over and quotes extracted from them for front-of-house displays and ad copy…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 22, 2014
The Park Theatre in Finsbury Park in North London has announced a new season that will include a new production of Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim's 1965 Broadway musical Do I Hear …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:09AM[SHARE]The West End production of Once, currently running at the West End's Phoenix Theatre, has nextended bookings through July 4, 2015, releasing over 400,000 new tickets.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:46AM[SHARE]London's Menier Chocolate Factory will revive Ray Cooney's 1984 comedy Two Into One, beginning performances March 8 prior to an official opening March 19, for a run through April 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2014
The world premiere production of Tim Rice, Stuart Brayson and Bill Oakes's musical From Here to Eternity, based on James Jones's 1951 debut novel that's best known for the 1953 O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:01PM[SHARE]Frank Wildhorn is a curious Broadway anomaly as a composer: he’s scored no less than six Broadway musicals since his solo composing debut there in 1997, and contributed additional song…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:49AM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2014
Four people were reportedly injured following an incident mid-performance of Fuerza Bruta at London's Roundhouse on Jan. 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AM[SHARE]Actor and director Richard Wilson, best known on TV for his role as Victor Meldrew in "One Foot in the Grave," is to star in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape at Sheffield…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AM[SHARE]The James Plays, a trilogy of plays by Rona Munro about three generations of Stewart Kings (James I, James II and James III) who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous fifteenth century, will be p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber's Stephen Ward, which opened at the West End's Aldwych Theatre Dec. 19 (following previews that began Dec. 3), has released a further 120,000 tickets for sale, ex…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:57AM[SHARE]It’s almost an immutable law of theatrical physics that if something can go wrong on a first night, it will — the night where the stakes are highest for a production on view to c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2014
TV presenter and physicist Professor Brian Cox is to play God on screen in Monty Python's Spamalot during performances Jan. 20-26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM[SHARE]The full cast has been announced for the U.K. premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, beginning performances Feb. 27 at London's Hampstead Theatre prior to an official openin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AM[SHARE]Natascha McElhone is to star in the West End world premiere of Fatal Atraction, a stage version of the 1987 film of the same name, which begins performances March 8 prior to an official open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:06AM[SHARE]Tonight a new musical begins previews on Broadway: Jason Robert Brown’s The Bridges of Madison County. It’s the second Broadway musical opening of the year already, though not of…
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