Friday, January 17, 2014
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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 16, 2014
A new U.K. production of Calamity Jane, a stage adaptation of the 1953 film, is to star Jodie Prenger, and will begin performances July 17 at Newbury's Watermill Theatre for a run throug…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AM[SHARE]Nina Kristofferson is to launch a U.K tour of her self-penned one-woman show Billie Holiday Story that she originally debuted at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe, before a season at London's Ch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2014
The dreadful events at the Apollo Theatre last month, when some 80 theatregoers were injured when part of the ceiling collapsed mid-performance for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nig…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Christopher Marlowe's last play, The Massacre at Paris, will be staged at the Rose Playhouse on Bankside where it originally premiered in January 1593. This production, which b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM[SHARE]David Greig's The Events, which originally premiered at the Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre as part of last year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, is to embark on a U.K tour beginning Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AM[SHARE]Mark Strong is to return to the London stage for the first time since 2002 to star as Eddie Carbone in the previously announced production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, begi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2014
Lauren Samuels will join the previously announced Louise Dearman in the world premiere of Water Babies, a new musical inspired by Charles Kingsley's novel, that will begin perform…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PM[SHARE]In the recent Stage 100 list, Sonia Friedman was placed 5th " right beneath Cameron Mackintosh. She’s snapping right at the heels of someone who is quite possibly the world’s mos…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:11AM[SHARE]Friday, January 10, 2014
Simon Paisley Day is to play Caldwell B. Cladwell in the London premiere of Urinetown The Musical. It begins performances Feb. 23, prior to an official opening March 11, fore a run thro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PM[SHARE]I began this year by promising myself not to get too personal on this blog, so forgive me if I break that pact by mentioning that I’m currently on holiday in Florida in a bid...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 9, 2014
The London production of The Book of Mormon, currently running at the Prince of Wales Theatre, has announced new cast members who will join Feb. 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PM[SHARE]Iain Glen has withdrawn from the production of Turgenev's Fortune's Fool at London's Old Vic that opened Dec. 19, and is to be replaced by William Houston.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[SHARE]David Essex, who originated the role of Che in the original concept recording and London stage premiere of Evita and has been a stage regular, film actor and recording star, is to return to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AM[SHARE]The U.K's Curve in Leicester is to stage a new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music as this year's Christmas musical, beginning perfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 8, 2014
The National Theatre's production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which was running at the West End's Apollo Theatre when part of the theatre's ceiling coll…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Interval Productions, established in 2009, has presented four shows in London in the last two years, three of them entirely original pieces. On Feb. 9, the company will present extracts from…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM[SHARE]I was at the very first public preview of Spider-Man – Turn off the Dark back in November 2010, as I wrote here at the time, and I saw it twice more after that. The...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:33AM[SHARE]Tennessee Williams' The Fat Man’s Wife, written in 1938 but unproduced until 2004, is to receive its U.K. premiere at the Canal Café Theatre in London's Little Veni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AM[SHARE]Howard Brenton's sold-out Drawing the Line, currently running at London's Hampstead Theatre, is to have its final performance Jan. 11 live-streamed around the world for free.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AM[SHARE]London's Old Vic Theatre is to present the U.K. premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, beginning performances March 13 prior to an official opening March 24, for a run th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:51AM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2014
The new season at London's Finborough Theatre is to feature the world premiere of debut playwright Chris Thompson's Carthage; Rachael Stirling in Terence Rattigan's rarely s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AM[SHARE]No Way To Treat Lady, the Off-Broadway musical based on William Goldman's novel of the same name that premiered in 1987 at the Hudson Guild Theatre and was subsequently revived in 1996 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AM[SHARE]Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul/ But it’s bad for the heart. So goes the lyric from Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. Those of us who live for the theatre spend a lot …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:04AM[SHARE]Friday, January 3, 2014
The New Year, of course, is a time to look forward, not back; but before we move too far forwards into 2014, let’s pause for one more minute and look behind us one more time...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 2, 2014
The new slate of productions at the National Theatre's The Shed will include two solo shows performed by Olwen Fouéré and Michaela Coel, as well as a return run for Nadia F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AM[SHARE]The London cabaret room The Pheasantry, located in Chelsea, is to pay tribute to the now defunct Pizza on the Park, which closed after three decades in June 2010, with a new cabaret season t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM[SHARE]I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: there’s invariably a Sondheim lyric to encapsulate every life situation, and as we embark on a New Year, here’s s Sondheim …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Angela Lansbury has received a damehood in the New Year's Honors announced by the Queen Dec. 31. Other theatrical personalities being honored include actress Penelope Keith and choreogra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AM[SHARE]Monday, December 30, 2013
The original London cast album for Stephen Ward, the new political musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Hampton and lyricist Don Black, is released Dec. 30 from Decca Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 29, 2013
Looking ahead to the 2014 spring theatre season in London and the U.K., a new candle-lit theatre is christened, Shakespeare turns 450, Gillian Anderson in Streetcar, plus productions of Fata…
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