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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 27, 2013
The track listing has been revealed for the world-premiere cast album of Stephen Ward, the new musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Hampton and lyricist Don Black.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PM[SHARE]Mark Shenton revisits some of the key themes and shows from the past 12 months in the capital and sets out his highs and lows
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Mark Shenton considers whether there are other ways beyond the inclusion of celebrity names of ensuring the pantomime season is an artistic and commercial success
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:03PM[SHARE]Monday, December 23, 2013
Simon Jones, Sandra Dickinson, Jemima Rooper and Patsy Ferran will join five-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury (Sweeney Todd, Mame, A Little Night Music) in the London revival of Noel C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse, London: There's something to be said for a show designed for young family audiences that played (at the performance reviewed) to one comprised entirely of adults bu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PM[SHARE]The Shed, National Theatre: Two urgent social concerns collide with a discomforting, confrontational immediacy in Protest Song. It revolves around the crisis of long-term homelessness and th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:53AM[SHARE]The live film of the West End revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Olivier Award winner Maria Friedman, is again screened in U.S. cinemas beg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 20, 2013
We don’t (yet) know the detailed circumstances of how last night’s astonishing news of the collapse of the roof at the West End’s Apollo Theatre, and there is probably no n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AM[SHARE]The work of songwriter Richard Sherman and his late brother Robert B. Sherman is to be celebrated in two performances Jan. 6 and 13, 2014, at London's St. James Studio Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AM[SHARE]The Society of London Theatre have announced that shows are to go on in the West End, despite the incident at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue Dec. 19 that left 76 people injured, incl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:31AM[SHARE]Aldwych Theatre, London: You've got to hand it to Andrew Lloyd Webber: in his 15th West End musical, he is still playing with form and exploring the narrative and dramatic possibilities…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 19, 2013
Theatre is not a democratic medium: what you see depends partly on how much you pay for the privilege of being there, but also on how early you book and what means of doing so...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AM[SHARE]Paul Kerryson will step down from the artistic directorship of the Leicester Theatre Trust after 22 years at the helm, first of the Leicester Haymarket, then of the Curve that he was instrum…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:02AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical Stephen Ward officially opens at the West End's Aldwych Theatre Dec. 19 following previews that began Dec. 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2013
It’s just a week to go till Christmas, of course, and by now theatre critics are usually being Christmased out by an endless diet of pantos and other seasonal fare. But not this year. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2013
The West End run of Perfect Nonsense, a new play based on and adapted from the established literary works of P.G. Wodehouse that is co-authored by Robert and David Goodale, has extended book…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AM[SHARE]Ivor Novello's last musical, Valley of Song, left unfinished at the time of his death and completed by his longtime collaborator Christopher Hassall, is to receive its professional world…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AM[SHARE]A one-night charity gala concert will be held March 2, 2014, at the West End's Queen's Theatre to benefit the Philippines Typhoon Appeal, with all proceeds going directly to the Disa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]Charles Strouse and Lee Adams' short-lived 1966 Broadway musical It's a Bird.. It's a Plane…. It's Superman is to receive its U.K. premiere at London's Ye Olde Ros…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AM[SHARE]London's Union Theatre will revive the John Kander and Fred Ebb revue The World Goes 'Round, with performances beginning Jan. 15, 2014, prior to an official opening Jan. 17, for a ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:40AM[SHARE]Three of the five independent, long-standing judges of the Evening Standard Theatre Awards have resigned from the panel that decides them, after Helen Mirren was declared Best Actress at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:24AM[SHARE]The day after this year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards were presented at the Savoy Theatre, I wondered aloud on this blog of the results that had been announced: I didn’t know…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AM[SHARE]Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Sheffield Theatres, recognised as The Stage's regional theatre of the year last January, proves yet again why it so deserved that honour with this glorious …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:59AM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2013
Lisa Dwan is to transfer to the West End's Duchess Theatre in her trilogy of Samuel Beckett's Not I, Footfalls and Rockaby, for a two-week run from Feb. 3-15, 2014. Prior to the West…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]Richard Eyre's production of the 1954 Broadway musical The Pajama Game, first seen at Chichester's Minerva Theatre earlier this summer, is to transfer to the West End's Shaftesbu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:56AM[SHARE]Saskia Reeves and Danny Webb will star in the premiere of Abi Morgan's The Mistress Contract, beginning performances Jan. 30, 2014, at London's Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:46AM[SHARE]London's Hampstead Theatre will present the world premiere of Sunny Afternoon, which tells the early life story of pop singer and composer Ray Davies, co-founder and lead singer and song…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:36AM[SHARE]People in the theatre industry are unfailing generous when it comes to donating their time and talents for the numerous benefits that take place every week throughout the year. There are, of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AM[SHARE]Friday, December 13, 2013
Almeida Theatre, London: Boldly programmed under the auspices of the now departed artistic director Michael Attenborough, American Psycho has turned out to be the inaugural production of his…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2013
20th Century Boy, a new musical inspired by the life of the late U.K. glam rock star Marc Bolan, is to be staged for a U.K. tour that will begin performances at the Eden Court Theatre in Ive…
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