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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM[SHARE]Lenny Henry will star in Rudy's Rare Records: Last Shop Standing, a stage version of the popular Radio 4 sitcom, that will run at London's Hackney Empire for a three-week season in S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AM[SHARE]Richmond Theatre: Peter Pan is not exactly ideal pantomime fodder - it's too layered and full of storytelling to be reduced to the broad brushstrokes required in pantoland. But given th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AM[SHARE]Parents aren’t supposed to have favourites amongst their children, but playgoers, inevitably, have favourite plays and performers. Over the last week, we’ve seen the results of s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AM[SHARE]Vaudeville Theatre, London: Just four years ago a bomb was detonated below the foundations of parliamentary democracy that was far more powerful than Guy Fawkes attempted, when many MPs were…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Handspring Puppet Company, winners of a special Tony Award in 2011 for their work on the Broadway transfer of the National Theatre's production of War Horse, are to bring their co-produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:11PM[SHARE]It has been announced that Beverley Knight, who took over from Heather Headley as Rachel Marron in the West End stage musical production of The Bodyguard in September, has extended her run t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AM[SHARE]Jessie Wallace (best known for her television role in "EastEnders") and Gary Kemp (of pop group Spandau Ballet) are to star in a new production of Lionel Bart's musical Fings A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AM[SHARE]Christmas came early last night, with the return of the once-annual Christmas in New York cabaret concerts, this year to the Palace Theatre. This collection of Christmas songs, featuring a N…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:10AM[SHARE]New Wimbledon Theatre, London: The first and most important test for any pantomime is whether it work for children. And if a packed matinee at Wimbledon filled with parties from nearby schoo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2013
Mitchell Tobin, a 13-year-old from Florida, joins the West End company of Billy Elliot the Musical Dec. 9 to reprise the the title role that he previously played in the North American tourin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]Full casting has been confirmed for I Can't Sing!, which begins performances at the London Palladium Feb. 27, 2014, prior to an official opening March 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:47AM[SHARE]As I’ve recently discovered, it’s difficult to keep one’s private life entirely private and events and indiscretions from the distant past can suddenly rear up and influenc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AM[SHARE]Friday, December 6, 2013
Further casting has been announced for the U.K. premiere of the Broadway musical Urinetown, beginning performances Feb. 22, 2014, prior to an official opening March 11 at the St. James Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Sylvester Stallone, whose credits stretch to almost 90 films as star, writer, producer or director, is to present An Evening with Sylvester Stallone at London's Central Hall Westminster …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2013
All good things come to an end (and some not so good things, too). I’ve been predicting the demise of careers in print journalism for some time, and yesterday the latest scalp was clai…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AM[SHARE]The National Theatre will release a two-disc DVD to celebrate its 50th anniversary, comprising the National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage gala performance that was broadcast live on BBC2 Nov. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2013
The 2014 season at Shakespeare's Globe in London will feature four plays by Shakespeare and four new plays. The program will draw together two momentous anniversaries: the 450th annivers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:18AM[SHARE]The internet is “a global megaphone for gossip,” said Lord Justice Leveson as he called for new laws last year to restrain what he called “the wilder excesses” of onl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:10AM[SHARE]Jerry Mitchell is directing an invitation-only showcase exploratory reading of But I'm a Cheerleader: The Musical, a new musical adaptation of the 1999 Lionsgate Film of the same name. T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 3, 2013
The Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd., the U.K.'s largest theatre owning chain with 39 theatres in its portfolio in Britain and a further theatre, the Foxwoods, on Broadway, has announced th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, London: "I am so easily assimilated," sings Jackie Clune's Old Lady in Candide. If only one could say the same of Leonard Bernstein's famously t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:13AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical Stephen Ward begins performances Dec. 3 prior to an official opening Dec. 19 at the West End's Aldwych Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2013
Full casting has been announced for the U.K. premiere of Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn, which begins performances at London's Hampstead Theatre Jan. 16, 2014, prior to an …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:04AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of Peter Gill's Versailles, which will begin performances Feb. 20, 2014, at London's Donmar Warehouse prior to an official open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:40AM[SHARE]Friday, November 29, 2013
Angela Lansbury is to return to her native West End stage for the first time in nearly 40 years to reprise the role of Madame Arcati in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit that she previous…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 27, 2013
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, will return to U.S. cinemas in Decemb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AM[SHARE]Monty Python Live, the event that reunites the surviving members of the Monty Python comedy group — John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin — live fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]Tracy Letts's Superior Donuts, which premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in 2008 before transferring to Broadway in 2009, is to receive its U.K. premiere at London's South…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Actress and singer Natalie Imbruglia, who began her career on the Australian television soap "Neighbours" before becoming a pop singer whose first hit single "Torn" and a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:44AM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2013
Casting and tour dates have been announced for a new production of Fame – the Musical that, as previously revealed, will begin performances Feb. 20, 2014, at London's New Wimbledon…
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