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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 24, 2013
Friday, November 22, 2013
Casting has been announced for the West End return of Miss Siagon, which is scheduled to begin performances May 3, 2014, at the Prince Edward Theatre. American actress Eva Noblezada will sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PM[SHARE]Tonight's the Night, the musical scripted by Ben Elton that features the back catalogue of Rod Stewart and premiered in the West End in 2003, is to be revived for a new U.K. national tou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AM[SHARE]Lenny Henry and David Suchet will be the first two guests in a new monthly series of interviews being held with leading West End actors at the Lyric Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AM[SHARE]Louise Dearman will star in the previously announced world premiere of Water Babies, a new musical inspired by Charles Kingsley's novel, that will begin performances April 24, 2014,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AM[SHARE]The Ustinov Studio at the Theatre Royal, Bath in the U.K. is to stage its 3rd American Season, with U.K. premieres for Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, Keith Huff's A Steady Rain and Lynn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 21, 2013
As previously announced, the surviving members of the Monty Python comedy group — John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin – are reuniting. At a press…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AM[SHARE]The Orange Tree Theatre, located in Richmond in Southwest London, has appointed Paul Miller as its new artistic director, succeeding the theatre's founder, Sam Walters, beginning in July…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 20, 2013
The original London cast album for Stephen Ward, the new political musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Hampton and lyricist Don Black, will be released digitally in mid-December from…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AM[SHARE]Gielgud Theatre, London: Like the stage version of John Buchan's The 39 Steps, now in its seventh year in the West End, this is an adaptation of a novel made doubly famous by an Alfred …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2013
The Leake Street Tunnels, located below Waterloo Station in London and previously home to the Old Vic Tunnels, will reopen to house Vault 2014, a wide-ranging program of performance, live mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AM[SHARE]Liverpool's entirely rebuilt Everyman Theatre is to reopen in March 2014, with a slate of productions that will include artistic director Gemma Bodinetz directing Twelfth Night and world…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]The surviving members of the Monty Python comedy group – John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin – are to reunite for a U.K. stage show that will be …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 17, 2013
The winners for this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards, now in their 59th year, include Helen Mirren, Adrian Lester, Rory Kinnear and the Menier Chocolate Factory production of Step…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PM[SHARE]Friday, November 15, 2013
This year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards are being presented Nov. 17 at London's Savoy Theatre, but already one result is known: The reader-voted "London's Best Night Out…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PM[SHARE]Richard Eyre's production of Ibsen's Ghosts, currently running at London's Almeida Theatre through Nov. 23 only, is to transfer to the West End's Trafalgar Studios, beginning…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AM[SHARE]London's Union Theatre will revive Alan Ayckbourn's Season's Greetings, which premiered in Scarborough in 1980 and was subsequently seen in the West End in 1982. It will begin pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]London's Hampstead Theatre is to offer U.K. premieres of two American plays by Gina Gionfriddo and David Lindsay-Abaire, with casts that respectively feature Emilia Fox and Imelda Staunt…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 14, 2013
Headlong's new artistic director Jeremy Herrin has announced that the touring company will stage new work by Anya Reiss, Duncan Macmillan and Jack Thorne, as well as the U.K. debut of U.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM[SHARE]The recent Cameron Mackintosh/Chichester Festival Theatre production of Cy Coleman, Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble's 1980 Broadway musical Barnum, presented in a revised version by Mac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 13, 2013
London's Royal Court is to stage a series of world and British premieres between January and July 2014, including plays by John Donnelly, Simon Stephens, Tim Crouch, Vivienne Franzmann a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]Shakespeare in Love, a stage version of the 1998 Oscar-winning film of the same name that won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Screenplay for, respectively, Marc Norman and T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]Julie Atherton will appear at London's St. James Theatre Studio Dec. 7 and 8 in All I Want For Christmas... Is An Audience.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:52AM[SHARE]Duke of York's Theatre, London: Perfect Nonsense marks the first time, apparently, that an adaptation of one of PG Wodehouse's Jeeves novel has appeared on a West End stage, even though…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Jamie Lloyd's production of Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride, currently running at the Trafalgar Studios through Nov. 23, is to embark on a three-week U.K. tour to visit Brighton, Man…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:49AM[SHARE]"The Sound of Musicals," a new three-part television series that goes behind-the-scenes and backstage at a series of West End musicals, is to begin transmission on the U.K.'s C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:33AM[SHARE]Garrick Theatre, London: Amid the West End's theatrical billboards, which these days so often resemble that of a cinema multiplex screening only classic film titles, Twelve Angry Men ha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:59AM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2013
Simon Russell Beale is to play the title role of King Lear at the National's Olivier Theatre, beginning performances Jan. 14, 2014, prior to an official opening Jan. 23, for a run that i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AM[SHARE]In addition to Simon Russell Beale starring in King Lear, the National will also present a new production of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, plus the new play Blurred Lines crea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]The previously announced new production of The Wind in the Willows, which reunites the Mary Poppins team of Julian Fellowes, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, is moving forward with its lead …
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