Monday, November 11, 2013
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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AM[SHARE]Friday, November 8, 2013
The Chichester Festival Theatre production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives, which recently played at the West End's Gielgud Theatre, where it was filmed for Digital Theatre, is…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AM[SHARE]A new musical called The A-Z of Mrs P, telling the true story of the woman who created the London A-Z map, will premiere at London's Southwark Playhouse, beginning performances Feb. 20, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AM[SHARE]JW3, a new Jewish arts and cultural centre located on London's Finchley Road in NW3, is to present Listen, We're Family, its first theatre commission for which actor Kery Shale Shale…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]The shortlist of nominees for this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards, now in their 59th year, have been announced, prior to the awards ceremony being held at London's Savoy Hote…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]The Stephen Sondheim revue Putting it Together, previously seen Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1993 and subsequently on Broadway in 1999, is to finally receive its London premiere…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:53AM[SHARE]Betty Blue Eyes, the musical based on the Alan Bennett film "A Private Function" that was premiered at the West End's Novello Theatre in 2011 where it was produced by Cameron M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 7, 2013
Lynn Ahrens and Alan Menken's A Christmas Carol is to receive its U.K. premiere at the fringe Tabard Theatre in West London's Chiswick, beginning performances Dec. 4 prior to an offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 6, 2013
The U.K. touring company Frantic Assembly will stage the world premiere of Bryony Lavery's The Believers, co-produced with Theatre Royal Plymouth, where it will begin performances Feb. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM[SHARE]The 10th anniversary year of the 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala at London's Old Vic, taking place Nov. 24, will be hosted by comedian Rob Brydon, who previously hosted it in 2011 and also …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM[SHARE]David Gilmore, artistic director of the St. James Theatre in London's Victoria, and Guy Kitchenn, his executive director, are both to step down from their posts at the expiration of thei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AM[SHARE]I wasn't at the National Theatre last Saturday when it celebrated its 50th anniversary. As it happens, I caught it instead on BBC iPlayer on my laptop " proof of how theatrical performance n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Broadway's Eden Espinosa, best known for playing Elphaba in Wicked, will star in Christmas in New York, a revue of seasonal songs that will play Manchester's Palace Theatre Dec.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AM[SHARE]The West End edition of Monty Python's Spamalot, currently running at the Playhouse Theatre, has seen Carly Stenson take over as the Lady of the Lake (she began performances Nov. 4); Ric…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AM[SHARE]The Shed, the National Theatre's temporary replacement for its studio Cottesloe Theatre during the theatre's current extensive rebuilding program, has won this year's Empty Space…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 2, 2013
The U.K.'s National Theatre's current 50th anniversary celebrations culminate Nov. 2 with a gala performance that will be broadcast live on BBC2 to cinemas internationally as part of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The West End version of Rock of Ages plays its final London perofrmances at the West End's Garrick Theatre Nov. 2; it began performances Jan. 18 after a 16-month run before that at the S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 1, 2013
Jerry Mitchell will inaugurate his previously announced new production company, Jerry Mitchell Productions, by staging the U.K. premiere of the 2005 Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:54AM[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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2013
Lorna Luft, who was last seen in cabaret at London's Crazy Coqs in January, is to return to the venue with Back in Business, beginning performances Dec. 3 for a run through Dec. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 30, 2013
The new season at the U.K.'s Rose Theatre in Kingston will include new productions of Michael Frayn's Donkey's Years and an adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson's novel Hetty Feat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AM[SHARE]Sheffield Theatres, fresh from winning four U.K. Theatre Awards, as reported on Playbill.com here, for its work over the last year, has announced details for its 2014 season, which…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:59AM[SHARE]Gemma Arterton will return to London's Shakespeare's Globe in January to star in the title role of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, which inaugurates the theatre's new in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:32AM[SHARE]Young Vic, London: Broadway has already sent The Book of Mormon and Once to London this year. Now, though, arguably the boldest and most radically realised (as well as energised) of Broadway…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2013
London's Regent's Park Open Air Theatre has announced the rest of its 2014 program, to join the previously announced return of its 2013 production of To Kill a Mockingbird. There wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PM[SHARE]Fiona Shaw will reprise her performance in Colm Tóibín's The Testament of Mary, which she premiered on Broadway earlier this year, at London's Barbican Theatre in May 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]Plans for 2014 at London's Barbican include Toni Servillo, Italian star of the films "The Great Beauty," "Il Divo" and "Gomorrah," in Eduardo de Filippo'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AM[SHARE]The U.K. premiere of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys officially opens Oct. 29 at London's Young Vic, following previews that began Oct. 18, for a run that has now been…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 28, 2013
Mercury Theatre, Colchester: Although Daniel Buckroyd, in his fourth production at the Mercury since taking over as artistic director in July 2012, is making an admirable commitment to seeki…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AM[SHARE]Friday, October 25, 2013
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced record results for its 2012-13 season that comprised 1,459 performances of 25 productions, and was seen by some 1.5 million people worldwide.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]London's Donmar Warehouse has announced plans for the New Year, featuring new plays by Peter Gill and James Graham, plus a major Brian Friel revival. According to press materials, the se…
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