Monday, October 14, 2013
On Oct. 15 Britain's National Theatre will announce the successor to Nicholas Hytner, who earlier this year announced that he would be stepping down as director of the theatre he has run…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PM[SHARE]Friday, October 11, 2013
West End and Broadway actress Jenna Russell and international Wicked star Willemijn Verkaik are among the performers who will join Broadway composer Andrew Lippa (Big Fish) at his Londo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for a new production of Coriolanus that will begin performances at London's Donmar Warehouse Dec. 6 prior to an official opening Dec. 17, for a run throug…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:08AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the U.K. premiere of Urinetown The Musical, which will begin performances Feb. 22, 2014, at the St. James Theatre, prior to an official opening March 11 for a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:57AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the London premiere of Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room or the vibrator play, which will begin performances at the St James Theatre Nov. 13 prior to an o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2013
Joan Collins will return to London's Leicester Square Theatre with her one-woman show, Joan Collins - One Night with Joan, beginning performances Feb. 2, 2014, and running through F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PM[SHARE]Simon Callow will receive The Stage Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre at the 2013 U.K. Theatre Awards, being presented in a ceremony Oct. 20 at London's Guildhall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PM[SHARE]London's Old Vic is to submit a planning application for a major restoration and redevelopment project to Lambeth Council, the local government body which has authority over the area tha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:33PM[SHARE]Lyttelton Theatre, National, London: There's plenty to admire and some things to enjoy in Marianne Elliott's imaginatively staged production of Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2013
A new theatrical producing partnership called Glass Half Full Productions has been formed by producers Adam Blanshay and Gareth Lake, in association with Just for Laughs Theatricals. Blansha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:39AM[SHARE]Jackie Clune and James Dreyfus have joined the previously announced cast for Candide, which begins performances at Menier Chocolate Factory Nov. 23 prior to an official opening Dec. 2, for a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:03AM[SHARE]Donmar Warehouse, London: Arnold Wesker's alternately piercingly and tenderly beautiful play Roots has put down firm roots in the history of British theatre. It is the middle part of a …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AM[SHARE]Palace Theatre, London: The West End is saturated with jukebox musicals featuring the back catalogues of the likes of Abba, Queen and Michael Jackson. Then, there are also several film to st…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AM[SHARE]The world premiere of The Light Princess, a new musical with music and lyrics by Tori Amos and book and lyrics by Samuel Adamson, officially opens at the National's Lyttelton Theatre Oct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 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 in March 2014.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 5, 2013
Mark Shenton catches up with Leigh Zimmerman and her husband Domenick Allen as they are head out of their respective stage and rock comfort zones for a show for next week's London Festival o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 4, 2013
Iain Glen (who starred opposite Nicole Kidman in David Hare's The Blue Room on Broadway in 1998 in a production that transferred from London's Donmar Warehouse) and Richard McCabe ar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2013
A Life in Song: Lyrics by Don Black, a one-night celebration of the Oscar-winning film and theatre lyricist, is presented at London's Royal Festival Hall Oct. 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Tony Robinson, best known for playing Baldrick in TV's "Bladdadder" and presenting the Channel 4 archaeology series "Time Team," will return to the theatrical stage f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:39AM[SHARE]Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the Tony-nominated composing team behind A Christmas Story and Off-Broadway's Dogfight, are to make their U.K. debuts in a concert at London's Macham Room…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Michael Attenborough, who was previously artistic director of London's Hampstead Theatre from 1984-1989, is to return to the venue for the first time after stepping down from running the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:02AM[SHARE]Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, a 1958 play that was revived at the National Theatre in 2012, is to be restaged for a U.K. national tour that will begin performances at Ipswich'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:41AM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2013
The world-premiere production of From Here to Eternity, Tim Rice and Stuart Brayson's new stage musical of James Jones's 1951 debut novel that's best known for the 1953 Oscar-win…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 28, 2013
As she starts previews for The Light Princess, a show she has been involved in developing for the past four years, Rosalie Craig talks to Mark Shenton
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:40AM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2013
Due to strong audience demand in New York City, an additional screening of the critically acclaimed West End revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, directe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PM[SHARE]Shrek the Musical is to launch a national tour of the U.K. and Ireland, kicking off at the Grand Theatre in Leeds July 23, 2014. It will be directed by Nigel Harman, who starred as Lord Farq…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, London: Something rather wonderful has happened to Nicky Silver's ferocious 2011 black comedy on its journey from New York to London. On Broadway, this portrai…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AM[SHARE]London's Young Vic has announced that Gillian Anderson is to play Blanche DuBois in a new production of A Streetcar Named Desire, and Juliet Stevenson is to play Winnie in Samule Beckett…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2013
Moscow's Moccbeta State Academic Theatre will bring Andrei Konchalovsky's productions of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters to the West End, beginning performances April 23,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AM[SHARE]Nominations have been announced for the 2013 U.K. Theatre Awards, Britain's only nationwide awards that honor "creative excellence and the outstanding achievement seen on and off st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:47AM[SHARE]Duchess Theatre, London: Brecht's angry, urgent political cartoon of a play was written in 1941 but not staged until 1958, two years after his death. While it boldly recasts the rise of…
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