Thursday, September 26, 2013
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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Minerva Theatre, Chichester: This penetrating portrait, written in 1981, of a fictionalised version of the Cambridge Spies of the 1940s, a group of senior British intelligence officers who s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AM[SHARE]New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich: "Welcome to the house of fun," goes one of British ska/pop band Madness's best known hits. And Our House, the 2002 West End musical that was built…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AM[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, begins performances Sept. 25, prior to an official opening O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Lord of the Flies, Matthew Bourne's stage adaptation of William Golding's novel of the same name that Bourne has adapted and directed with Scott Ambler, will launch a U.K. national t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AM[SHARE]London's Hampstead Theatre will stage the world premiere of Howard Brenton's Drawing the Line, beginning performances Dec. 3 prior to an offiical opening Dec. 9, for a run through Ja…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:11AM[SHARE]The London premiere of Paul Boyd's musical Molly Wobbly's Tit Factory, which was due to begin performances Sept. 20 prior to an official opening Sept. 22 at Hackney Empire, was cance…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:19AM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2013
Tom Edden, who was Tony-nominated for Best Performance by an Actor for a Featured Role in a Play for the Broadway transfer of One Man, Two Guvnors in 2012, will play Fagin in the new …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:33PM[SHARE]A trailer has been released for the critically acclaimed West End revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Olivier Award winner Maria Friedman, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PM[SHARE]Theatre in the Park, Chichester Festival Theatre: After the damp squib that was Barnum here's a water-bound play at the same address that's wet for all the right reasons. It's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:29AM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2013
Fame – the Musical is to launch a new U.K. tour in a brand-new production, beginning performances at London's Wimbledon Theatre Feb. 20, 2014.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for Michael Grandage's new production of Henry V that begins performances at the West End's Noel Coward Theatre Nov. 23, prior to an official opening …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AM[SHARE]Sally Dexter, who starred at the National Theatre in the original production of Patrick Marber's Closer and played Nancy in Sam Mendes' original cast of Oliver! at the London Palladi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]Laurence Fox and Jack Huston will star in Strangers on a Train, Craig Warner's new stage adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel of the same name. Performances will begin at the Wes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AM[SHARE]Fatal Attraction, a new stage version of the 1987 film, is to receive its world premiere at London's Theatre Royal Haymarket, beginning previews March 8, 2014, prior to an official openi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2013
Shakespeare's Globe, London: You can't deny the impulse of Shakespeare's Globe to want to end its summer season by letting its collective hair down. But in trying to herald its own…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Water Babies, a new musical inspired by Charles Kingsley's novel, is to receive its world premiere at the U.K.'s Curve Leicester. It will begin performances April 24, 2014, prior to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16AM[SHARE]Further to the previous story posted Sept. 17 about the firing of Libby Purves as chief theatre critic of The Times in London, the newspaper has now announced that she will be succeeded by D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Libby Purves, who has been chief theatre critic of the Times in London since succeeding Benedict Nightingale in the post in 2010, has been let go from the job.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM[SHARE]A new competition is being launched for British writers and composers to create a brand-new musical. Presented by new writing organization Perfect Pitch in association with Northampton's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AM[SHARE]The press night performance for Trevor Nunn's production of Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage, originally scheduled to have taken place Sept. 16, was canceled owing to the illn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AM[SHARE]David Storey's play Home, which premiered at the Royal Court in 1970 in a production that starred John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson and subsequently transferred to Broadway's Morosco…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:02AM[SHARE]Wyndham's Theatre, London: The days of new plays opening direct into the West End are mostly a thing of the past. And when one like Barking in Essex turns up, you realise why: it feels packa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2013
"Collaborations," a new album celebrating the work of British writer/composer Elliot Davis, will be released Sept. 23, featuring material co-written with James Bourne, Stephen Clar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PM[SHARE]Urinetown, which transferred to Broadway in 2001 after debuting at the New York International Fringe Festival and a subsequent staging at Off-Broadway's American Theatre for Actors, is t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse, London: Just as Aaron Sorkin began his career in the theatre before being largely lost to television (most notably as creator of The West Wing), a similar trajectory has…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2013
The critically acclaimed West End revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Olivier Award winner Maria Friedman, will be screened in cinemas acros…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PM[SHARE]Broadway composer Andrew Lippa, whose latest show Big Fish is currently in preview on Broadway ahead of an Oct. 6 opening at the Neil Simon Theatre, is to make his London concert debut Nov. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16AM[SHARE]If It Only Even Runs a Minute, a London version of the New York concert series, is to be staged at London's Hippodrome Casino Oct. 20 for two performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2013
Lyric Hammersmith, London: The Lyric's Secret Theatre season is avowedly seeking to make changes to the way theatre is made, received and spoken about, but only behind closed doors. I&#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2013
British stage and screen actress Maxine Peake will join Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre as an associate artist in autumn 2014; she will also star in the title role of a radical re-im…
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