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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:06AM[SHARE]The Mayflower, Southampton: There's a real fiddler on the roof in the new touring production of Fiddler on the Roof - and also a cellist and clarinet player on the floor below. The enti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AM[SHARE]Candide, the previously announced Christmas musical at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, which will begin performances Nov. 22 prior to an official opening Dec. 2 for a run through Feb.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2013
The Royal Shakespeare Company's artistic director Gregory Doran and executive director Catherine Mallyon have announced the program for their first full season at the helm of the company…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AM[SHARE]Lyric Hammersmith, London: "Shhh, keep the secret," advises the programme sheet you are given on the way out of the performance of the Lyric Hammersmith's second show in its S…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AM[SHARE]Tricyle Theatre, London: A Boy and His Soul is another in a litany of coming of age and coming out theatrical autobiographies that so many actors feel is somehow necessary to share. Colman D…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2013
Producer Cameron Mackintosh announced Sept. 9 that the forthcoming West End return of Miss Saigon set a new record for the largest single-day ticket sales in West End and Broadway history. S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PM[SHARE]Stella Feehily's new play This May Hurt A Bit is to transfer to London's St James Theatre after a U.K tour under the auspices of Out of Joint Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AM[SHARE]Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford: Touring theatre companies often reach the parts of the country that others don't - and sometimes they also reach the plays that others miss.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:10AM[SHARE]Union Theatre, London : Yet again the Union, the Stage 100 Award's fringe theatre of the year, comes up trumps with another marvellous rediscovery. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2013
Sarah Ruhl's Tony-nominated play In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play is to receive its London premiere: Laurence Boswell's production, first seen at Bath's Ustinov Studio, will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AM[SHARE]Brian May, best known as the guitarist for rock group Queen, is joining the West End's "Summer of Spamalot Charity Gods" line-up, in which a rotating round of celebrities will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical Stephen Ward that begins performances Dec. 3 prior to an official opening Dec. 19 at the West End&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 5, 2013
Martin Shaw, Robert Vaughn, Jeff Fahey and Nick Moran are to star in a new production of Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men, best known for the 1957 film version that starred Henry Fonda, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:39PM[SHARE]The U.K.'s National Theatre has announced plans through January 2014, including its own 50th anniversary celebrations that will feature a live gala performance Nov. 2 that will be broadc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:09AM[SHARE]Potted Panto will return to the West End for its third season, beginning performances Dec. 8 prior to an official opening Dec 11 at the Vaudeville Theatre for a run of performances through J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Full casting has been announced for the U.K. stage premiere of Happy Days - the Musical, which will begin performances Jan. 11, 2014, at Bromley's Churchill Theatre near London, pri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 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 12:00PM[SHARE]Belgrade Theatre, Coventry: It's unquestionably bold for a cash-strapped regional theatre to be offering the world premiere of an original, daring British musical, albeit one partially …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:26AM[SHARE]Louise Dearman, who is currently appearing as Elphaba in Wicked through Nov. 16, is to perform two Christmas concerts entitled The Perfect Year Dec. 16-17 at London's St. James Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of Simon Paisley Day's Raving, which begins performances Oct. 17 prior to an official opening Oct. 24 for a run through Nov. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:45AM[SHARE]Monday, September 2, 2013
The October line-up at London's Crazy Coqs will include appearances by Steven Brinberg, Billy Stritch, KT Sullivan and Karen Kohler from the U.S., plus Britain's Tony-winning actress…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]The National Theatre's production of One Man, Two Guvnors has announced the final six months of its run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. It will shutter there March 1, 2014, prior to a n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AM[SHARE]London's Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park has announced a return season for its 2013 hit production of To Kill A Mockingbird, adapted by Christopher Sergel from the novel by Harper …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AM[SHARE]London's Menier Chocolate Factory are to revive Bernstein's Candide as this year's Christmas musical, beginning performances Nov. 23 prior to an official opening Dec. 2 for a run…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 31, 2013
The West End runs end Aug. 31 for four high-profile productions: A Chorus Line, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Sweet Bird of Youth and Relatively Speaking.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Among the stars gracing London stages in the fall will be Vanessa Redgrave, James Earl Jones, Sheridan Smith, David Walliams, Jude Law, David Tennant and Tom Hiddleston (all of them headlini…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 30, 2013
Full casting has been announced for the new U.K. and Ireland tour of West Side Story, beginning performances at Liverpool Empire Sept. 24 then continuing to Sunderland, Oxford, Dublin, Stoke…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AM[SHARE]I Can't Sing! - The X Factor Musical will star Nigel Harman and Cynthia Erivo when it begins performances at the West End's London Palladium Feb. 27, 2014, prior to an official openi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:35AM[SHARE]Shakespeare's Globe, London: It was only last November that the Church of England's general synod voted against allowing women priests to become bishops, but last month they voted again…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 29, 2013
West End Bares, the London version of Broadway Bares, returns Sept. 1 with All the Fun of the Bare 2013 at the Café de Paris, for two performances at 9:30 PM London time and midnight.
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