Friday, August 9, 2013
Finborough Theatre, London: One of the first plays ever to deal with the enveloping crisis of AIDS when it first hit gay New York in the early 1980s, As Is originally opened Off-Broadway bef…
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National, Lyttelton, London: Has Richard Eyre, now 70, turned into our most prolific theatre director? Already this year he has been represented by a new play at the Almeida, an old Simon Gr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2013
London's Finborough Theatre in Earl's Court is to offer the world premieres of Elizabeth Kuti's Fishskin Trousers, Anders Lustgarten's Black Jesus and Luke Owen's Unscorc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PM[SHARE]Former British Olympic ice-skating champion Robin Cousins is to direct and choreograph Robin Cousins' Ice - The Skating Stage Experience for a UK tour, beginning performances at Malvern&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Afraid of the Dark, which is being billed as a theatrical terror, is to receive its world premiere at London's Charing Cross Theatre, beginning performances Sept. 2 prior to an official …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16AM[SHARE]The West End version of Rock of Ages is to shutter at the Garrick Theatre Nov. 2, where it began performances Jan. 18 after a 16-month run before that at the Shaftesbury Theatre. A U.K. tour…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the U.K. and Ireland tour of the National Theatre's production of War Horse that begins performances at Plymouth's Theatre Royal Sept. 27, prior t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:06AM[SHARE]Arthur Miller's The Last Yankee, previously seen in London at the Young Vic in 1993, is to receive its first major London revival since then at the fringe Print Room in Notting Hill, beg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London: "I have confidence in sunshine/ I have confidence in rain," sings Maria in The Sound of Music. At the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Par…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AM[SHARE]Friday, August 2, 2013
Les Dennis and Warwick Davis, who starred together in TV's "Life's Too Short," are to be reunited onstage in Monty Pyhon's Spamalot, currently running at the West End&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AM[SHARE]James Gillan (the West End's original Boq in Wicked) and Paul Spicer (seen in the West End in The Witches of Eastwick and Avenue Q) will headline a specially conceived concert performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AM[SHARE]Trevor Nunn will direct Olivia Williams in Ingmar Bermgan's Scenes from a Marriage at London's St. James Theatre, beginning performances Sept. 11 prior to an official opening Sept. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the U.K./Ireland tour of Wicked, which begins performances Sept. 12 at Manchester's Palace Theatre and will then continue to Dublin, Milton Keynes, Ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AM[SHARE]Additional new casting has been announced for the adult company of the original West End production of Matilda – the Musical; the actors will begin performances Sept. 3 at the Cambridg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AM[SHARE]Max Irons (son of actor Jeremy Irons and recently seen as King Edward IV in the BBC's "The White Queen") and Rachel Tucker (best known for playing Elphaba in the West End's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16AM[SHARE]Joey, the life-size puppet horse from the National Theatre's production of War Horse, will appear as part of this year's annual Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, running on the outdoo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:59AM[SHARE]Watermill Theatre, Newbury: Newbury's Watermill has frequently led the way in rescaling big musicals for much smaller spaces, and its productions of Sweeney Todd, Mack and Mabel and Sun…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2013
Southwark Playhouse, London: No, this is not the stage version of the Oscar-winning Kate Winslet/Leonardo DiCaprio film, but a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical that opened in New York in …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Liza Liza Liza, a new play about Liza Minnelli, is to receive its world premiere at the Fringe Tabard Theatre in Chiswick in west London, beginning performances Sept. 4 prior to an official …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM[SHARE]Initial casting has been announced for the European premiere of Nicky Silver's The Lyons, which will begin performances Sept. 19 at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, prior to an off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Playwright Tom Stoppard will receive this year’s PEN/Pinter Prize, established in 2009 by the worldwide writers' association and freedom of expression charity English PEN in memory…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:01PM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of The Herd, actor-turned-playwright Rory Kinnear's debut play, which begins performances at London's Bush Theatre Sept. 13 pri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM[SHARE]Simon Bowman, who created the role of Chris in the original West End production of Miss Saigon, will star in Ray Goudie and Joe Harmston's The Prodigals, which will begin performances at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11AM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2013
Our House, Tim Firth's 2002 musical based around the repertoire of British pop band Madness that won the 2003 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, is to tour the U.K. in a brand-new actor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47AM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2013
Full casting has been announced for the new production of Much Ado About Nothing, which will begin performances at London's Old Vic Sept. 7 prior to an official opening Sept. 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AM[SHARE]The previously announced new production of King Lear that will star Simon Russell Beale in the title role under the direction of Sam Mendes has confirmed further casting. It will begin perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM[SHARE]This year's Dublin Theatre Festival, running Sept. 26-Oct. 13, will include the world premiere of Frank McGuinness' The Hanging Garden, and new productions of Beckett's Wait…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AM[SHARE]Rupert Grint (best known for playing Ron Weasley in the "Harry Potter" film series), Brendan Coyle (valet John Bates in "Downton Abbey"), Ben Whishaw (last seen onstage o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2013
Alan Bennett's People, which premiered at the National's Lyttelton Theatre in October 2012, is to begin performances at Birmingham's Repertory Theatre Sept. 3, prior to an offici…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AM[SHARE]Simon Callow will perform a new one-man show Inside Wagner's Head, inspired by the life of composer Richard Wagner, beginning performances Sept. 3 at the Royal Opera House's Linbury …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2013
A new production of Ibsen's Ghosts will be staged in the U.K. in a production that will be inspired by Edvard Munch's original stage designs for a 1906 staging in Berlin.
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