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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AM[SHARE]British pop singer and media personality Kerry Katona is due to play Marilyn Monroe in an industry reading for Norma Jeane The Musical, taking place in London Sept. 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AM[SHARE]A brand-new production of Barnum premieres at Chichester's Theatre in the Park July 24, following previews that began July 15, for a season through Aug. 31. Cy Coleman, Michael Stewart a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The 1991 Broadway musical The Secret Garden is to embark on a six-date U.K. tour, in a special concert staging which was previously presented at London's King's Head Theatre in Febru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AM[SHARE]Monday, July 22, 2013
New casting has been announced for the National Theatre's West End production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, currently running at the Apollo Theatre. The new compa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the new production of Terry Johnson's 1993 play Hysteria that will begin performances at London's Hampstead Theatre Sept. 5, prior to an official …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AM[SHARE]Nicky Silver's The Lyons, which premiered at Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre in 2011 before transferring to Broadway's Cort Theatre in 2012, is to receive its European premiere a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:44AM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2013
The full cast has been announced for the return of Jonathan Church's production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, which premiered at Chichester's Minerva Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2013
The new season at London's Soho Theatre will include the returns of the Olivier Award-winning company OperaUpClose with a new production of Tosca, and runs by Russell Brand and New York …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2013
The body of missing London stage and screen actor Paul Bhattacharjee, who was part of the current Open Court season of weekly rep plays at the Royal Court, has been found.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:38PM[SHARE]The Dutch immersive theatre experience Soldier of Orange the Musical — based on the true story of resistance hero Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, who chronicled his Second World War exp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AM[SHARE]London stage and screen actor Paul Bhattacharjee, who was part of the current Open Court season of weekly rep plays at the Royal Court, has disappeared after rehearsals for the third one he …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AM[SHARE]The original West End production of Billy Elliot is joined July 17 by 10-year-old Elliott Hanna in the title role, who becomes the 34th and youngest boy ever to play the part in the West End.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, visited London's Donmar Warehouse July 16 to see a performance of Irish playwright Conor McPherson's latest play The Night Alive. After the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]The West End companies of The Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables are to swap their costumes for sports kits when they go head-to-head in a charity football match that will be played Aug…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Felicity Kendal and Simon Callow will star in a new production of François Billetdoux's 1959 play Chin-Chin that will tour the U.K., beginning performances at Windsor's Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AM[SHARE]Tim Price's I'm with the Band, which is to receive its world premiere at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre as part of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe from Aug. 2-25, is to t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:09AM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, London: The Menier Chocolate Factory's pedigree in reinventing established Broadway hits from La Cage Aux Folles to such Sondheim classics as Sunday in the Pa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2013
The U.K.'s Shakespeare's Globe is to embark on a two-year global tour of a production of Hamlet featuring eight actors that aims to visit all 205 nations in the world.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11PM[SHARE]An actor was injured during a performance of the sell-out production of Macbeth, starring Kenneth Branagh in the title role, that is currently playing as part of the Manchester International…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PM[SHARE]Friday, July 12, 2013
The West End production of Monty Python's Spamalot is creating "The Summer of Spamalot Charity Gods," in which a rotating round of celebrities will film the part of God to be s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AM[SHARE]The Donmar Warehouse's recent revival of Conor McPherson's The Weir is to transfer to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre, beginning performances Jan. 16, 2014, prior to an offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:11AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for Michael Grandage's new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, beginning performances at the Noel Coward Theatre Sept. 7 prior to an official ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:29AM[SHARE]Rose Lipman Building, London: The Royal Court is continuing to expand its reach beyond its Sloane Square base by reviving the Theatre Local initiative that previously took it to Elephant and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2013
An all-star line-up that includes Gavin Creel (currently in the West End in The Book of Mormon), Scarlett Strallen (A Chorus Line), Michael Xavier (soon to play Captain von Trapp in The Soun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the West End transfer of the Young Vic's production of A Doll's House that begins performances at the Duke of York's Theatre Aug. 8, prior to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Veteran UK comedy cabaret trio Fascinating Aida are to bring their latest touring show Charm Offensive to London's Queen Elizabeth hall for a Christmas season, beginning performances Dec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AM[SHARE]Vaudeville Theatre, London: This out-and-out hilarious stage version of the 1955 Ealing film comedy was a critically acclaimed hit when it was premiered in 2011 and recouped its entire inves…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Dickens Abridged will play a Christmas season at London's Arts Theatre, beginning performances Nov. 27 prior to an official opening Dec. 2, for a run through Jan. 5, 2014.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AM[SHARE]The Royal Opera House will transfer its adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows to the West End's Duchess Theatre, beginning performances Dec. 11 for an eight-week ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AM[SHARE]Penny Downie will star as the iconic floral designer and best-selling cookery writer Contance Spry in Storm in a Flower Vase, a new play by Anton Burge that begins performances Sept. 13 at L…
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