Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Sam Mendes has admitted that while he was “interested”, he has not applied to succeed Nicholas Hytner as artistic director of the National Theatre. Mendes is to return to the Nat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Been on Broadway, a celebration of the songs from Broadway shows that haven't yet made the transatlantic crossing — including Next to Normal, Newsies, The Addams Family, Bring It O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AM[SHARE]Full casting has been confirmed for the world premiere of Nick Payne's The Same Deep Blue Water as Me, which begins performances Aug. 1 prior to an official opening Aug. 6, for a run thr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AM[SHARE]Michael Gambon and Peter Egan will perform Samuel Beckett's Eh Joe and First Love, respectively, at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre, running Aug 28-31, as part of this year's Ed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:47AM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2013
Jeremy Herrin, former deputy artistic director of London's Royal Court Theatre from 2009-2012, is to take over as artistic director of the U.K. touring company Headlong.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]The original West End production of Matilda is being re-cast, with Alex Gaumond and Kay Murphy taking over as Miss Trunchbull and Mrs. Wormwood, respectively, beginning performances Sept. 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:13AM[SHARE]The Shed, National Theatre, London: The National's temporary Shed space has four chimneys protruding from its roof, and they seem to be sending up smoke signals that something decisivel…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AM[SHARE]Friday, June 7, 2013
Fuerza Bruta, twice before seen at London's Roundhouse in 2006 when it re-opened that venue after a refurbishment and again last Christmas, is to return to the Roundouse for an extended …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AM[SHARE]The principal cast has been announced for the U.K./Ireland tour of Wicked, which is scheduled to begin performances Sept. 12 at Manchester's Palace Theatre and will then continue to Dubl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:09AM[SHARE]Gate, London: Plays from Noel Coward's Private Lives to Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? have anatomised the desperate, verbally (and sometimes physically) viole…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2013
There will be major cast changes to the West End production of Les Misereables at the Queen's Theatre, beginning June 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Dawn King's Ciphers will begin performances at Exeter's Northcott Theatre Oct. 16, prior to a U.K. national tour co-produced with Out of Joint and London's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2013
UK stage and television comedian Joe Pasquale is to make his West End musical debut when he takes over as King Arthur in Monty Python's Spamalot, beginning performances June 17 for a six…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM[SHARE]London's Royal Court has announced the company of actors who will perform in the weekly rep season of six plays being presented in six weeks as part of the theatre's Open Court festi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]A U.K. concert tour of Rent, originally staged in April, is to return for 15 further dates in the fall, with a cast led by Natasha Hamilton, former star of the pop troupe Atomic Kitten, and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:23AM[SHARE]Lyttelton, National Theatre, London: "Pardon me while I have a strange interlude," Groucho Marx said in Animal Crackers, made in 1930, two years after Eugene O'Neill's pl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2013
The theatre for young audiences version of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's 2000 Broadway musical Seussical, previously seen at the Arts Theatre in London in 2012, is to return to the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AM[SHARE]Vaudeville Theatre, London: Thanks to a combination of reality TV, 15 minutes (or three million albums) of pop fame and social media, the trappings of fame (or at least some kind of followin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2013
Full casting has been announced for the European premiere of The Color Purple, beginning performances at London's Menier Chocolate Factory July 5 prior to an official opening July 15, fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21PM[SHARE]Willemijn Verkaik, the Dutch actress who has played the role of Elphaba in more than 1,000 perfromances in Holland, Germany and most recently Broadway, will take over in the West End, beginn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:03PM[SHARE]Matthew Macfadyen and Stephen Mangan will star as Jeeves and Wooster, respectively, in Perfect Nonsense, a new play based on and adapted from the established literary works of P.G. Wodehouse…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AM[SHARE]Lisa Dillon will star in Brendan Cowell's Happy New, beginning performances June 4 prior to an official opening June 6 at London's Trafalgar Studios 2, for a four-week run through Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]The West End production of Once has extended booking through May 31, 2014, with over 200,000 new tickets released for sale at the Phoenix Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:44AM[SHARE]The Disney Theatrical Group has announced that "exploratory open auditions" will be held in London for male dancers for Newsies. They will take place at Covent Garden's Pineapp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:36AM[SHARE]Union Theatre, London: The Union Theatre was recently reprieved from a threatened redevelopment of its site beneath railway arches in Southwark by its landlords Network Rail, and its revival…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 1, 2013
After reaching audiences through film and TV, Robert Sean Leonard talks to Mark Shenton about his passion for theatre and his current role in To Kill a Mockingbird
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:27AM[SHARE]Friday, May 31, 2013
Shakespeare's Globe, London: No title of a Shakespeare play is more apt, evocative or familiar as A Midsummer Night's Dream. Although the wooded surrounds of the Open Air Theatre, Regen…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2013
London's Lost Musicals series, precursor to New York's Encores!, returns to Sadler's Wells' Lilian Baylis Theatre for its 24th season in July, with forgotten shows featuring …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM[SHARE]WAG! The Musical, a new musical that revolves around the U.K. phenomenon of WAGs (wives and girlfriends of high-profile footballers), will begin performances at London's Charing Cross Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Principal casting has been announced for the West End return of Dirty Dancing, which begins performances July 13 at the Piccadilly Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AM[SHARE]Almeida, London: Rupert Goold doesn't officially take over at the helm of the Almeida until September 1, but this co-production with Headlong, the company that he is leaving behind but …
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