Sunday, April 28, 2013
Hugh Bonneville talks to Mark Shenton about co-hosting the Olivier Awards with Sheridan Smith on Sunday and pledging his support for The Stage's own My Theatre Matters! campaign
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:14AM[SHARE]This year's Olivier Awards, presented by the Society of London Theatres with Mastercard, take place April 28 at London's Royal Opera House, also the home of last year's ceremony.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 27, 2013
Mark Shenton investigates whether the shake-up in the Olivier voting procedure threaten the awards' independence
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:17AM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2013
The full cast has been announced for the new production of Barnum that will premiere at Chichester's Theatre in the Park, beginning performances July 15 prior to an official opening July…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PM[SHARE]Burn the Floor, the international ballroom dance show, is to shutter at the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre June 30. It was originally booking through Sept. 1, 2013, having begun performa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the West End return of The Ladykillers, the 2011 stage version of the iconic 1955 Ealing film comedy that was subsequently remade by the Coen Brothers in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AM[SHARE]The Full Monty, a new stage version based on the 1997 British film of the same title scripted by Simon Beaufoy, who also wrote the film's screenplay, will transfer to the West End, begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AM[SHARE]Finborough, London: The room above the (now defunct) pub in Earl's Court that is the Finborough is one of London's most consistently surprising theatres, from new plays to rare red…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2013
An international touring production of West Side Story, featuring the original Broadway choreography of Jerome Robbins, is to return to London's Sadler's Wells, where it was previous…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PM[SHARE]Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel, London: Wouldn't it be loverly (to quote the show for which Liz Robertson first became famous for performing) if all cabaret evenings were as polished, pois…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2013
ZooNation, an award-winning contemporary dance company who previously brought Into the Hoods to the West End and whose Some Like it Hip Hop will open its third season at London's Peacock…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The Commitments, a stage version of Roddy Doyle's best-selling novel of the same name, will begin performances at the West End's Palace Theatre Sept. 21, prior to an official opening…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AM[SHARE]Amy Herzog's 4,000 Miles, which premiered at Off-Broadway's Duke on 42nd Street under the auspices of Lincoln Center Theater in 2011 before being remounted at Lincoln Center's Mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AM[SHARE]Matcham Room, London Hippodrome: John Partridge is currently to be found giving orders as the mostly disembodied voice of Zach, the director who barks commands from the back of the audition …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2013
The new indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at London's Shakespeare's Globe has announced its inaugural season to open next January, which will feature early modern drama, opera and a ser…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AM[SHARE]Fergus Linehan has been appointed director of the Edinburgh International Festival, replacing Jonathan Mills, who last year announced he would step down from the post in 2014, after eight ye…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:11AM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2013
Lesley Manville, Jack Lowden and Will Keen will star in the previously announced new production of Ibsen's Ghosts that Richard Eyre will adapt and direct at London's Almeida Theatre,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM[SHARE]Leanne Jones, who won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her professional debut as London's original Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray, will head the cast of a new production …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AM[SHARE]The complete line-up for The West End Men — who will be appearing at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre beginning May 25, prior to an official opening June 3, in a theatrical concer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]Incoming Royal Court artistic director Vicky Featherstone has announced her inaugural season at the helm of the theatre, both at its home base in Sloane Square and further afield.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber hopes to bring his latest musical, Stephen Ward, to the West End before the end of the year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AM[SHARE]Wyndham's Theatre, London: "Life is short, but hours are long," the haunted doctor notes in the course of this solo narration of the story of his unconsummated passion for a female…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2013
A new chamber version of the Tony-winning 1997 Broadway musical Titanic will be produced at London's Southwark Playhouse, beginning performances July 26 prior to an official opening July…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Full casting has been announced for the U.K. premiere of David Mamet's Race, beginning performances at London's Hampstead Theatre May 23 prior to an official opening May 29, for a ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:24AM[SHARE]Digital Theatre, the U.K. company that partners with British theatre companies to capture live performances on screen in High Definition from multiple camera angles, has joined forces with C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:02AM[SHARE]Harriet Thorpe will return to the West End's Wicked to play Madame Morrible, beginning performances April 22 for a run through Nov. 16. She replaces Louise Plowright, who has withdrawn f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:49AM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2013
Full casting has been announced for the world-premiere production of Alexi Kaye Campbell's Bracken Moor, beginning performances at London's Tricycle Theatre June 6, prior to an offic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PM[SHARE]Olivier Award winner Michelle Terry and John Light will star in A Midsummer Night's Dream at London's Shakespeare's Globe, beginning performances May 24 prior to an official open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:47PM[SHARE]Lee Mead will lead the The West End Men, a theatrical concert features songs from the West End, Broadway and beyond, beginning performances at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre May 25, p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:34PM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2013
Sam S Shubert Theatre, New York: What a difference a year makes. In April 2012, director Matthew Warchus and his regular theatrical collaborators that include designer Rob Howell, lighting d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:19PM[SHARE]Anna-Jane Casey will join the West End cast of the original production of Billy Elliot the Musical, still running at the Victoria Palace, beginning performances May 13. Last seen in the West…
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