Friday, April 12, 2013
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AM[SHARE]Alex Kingston will return to the U.K. stage to star opposite the previously announced Kenneth Branagh in Macbeth at the Manchester International Festival 2013, where it will be staged within…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for Michael Grandage's new West End production of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, which will begin performances June 8 prior to an officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AM[SHARE]Paul Michael Glaser will star as Tevye in a new U.K. touring production of Fiddler on the Roof, beginning performances Sept. 5 prior to an official opening Sept. 10 at Southampton's Mayf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]Broadway's Seth Numrich will join the previously announced Kim Cattrall in a new production of Sweet Bird of Youth at London's Old Vic, beginning performances June 1 prior to an offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2013
The world-premiere production of Howard Brenton's #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei, which begins performances at London's Hampstead Theatre April 11 prior to an official opening April …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AM[SHARE]James Brining, the new artistic director at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, has announced his debut season that will include him revisiting his award-winning 2010 production of Sondhe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM[SHARE]Derren Brown, two-time Olivier winner for Best Entertainment, will return to the West End's Palace Theatre with his latest show, Infamous, beginning performances June 24 prior to an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2013
A one-night only concert performance of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's 1973 Broadway musical A Little Night Music will be held at the U.K.'s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre June 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2013
The Golden Voice, a new British musical by singer-songwriter Nick Fogarty, will begin performances at London's Arts Theatre June 12, prior to an official opening June 19, for a run throu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PM[SHARE]Bonnie Langford will return to the West End run of Monty Python's Spamalot, beginning performances May 6, after completing her current run as Roz in the touring production of Dolly Parto…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PM[SHARE]The full cast has been announced for the new production of Harold Pinter's early play The Hothouse, which will begin performances May 4 prior to an official opening May 9 for a run throu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AM[SHARE]After he completes his new musical that tells the story of the Profumo Affair from the perspective of Dr. Stephen Ward, Andrew Lloyd Webber may turn his attention to Jack Black's 2003 fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:45AM[SHARE]Following the announcement of the death of former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher April 8, that evening's performance of the musical Billy Elliot went ahead in full, complete with …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:47AM[SHARE]Once upon a time " in those distant pre-internet days " life was simple and clear-cut. To buy tickets for a West End show, you either went into the box office in person and bought...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:06AM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning musical Once, which continues its critically acclaimed run at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, officially opens at the West End's Phoenix Theatre Apr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2013
Playwright Peter Morgan will deliver a short speech on the passing of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher prior to the April 8 performance of his new play The Audience at the Gie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PM[SHARE]Friday, April 5, 2013
Al Pacino will bring An Evening with Pacino to the West End's London Palladium for one night only on June 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of Lucy Kirkwood's Chimera, which will begin performances May 20, prior to an official opening May 28, for a run through July 6, in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]The line-up for this year's Olivier Awards, being held April 28 at London's Royal Opera House and being broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 and in an edited highlights package on ITV1, wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2013
Australian musical theatre star Trevor Ashley will make his West End debut in Liza (on an E), in which he, of course, impersonates Liza Minnelli. The show will begin a six-performance run Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The British television special "Andrew Lloyd Webber: 40 Musical Years" was broadcast on ITV1 on March 31. Here are highlights from the program, including performances from&nbs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:23PM[SHARE]The recent Northern Broadsides touring production of Githa Sowerby's classic play Rutherford & Son is to get a London run, beginning performances at the St. James Theatre June 4 prio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Avenue Q, Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty's 2003 Tony Award-winning musical, is returning to London.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AM[SHARE]Dan Gordon's The Boat Factory, which will be seen at New York's 59E59th Street Theatre June 4-30 as part of the annual Brits Off Broadway Festival, will return to the U.K. afterwards…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]The Crazy Coqs at Brasserie Zedel: By coincidence, A Chorus Line is back in London at the same time that Donna McKechnie, who created the role of Cassie in the original 1975 production at th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2013
London's Southwark Playhouse has announced its inaugural productions at its new home, located at 77-85 Newington Causeway, London SE1, midway between Borough and Elephant and Castle tube…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:02AM[SHARE]Plans for the National Theatre for the new booking period through August will include productions of Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude, James Baldwin's The Amen Corner and Piran…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2013
The U.K.'s Laurence Olivier Awards, previously voted for only by a special panel of around a dozen members comprising industry professionals and specially appointed members of the public…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The line-up for the British television special "Andrew Lloyd Webber: 40 Musical Years" has been announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2013
"Theme for Stephen Ward," the first music from Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical Stephen Ward, will be released March 31, available by download, following its world-premiere pe…
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