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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AM[SHARE]The nominations for this year's Olivier Awards are led by the National's production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, recently transferred to the West End's A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:46AM[SHARE]Noel Coward Theatre, London: Following in the line of dramatic speculations of real-life events that we've currently got on the London stage in The Audience and This House (going behind…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2013
The world premiere of John Logan's Peter and Alice opens at the West End's Noel Coward Theatre March 25, following previews that began March 9. It is the second production in a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2013
Director-choreographer Gillian Lynne and playwright Michael Frayn are both to be honored with Special Awards at this year's Olivier Awards for their outstanding contributions to theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:54AM[SHARE]On Friday, March 22, the day after its official opening night, the West End production of The Book of Mormon set a record for the biggest single day of sales in West End and Broadway hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:41AM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2013
The nominations announcement for the Olivier Awards 2013 will be presented live on BBC Radio 2 by actresses Ruth Wilson and Elaine Paige, the latter herself a Radio 2 broadcaster, on March 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PM[SHARE]Prince of Wales Theatre: After the saturation media and marketing blitz that has seen The Book of Mormon become as pervasive around London as the Gideon bible used to be in hotel rooms, the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AM[SHARE]The West End production of Singin' in the Rain, currently running at the Palace Theatre after transferring from Chichester Festival Theatre where it originated in the summer of 2011, is …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50AM[SHARE]Keeley Hawes, Karl Johnson and Montserrat Lombard will join the previously announced Lee Evans and Sheila Hancock in the West End premiere of Clive Exton's Barking in Essex, beginning pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2013
Immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, whose Sleep No More is still running in New York through June 1, will return to London with their biggest show yet, The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30AM[SHARE]The nine-time Tony-winning hit The Book of Mormon opens officially March 21 at London's Prince of Wales Theatre, following previews that began Feb. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The West End production of Great Expectations, currently running at the Vaudeville Theatre, is to shutter March 30, two months earlier than its original proposed end date.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AM[SHARE]The inaugural season at London's Park Theatre, a new two-theatre complex next to Finsbury Park underground station recently completed at a cost of £2.5 million, will include the UK…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AM[SHARE]West End regulars Anna-Jane Casey (recently in Spamalot), Dean Chisnall (recently in Shrek), Alex Gaumond (currently in Top Hat) and Ross Hunter (currently in Rock of Ages) are to lead the c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:11AM[SHARE]Half the cast has been announced for the new production of Travels with My Aunt, adapted for the stage by Giles Havergal from Graham Greene's novel, that will begin performances May 2 pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2013
New York theatre writers Sam Carner and Derek Gregor will make their London debut March 24 at the London Hippodrome's Matcham Room in Sing But Don't Tell, a concert of their songs wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2013
David Ian and Michael Harrison, the producers behind the West End production of The Bodyguard currently running at the Adelphi, are planning on staging a new production of Andrew Lloyd Webbe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PM[SHARE]Well-Strung, an all-male string quartet that has previously appeared at New York's Joe's Pub and Off-Broadway, is to make its European debut Sept. 19-21 at London's Leicester Squ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2013
The title and cast have been announced for Anthony Neilson's previously untitled new play Narrative, which will begin performances April 5 prior to an official opening April 10 at London…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]London's Hampstead Theatre will present Say It With Flowers, a promenade performance created by director Katie Mitchell around the writings of Gertrude Stein, and the premiere of Nichola…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Dances of Death, a new adaptation of August Strindberg's play by Howard Brenton, will begin performances at London's Gate Theatre May 30, prior to an official opening June 6 for a ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AM[SHARE]Phyllida Lloyd has joined the creative team for the world premiere of Cush Jumbo's Josephine and I, which begins performances July 12, prior to an official opening July 17, for a run thr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AM[SHARE]The current touring production of August Wilson's Fences, which premiered at Bath's Theatre Royal in February starring Lenny Henry, is to transfer to the West End's Duchess Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]Simon Russell Beale and John Simm will star in a 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 r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AM[SHARE]X Factor - It's Time to Face the Musical!, a new musical comedy based on the top-ranking U.K. and U.S. television show "The X Factor," is to be brought to the West End stage, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2013
The U.K. commercial television station ITV1 will film a 90-minute special to celebrate Andrew Lloyd Webber's 40-year career as a composer over the coming weekend, with a transmission dat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2013
The West End's Shaftesbury Theatre is to undergo a major redevelopment, with planning permission granted for a new flytower to be installed at the Grade II listed theatre, and extra dres…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]Kerry Ellis (the first British Elphaba in Wicked who later reprised the role on Broadway) and Rory Taylor (runner-up in ITV's "Superstar!" contest to find the lead for last yea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:25AM[SHARE]Kerry Ellis (the first British Elphaba in Wicked who later reprised the role on Broadway) and Rory Taylor (runner-up in ITV's "Superstar!" contest to find the lead for last yea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Complete casting has been announced for the Tony Award-winning musical The Pajama Game, which will open the 2013 U.K. Chichester Festival Theatre and star Hadley Fraser and Joanna …
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