Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Curve, Leicester: Twenty-seven years after creating one of the most iconic roles in musical theatre as Eponine in the original production of Les Miserables, Frances Ruffelle is now playing E…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Adam Blanshay will lead Just For Laughs Theatricals, a new division of the Just for Laughs Group, who produce the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, the world's largest comedy fes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AM[SHARE]Monday, February 25, 2013
The nine-time Tony-winning hit The Book of Mormon begins performances Feb. 25 at London's Prince of Wales Theatre prior to an official opening March 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 22, 2013
Colm Wilkinson, who created the role of Jean Valjean in the original 1985 London production of Les Miserables and subsequently reprised it on Broadway in 1987 (where he was Tony-nominated), …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AM[SHARE]John Kander and Fred Ebb's 2010 Broadway musical The Scottsboro Boys is to receive its U.K. premiere at London's Young Vic, beginning performances Oct. 18 prior to an official openin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:06AM[SHARE]Arts Theatre, London: "I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out," Rupert Everett famously said in a Guardian interview just th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 21, 2013
The West End premiere of Peter Morgan's The Audience, which began previews Feb. 15 prior to an official opening March 5 at the Gielgud Theatre starring Academy Award winner Helen Mirren,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00PM[SHARE]The Really Useful Group and Frontier Touring have announced that the arena tour production of Jesus Christ Superstar will play Australia beginning May 31, prior to its return to the U.K. in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]London's Old Vic Tunnels — an underground performance space managed by the Old Vic, located not on its own site but at a location adjoining Waterloo station — is to shutter M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The West End transfer for the Menier Chocolate Factory's current sell-out production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1981 Broadway flop Merrily We Roll Along has been confirme…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:42AM[SHARE]London Palladium: No musical has ever offered quite as uncompromising, harsh and heartfelt a glimpse at the sheer grit, determination and sometimes desperation behind the apparent glamour of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AM[SHARE]The annual summer season at the U.K.'s Chichester Festival Theatre and Minerva studio, which has yielded such West End transfers as Macbeth and Enron (also both going on to Broadway); Ye…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 19, 2013
London's Tricycle Theatre has announced its new season, which will include Lia Williams directing the London premiere of Frank McGuinness' The Matchbox, plus the world premieres…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AM[SHARE]Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters, which premiered at Newcastle's Live Theatre and was subsequently brought to London's National Theatre and later to Broadway and then the West End,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:54AM[SHARE]An all-star one-night charity gala performance of the 1980 Broadway musical 42nd Street is to be held March 17 at the London Palladium.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:25AM[SHARE]Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield: "You already know you're going to love it," goes the advertising tagline to the musical Mamma Mia!, and much the same thing could be said of the She…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:41AM[SHARE]A new production of A Chorus Line officially opens at the West End's London Palladium Feb. 19, following previews that began Feb. 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 18, 2013
The European premiere of Paul Scott Goodman's Rooms is to be presented at London's Finborough Theatre, beginning performances April 23 prior to an official opening April 25, for a fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AM[SHARE]London's Hampstead Theatre is to present the U.K. premiere of David Mamet's Race, originally premiered on Broadway in 2009, as well as the world premiere of Howard Brenton's #aiw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM[SHARE]Union Theatre, London: The Union Theatre deservedly won this year's Stage 100 fringe theatre of the year award, and Chess offers proof why. It is another of this theatre's revelato…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AM[SHARE]Friday, February 15, 2013
Samantha Spiro joins the previously announced Joseph Millson to star in Eve Best's new production of Macbeth, which begins performances June 22 at Shakespeare's Globe in London, prio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]Richard Eyre is to return to London's Almeida Theatre to adapt and direct a new production of Ibsen's Ghosts, beginning performances Sept. 26 prior to an official opening Oct. 3, for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:30AM[SHARE]Helen Mirren begins performances in the West End premiere of Peter Morgan's The Audience Feb. 15, prior to an official opening March 5, at the Gielgud Theatre, reprising the role of Quee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Roundhouse, London: Robert Lepage, an already beloved figure of the international touring and festival circuit, now receives the ultimate form of global theatrical validation - an entire net…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:53AM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2013
A four-week season of new musical theatre writing will be presented under the umbrella title From Page to Stage at London's Landor Theatre, running Feb. 13-March 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]Maria Friedman, currently represented in London by her directorial debut with Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along at the Menier Chocolate Factory, is to return to the cabaret stage with a p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:05AM[SHARE]The London cast of Merrily We Roll Along, including stars Mark Umbers, Jenna Russell and Damian Humbley, will perform a charity reading of the original 1934 Broadway play of the same name by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:51AM[SHARE]The full cast for the world premiere of Bruce Norris' The Low Road has been announced; performances will begin at London's Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs March 22, prior…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:28AM[SHARE]Friday, February 8, 2013
Rupert Goold is to take over as artistic director of London's Almeida Theatre in August 2013, succeeding Michael Attenborough, who had previously announced his decision to step down afte…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AM[SHARE]The current London production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1981 Broadway flop Merrily We Roll Along, playing at the Menier Chocolate Factory through March 9, is being tipped to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:13AM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber is moving forward with his new musical about the true 1960s story of Stephen Ward, a London osteopath who had introduced Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alle…
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