Friday, February 8, 2013
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2013
Sia Berkeley, Deborah Findlay, Naomi Frederick, Nick Hendrix, Stephen Joseph, Wendy Nottingham, Charlie Rowe, Peter Sullivan, Richard Teverson and Jay Villiers will join the previously annou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PM[SHARE]This year's summer season at London's Shakespeare's Globe, presented under the umbrella title Season of Plenty, will see the returns of Roger Allam and Eve Best, the latter makin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The new season at London's Bush Theatre will see the London premiere of Off-Broadway's Disgraced, plus world premieres of plays by actor-turned-playwrights Cush Jumbo and Rory Kinnea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM[SHARE]Tade Biesinger, a 13-year-old from Bountiful, UT, joins the West End company of Billy Elliot The Musical Feb. 6, to reprise the title role that he previously played in the Broadway inc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:27AM[SHARE]Olivier Theatre, National, London: On the one hand, the National Theatre famously produced the comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, which continues to run in the West End, has been to Broadway and i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Casting has been announced for the world premiere of Lionel Bart's Quasimodo at London's King's Head, 50 years after it was written. Robert Chevara will direct the production, wh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PM[SHARE]Richard Greenberg's The American Plan is to receive its British premiere beginning performances March 7, prior to an official opening March 14, at the Theatre Royal, Bath's Ustinov S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]The Rose Theatre in Kingston, near London, is to stage a new production of Richard Bean's 2003 play Smack Family Robinson, beginning performances March 28, prior to an official opening A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[SHARE]The return run of last year's U.K. arena tour production of Jesus Christ Superstar, which was due to be launched at Nottingham's Capital FM Arena March 10, has been postponed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]A new production of A Chorus Line begins performances at the London Palladium Feb. 4, delayed from the originally announced Feb. 2, prior to an official opening Feb. 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2013
Soho Theatre, London: New British musicals are sadly thin on the ground, so just as I embraced Loserville last year, I also want to welcome Lift, which has a similar vitality and freshness. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AM[SHARE]Friday, February 1, 2013
Harold Pinter Theatre, London: The former Comedy Theatre in Panton Street has been home to seven plays by Harold Pinter in the last 21 years, plus four more productions directed by him. It i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 31, 2013
Chicago, which ended a 15-year run in the West End last year, is to receive a brand-new production in the UK at Leicester's Curve, beginning performances Nov. 29 prior to an official ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:28AM[SHARE]Mydidae, a new play by Jack Thorne exploring a relationship between two people and staged in a fully plumbed bathroom, is to be revived at the West End's Trafalgar Studios 2, beginning p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Patti LuPone, two-time Tony Award-winning star for the original Broadway production of Evita and the 2008 revival of Gypsy, is to return to London to appear for seven performances only at Le…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]Nicholas Hytner has announced further plans for 2013: In addition to Othello, Children of the Sun and a season of new work in the new temporary venue The Shed, the season will inc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AM[SHARE]The new season at the National Theatre will see the opening of new productions of Othello, starring Adrian Lester in the title role with Rory Kinnear as Iago, Gorky's Children of the Sun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:34AM[SHARE]Wyndham's Theatre, London: For more than 50 years Michael Codron has been the eminence grise of new plays and playwrights in the West End. He has been responsible for premiering many works b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The Society of London Theatre (SOLT), the trade body that looks after West End's commercial and subsidized theatres, have announced that box-office figures for 2012 have remained robust,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AM[SHARE]The 37th Olivier Awards, sponsored by MasterCard, have announced that ITV will be the official television broadcast partner for the event on April 28, producing a ceremony highlights program…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]Emma Cunniffe, Mariah Gale, Matthew Marsh and Jamie Parker will star in the new production of David Auburn's Proof that will begin performances at London's Menier Chocolate Factory M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AM[SHARE]Jonathan Kent's production of Noël Coward's Private Lives, which premiered at Chichester's Minerva Theatre last summer, is to transfer to the West End's Gielgud Theatre,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:02AM[SHARE]Monday, January 28, 2013
Jennifer Ellison will join the company of the West End's Singin' in the Rain to play the role of Lina Lamont, the silent movie screen siren and owner of a voice never meant for the &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:11AM[SHARE]The full cast has been announced for the new production of Pam Gems' Piaf, which begins performances Feb. 22 at Leicester's Curve, prior to an official opening Feb. 26, for a ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:26AM[SHARE]The West End production of War Horse has put an extra 100,000 tickets on sale, extending booking through Feb. 15, 2014, and announced new cast members who will begin performances March 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:24AM[SHARE]Friday, January 25, 2013
Henry Goodman is to star in Lindsay Posner's new production of Terence Rattigan's 1946 play The Winslow Boy, beginning performances at London's Old Vic March 8 prior to an offici…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:12PM[SHARE]Declan Bennett and Zrinka Cvitešić will lead the cast as Guy and Girl, respectively, in the West End transfer of Broadway's Tony-winning musical Once, which begins performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:27AM[SHARE]Almeida Theatre, London: Henry James's story of ghostly appearances, written in 1897, is already well known theatrically as a Benjamin Britten opera, but has also previously been adapte…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 24, 2013
We Will Rock You, which continues in its 10th year at the West End's Dominion Theatre, is to launch a 10th anniversary arena tour, that will launch in Finland Feb. 26, then play dates in…
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