Saturday, December 29, 2012
Amongst those being honored in the 2013 Queen's New Year Honors List, published today, are actors Adrian Lester and Ewan McGregor, choreographer Arlene Phillips and critic Michael Billin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 27, 2012
Just as Broadway often lives by its star power, London theatre is also full of big names this spring, with many returning home to the stage where their careers began and have long drawn sust…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 21, 2012
Mark Shenton talks to controversial composer Richard Thomas about his alternative seasonal cabaret
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 14, 2012
Casting has been announced for The Silence of the Sea, which begins performances at London's Trafalgar Studio 2 Jan. 10, 2013, prior to an official opening Jan. 14, for a run through Feb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:21AM[SHARE]The Victorian in the Wall, a new play by comedy award-winning performer, writer and comedian Will Adamsdale, will begin performances May 11, 2013, prior to an official opening May 16 for a r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:19AM[SHARE]Great Expectations, a new stage adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel, will arrive at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre, beginning performances Feb. 1, 2013, prior to an official openi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2012
The Theatre at the O2, London: I've already experienced two of the worst 'live' entertainment nights of the year at the O2, with the loud and vacuous Jesus Christ Superstar ar…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AM[SHARE]Plans are afoot to mount a brand-new West End production of Miss Saigon, the last of the Cameron Mackintosh produced megamusicals of the 80s that premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Ghost the Musical, adapted from the 1990 film "Ghost" with a score by Dave Stewart (of the Eurythmics) and Glen Ballard, is to embark on a U.K. tour, beginning performances at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Noel Coward Theatre: Michael Grandage not only reinvented the Donmar Warehouse during a decade long tenure at the helm of it, but also threw down the gauntlet to the West End when he took it…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AM[SHARE]The new musical Viva Forever!, featuring the songs made famous by the Spice Girls and a book by Jennifer Saunders, officially opens Dec. 11 at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre following…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 10, 2012
Several new cast members will join the London company of Boy George's Taboo beginning Dec. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:19AM[SHARE]Friday, December 7, 2012
The West End production of One Man, Two Guvnors, now running at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, is to welcome a new cast, beginning performances Feb. 4, 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PM[SHARE]Barry Humphries, best known as the creator behind Dame Edna Everage, will return to the U.K. from his native Australia for what is being billed as a "farewell tour" to present a ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PM[SHARE]The West End production of Rock of Ages, which is to shutter as previously announced Jan. 6, 2013, at the Shaftesbury Theatre after a 16-month run, is to relocate to a new, smaller home, res…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 6, 2012
Curve, Leicester: "Hello, Dolly, well Hello Dolly, It's so nice to have you back where you belong," goes the lyric to the title song of Jerry Herman's 1964 musical, and i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AM[SHARE]Adelphi, London: Almost ten months after Whitney Houston's tragic death on February 11, a stage version of the 1992 film she starred in called The Bodyguard has arrived in the West End …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The Bodyguard, a new musical based on the 1992 Warner Bros. film of the same name that was scripted by Lawrence Kasdan and starred the late Whitney Houston, officially opens at the West End&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2012
The recent U.K. arena tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar, marking the show's 40th anniversary, is to be reprised in March 2013, with Tim Minchin, Melan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AM[SHARE]Monday, December 3, 2012
The Old Vic has announced its 2013 season, which will see new productions of Terrence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy, Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth starring Kim Cattrall and S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:41AM[SHARE]Friday, November 30, 2012
Comedian and actor Lee Evans and stage and screen veteran Sheila Hancock will star in the world premiere of Clive Exton's Barking in Essex, which will begin performances at the West End&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AM[SHARE]Additional casting has been announced for the world premiere of Peter Morgan's The Audience, which begins performances at the West End's Gielgud Theatre Feb. 15, 2013, prior to an of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AM[SHARE]Frances Ruffelle, who created the role of Eponine in the original RSC/Cameron Mackintosh production of Les Miserables and won a Tony Award for reprising it on Broadway, is to play the title …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:33AM[SHARE]Fiona Shaw and dancer Daniel Hay-Gordon will perform Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner onstage at London's Old Vic Tunnels, beginning performan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 29, 2012
Performances begin Nov. 29 for a new production of the 1959 Broadway musical Once Upon a Mattress at London's Union Theatre, prior to an official opening Dec. 1, for a run through Jan. 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AM[SHARE]Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), the U.K.'s largest theatre owner/operator and producing group, has announced plans to expand further into the Asia and Pacific markets, and has appointed …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]The U.K.'s Royal & Derngate Theatre in Northampton is to offer the world premiere of To Sir, With Love, a stage adaptation of ER Braithwaite's autobiographical novel of the same …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:19AM[SHARE]The West End run of the Beatles tribute show Let It Be, currently at the Prince of Wales through Jan. 19, 2013, will continue by transferring to the Savoy Theatre, where it will resume perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:30AM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, London: The Menier Chocolate Factory has now become London's leading home for both refining and redefining Sondheim musicals. But whereas its ravishing product…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 27, 2012
The new indoor Jacobean theatre that will be built within Shakespeare's Globe in London is to be named The Sam Wanamaker Theatre, in honor of the Globe's pioneering founder. Final bu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:19AM[SHARE]The new musical Viva Forever!, featuring the songs made famous by the Spice Girls and a new original book by Jennifer Saunders, begins performances at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre N…
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