Friday, November 2, 2012
The National Theatre has confirmed dates for previously announced new productions through April 2013, which include Antony Sher in the title role of The Captain of Kopenick and a new product…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse, London: The West End recently welcomed back Cabaret, Kander and Ebb's iconic musical about an English girl's experiences in a pre-war Berlin club - now the Lon…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the West End's new production of Privates on Parade, which inaugurates the Michael Grandage Company's season at the Noel Coward Theatre, beginning…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:12AM[SHARE]The West End production of Top Hat, based on the film of the same name, will see Gavin Lee joining the company from Feb. 5, 2013, to replace Tom Chambers as Jerry Travers, the role originall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2012
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Simon Stephens' stage adaptation of the novel of the same name by Mark Haddon, is to transfer from the National's Cottesloe Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2012
The Crazy Coqs at Brasserie Zedel, London: Karen Akers originally made her mark as a featured actress in the original Broadway productions of Nine and Grand Hotel (both directed by Tommy Tun…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Alan Bennett's People begins performances Oct. 31 prior to an official opening Nov. 7 in the National's Lyttelton Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Full casting has been announced for the West End run and subsequent U.K. tour of the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Goodnight Mister Tom, which begins performances at the Phoenix …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:41PM[SHARE]London's Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park has announced its full slate of productions for its 2013 season. Joining the previously announced productions of The Sound of Music and To …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM[SHARE]London's Hampstead Theatre will present Di and Viv and Rose, a new play by Amelia Bullmore that will transfer from its basement Hampstead Downstairs studio to the main house, and the wor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:33AM[SHARE]The Evening Standard in London has published a "longlist" from which nominees for this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards will be selected. This year's event, which wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:10AM[SHARE]Monday, October 29, 2012
Cockpit Theatre, London: There may, in the words of one of its songs, be no day but today, but there's no show about yesterday quite like Rent. It's a little time capsule of New Yo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 28, 2012
Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room was named the Best New Play in the Theatre Awards U.K., announced Oct. 28 in a lunchtime ceremony at the City of London's Guildhall, the only U.K.-wide …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:49PM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2012
London's Almeida Theatre has announced three productions for the first half of 2013: The Turn of the Screw will be adapted from Henry James' 1898 novella of the same name by Rebecca …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AM[SHARE]Zoë Wanamaker will return to the West End in a new production of Peter Nichols' Passion Play, beginning performances May 1, 2013, prior to an official opening May 7 at the Duke…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AM[SHARE]From Here to Eternity, a new musical version of the 1951 novel that is best known for the multiple Oscar-winning film version of the same name made two years later, is to be staged at the We…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2012
New York-based theatre writers Michael Kooman (music) and Christopher Dimond (book and lyrics) will showcase their work in a one-night London concert, to be held Dec. 2 at St. Andrews in Hol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AM[SHARE]The full cast has been announced for the world premiere of Martin Crimp's In the Republic of Happiness, beginning performances at London's Royal Court Theatre Dec. 6 prior to an offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2012
The National Theatre of Scotland has appointed Laurie Sansom, currently artistic director of Northampton's Royal & Derngate, to succeed Vicky Featherstone to lead the peripatetic com…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PM[SHARE]The sell-out production of Samuel Beckett's All That Fall, currently running at Jermyn Street Theatre through Nov. 3, is to transfer to the West End's Arts Theatre, beginning perform…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Stephen Tompkinson will make his West End musical debut in the return of Monty Python's Spamalot, resuming performances at the Playhouse Theatre Nov. 14 prior to an official opening Nov.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:41AM[SHARE]Monday, October 22, 2012
Elaine Paige and Ruthie Henshall will appear together for the first time for a one-off concert Nov. 27 at London's Central Hall Westminster.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AM[SHARE]The original cast recording for the original British musical Molly Wobbly's Tit Factory is released by SimG Records Oct. 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29AM[SHARE]Friday, October 19, 2012
The London production of Steve Schalchlin and Jim Brochu's musical The Last Session, starring Darren Day as a songwriter battling AIDS, will be recorded by JAY Records in late October.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PM[SHARE]The one-night gala performance of Tommy, taking place Nov. 12 at the West End's Prince Edward Theatre, will feature U.K. "X-Factor" winner Joe McElderry in the title role.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:32AM[SHARE]A revival of Alan Ayckbourn's 1967 play Relatively Speaking will transfer to the West End following its current national tour, beginning performances at Wyndham's Theatre May 14, 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:44AM[SHARE]The cast has been announced for the premiere of E.V Crow's Hero, beginning performances at London's Royal Court in the Jerwood Theatre Upstaris Nov. 23, prior to an official opening …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 18, 2012
The 2013 season at London's Young Vic will see film director Joe Wright directing Chiwetel Ejiofor in Martinique poet and politician Aimé Césaire's A Season in th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]Garrick Theatre, London: West End musicals nowadays tend to arrive tried and already tested elsewhere, unless they are by Andrew Lloyd Webber. I welcomed Loserville in my original review for…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The U.K.'s Cheek by Jowl will launch a new French-language version of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, beginning performances in the Hague in the Netherlands Jan. 26, 2013, then touring Engla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AM[SHARE]London's Shakespeare's Globe has announced its production slate for 2013, following a 2012 season that played to 95 percent capacity and will see Twelfth Night and Richard III transf…
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