Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM[SHARE]Tête à Tête will reprise its production of Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds's 1954 musical Salad Days at London's Riverside Studios where it previously had a sell…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AM[SHARE]London's Soho Theatre will offer the first full-length run of a new musical called Lift and the world premiere of Arinze Kene's God's Property as part of its spring 2013 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the new U.K. 40th anniversary tour of The Rocky Horror Show, which will begin performances at Brighton's Theatre Royal Dec. 17 for a run through Jan. 5, 20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:59AM[SHARE]Tricycle, London: There's a breath of fresh air on Kilburn High Road - after a phenomenal 28-year run as artistic director of the Tricycle Theatre, Nicolas Kent has at last been succeed…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AM[SHARE]Friday, October 12, 2012
Jermyn Street, London: Not since the late Harold Pinter starred in Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape at the 85-seater Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs has there been a studio theatre …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AM[SHARE]Kim Cattrall, who recently completed a run playing Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at Chichester Festival Theatre, is lining up to star as faded movie star Alexandra del Lago in Tennesee W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:53AM[SHARE]Casting for The Promise, the first production in the final Donmar Trafalgar season in London, in which former resident assistant directors of the company return to stage their own full produ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:22AM[SHARE]The previously announced production of The Full Monty, a play by the Oscar-winning writer Simon Beaufoy based on the Fox Searchlight Pictures film of the same name that Beaufoy also wrote, h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13AM[SHARE]The Tony-winning Broadway musical Once, based on the 2006 film of the same name set in Dublin, has confirmed dates for its West End transfer, where it will begin performances March 16, 2013,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:59AM[SHARE]The current London production of David Hare's The Judas Kiss, starring Rupert Everett as Oscar Wilde and Freddie Fox as his lover Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, ends its run at H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2012
London's annual Laurence Olivier Awards, to be presented for the 37th year in 2013, will return to the Royal Opera House, where they were also presented in 2012, for the next ceremony Ap…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PM[SHARE]The box office will open Oct. 15 for the previously announced West End world premiere of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a new stage version of Roald Dahl's story of the same name. Op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:02AM[SHARE]Michael Attenborough will step down as artistic director of London's Almeida Theatre after 11 years at the helm. He will depart in spring 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AM[SHARE]Mayflower, Southampton: I recently described the West End as hurtling ever closer to theme park oblivion with its over-reliance on the tried, already tested and familiar to produce jukebox m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2012
This House, a new play by James Graham set in Britain's House of Commons in the years between 1974 and 1979 when the Labour Party held a very slim majority, is to transfer from the Natio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:13AM[SHARE]Tommy, featuring music and lyrics by Pete Townshend and book by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff, is to be staged in the West End for one night only Nov. 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 9, 2012
The first Harold Pinter play to be performed at the Harold Pinter Theatre since the former Comedy Theatre was renamed in the playwright's honor will be Old Times, beginning performances …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:21AM[SHARE]Matcham Room, Hippodrome Casino, London: The three-times Tony nominated Broadway actress Judy Kuhn last appeared on the London stage in the short-lived West End musical version of Fritz Lang…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AM[SHARE]Monday, October 8, 2012
Rose Theatre, Kingston: The Rose Theatre in Kingston is a little out of town, but only just beyond Richmond, and its artistic director Stephen Unwin is carving out a distinctive territory th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AM[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2012
John Kander and Fred Ebb's short-lived 1997 Broadway musical Steel Pier is to receive its European professional premiere, beginning performances at London's Union Theatre Oct. 31 pri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]Imelda Staunton, who recently completed a West End run as Mrs. Lovett in the transfer of Sweeney Todd from Chichester Festival Theatre, is set to star next as Rose in the first West End revi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]Dreamboats and Petticoats, which closed at the West End's Playhouse Theatre in July, is to return to the West End, beginning performances Oct. 16 for a run through Jan. 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AM[SHARE]Burn the Floor, a ballroom dance show that has previously played the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre, will return there, beginning performances March 6, 2013, prior to an official opening…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:36AM[SHARE]The West End production of Rock of Ages, which began performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre Aug. 31, 2011, prior to opening Sept. 27, is to shutter Jan. 6, 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:14AM[SHARE]Novello, London: "You already know you're gonna love it!" proclaims the brilliant advertising slogan, summing up in just seven words both the enduring appeal of Mamma Mia! and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2012
Curve, Leicester: "It's the opening night of the year," sing the company late into the second act and they weren't kidding. Leicester's Curve was the scene for the w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AM[SHARE]A new U.K. touring production of High Society will launch in 2013, beginning performances at Llandudno's Venue Cymru Jan. 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Just Me, You and the Silence, a new play by Ugandan playwright Judy Adong, will be staged at London's Old Vic for a one night benefit performance Nov. 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]Clive Rowe, the Olivier Award-winning actor who is soon to reprise his role in Chichester's summer production of Kiss Me, Kate at London's Old Vic Theatre, will bring his one-man cab…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:02AM[SHARE]A new play The President and the Pakistani about a young Barack Obama, begins performances at London's Waterloo East Theatre Oct. 3, prior to an official opening Oct. 5, for a run throug…
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