Wednesday, October 3, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:46AM[SHARE]Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford: After Harold Pinter's death, one of my critical colleagues made the rather bold, extravagant claim that Ronald Harwood was his heir as "now unquestionably…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Tom Morris, co-director of the international hit War Horse, is teaming up again with Handspring Puppet Company, who created the puppets for War Horse, for a new production of A Midsummer Nig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AM[SHARE]Robert Lepage, the Canadian theatre maker who has regularly brought shows to London's Riverside Studios, National Theatre and Barbican and also directed at the Royal Opera House, is to r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]The National's award-winning production of War Horse, an ongoing success in the West End, on Broadway, in Toronto and on a U.S. tour, is to launch its first tour of the U.K. and Ireland,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AM[SHARE]Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's musical Seussical, based on the works of Dr. Seuss, is to be presented at London's Arts Theatre, beginning performances Dec. 4, prior to an officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AM[SHARE]Midnight Tango, a dance show featuring Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace of TV's "Strictly Come Dancing," is to return to the West End, beginning a five-week season at the Phoen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AM[SHARE]The U.K.'s National Theatre has reported another bumper year both at its home base on London's South Bank and in the West End, with productions playing to an increasingly global reac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AM[SHARE]Queen guitarist Brian May and West End singer Kerry Ellis will reunite onstage for the Born Free tour, a series of 11 intimate and acoustic shows performed under candlelight beginning Nov. 5…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, London: If Brazil, according to the most famous running gag in theatrical comedy history in Charley's Aunt, is where the nuts come from, Southwark's Menie…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2012
Full casting has been announced for Viva Forever!, the new musical written by Jennifer Saunders that features the hit songs of the Spice Girls; performances will begin at the West End's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]The nominations for the 2012 Theatre Awards UK, presented annually by the UK's Theatrical Management Association, have been announced. Nominees include playwrights David Hare and Sarah R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tom Edden, a 2012 Tony Award nominee for Best Performance By an Actor in a Featured Role for his performance as the doddery waiter Alfie in the Broadway run of One Man, Two Guvnors, will ret…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:13AM[SHARE]Harold Pinter Theatre, London: It's not long since the Old Vic's revival of Michael Frayn's Noises Off, set behind the scenes of a touring farce (in every sense), transferred …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2012
Tristan Bates Theatre, London: A singer-songwriter, once dubbed the Baptist Manilow in his days as a gospel figurehead, is now facing a death sentence from Aids, and decides to record one fi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:10AM[SHARE]The press night diary is already so full already that we hardly search out shows that we are not actually invited to see. It barely entered my radar that the return of an all-male production…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2012
This year's London Evening Standard Theatre Awards, now in their 58th year, are to be presented Nov. 25 in a ceremony to be held at the Savoy Theatre. The awards will be presented by Jam…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AM[SHARE]It what is turning out to be the most gripping " yet also tragic " behind-the-scenes scenes to happen in modern musical history, Rebecca - the Musical is in serious trouble again. It was ori…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2012
London's Landor Theatre will present the professional world premiere of Howard Goodall's A Winter's Tale, beginning performances Nov. 7 prior to an official opening Nov. 12, for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AM[SHARE]London's Arcola Theatre will present the U.K. premiere of Sweet Smell of Success, the Marvin Hamlisch (music), Craig Carnelia (lyrics) and John Guare (book) musical based on the 1957 Hol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AM[SHARE]Prince of Wales Theatre, London: The Beatles were officially launched with the release of Love Me Do, on October 5, 1962, and now almost exactly 50 years later, they're back - or at lea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AM[SHARE]How much do we give away and how much do we keep of (and to) ourselves? It's a question that arises when you're writing a regular blog or conversing frequently, as I do, on Twitter; you're e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 24, 2012
The 02 Arena, London: Everything's not alright, alas, about a production which isn't so much a musical as a deafening, deadening travesty of a great show.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AM[SHARE]The rock world has been doing it for ages, of course; though I don't go to many, concert tours regularly seem to turn into fully-fledged theatrical presentations. The Pet Shop Boys, for inst…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Our House, which won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical for its original run at the West End's Cambridge Theatre in 2002, is to be reprised for a 10th anniversary concert. I…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 22, 2012
The West End run of the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Sweeney Todd, which has been playing at the Adelphi Theatre since March 10, closes, as scheduled, Sept. 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 21, 2012
Helen Mirren, who won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen," scripted by Peter Morgan, will return to the role to play her …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AM[SHARE]The multiple Tony-winning musical Once is heading to the West End. According to the UK's Daily Mail, it will begin performances at the Phoenix Theatre in March 2013.
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Where does the restoration levy go? 
One of the great mysteries of the theatrical universe is just how the restoration levy is spent that most theatre chains, both in the West E…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Ben Elton and Queen's We Will Rock You, which recently celebrated its 10th birthday and has now played over 4,000 performances to over 6.4 million people at the West End's Dominion T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52AM[SHARE]Priscilla Presley, former wife of Elvis Presley to whom she was married from 1967 to 1973 and is best known for starring in the "Naked Gun" films as for playing Jenna Wade in TV…
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