Friday, September 21, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 20, 2012
Julian Barrratt, best known for being part of the comedy duo the Mighty Boosh, has joined the cast of Lucy Kirkwood's NSFW, which begins performances at London's Royal Court Jerwood …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16AM[SHARE]Anya Reiss, the award-winning playwright whose first play Spur of the Moment was written when she was 17 and won her both the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards for Most Promisi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:43AM[SHARE]Finborough Theatre, London: It seems astonishing that Passing By was written 40 years ago now, and first given a full staging in 1975 by Gay Sweatshop in London in a production that co-starr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:13AM[SHARE]St James Theatre, London: The publicity for the St James Theatre, which has opened on the site of the former Westminster Theatre near Victoria, bills it as "the first newly built theatr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AM[SHARE]The true path towards acceptance and integration of minorities isn't made, of course, when special pleading is made for them but they're happily, healthily and naturally integrated into the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The Ambassador Theatre Group, Britain's largest single theatre-owning chain with 39 theatres under its ownership and/or management, is to invest £15 million in capital projects, wh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:13AM[SHARE]Theatre Royal, Brighton: After launching with a comic misfire with the Victorian comedy Dandy Dick, the new in-house Theatre Royal Brighton producing company hits its stride with much more a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AM[SHARE]In Sondheim's immortal "The Ladies Who Lunch" from Company, Joanne famously sings of a certain type of women's desperate attempts to fill their days: Another long exhausting day, Another tho…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The family that prays together, stays together, goes one adage. You could also say that the family that plays together, stays together, too. There's always a lot of idealistic talk about the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 17, 2012
There's always a lot of debate around the subject of star ratings, and the necessarily shorthand way they have of reducing a show's worth to a simple visual reference without allowing room f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 14, 2012
Judy Craymer, producer of the worldwide stage success Mamma Mia! that is currently playing in the West End and on Broadway, as well as co-producer of the film version, will donate £125…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AM[SHARE]Ian McDiarmid will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time since 1985 to play the title role in a new production of Brecht's A Life of Galileo, which will begin perfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:05AM[SHARE]The U.K.'s National Theatre will open a New York office to oversee all of its North American activities. It will be led by Tim Levy, who has previously worked at the National in London b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AM[SHARE]The Mousetrap has, after sixty years in the West End, gone on what its producers are billing its "first ever UK tour." That ignores entirely the history of the play which, before it ever rea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]The new Michael Grandage Company, a West End producing company that will launch its first full season of plays at the Noel Coward Theatre in December, is to kick off before that with an all-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 13, 2012
Leading Swedish actor Krister Henriksson, who is best known for playing the title role in the Swedih TV series "Wallander," is to make his West End debut in Hjalmer Söderberg&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AM[SHARE]Marlowe, Canterbury: The Queen has just marked her 60th year of coming to the throne and the same diamond anniversary is also being marked this year by The Mousetrap, the Agatha Christie thr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AM[SHARE]Old Vic, London: Chicago may have just closed in the West End, but in Brian Friel's sometimes jarringly contemporary version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Judge Brack talks of going out…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AM[SHARE]Arguably the two best musical theatre composers of the last 30 years are both writers that have become famous for other things: the first, Howard Goodall for his TV theme music and documenta…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Matcham Room, Hippodrome Casino, London: The Matcham Room, London's latest and decidedly most glamorous cabaret space, has gone for bold and struck theatrical gold in its autumn program…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AM[SHARE]We Will Rock You, which recently celebrated its 10th birthday in the West End and is to reach its 4,000th performance Sept. 20, will welcome a new pair of lead performers: Oliver Tomps…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:45AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the new production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along that begins performances at London's Menier Chocolate Factory Nov. 16, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:24AM[SHARE]I've just returned from a quick trip to New York, and crammed a lot more in three days than even I am usually accustomed to. I feel like I've seen pretty much every single show currently pla…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Janie Dee will play Dolly Levi in a new production of Hello, Dolly! at the U.K.'s Curve Theatre, Leicester, replacing the originally announced Caroline O'Connor, who has withdrawn &q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM[SHARE]London's Jermyn Street Theatre will present the U.K. premiere of Bill Solly and Donald Ward's 1975 Off-Broadway musical Boy Meets Boy, beginning performances Nov. 21 prior to an offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]London's fringe Union Theatre will revive Irving Berlin's 1950 Broadway musical Call Me Madam, beginning performances Oct. 3 prior to an official opening Oct. 5, for a run through Oc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:03AM[SHARE]The forthcoming London production of A Chorus Line, which begins performances Feb. 2, 2013, prior to an official opening Feb. 19, is to hold open auditions at the London Palladium from Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:26AM[SHARE]Flop shows aren't born; they are made. And mad as well as bad. But often truly unforgettable, in a way in which the merely mediocre erase themselves gently from the memory bank. No one who e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2012
The box office for West End run of the nine-time Tony-winning hit The Book of Mormon is to open Sept. 23, with performances beginning Feb. 25, 2013, prior to an official opening March 21, at…
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I always say there is no true objectivity in reviewing; we inevitably bring who we are to what we write, and it is sometimes (though we try to make adjustments for personal circumstan…
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