Monday, September 10, 2012

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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 7, 2012
Conleth Hill, Will Keen, Felicity Montagu and Malcolm Sinclair are to join the previously announced Rowan Atkinson in the cast of a new West End production of of Simon Gray's Quartermain…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PM[SHARE]Marguerite, the 2008 musical that features music by Michel Legrand and was co-written with Alain Boubil, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer, is to receive a revised production…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AM[SHARE]Janie Dee, Sacha Dhawan, Kevin Doyle, Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Esther Smith will be featured in the cast of Lucy Kirkwood's NSFW, which begins performances at London's Royal Court Jerw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:49AM[SHARE]Janie Dee, Sacha Dhawan, Kevin Doyle, Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Esther Smith will be featured in the cast of Lucy Kirkwood's NSFW, which begins performances at London's Royal Court Jerw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:49AM[SHARE]Douglas Hodge, who won a Tony Award for Leading Actor in a Musical for his starring role in La Cage aux Folles and is about to begin performances on Broadway in the title role of Cyrano de B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:34AM[SHARE]A Chorus Line is to receive its first full London revival since the original Broadway production transferred to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1976, where it ran for three years. It will n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00AM[SHARE]It's a nice problem to have, I know, but critics next week face a major feast after a (relative) critical famine. This week we've had some fringe openings at Jermyn Street (Kissing Sid James…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 6, 2012
A London fringe revival of the 1995 Broadway musical Victor/Victoria, based on the 1982 Blake Edwards film of the same name that starred Julie Andrews in the title role/s, is to be staged at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PM[SHARE]Imagem Music Group, the international owner and/or licensor of a catalogue of some of Broadway's most celebrated musicals from The Sound of Music and The King and I to White Christmas, I…
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One of the comments I get a lot on Twitter is "I wish I had your job". Yes, I go to see a lot of theatre " and not just in London " for free. And no, it's not exactly a hardship; I wi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Robert Powell will join the cast of the West End's Singin' in the Rain, beginning performances Oct. 1, to play film studio boss RF Simpson. Bookings have also been newly extended thr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:13AM[SHARE]London's Southwark Playhouse is to bid farewell to its current home near London Bridge station with the world premiere of Philip Ridley's Feathers in the Snow, beginning performances…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:28AM[SHARE]London's Southwark Playhouse is to bid farewell to its current home near London Bridge station with the world premiere of Philip Ridley's Feather in the Stone, beginning performances…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:27AM[SHARE]John Light will star in Will Eno's Thom Pain (based on nothing) in a new production at London's Print Room in Notting Hill, beginning performances Sept. 15 prior to an official openi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:14AM[SHARE]A couple of days ago I posted a blog here about some of the autumn theatrical highlights, and someone immediately (not so) gently enquired on Twitter, "Were you only allowed to mention plays…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The 24 Hour Play Celebrity Gala, the annual fundraising gala of London's Old Vic, will become The 24 Hour Musicals Celebrity Gala for the first time this year, for the one-off event Dec.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45AM[SHARE]The full price range for the West End arrival of The Book of Mormon next February at the West End's Prince of Wales Theatre is yet to be revealed, but on Broadway the top premium price is no…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 3, 2012
London's Donmar Warehouse is to present an all-female production of Julius Caesar with Phyllida Lloyd directing a cast that includes Harriet Walter as Brutus; Pinero's Trelawney of t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AM[SHARE]It's Labour Day in the US today, which marks the official end of the summer there; meanwhile in the UK it would have been nice if we'd had one at all. But the arrival of September also means…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 1, 2012
Playbill London correspondent Mark Shenton shines a spotlight on some of the theatrical highlights promised in London and beyond this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Chicago, the West End's longest-ever running revival, shutters Sept. 1 after a run of 15 years. It is currently playing at the Garrick, its third London house after originally opening at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 31, 2012
Laura Carmichael, best known for her role as Edith Crawly in TV's "Downton Abbey," will make her West End debut in a new production of Uncle Vanya, beginning performances at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AM[SHARE]Shrek the Musical will shutter at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Feb. 24, 2013, after a 20-month run, and will be followed by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, originally slated for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:57AM[SHARE]Goodnight Mister Tom, a stage version of Michelle Magorian's U.K. children's classic, is to begin performances at the West End's Phoenix Theatre Nov. 22, prior to an official ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:55AM[SHARE]It's always said that the older you get the faster time seems to go. Maybe it's because it is running out, but it seems only yesterday that I introduced this weekly round-up feature Short Sh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 30, 2012
The fall and winter season at London's National Theatre will include the world premiere of the previously announced Alan Bennett play People and John Lithgow returning to the Nation…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AM[SHARE]U.K. TV star Darren Day (best known for "Hollyoaks") will lead the cast of the U.K. premiere of Steve Schalchlin and Jim Brochu's 1997 Off-Broadway musical The Last Session, be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:29AM[SHARE]The National Youth Music Theatre's young ensemble, who recently gave a six-performance run of Jason Robert Brown's musical 13 at the West End's Apollo Theatre, have recorded it f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:40AM[SHARE]"Thanks for the warm-up," the billboards announcing Channel 4's coverage of the Paralympic Games have been cheekily announcing all over the place; and last night, of course, they kicked off …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 29, 2012
A report from Ontario's Stratford Shakespeare Festival, this year celebrating its 60th anniversary and its final season under Tony Award winner Des McAnuff. Christopher Plummer, Lucy Pea…
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