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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PM[SHARE]I know there shouldn't be time for repeats, given how much new stuff there's around that I've also not seen yet, but sometimes I want my pleasures guaranteed a bit (as the advertising taglin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Richard O' Brien's cult musical The Rocky Horror Show will launch a new 40th anniversary U.K.-wide tour, beginning performances at Brighton's Theatre Royal Dec. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AM[SHARE]It's the lull before the storm: now that the Edinburgh Fringe is over, and so are the Olympics (but not, of course, the Paralympics, which kick off with tomorrow's opening ceremony and I'm a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 24, 2012
Monty Python's Spamalot, currently running at the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre through Sept. 9, will resume its run at the Playhouse Theatre Nov. 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:44AM[SHARE]Ramin Karimloo, currently on a solo tour that will include several Canada and USA dates in September, including appearances at BB King's in New York Sept. 13 and 16, will join the line-u…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:11AM[SHARE]Edinburgh winds down this weekend (or at least the fringe part does; the official festival still has a week to go). I did it early this year " I was there for the first week of the fringe " …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 23, 2012
London's Donmar Warehouse has announced the final season of its three-year initiative to promote the work of young directors who have previously assisted at the Covent Garden venue. New …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AM[SHARE]Loserville, a new original British musical written by Elliot Davis and James Bourne, has confirmed its transfer to the West End's Garrick Theatre, where it will begin performances Oct. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AM[SHARE]Apollo, London: Jason Robert Brown's Parade has been produced at the Donmar and Southwark Playhouse, and The Last Five Years at the Menier Chocolate Factory and in a series of Sunday ni…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AM[SHARE]In New York, the change of the seasons marks an annual cleansing of the theatrical palette, too. On Broadway, shows that make it past arrival of the summer with the Tony Awards in early June…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Dominic West, best known for his appearances as Jimmy McNutly in the HBO series "The Wire", will star in the London world premiere of Jez Butterworth's The River, beginning per…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:57PM[SHARE]The full cast has been announced for the forthcoming arena stage tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and TIm Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar that begins performances at London's 02 Arena Sept.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PM[SHARE]I am finally back in London: I left town six weeks ago today and, apart from one night of less than ten hours, between flying in from New York late one Friday night and heading up to Edinbur…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 17, 2012
After the hell (at times) of Edinburgh last week, dashing around seeing some 30 shows on the fringe and one in the international festival, I'm now in theatrical heaven after flying last Sund…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 15, 2012
London's Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park will launch its 2013 season with To Kill a Mockingbird, a stage version of Harper Lee's novel by Christopher Sergel, and, later, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]A cast that includes Nigel Cooke, Stephen Campbell Moore and Dominic Rowan will join the previously announced Anne-Marie Duff in the Donmar Warehouse's new production of Racine's Ber…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Stanley Houghton's Hindle Wakes, which premiered at the West End's Aldwych Theatre in 1912, will be revived to mark its centenary at London's Finborough Theatre, beginning perfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AM[SHARE]Young London-based Defibrillator Theatre Company will take over three suites across three floors of the Grange Holborn Hotel in central London to perform three Tennessee Williams plays &ndas…
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Last week I held a seminar for The Stage Events for those interested in careers in arts journalism, in which I began by pointing out the obvious " that critics are everywhere in Edinb…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2012
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: The Edinburgh Fringe is naturally saturated with one-person shows - they are cheaper to put on and the (mostly non-existent) profits do not have to be shared…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AM[SHARE]Betty Buckley's previously reported turn in the U.K. premiere of Jerry Herman's musical Dear World will play Feb. 4-March 30, 2013, at London's Charing Cross Theatre. The creativ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:40AM[SHARE]Jamie Lloyd, currently preparing to make his Broadway directing debut with Roundabout's production of Cyrano de Bergerac, is to partner with Britain's largest theatrical owner Ambass…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:11AM[SHARE]Friday, August 10, 2012
Rufus Sewell, Kristin Scott Thomas and Lia Williams will star in a new West End production of Harold Pinter's Old Times, scheduled to open at the Harold Pinter Theatre in January.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AM[SHARE]The Master and Margarita, Complicite's stage version of Bulgakov's novel that premiered at London's Barbican Theatre in March/April, is to return to the same venue for a Christma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AM[SHARE]Loserville, a new original British musical written by Elliot Davis and James Bourne, is set to transfer to the West End's Garrick Theatre, beginning performances Oct. 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16AM[SHARE]New principals have been announced to take over in the West End's The Phantom of the Opera, including Broadway's Marcus Lovett, who takes over the title role, with Simon Thomas, Lara…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AM[SHARE]The closing ceremony to this year's Olympics Games, being held Aug. 12 at London's Olympic Stadium, will feature what's being described as a "one great, big rock 'n'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AM[SHARE]During this week last year, London was burning thanks to the riots that took place across the city. And this year, London is burning up with something else entirely: Olympics fever. Yet in t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 9, 2012
The critically acclaimed London revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd, which stars Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton, will end its limited engagement Sept. 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2012
New cast members will join the London company of Wicked at London's Apollo Victoria beginning Oct. 29.
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