Friday, July 20, 2012
Erica Whyman, currently chief executive and artistic director of Northern Stage in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is to join the Royal Shakespeare Company as deputy artistic director to Gregory Doran …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AM[SHARE]The full cast has been announced for the world premiere of Nick Dear's The Dark Earth and the Light Sky at London's Almeida Theatre. It begins performances Nov. 8 prior to an officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:42AM[SHARE]Mark Gatiss is to star as King Charles I in the world premiere of Howard Brenton's 55 Days at London's Hampstead Theatre, beginning perfomrances Oct. 18 prior to an official opening …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:40AM[SHARE]Dominic West, best known for starring in "The Wire," is swapping Baltimore for his native Sheffield, to return to the Crucible Theatre to play Professor Higgins in its Christmas pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32AM[SHARE]I may be on my honeymoon, but I'm inevitably still plugged into the theatre back home (whether in my main home of London or my new second home of New York). Yes, I'm spending long days by th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 19, 2012
The U.K.'s Theatrical Management Association will hold its annual Theatre Awards U.K. ceremony (formerly the TMA Awards) Oct. 28 at London's Guildhall, a medieval listed landmark in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:29AM[SHARE]Caroline O'Connor, who earlier this year played Mama Rose in Gypsy at Leicester's Curve in the U.K., is to return to the venue to play another classic role, Dolly Levi, in its Christ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Final casting has been announced for the new London production of Boy George's Taboo, beginning performances Sept. 6 prior to an official opening Sept. 12, at Brixton's Club House.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Noel Coward's Volcano, never performed in its author's lifetime, is to receive its West End premiere in its first major production. The current U.K. touring production, directed by R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:16AM[SHARE]No, I didn't walk into a chapel on Saturday to get happily hysterical at my own wedding; instead, as I said in my Short Shorts blog on Friday, my partner and I walked into a park instead
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2012
The new London production of Boy George's Taboo, beginning performances Sept. 6 prior to an official opening Sept. 12, will star 20-year-old newcomer Sam Buttery as Leigh Bowery.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:59AM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2012
Roger Rees, a long-serving company member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for whom he played such roles as Hamlet, Berowne, Roderigo and Claudio in Shakespeare plays, is to bring his solo s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AM[SHARE]Further casting has been announced for the new production of Boy George's Taboo, which will begin performances at the Brixton Club House Sept. 6 prior to an official opening Sept. 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:06AM[SHARE]Initial casting has been revealed for the West End premiere of Viva Forever!, an original musical based around the music of the Spice Girls, which begins performances at the Piccadilly Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:59AM[SHARE]Chicago, the West End's longest-ever running revival, now in its 15th year in London (where it is currently playing at the Garrick, its third London house after originally opening at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AM[SHARE]Helen Hobson, who has previously played the role of Donna Sheridan in Mamma Mia! in the West End in 2007, is to return to the role, taking over from Sally Ann Triplett from Sept. 24, at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:47AM[SHARE]Steph Fearon, who reached the semi-finals of the BBC TV's "Over the Rainbow" search to find a Dorothy for The Wizard of Oz, is to play Mimi in a new London production of Rent&n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:41AM[SHARE]You wait ages for one classy cabaret place to open, and then suddenly there are two in the space of less than two months on either side of the Atlantic: just last weekend I saw a preview per…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2012
U.S. musical theatre composers Scott Evan Davis, Georgia Stitt and Michael Patrick Walker will have their work celebrated in London in a one-off performance, taking place Aug. 19, under the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse, London: The original 1974 Broadway production of Mack and Mabel ran for less than two months, and two West End incarnations in 1995 and 2006 hardly fared better. The sho…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The countdown to the Olympics began, of course, on that now far-off day of July 6, 2006 when it was announced that London had won its bid to host the event this year; and one of the immediat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Full casting has been announced for the Old Vic's new production of Hedda Gabler, beginning performances Sept. 5 prior to an official opening Sept. 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Michael Boyd has announced his final season at the helm of the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is set to include a number of major new Shakespearean productions including Jonathan Slinger a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]Monday, July 9, 2012
So another reality TV casting round for a live theatrical show is upon us, in which the public are being handed the power to choose the lead for a major role for a forthcoming live productio…
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The publication last week of SOLT's annual Box Office Data Report offers a comprehensive statistical breakdown on how revenues not only held up but shot up yet again in the 51 full me…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 6, 2012
Laura Michelle Kelly, London's original Mary Poppins who also reprised that role on Broadway, will star in the title role of Arthur Wing Pinero's The Second Mrs. Tanqueray at the U.K…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AM[SHARE]Idina Menzel, who previously appeared in London in a one-night solo concert at the Royal Albert Hall, is returning to play a full week's run at the West End's Apollo Theatre, running…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:41AM[SHARE]Daddy Cool, a disco musical based on songs written by Frank Farian for Boney M and other artists including Milli Vanilli, No Mercy, Eruption and La Bouch, is to hit the U.K. touring road, be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:58AM[SHARE]It used to be clear: the West End 'opening night' was the night that the critics attended, so did the celebrities and investors, and the reviews duly appeared the next morning (hence the uns…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2012
The full cast has been announced for the new production of David Hare's The Judas Kiss, which begins performances at London's Hampstead Theatre Sept. 6 prior to an official opening S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:49AM[SHARE]The West End production of Jonathan Lewis' play Our Boys, which begins performances at the Duchess Theatre Sept. 26 prior to an official opening Oct. 3, has completed casting.
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