Thursday, July 5, 2012
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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:47AM[SHARE]Summer? What summer? Of course we've had press nights rained off at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park mid-performance (though I wasn't there myself, fortunately); but nothing epitomises th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Theatre Royal, Brighton: Brighton's venerable Theatre Royal has a 205 year pedigree as one of the most beloved of all seaside theatres. It was once one of the most important try-out hou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AM[SHARE]Theatre, of course, doesn't officially know borders; it's an international activity, and indeed one thing it can do is break down national (or even notional) boundaries between people. The e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Tamsin Greig and Doon Mackichan will both return to the cast of April de Angelis's Jumpy, to reprise the roles of best friends Hilary and Frances, respectively, that they originated in t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:29AM[SHARE]We are in the midst of festivals season, from the annual ones like Brighton last month to Edinburgh next, the biannual ones like the current LIFT, or the one-off, ad hoc, and apparently all-…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2012
London's Lyric Hammersmith has announced its fall and winter season, which will include the London premiere of a play by Simon Stephens for young performers, a rare revival of Eugene O&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM[SHARE]Jane Asher, Sam Kelly and Norman Pace will join the previously announced Mathew Horne in a new production of the classic comedy Charley's Aunt that begins performances at London's Me…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30AM[SHARE]If plays are tricky to pull off successfully, musicals are famously even tougher: all the stars need to be alignment, and I don't just mean those with star billing. The fact is that musicals…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2012
Meet Bill Deamer, London's latest star theatre choreographer, the man behind the feet and movement of the screen-to-stage musical Top Hat.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PM[SHARE]Friday, June 29, 2012
Full casting has been announced for a new production of Chekhov's Three Sisters that begins performances at London's Young Vic Sept. 8, prior to an official opening Sept. 13, for a r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]London's Almeida Theatre has announced full casting for its production of King Lear that begins performances Aug. 31, prior to an official opening Sept. 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]Matthew Lewis, best known for playing Neville Longbottom in the "Harry Potter" film series, is to make his West End debut in Our Boys, which begins performances Sept. 26 at the Duc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:06AM[SHARE]Principal casting has been announced for the U.K. premiere of Dolly Parton's 9 to 5: The Musical, which begins performances at Manchester's Opera House Oct. 12 for a run through Oct.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:04AM[SHARE]Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London: Joe Penhall returns to the Royal Court with his second mainstage play in a six month period. After Haunted Child, which was about a father go…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AM[SHARE]Of course it's all for the TV cameras and photographers. And the people that serve this hungry mob. PR folk seemed to virtually outnumber actual journalists at the publicity launch for Viva …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 28, 2012
Alan Ayckbourn's 1984 comedy A Chorus of Disapproval is to receive a West End revival, directed by Trevor Nunn, with a cast led by Rob Brydon, Nigel Harman and Ashley Jensen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:10PM[SHARE]Festival Theatre, Chichester: Both of last year's Chichester mainstage musical revivals of Sweeney Todd and Singin' in the Rain are now playing successfully in the West End, and no…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AM[SHARE]"Superstar," the new U.K. reality TV casting show to find a performer to play Jesus in the already-announced arena stage tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, will begin transmission on …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:37AM[SHARE]The new St. James Theatre, built on the site of the former Westminster Theatre near Victoria Station, will open to the public in early August, with the first season of work kicking off with …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:20AM[SHARE]Theatre is all about how much it touches us each personally. We measure it in the depth and range of our own responses, but the curious thing about the art of theatre criticism is that those…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 27, 2012
The West End's Criterion Theatre, located at Piccadilly Circus and home to the long-running production of The 39 Steps, is to host a season called Playing the Games that will celebrate b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]Paul Baker, who won the 2003 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his appearance as real-life club promoter Philip Sallon in the original London run of Boy Georg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:59AM[SHARE]Quarry Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Is the British-originated and written musical at last reclaiming its winning streak?
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AM[SHARE]No, I don't have a crystal ball, unfortunately. But the other day I saw the return to London of a ground-breaking musical, The Fix " first premiered in the UK, at the Donmar Warehouse in 199…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The new musical Viva Forever, featuring the songs made famous by the Spice Girls and a new original book by Jennifer Saunders, has confirmed that it will play at the West End's Piccadill…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AM[SHARE]When I left home on Sunday morning to head to this year's West End Live, things weren't looking promising: there was a sudden windy downpour. But by the time I arrived in Trafalgar Square fo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 25, 2012
Veteran entertainer Tommy Steele, who has headlined more performances at the London Palladium than any other performer in its history, will return there, reprising the title role in Leslie B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PM[SHARE]Hampstead Theatre, London: Theatrical marathons are all the rage at the moment: while the New York company Elevator Repair Service have brought Gatz, their all-day theatricalisation of The G…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AM[SHARE]I keep expecting the Edinburgh Fringe bubble to burst " but every year it proves me wrong and gets ever bigger. This year's programme, which runs to 376 pages plus covers and is the size of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 22, 2012
Anita Dobson, still best known for her iconic role as Angie in BBC TV's "EastEnders," which she played for three years from 1985 to 1988, is to make her RSC debut, joining the …
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