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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:38AM[SHARE]Jermyn Street, London: In an age of relentless jukebox musicals, wrapping old pop catalogues into new stories, the more civilised pleasures of the cabaret songbook compilation, whose main pu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AM[SHARE]Mike Bartlett, currently represented Off-Broadway by Cock, is to direct a new version of Euripides' Medea that he has also written, for a production co-produced by Headlong, Glasgow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32AM[SHARE]I have just sent out my 10,000th tweet " and this is my 40th Short Shorts column here, a weekly round-up in which I collect up shorter items that don't warrant a full blog entry on their own…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2012
Old Vic Theatre, London: There is surely a certain irony that the culture secretary's announcement of a one-off grant of £5m to the Old Vic to set up an endowment fund to secu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AM[SHARE]New plays in the West End are thinner on the ground than ever. In fact, there's only one play currently there that originated there under commercial auspices: The Mousetrap, and that, of cou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2012
National Lyttelton, London: The National is showing an impressive show of confidence in a debutant writer by offering the world premiere of his first play in the Lyttelton. Most new plays, a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AM[SHARE]I've lately felt myself going mad. The theatre takes me to so different places every night that could it induce a sense of displacement and schizophrenia, not to mention occasional bouts of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2012
The National Theatre has postponed its scheduled production of The Count of Monte Cristo, which was due to begin performances Nov. 17 prior to an official opening Nov. 27 in the Olivier Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PM[SHARE]The fall and winter season at London's Barbican Theatre will include the previously announced run of a new production of Strindberg's Mademoiselle Julie starring Juliette Binoche, th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:53AM[SHARE]Twitter has many purposes, not least to provide a fast forum for the spread of news and reactions to it, so that it has become a truly interactive channel in which news is owned not just by …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 18, 2012
Steve Schalchlin and Jim Brochu's 1997 Off-Broadway musical The Last Session is to receive its U.K. premiere at London's Tristan Bates Theatre, beginning performances Sept. 25, prior…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PM[SHARE]Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, based on the Roald Dahl story that was first published in 1964 and previously adapted into two films in 1971 and 2005, is to be brought to the stage in a p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PM[SHARE]Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, based on the Roald Dahl story that was first published in 1964 and previously adapted into two films in 1971 and 2005, is to be brought to the stage in a p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PM[SHARE]Indhu Rubasingham has announced her inaugural season at the helm of London's Tricycle Theatre, which will begin with Adrian Lester starring in the world premiere of Red Velvet, a play on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28PM[SHARE]We are, of course, already beholden to the subsidised theatre for most of the creative wealth in every area of our theatrical life, from the talent " actors, directors, designers, writers an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:47AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 16, 2012
Actor/director Kenneth Branagh, RSC artistic director Michael Boyd and lyricist Richard Stilgoe (Starlight Express and original lyricist on The Phantom of the Opera) were awarded knighthoods…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:18AM[SHARE]Friday, June 15, 2012
The original West End production of Ghost the Musical, currently running at the Piccadilly Theatre, has confirmed that it is to shutter Oct. 6. It was originally booking through April 20, 20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29AM[SHARE]Our Boys, Jonathan Lewis' autobiographically inspired play about the experiences of young soldiers recovering from injuries incurred in the line of duty, is to be revived for a West End …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21AM[SHARE]Rain stopped (the) play at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park at Monday's press night for A Midsummer Night's Dream, but it hasn't stopped (some of) the reviews from appearing. Michael Cove…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2012
Director Michael Grandage, former artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse and currently represented on Broadway by his production of Evita, is to debut his new West End company with a seas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00PM[SHARE]Noel Coward, London: Stage versions of literary sources are a long established theatrical tradition, from hit musicals made of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables to Gaston Leroux's The P…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2012
One of the joys of theatre is that it is constantly evolving: there is no 'fixed', final cut, as in a movie when it is ready to be released. Instead, every single performance can be, and oft…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07PM[SHARE]Mathew Horne, best known as Gavin in TV's "Gavin and Stacey" and in his series "Horne and Corden" with James Corden, is to return to the theatrical stage to play the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, London: Douglas Hodge began his journey to Olivier and Tony winning glory playing a drag queen in the Menier Chocolate Factory's production of the Broadway mus…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AM[SHARE]I recently wrote about a few of my favourite leading ladies and leading men in West End musicals, and now that I just returned yesterday from my Tony week on Broadway, it's a good opportunit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy will tour the U.K. in a re-cast version of the Broadway production, directed again by David Esbjornson.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28PM[SHARE]Double Olivier Award winner Sheridan Smith will play the title role in a new production of Hedda Gabler at London's Old Vic in September, to be followed by the transfer of the new Trevor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]Yesterday I reported on the results of the Tony Awards, which I'd experienced first hand by attending the Sunday morning rehearsal at the Beacon Theatre so I had at least seen the show first…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Meet Ramin Karimloo, the Iranian-born, Canadian-raised actor who became a West End star wearing the mask of the Phantom of the Opera. He talks about his past work and his new album.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2012
The new season at London's Royal Court is to kick off in September with the world premiere of Caryl Churchill's latest, with new plays by Royal Court regulars Martin Crimp and Jez Bu…
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