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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:40AM[SHARE]So the Tony Awards are over for another year, with the presentation of Broadway theatre's biggest prizes to itself held last night at the Beacon Theatre " not a Broadway house, though it has…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2012
Ken Stott, Anna Friel and Samuel West are to star in a new West End production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, beginning performances Oct. 24 prior to an official opening Nov. 2 at the Vaudevi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AM[SHARE]Rowan Atkinson is to star in the title role of a new West End production of Simon Gray's 1981 play Quartermaine's Terms, beginning performances Jan. 23, 2013, at the Vaudeville Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]The full cast has been announced for Trevor Nunn's new production of Cole Porter and Sam and Bella Spewack's Kiss Me, Kate, which will begin performances at the U.K.'s Chichester…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]The new season at London's Hampstead Theatre will kick off with a revival of David Hare's The Judas Kiss starring Rupert Everett and Freddie Fox, and will also include two world prem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2012
The nine-time Tony-winning hit The Book of Mormon is getting ready to transfer to the West End. The website for the London production has been launched, with a sign-up form for priority book…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17PM[SHARE]Broadway has often been described as a fabulous invalid, a moniker taken from a 1938 Kaufman/Hart play that ran for less than two months in 1938 " and as a sign of another era of theatre ent…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07PM[SHARE]The Hurly Burly Show, an all-singing, all-dancing revue headlined by Miss Polly Rae and featuring burlesque stars and speciality variety artists, is to return to the West End, beginning perf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[SHARE]Gareth Gates and Jennifer Ellison are to join the current U.K. tour of Legally Blonde the Musical, taking over from Ray Quinn and Niki Evans as Warner and Paulette respectively, with Faye Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AM[SHARE]Russell Grant, Mary Byrne and Rhydian Roberts will play Teen Angel at different dates of the ongoing U.K. tour of Grease, joining Danny Bayne as Danny and Carina Gillespie as Sandy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:44AM[SHARE]On Tuesday I attended the most remarkable and celebratory of all the annual awards ceremonies that proliferate in New York at this time of the year: the Theatre World Awards, presented in th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Boy George's Taboo will return to London, where it will begin performances Sept. 7 for a run that is booking through Dec. 23, at a new multi-purpose indoor and outdoor clubbing venue the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2012
It's awards week in New York, where I am right now " last Sunday night it was the turn of the Drama Desk Awards, with the Tony Awards to follow this coming Sunday, while today sees the prese…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:31AM[SHARE]Friday, June 1, 2012
Hair is to return to the West End for one night only July 1, as a fundraiser for the Help the Heroes Charity at the Piccadilly Theatre, with a cast that includes George Maguire, recently see…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]The London fringe revival of Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart's Mack and Mabel will be led by Norman Bowman and Laura Pitt-Pulford in the title roles. It begins performances at Southwark…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AM[SHARE]A new cabaret season, presented under the umbrella title Live at the Hippodrome, will launch July 2 at the Matcham Room at the Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM[SHARE]David Leonard will join the cast of the West End's Matilda the Musical, beginning performances July 3, taking over from Olivier winner Bertie Carvel as Mrs. Trunchbull, and Annette McLau…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]The new musical Viva Forever, featuring songs made famous by the Spice Girls pop group woven into a new story by TV performer and writer Jennifer Saunders, is expected to premiere at West En…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AM[SHARE]Northampton Chronicle and Echo Printing Press Rooms/Royal Theatre, Northampton: In austere economic times, when theatres are playing it safe or not at all, it is bold and exciting to find a …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AM[SHARE]This is the final weekend of the Shakespeare's Globe's massive Globe to Globe project, in which 37 different companies were invited from all over the world to come to perform the full set of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2012
The new season at London's National Theatre, running through November, is to include a new production of Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution starring Fiona Shaw, the premiere of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45AM[SHARE]Yesterday I wrote here about my favourite leading women in British musicals, and today it's the turn of the men. It's a surprisingly shorter list; the competition doesn't feel as fierce. We …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Elaine Paige used to bill herself as the first lady of British musicals, but she also used to be first in a relatively small field. Julia McKenzie also made a significant mark, but that was …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Soul Sister, a new musical inspired by the music, life and times of Tina Turner and her former husband Ike, is to transfer to the West End's Savoy Theatre, beginning performances Aug. 20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:08AM[SHARE]Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London: Repertoire and A Midsummer Night's Dream are both back at Regent's Park this year, but whereas the now annual musical usually comes last it…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AM[SHARE]The world moves fast nowadays but Twitter moves even faster. In the constantly updated timelines of Twitter users, we are both generating content and absorbing it at a pace that's literally …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:47AM[SHARE]Monday, May 28, 2012
Monty Python's Spamalot is to return to the West End, beginning performances July 24 at the Harold Pinter Theatre, prior to an official opening July 31, for a run through Sept. 9, in the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AM[SHARE]Kander and Ebb's 2006 Broadway musical Curtains is to receive its U.K. professional premiere in a run at London's fringe Landor Theatre, beginning performances July 25 prior to an of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AM[SHARE]Casting has been confirmed for the RSC/Wooster Group co-production of Troilus and Cressida, being premiered as part of the World Shakespeare Festival at Stratford-upon-Avon's Swan Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AM[SHARE]The London production of Wicked, now in its sixth year at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, is to welcome a new Wizard of Oz. Keith Bartlett will begin performances July 30, taking over from Desm…
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