Monday, May 28, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the return of Yes, Prime Minister, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's political comedy based on their long-running TV series of the same name. It begins perfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AM[SHARE]Dame Eileen Atkins and Sir Michael Gambon are to star in Sir Trevor Nunn's new production of Samuel Beckett's radio play All That Fall at London's fringe Jermyn Street Theatre, b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AM[SHARE]Theatre Royal, Brighton: "The world didn't change - it got changed", says Neil Bartlett during the course of his one-man retrospective recital of some of his work from the las…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AM[SHARE]Nowadays, thanks to the comment facility to most online reviews, not to mention bulletin boards and Twitter, criticism is no longer a one-way monologue but a platform for multiple conversati…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:35AM[SHARE]Friday, May 25, 2012
Michelle Ryan, best known for playing Zoe Slater in "EastEnders" for five years and the title role in the re-make of "The Bionic Woman," is to make her West End stage deb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:11AM[SHARE]Seeing a show on Broadway " any show, regardless of apparent merit " there's a virtually obligatory moment at the end when the audience rises to their feet, almost as one. No, not when the c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 24, 2012
John Dempsey and Dana P. Rowe's The Fix, which premiered at London's Donmar Warehouse in 1997 and subsequently received its U.S. premiere at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AM[SHARE]The iconic TV pop music show "Top of the Pops" that aired weekly on the BBC for over 40 years from 1964 before being canceled in 2006, is being revived for the theatre. Top of the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:03AM[SHARE]A Guardian blog last week asked: "How could technology change theatre criticism for good?" The web, of course, has already allowed a lot more voices to take part in the critical conversation…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Hampstead, London: The Olympic flame is already on its way to London and the cultural countdown has also begun with the London 2012 Festival underway at venues across the capital and the res…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AM[SHARE]In the final fortnight of the Broadway season for productions eligible for consideration this year's Tony Awards, some ten shows opened back-to-back, representing over a quarter of the shows…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Mary Shelley, a new play by Helen Edmundson based on the life of the writer of "Frankenstein," is heading to London's Tricycle Theatre, beginning performances June 12 prior to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AM[SHARE]The Royal Court's current residency at the West End's Duke of York's will continue with a transfer of Nick Payne's Constellations, to begin performances Nov. 9 prior to an of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:50AM[SHARE]On Sunday night I began the second series of These Are A Few Of My Favourite Songs at Soho Theatre, in which leading figures from different areas of the theatre talk about their lives and ca…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:27AM[SHARE]Monday, May 21, 2012
Hackney Empire, London: South Africa's Isango Ensemble, based in Cape Town, previously won an Olivier Award for its Young Vic and West End run of Mozart's The Magic Flute, and is n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:29AM[SHARE]The Theatre Royal Bath in the spa city in South West England is to produce an in-house summer season of three classic plays, new and old, overseen by visiting guest directors: Sheridan's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:25AM[SHARE]Ye Olde Rose and Crown, London: Flora the Red Menace may be a footnote show in the history of Broadway musicals, but it has left an indelible footprint - it marked not only the first Broadwa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AM[SHARE]Regular readers of this blog will know what a champion I already am of musicals in general, and of fringe musicals in particular, where shining an intimate, close-up spotlight on shows big o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:01AM[SHARE]Friday, May 18, 2012
Will Young, the British pop star who won the inaugural series of Pop Idol in 2002 and has since sold over nine million albums, is to make his West End musical theatre debut. He will star as …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AM[SHARE]Chichester Festival, Chichester: It is proving to be a most marvellous year for Chichester - this is the 50th anniversary year of the theatre's founding in 1962 under Laurence Olivier, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AM[SHARE]Savoy, London: The Sunshine Boys may be little more than an old-fashioned star vehicle, but with the sweet Little-and-Large casting of Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths this 40-year Neil Si…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AM[SHARE]I seem to have unwittingly ignited a welcome fight back by theatregoers and actors alike, tired of having performances disrupted by bad behaviour. Just the other day, a colleague posted on h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 17, 2012
Soho Cinders, an original musical featuring music by George Stiles, lyrics by Anthony Drewe and a book by Drewe and Elliot Davis, is to receive its world premiere at London's Soho Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00PM[SHARE]Vaudeville, London: It's funny how quickly one hit can become a rolling phenomenon. Farces were once a West End staple, with plays by the likes of Brian Rix and later Ray Cooney regular…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AM[SHARE]The new West End production of Neil Simon's 1972 vaudeville comedy The Sunshine Boys, starring Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths, opens officially May 17 at London's Savoy Theatre, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:51AM[SHARE]An Observer news feature a few weeks ago was headlined,"Coronation Street - The Musical hits the right note as TV cashes in on top brands," as it catalogued the series of TV shows that are c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Comedy star Tim Minchin (who also wrote the music for Matilda), former Spice Girls singer Melanie C and Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles will star in the new U.K. arena stage touring production of An…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AM[SHARE]New Wimbledon, London: Starlight Express was the most elaborate of all of the 1980s Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, a show that anticipated the current fashion for immersive theatre with race …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AM[SHARE]National Cottesloe, London: The National Theatre has a range of formal and informal relationships with leading American theatres, including New York's Lincoln Center Theatre (to which p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AM[SHARE]Anthony Rapp, who originated the role of Mark Cohen in the original Off-Broadway, Broadway and London productions of Rent and subsequently reprised it in the film version, is bringing his so…
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