Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18AM[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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Monday's Guardian included a full page ad for the new Wildworks outdoor show Babel, being presented as part of World Stages London, containing critical quotes. "Heart-warming and upli…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:59AM[SHARE]A new West End production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw officially opens May 16 at at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre, following previews that began May 4, for a run through A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Just the other day I was talking about drawing up lists of favourite things, and last week Michael Coveney provided his own list of his favourite UK theatres, in which he wrote, "I wonder if…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:49AM[SHARE]Lisa D'Amour's Detroit, which premiered in a production at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 2011, opens officially at London's National Theatre May 15, following prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 14, 2012
Yes, Prime Minister, the stage version of the hit TV series of the same name, is to return to the West End, beginning performances June 6 at the Trafalgar Studios, close to the heart of gove…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00PM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber will receive a BASCA Fellowship (presented by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, the professional association for music writers of all genres in t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM[SHARE]The peripatetic Paines Plough touring company, who in the last two years have visited more than 50 places across the U.K., has announced its full program for the rest of 2012 that will see i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:28AM[SHARE]The original West End production of Billy Elliot welcomes its 30th Billy, 12-year-old Harrison Dowzell, from Nottinghamshire, who joins the company May 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:30AM[SHARE]Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer LIVE! Search for the City of Lost Toys will arrive at the West End's Apollo Theatre beginning performances Aug. 28, for a three-week season through Se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:21AM[SHARE]Theatre is a constantly evolving art form " from the top (of who makes it and where they make it) to the all-important bottom line of who receives it, i.e us the audience and how we see it (…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:42AM[SHARE]Friday, May 11, 2012
Vicky Featherstone, currently artistic director of the National Theatre of Scotland and previously of Paines Plough, is to take over as artistic director of London's Royal Court. She wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:10PM[SHARE]The 1997 British feature film The Full Monty, revolving around six unemployed steel workers from Yorkshire who form themselves into a male striptease act, has already spawned one stage versi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AM[SHARE]Old Municipal Market, Brighton: A multidisciplinary fusion of installation art, cinematic projections and theatrical confrontation, Land's End is a taut, teasing integration of all thre…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AM[SHARE]It's been an interesting week: I have been making headlines this week as well as writing them for a change. My blog entry here on Monday that recounted my encounter with Bianca Jagger at las…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 10, 2012
Fuerza Bruta, previously seen at London's Roundhouse in 2006 when it re-opened that venue after a refurbishment and was subsequently seen at Off-Broadway's Daryl Roth Theatre, is to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AM[SHARE]Aldwych Theatre, London: After the long-running film-to-stage adaptation of Dirty Dancing and the recent Midnight Tango, which both played at the Aldwych, Top Hat, another movie musical, has…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AM[SHARE]Anthony Hopkins Theatre, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: It is over 30 years now since the epic failure of the original Broadway production of Merrily We Roll Along that ran for just 16 performanc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AM[SHARE]It's always difficult picking favourites " but of course we all have them. One of the questions I'm asked most regularly is what my favourite show playing in London is, or to provide a list …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Des O'Connor, who has already clocked up over 1,200 solo appearances at the London Palladium, will return to the venue to take over the title role of The Wizard of Oz, beginning performa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]In the week following the announcement of this year's Tony nominations, the Broadway box office grosses for last week make interesting reading " and worrying signs for a few shows on the cur…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:45AM[SHARE]Top Hat, a stage version of the 1935 film of the same name, opens at the West End's Aldwych Theatre May 9, following previews that began April 19 and a previous national tour.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 8, 2012
A cast of West End principals will celebrate the work of Dorothy Fields in a new revue The Sunny Side of the Street that will begin performances at London's Jermyn Street Theatre June 19…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:37AM[SHARE]Grand Theatre, Leeds: Stephen Sondheim once deftly answered a question about what makes a show an opera or a musical by saying, "I've always defined opera as anything done in an op…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AM[SHARE]A Walk On Part, based on the diaries of former British Member of Parliament Chris Mullin, will transfer to the West End's Arts Theatre, beginning performances June 19, prior to an offici…
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Reviews come in lots of shades of grey. Thanks to the virtually all-pervasive system of star ratings across the reviewing landscape " though not, as I've pointed out before, in The St…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:39AM[SHARE]Lisa D'Amour's Detroit, originally premiered in a production at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 2011, begins performances at London's National Theatre May 8, prior t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Rupert Goold's new stage adaptation of CS Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which Goold is co-directing with Michael Fentiman, begins performances May 8, prior to an …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 7, 2012
I'm not often driven to rage in the theatre, but at Friday's opening of Robert Wilson's production of Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach at the Barbican Theatre I found my patience sorely …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:06AM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2012
Theatre marketeers and practitioners exist in different but obviously overlapping worlds; one is there to serve the other. Without an audience, a show is nothing, so the practitioners need t…
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