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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:51AM[SHARE]A new West End production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw begins performances at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre May 4, prior to an official opening May 16, for a run through Au…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 3, 2012
West End actors Norman Bowman and Laura Pitt-Pulford will star in the title roles of a new London fringe production of Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart's 1974 Broadway musical Mack and M…
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I've had a few days of a different kind of theatre. On Monday morning, I had an 8.30am appointment at one " but no, it wasn't the Edinburgh Fringe starting early in every sense. Inste…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Paul Bhattacharjee will star opposite the previously announced Meera Syal in the RSC's new production of Much Ado About Nothing that will run at Stratford-upon-Avon's Courtyard Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:59AM[SHARE]The South Bank Sky Arts Awards, presented by the TV arts channel in a ceremony held at London's Dorchester Hotel May 1, saw the RSC's current West End production of Matilda - the Mus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:39AM[SHARE]37 shows opened on Broadway in the last season, and the nominations for the Tony Awards, announced yesterday, are always as much about what and who is left out as those who are in. And of co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:56AM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2012
Full casting has been announced for the London revival of Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy, which begins performances at the Menier Chocolate Factory May 30, prior to an offici…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AM[SHARE]Just the other day I added another example to the seemingly endless list of aggravations of going to the theatre fellow audience members, when I wrote about a woman sitting in the row behind…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:09AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 28, 2012
The West End runs for Zach Braff in his own play All New People and Tyne Daly in the transfer of Terrence McNally's Master Class from Broadway both finish, as scheduled, April 28. Both p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 27, 2012
Life and art will collide in Mamma Mia! beginning June 11, when Gary Milner joins his real-life wife Sally Ann Triplett, who is currently playing Donna Sheridan, to take over as one of her f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AM[SHARE]The Bodyguard, the new tuner based on the Whitney Houston/Kevin Costner film of the same name, is to begin performances at London's Adelphi Theatre Nov. 6, prior to an official opening D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:56AM[SHARE]London's Donmar Warehouse has announced full casting for its production of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Physicists, as well as its slate of future productions that will include Br…
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Earlier this week, I mentioned how Variety, the once pre-eminent trade US paper, has cut back on its reviews to the point where it has twice recently merely reprinted ones from earlie…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:22AM[SHARE]A new West End production of Neil Simon's 1972 vaudeville comedy The Sunshine Boys, starring Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths, begins performances April 27 at the Savoy Theatre, prior …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2012
Michael Frayn's 2003 play Democracy, which premiered at the National Theatre and subsequently transferred to the West End and Broadway in 2004, will be revived in London, beginning perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:31AM[SHARE]Success breeds succes in the theatre as in other walks of life. There is currently, for example, no theatre with a better commercial record in the country than Chichester Festival Theatre: t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Stephen Mangan and Lisa Dillion will play a couple in the final tense hours as they await the arrival of their new baby in the world premiere of Joe Penhall's Birthday, which begins perf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM[SHARE]The last two nights have seen openings in London of plays by three contemporary living playwrights, David's Edgar and Hare and Robert Holman, and all in their 60s. Edgar's latest, Written on…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Donmar Warehouse, London: Originally premiered at the Bush in 1986 and subsequently revived by Oxford Stage Company in a production that toured, before coming to the Whitehall Theatre for a …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AM[SHARE]The King's Speech my be stuttering to an early close in the West End, but there's still room for the Queen's English to be heard in serious plays and not just sung in musicals there. Just la…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:44AM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2012
"Smash" star Raza Jaffrey will return to the West End to star as Billy Flynn in Chicago, beginning performances May 16 for a run through July 14 at the Garrick Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AM[SHARE]The London fringe production of Rupert Holmes'1985 Broadway musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, currently running at Clapham's Landor Theatre through May 5, is to transfer to th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]The Menier Chocolate Factory's recent sold-out production of Mike Leigh's 1977 play Abigail's Party is to transfer to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre, resuming performan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:47AM[SHARE]At the Olivier Awards a week ago, Rupert Goold was proudly telling me of his plans to abandon a formal press announcement for his Headlong company's new season. Instead, they were going to l…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:36AM[SHARE]Friday, April 20, 2012
The annual BBC Proms season at London's Royal Albert Hall, which is mainly a celebration of classical music, is to include a semi-staged concert version of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM[SHARE]The Wooster Group and RSC co-production of Troilus and Cressida that is set to begin performances at Stratford-upon-Avon's Swan Theatre Aug. 3, then transfer to London's Riverside St…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:23AM[SHARE]Hackney Empire, London: In a West End already saturated by jukebox shows like Rock of Ages, it's not necessarily a compliment to say that Soul Sister could transfer there tomorrow. But …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AM[SHARE]Steven Berkoff will direct the world premiere of his latest play, 6 Characters in Search of a Director, at London's Charing Cross Theatre, beginning performances May 16 prior to an …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:34AM[SHARE]The King's Speech, currently running at the West End's Wyndham's Theatre, will end its run early, closing May 12. It was originally booking through July 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00AM[SHARE]The onslaught of summer arts festivals is about to begin, with the Brighton Festival and its accompanying, ever-expanding fringe kicking off the usual candidates from May 5. But this year, t…
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