Friday, April 20, 2012
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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2012
Charing Cross Theatre, London: I didn't have the best of times watching a new musical version of A Tale of Two Cities, but I also didn't have the worst. Perhaps this Dickens story …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AM[SHARE]Headlong, the U.K. touring company of which Rupert Goold is artistic director, has announced a slate of five world premieres, including The Effect, a new play by Lucy Prebble whose Enron Goo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AM[SHARE]Loserville, a new original British musical written by Elliot Davis and James Bourne, will begin performances at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds June 18, prior to an official opening Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:55AM[SHARE]Regular readers of this blog will know already just how much I bang on about the high cost of theatre tickets and the sorts of ways, both devious and more transparent, that theatre producers…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Chariots of Fire, adapted for the stage by Mike Bartlett from Colin Welland's Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1981 Enigma Productions film of the same name, will transfer to the West En…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53AM[SHARE]The National Theatre's production of One Man Two Guvnors tonight becomes its latest transfer to Broadway, joining War Horse which is already running there. Meanwhile, next Monday Ghost - the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2012
I blogged yesterday about the nominations and judging process for the Olivier Awards, and about some of the results it produced. But as much as we can fret and argue about individual choices…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:38AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2012
The Thing About Men, by the team of Tony winner Joe DiPietro (Memphis) and Jimmy Roberts, who previously collaborated on the long-running Off-Broadway success I Love You, You're Perfect,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AM[SHARE]David Bedella has returned to the London company of Chicago, now playing at the West End's Garrick Theatre, to reprise his performance as Billy Flynn through May 12, and former ice-skati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:40AM[SHARE]Barbican, London: More than any other theatre in Britain, the Barbican is bringing international theatre collaborations to our doorstep. Already this year it has seen three of our liveliest …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AM[SHARE]U.K. talent agency Jonathan Arun Ltd. is to open a small management office in Los Angeles to represent existing clients, offering ground support for those coming from the U.K., and also to e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:14AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 15, 2012

In a Guardian blog last week, Matt Trueman asked if the Olivier Awards really represent London theatre, and he pointed out such apparent anomalies as the omissions from the nomination…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06PM[SHARE]The winners of the 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards, announced in a ceremony at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden April 15, saw a record seven wins for the Broadway-bound Matilda - the Musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]This year's Laurence Olivier Awards, being held April 15 at London's Royal Opera House, are being streamed live online April 15, via a relay on the event's official website (www.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 14, 2012
The London run of Sydney Theatre Company's production of Botho Strauss' Big and Small (Gross und Klein) officially opens April 14 following an April 13 preview for a run th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The West End runs of The Ladykillers, Absent Friends and The Pitmen Painters all end, as scheduled, April 14, at the Gielgud, Pinter and Duchess theatres, respectively.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2012
Initial casting has been announced for Dürrenmatt's The Physicists, beginning performances May 31 prior to an official opening June 7 at London's Donmar Warehouse for a run thro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:18AM[SHARE]David Bedella will star as Arnold in the new production of Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy that begins May 30 at London's Menier Chocolate Factory for a run through A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:09AM[SHARE]London's Almeida Theatre will present the world premiere of Nick Dear's The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, beginning performances Nov. 8 prior to an official opening Nov. 15, for a ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:37AM[SHARE]If you love someone, goes the famous saying, you let them go. On Wednesday, Andrew Lloyd Webber announced his plans to offload the Palace Theatre, the first West End address that he owne…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2012
Moscow's Vakhtangov Theatre will bring its modern interpretation of Uncle Vanya to London's Noel Coward Theatre beginning performances Nov. 5 for a run through Nov. 10 only.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]I've just seen my third Lloyd Webber musical in a ten-day period: after Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita on Broadway, seeing the Manchester opening of the new touring The Phantom of the Oper…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Max Stafford-Clark, who directed the world premiere of Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good at the Royal Court in 1988, is to return to the play for a new U.K. tour that will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:31AM[SHARE]This year's Lost Musicals season at London's Lilian Baylis Theatre at Sadler's Wells, featuring concert productions of shows that have been mostly lost since their first incarnat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:48AM[SHARE]Palace, Manchester: "Night-time sharpens, heightens each sensation/ darkness stirs and wakes imagination/ silently the senses abandon their defences," the Phantom famously sings in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AM[SHARE]Apollo, London: At a time when London's commercial sector has all but abandoned the serious play and so many of the more intimate theatres that once would have housed them are permanent…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AM[SHARE]The British theatre regularly throws up an embarrassment of riches. In the last week, while I was away in the US, not one but two separate studio productions of Uncle Vanya opened to nationa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2012
This year's Laurence Olivier Awards, being held April 15 at London's Royal Opera House, will be available to an international audience for the first time, with the entire event strea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM[SHARE]Over my last few days in the US from where I returned yesterday morning, I made an out-of-town trip to Arlington, VA, to see the first production of a brand-new musical Brother Russia, with …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:48AM[SHARE]A new production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night opens officially at the West End's Apollo Theatre April 10 following previews that began April 2, and a pri…
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