Monday, March 26, 2012
There's a lot of talk about the ever-approaching spectre of the Olympics, and whether or not audiences will actually materialise for the theatre as well as the sports events that will satura…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:37AM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2012
Tony Award winner Heather Headley will make her West End debut in the world premiere of The Bodyguard, a new musical based on the 1992 film of the same name that starred the late Whitney Hou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]Hannah Waddingham will join the previously announced Adam Garcia to star in Chichester Festival Theatre's summer production of Kiss Me, Kate, beginning performances June 18, prior to an …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:06AM[SHARE]Principal casting has been announced for Rupert Goold's new stage adaptation of CS Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which Goold is co-directing with Michael Fentiman for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:49AM[SHARE]I was caught napping yesterday when the announcement came about the RSC's appointment of a new artistic director " literally. I'd been up since 5.30am (my usual waking time, as it happens) a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2012
The cast of the new touring production of Starlight Express that begins performances at New Wimbledon Theatre May 11 will feature several performers with long associations with the show, inc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PM[SHARE]Derren Brown will reprise his show Svengali, which was recently nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Entertainment, for a season at the West End's Novello Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AM[SHARE]Gregory Doran has been appointed the new artistic director of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company. He will succeed Michael Boyd and formally take up the post following the company's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:42AM[SHARE]Barbican Theatre, London: In the National Theatre's current production of John Hodge's Collaborators (which transfers from the Cottesloe to the Olivier from April 30, to launch thi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AM[SHARE]Sweeney Todd was the first Sondheim musical I ever saw in the West End, in the all-too-short-lived 1980 Drury Lane transfer of Hal Prince's original Broadway production, and a lifelong love …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Most commercial theatre producers conceive, develop and capitalise each show they work on afresh, starting from a blank slate. They may, of course, have favoured elements in place " a direct…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2012
One of the highlights of this year's expanded High Tide Festival in Suffolk in May is supposed to be the British premiere of Mike Daisey's one-man play The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Job…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:56AM[SHARE]Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton officially open in Sweeney Todd at the West End's Adelphi Theatre March 20, reprising the roles they previously played in the production at Chichester Fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Monday, March 19, 2012
The stage version of The Ladykillers, currently running at the West End's Gielgud Theatre through April 14, will embark on a national tour of the U.K. and Ireland, beginning performances…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AM[SHARE]Jenny Seagrove will lead the cast of a rarely-seen Noel Coward play Volcano, never performed in the author's lifetime, which will launch a U.K. tour beginning performances at Windsor'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AM[SHARE]Hayley Mills and Belinda Lang will star in Ladies in Lavender, a stage version of the 2004 British film of the same name that had a screenplay by Charles Dance based on the original short st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:20AM[SHARE]Some venues take getting used to. I'm sure that the National wasn't universally loved when it first opened " and probably still isn't. My partner routinely says it looks like a nice car park…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:26AM[SHARE]Friday, March 16, 2012
Sir Tim Rice will receive this year's Special Award at the Laurence Olivier Awards in celebration of his outstanding contribution to musical theatre. He will be presented the award at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AM[SHARE]A new production of Mike Bartlett's Love Love Love, which begins performances April 27 prior to an official opening May 3 at the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, will featur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AM[SHARE]Academy Award winner Kate Winslet is exploring the possibility of making her sage debut. According to a report in the U.K.'s Daily Mail, the actress is in talks with Sir David Hare about…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]Curve, Leicester: Gypsy is one of the greatest of all Broadway classics, yet it is the most rarely seen in the UK. It only reached the West End for its only run in 1973, some 14 years after …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AM[SHARE]At last Friday's Critics' Circle lunch to honour Stephen Sondheim, I was a little surprised (and even embarrassed) by several members who solicited autographs of him on various books, CDs an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 15, 2012
Further casting has been announced for the West End's forthcoming new production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PM[SHARE]The nominations for the 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards saw the RSC's production of Matilda the Musical, which has already announced its intention to open on Broadway in 2013, lead the way …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:28AM[SHARE]The insidious spread of star ratings attached to reviews (in almost every single paper except, interestingly, The Stage and The Observer of all the major outlets) is, no doubt, partly a refl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2012
This year's Edinburgh International Festival, running Aug. 9-Sept. 2, will feature productions by Grzegorz Jarzyna, Ariana Mnouchkine, Christoph Marthaler, Tadashi Suzuki, Dmitry Krymov …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PM[SHARE]The Tricycle Theatre's spring/summer season will include the London premiere runs for Alan Ayckbourn's Neighbourhood Watch and David Harrower's A Slight Ache, both directed by th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AM[SHARE]Theatre Royal, London: Richard Bean's 1950s make-over of Goldini's 18th century classic is now proving, like the National's other concurrent West End transfer War Horse, to be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AM[SHARE]The Royal Court's hit productions of Laura Wade's Posh and April de Angelis's Jumpy will be revived for consecutive West End runs at the Duke of York's Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:20AM[SHARE]The Guardian's Lyn Gardner wrote last month, "In the second decade of the 21st century, British theatre is still predominantly white and middle-class, and its leading figures educated at eli…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:45AM[SHARE]The nominations for this year's Laurence Olivier Awards will be announced live and streamed simultaneously online March 15 at noon U.K. time (8 AM ET) from an event at the West End's…
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