Wednesday, March 14, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Lyttelton Theatre, The National, London: Even the title is weighted, provocative and ironic: Can We Talk About This? is about a subject that there now seem to be implicit boundaries around d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM[SHARE]On Friday I cited one example here of the new challenges presented by journalists like myself working on new or evolving media like Twitter, referring to a PR who had challenged something I …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:37AM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2012
Arnold Wesker, the veteran playwright best known for such works as Chicken Soup with Barley (revived at the Royal Court last year), Roots and I'm Talking About Jerusalem, is to have his …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:14PM[SHARE]Kneehigh, the U.K. theatre company based in Cornwall whose stage version of Brief Encounter played Broadway, is now adapting Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's British TV series "Steptoe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:14PM[SHARE]Sadie Frost is to return to the London stage to star inTouched... Like a Virgin, a sequel to Touched For The Very First Time that ran at Trafalgar Studios in 2009. It will begin performances…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:24PM[SHARE]Life is full of remarkable turns; and on Friday I had lunch at the Menier Chocolate Factory with Stephen Sondheim on my right and Maria Friedman on my left. Never mind Sondheim's own 'Ladies…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:02AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 10, 2012
Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton begin performances in Sweeney Todd at the West End's Adelphi Theatre March 10, reprising the roles they previously played in the production at Chichester…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, March 9, 2012
Danielle Hope will take over as Eponine and Tam Mutu as Javert in the West End production of Les Miserables, beginning performances June 18. They join the previously announced Gerónim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58AM[SHARE]The sometimes tricky relationship between press and PRs is a recurring theme of this blog, and I am sure that journalists, myself included, have sometimes made unreasonable requests of PRs. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 8, 2012
Stephen Sondheim's "Look, I Made a Hat" won the fifth annual Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography, announced at a ceremony March 8 at London's Garrick Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:19AM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim's "I Made a Hat" won the fifth annual Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography, announced at a ceremony March 8 at London's Garrick Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:17AM[SHARE]Carley Stenson will take over as Princess Fiona from Kimberley Walsh, beginning performances May 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:13AM[SHARE]Just yesterday I quoted Michael Billington saying of One Man Two Guvnors that the play "appeals to that appetite for the interactive that is all around us today. I have a theory that audienc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 7, 2012
The full cast has been announced for the world premiere of Lee Mattinson's Chalet Lines, the inaugural production of incoming artistic director Madani Younis's regime at London's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM[SHARE]Veteran director Sir Jonathan Miller will return to the British theatrical stage for the first time in five years to direct a new production of Githa Sowerby's Rutherford & Son, whic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AM[SHARE]Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield: Michael Frayn is a notably chameleon writer - it's difficult to believe that the man who wrote Noises Off (now newly transferred to the West End from the Old …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AM[SHARE]England and America, it was famously said by George Bernard Shaw, are two countries divided by a common language; and what is spoken in one country isn't always understood in the other. Just…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Studio Theatre, Crucible, Sheffield: Sheffield's admirable policy of honouring living playwrights with a season of major productions of their work running simultaneously in each of thei…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PM[SHARE]The big winner at this year's Oscars, the weekend before last, was of course The Artist, a delightful recreation of and tribute to the silent movies that revolves around the massive disrupti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:58AM[SHARE]Monday, March 5, 2012
Jonathan Ansell, best known for appearing with the pop opera group G4 on TV's "The X Factor," will play Charles Darnay in the previously announced new musical version of A Tale…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:04AM[SHARE]BABEL, a new site-specific production co-produced by four leading London theatres (BAC, the Lyric Hammersmitih, Young Vic, Theatre Royal Stratford East), is to be performed in the Caledonian…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:24AM[SHARE]Just as you should never judge a book by its cover, is it a mistake to judge a show by its audience, let alone its lighting plot? In his review for The Leisure Society which opened at the Tr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:34AM[SHARE]Friday, March 2, 2012
Michael Billington is currently in the middle of a blog series in which he is providing a A-Z of modern drama, and this week he got to L is for Lousy Plays. L could also be for lousy timing.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 1, 2012
Slip into Your Skin, a one-night-only showcase of the songs of New York-based composer David Are, will be staged at London's Freedom Bar March 18 at 8 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:49AM[SHARE]Zach Braff may just be wondering what went wrong with the journey of his play All New People from a relatively acclaimed Off-Broadway premiere last year to a mostly panned West End opening t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Elaine C. Smith, who will play the role of Susan Boyle in the U.K. tour of I Dreamed a Dream, the new musical about Boyle's life, will be joined by James Paterson and Karen Mann as Pat a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:39AM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse, London: Short of being staged in an actual cave, there is probably no more site-specific location for a production of Floyd Collins than the dark, dank vaults of Southwa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AM[SHARE]Rose, Kingston: One of the great joys of the British stage is its sense of family and continuity, in which the theatrical torch is regularly handed from one generation to the next. This has …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:14AM[SHARE]In a world where the daily churn of bad news now includes worse and worse news about the journalistic integrity and practices of The Sun, even as they have just launched a new Sunday edition…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Blake Harrison, best known for appearing on TV's "The Inbetweeners," is to make his West End debut, starring in Tom Attenborough's production of Step 9 (of 12) by Rob Hayes…
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