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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:59AM[SHARE]Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's 1997 Broadway musical Jekyll and Hyde will be revived at London's fringe Union Theatre in Southwark, beginning performances May 16 for a run thro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:50AM[SHARE]In a news feature in The Observer on the weekend, arts correspondent Vanessa Thorpe picked up where her sister paper The Guardian left off in its enquiry into the current state of British th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:59AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2012
Andrew Lloyd Webber has revealed one of the subjects he is considering for his next musical: the Profumo affair that famously rocked British politics in the early 60's when John Profumo,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AM[SHARE]Written from the Heart, David Edgar's new play about the creation of the King James Bible, will transfer from the Swan Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, to the West End's Duchess Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:09AM[SHARE]The previously announced stage return of Mark Rylance to play the title role in Richard III and Olivia in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare's Globe this summer will be followed immediately by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:05AM[SHARE]Omid Djalili will star in a new production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw, beginning performances at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre May 4, prior to an official opening May 16,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM[SHARE]Noel Coward Theatre, London: Hell will probably freeze over before we see an Ivor Novello revival at the Novello Theatre, but the former Albery Theatre now gets the first production of a pla…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AM[SHARE]Ye Olde Rose and Crown, London, until March 10: Howard Goodall may reach his biggest audiences with his themes to TV shows like Mr Bean and The Vicar of Dibley and his instrumental and chora…
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I've regularly decried the ever-escalating price scales of the West End, not least over the iniquitous spread of premium pricing (which is, however, ultimately a matter of choice; if …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:59AM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2012
Last night Hay Fever opened in the West End, but you can't read about it till Monday, as reviews have been embargoed till then, as I have previously explained; yet by the same token, comic J…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2012
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation will donate £150,00 over two years to help fund the Royal Court Theatre's Studio program, which aims to seek out, nurture and support emerging pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:10AM[SHARE]I arrived back from a fast trip to New York on Monday, and then on Tuesday made an even faster one to Belfast (the speed of which, given that it's just an hour from Gatwick, is hardly surpri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Soul Sister, a new musical inspired by the life and times of Ike and Tina Turner, is to receive its world premiere at London's Hackney Empire, beginning performances April 14, prior to a…
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On Sunday night I flew back from New York in Virgin's economy class, tightly squeezed into an upper deck corner of the 747 (but at least I was against a window, so had a little room t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:52AM[SHARE]Zach Braff begins his West End debut run in his own play, All New People, Feb. 22, prior to an official opening Feb. 28 at the Duke of York’s Theatre. The production is sched…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2012

As this blog is part of an industry-orientated media company, which reports, supports and assists the theatre business, I make no apologies for occasionally using it to cover matters …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:57AM[SHARE]Monday, February 20, 2012
Jason Robert Brown will direct a new production of his 2008 Broadway musical 13, to be presented under the auspices of the UK's long-established young people's company at the Nationa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:46PM[SHARE]Broadway (and the West End) is strewn with the corpses of bad musicals, some of them (like Rock of Ages or We Will Rock You) still breathing, against all the odds. But sometimes, by the same…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 18, 2012
James Brining, currently artistic director and chief executive of Scotland's Dundee Rep, has been appointed as the new artistic director of the the UK's West Yorkshire Playhouse in L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2012
Tony Award winner Andrew Lloyd Webber began his search for the title role in a stadium tour of Jesus Christ Superstar Feb. 16 in Glasgow, according to STV Entertainment.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]The Landor Theatre, a fringe theatre in South London's Clapham, is to present the European premiere of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's The Glorious Ones, beginning performances Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AM[SHARE]Stephen Fry will star as Malvolio in the revival of Shakespeare's Globe 2002 production of Twelfth Night that will see Mark Rylance reprising his role as Olivia, joined by the previously…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AM[SHARE]The King's Speech, originally written as a play before it was adapted as the Oscar-winning 2010 feature film, is to make its West End debut, beginning performances March 22 at Wyndham…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:42AM[SHARE]We're used to multiple productions of Hamlet or King Lear, of course, appearing back-to-back in the schedules of different theatres; Shakespeare, after all, has an endless capacity to surpri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2012
Palace, London: Chichester Festival Theatre is now the number one regional house to transfer its productions to the West End. After London seasons for its revivals of Stoppard and Caryl Chur…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AM[SHARE]As a novelist turned frequent critic, Adam Mars-Jones has regularly been a poacher-turned-gamekeeper, deciding the reputations of others just as others have determined his. This sort of thin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Full casting has been announced for a new U.K. regional production of Gypsy at Leicester Curve that begins performances March 10, prior to an official opening March 15, for a run through Apr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:04PM[SHARE]Adam Garcia is to return to the U.K. theatrical stage to star as Bill Calhoun/Lucentio in the new production of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, beginning performances at Chichester Festival…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:48PM[SHARE]Donmar Warehouse, London: This October will mark the Donmar Warehouse's 20th birthday since it re-opened as an independent producing theatre under Sam Mendes and, across its nearly two …
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It used to be simple " and once upon a time, it used to be very simple; the first night was the first performance. That's still the case with opera and ballet productions, though they…
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