Wednesday, February 15, 2012

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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Ramin Karimloo, who is currently starring as Valjean in the West End production of Les Miserables at the Queen's Theatre, has extended his run in the show by three weeks, through March 3…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]Alison Steadman will star in Michael Frayn's 1993 play Here, being revived at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, where it begins performances April 19 prior to an official opening April 27, for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:38AM[SHARE]"You know you're an institution when things are named after you," wrote Time magazine critic Richard Corliss in 2010 in an article about Stephen Sondheim. He went on to point out that there'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:02AM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2012
London’s Young Vic has announced productions of two classics and two new plays for its summer and fall season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AM[SHARE]The West End production of Jersey Boys, which has been running at the Prince Edward Theatre since 2008, will celebrate its fourth birthday March 18. The company will be newly joined by Nicol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AM[SHARE]Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford: After the Madness of George III - now back in the West End - here's a play that could be called The Stammer of George VI. And just as Alan Bennett's earli…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AM[SHARE]Lottery funding created a boom-time in the building (and rebuilding) of theatres from the Royal Opera House and RSC at Stratford to the Royal Court and Young Vic. And lots of theatres are st…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 11, 2012
Samantha Barks, the young lady who'll play unrequited lover Eponine in the film musical of Les Misérables, is not a household-name pop star, but an actress who earned her role the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2012
The world premiere of Philip Ridley's Shivered, which will begin performances at London's Southwark Playhouse March 7 prior to an official opening March 13, will star Olivia Poulet a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:27AM[SHARE]Christopher Eccleston will join the previously announced Jodie Whittaker to star as Creon in the National Theatre's new production of Antigone, beginning performances in the Olivier Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30AM[SHARE]In a news feature in The Observer last weekend, it was pointed out that lots of black British actors are heading for the US to find better roles. David Harewood, speaking at the UK launch of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2012
Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends, a 1974 play by the famed playwright, officially opens Feb. 9 at the Harold Pinter Theatre following previews that began Jan. 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AM[SHARE]Jessie Cave, best known for her role as Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter films "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Parts 1 an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:34AM[SHARE]Courtyard, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Waiting for Godot may still famously be "a play in which nothing happens, twice" (in the words of literary critic Vivian Mercer), but th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:25AM[SHARE]A newly-built theatre complex, the St. James Theatre, comprising a 312-seat main theatre, a studio space, brasserie and bar, is to open in London's Victoria in September.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:12AM[SHARE]On Tuesday night Cameron Mackintosh rolled out the champers and got silver glitter falling from the ceiling at the curtain call of his production of Oliver! at Manchester's Palace Theatre, d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Palace, Manchester, then touring: February 7 marked the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens so it's highly appropriate to celebrate the occasion by re-visiting the musical based…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AM[SHARE]Vaudeville Theatre, London: Terrence McNally's Master Class, a play that recreates a public teaching session by the late, great opera star Maria Callas, first came to the West End'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:10AM[SHARE]Success in the theatre, as in life, breeds success; they acquire momentum, confidence and of course an audience in turn, and a virtuous circle is created. The opposite is also true: there ar…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Madani Younis, the incoming artistic director of London's Bush Theatre (he has succeeded Josie Rourke), has announced his inaugural season at the helm of the influential West Londo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AM[SHARE]The UK's sixth annual HighTide Festival, to be held in Halesworth in Suffolk from May 3-13, will feature 18 world and European premieres, including Mike Daisey's The Agony and Ecstas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]A Tale of Two Cities, a new musical of Charles Dickens' novel, is to open at London's Charing Cross Theatre, beginning performances April 5 prior to an official opening April 17, for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:27AM[SHARE]Because theatre is live and therefore endlessly mutable, it is one of the most instinctive, intuitive and personal art forms around to respond to: whatever we feel about it cannot be a snaps…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:49AM[SHARE]Tyne Daly opens officially in Terrence McNally's Master Class, reprising the role of Maria Callas that she has played in Washington, DC and on Broadway last year, at the West End's V…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2012
Tom Bateman, Mark Bonnar, Harry Lloyd and Finbar Lynch join the previously announced Eve Best in leading roles in Jamie Lloyd's new production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AM[SHARE]This year's 50th anniversary season at Chichester Festival Theatre will include the returns of Derek Jacobi and Penelope Keith, as well as Kim Cattrall reprising the role of Cleopatra in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:51AM[SHARE]Disney's The Lion King, still running at the West End's Lyceum Theatre where it is now in its 13th year, is to launch a separate U.K. tour, beginning performances at the Bristol Hipp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12AM[SHARE]I've previously worried away here at the fate of critics in an ever-changing media landscape, where dead-tree journalism is hurtling the way of the Dodo towards flightless oblivion, but sinc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 4, 2012
Jonathan Church's production of Singin' in the Rain, based on the celebrated 1952 MGM film of the same name, begins performances at the West End's Palace Theatre Feb. 4, prior to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 3, 2012
Shakespeare’s Globe on London’s South Bank has announced further casting for its summer productions that will include Jamie Parker and Samuel Barnett, two of the original cast of…
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