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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]The current Old Vic production of Michael Frayn's Noises Off, where it runs through March 10, will move immediately to the West End's Novello Theatre beginning performances March 24,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AM[SHARE]The double-bill of Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version and David Hare's new play South Downs (written in response to Rattigan's play), which premiered last year at Chich…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AM[SHARE]The full cast has been announced for the Donmar Warehouse's new production of Robert Holman's 1987 triptych of plays Making Noise Quietly, which begins performances April 19 prior to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AM[SHARE]This year's annual The Night of 1000 Voices concert that celebrates the world of musical theatre at the Royal Albert Hall is to be held May 6, with a company that is due to include Kerry…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM[SHARE]It's not often that The Sun writes about the theatre, so I suppose we should be grateful whenever it does, even if only to reveal some steamy goings-on, apparently in the back of a cab, betw…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2012
London's Menier Chocolate Factory will revive Willy Russell's comedy Educating Rita beginning performances April 25 for a three-week run through May 12, prior to embarking on a natio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AM[SHARE]The New York-based Elevator Repair Service will bring Gatz, the eight-hour stage version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," to the West End's Noel Coward Theatre,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:54AM[SHARE]Frances Ruffelle, currently starring at London's Menier Chocolate Factory as Fastrada in Pippin (running through Feb. 25), will reprise her solo show, Beneath the Dress, at the same…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:39AM[SHARE]At last Friday's Stage New Year party, The National Theatre was presented with its Stage 100 Award for Producer of the Year, recognising its ever-expanding produceorial role beyond its home …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 1, 2012
The week before last the Arts Council England released figures showing that total audiences at subsidised theatres across England have dropped by nearly 8% over the last two years, with audi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:01AM[SHARE]Playbill.com's London correspondent Mark Shenton recently traveled Down Under and filed this report on Sydney's thriving theatre scene, which includes theatres great and small.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The UK's National Theatre has confirmed dates and further casting for new productions that will open through June, including Antigone, Detroit and Misterman.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AM[SHARE]Noel Sullivan, former band member with Hear'Say, will take over the lead role of Galileo in the West End production of We Will Rock You. He begins performances Feb. 20, replacing Alex Ga…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:22AM[SHARE]A Song Cycle for Soho, featuring songs by several British composers and lyricists both established and emerging, will be presented at London's Soho Theatre, beginning performances Feb. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:06AM[SHARE]Everyone wants to spend their lives doing what they enjoy, preferably with people they love; and having a career means being paid to do what you'd do anyway for free. Without wishing to be s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30AM[SHARE]Monday, January 30, 2012
The Society of London Theatre, the West End equivalent to the Broadway League who represent London thatre owners and producers, has announced overall box-office figures for 2011 that show th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PM[SHARE]London's Menier Chocolate Factory has announced full casting for its new production of Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, beginning performances March 2 prior to an official opening M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AM[SHARE]The new season at London's Hampstead Theatre will lead with the word premiere of Mike Bartlett's stage adaptation of the film "Chariots of Fire," a story of British athleti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]The new, previously announced production of Neil Simon's 1972 vaudeville comedy The Sunshine Boys, starring Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths, has set its West End dates and theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:42AM[SHARE]The Evening Standard Theatre Awards, presented back in November, are now a distant memory, and the Olivier Awards have slipped back to mid-April (but last week announced a transatlantic init…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 29, 2012
Children of Eden, the 1991 Old Testament musical by Stephen Schwartz and John Caird, is being revived at the West End's Prince of Wales Theatre Jan. 29 for a one-night charity gala perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, January 27, 2012
Rupert Friend will return to the London stage to star in a new production of Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle, beginning performances May 2 at the fringe Arcola Theatre Studio 2, pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08AM[SHARE]While SOLT is putting a brave face on the prospects of audiences holding up during the Olympics, whatever Andrew Lloyd Webber may say, it's possible that one way of meeting the reduced deman…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2012
The other day I hosted this year's Critics' Circle Awards, an event at which actors and artists meet the critics who nightly judge their work. Of course, we've come to praise them on this oc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Legally Blonde the Musical is to shutter at the West End's Savoy Theatre April 7. It was originally booking through Oct. 27, 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:03PM[SHARE]Horrible Histories — Barmy Britain, a new play for audience aged six and older, based on the best-selling children's stories of the same name, is to receive its world premiere at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:19AM[SHARE]The U.K.'s National Theatre plans for 2012 include the U.K. premiere of Lisa D'Amour's Detroit, originally produced by Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company last year, and ap…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:51AM[SHARE]In a year when the Olympics may well be emptying theatres, the Critics' Circle's theatre section yesterday joined forces once again for our annual celebration of the shows that actually fill…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The current West End run of Crazy for You, which transferred to the West End's Novello Theatre from the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park last October after a successful summer season,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:03PM[SHARE]Last Friday, I went to Leeds, a city I've been to on theatre-related business on many occasions, but always to see shows at the West Yorkshire Playhouse " a venue whose opening I can remembe…
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