Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:59AM[SHARE]Monday, January 23, 2012
This year's Laurence Olivier Awards, being held at the Royal Opera House April 15 in association with MasterCard, are to forge closer Broadway links, with a reception to take place in Ne…
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Russell Grant, TV astrologer turned reality dance show contestant, is to take over the title role of The Wizard of Oz from Michael Crawford, beginning performances Feb. 14, for a 12-w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]The previously announced debut London run of Green Day's American Idiot at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo has added a second week of performances. It will begin performances as previously an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AM[SHARE]The West End production of Wicked, now in its sixth year at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, has extended booking through April 27 2013. Producers confirmed that performances will continue unint…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:26AM[SHARE]The Broadway production of The Mountaintop closed yesterday, after a run of 24 previews and 117 regular performances, and just under the wire, it was announced last Wednesday that the show h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:27AM[SHARE]David Haig stars in the West End in a new production of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III, opening officially at the West End's Apollo Theatre Jan. 23, following previews that…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 21, 2012
Tyne Daly begins performances Jan. 21 in Terrence McNally's Master Class, reprising the role of Maria Callas that she played in Washington, DC, and on Broadway last year, at the West End…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, January 20, 2012
The National Theatre will stage the world premiere of a new play by Alan Bennett, entitled People, that is scheduled to open in the Lyttelton Theatre in late October.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AM[SHARE]The principal cast for the transfer of the National's One Man, Two Guvnors from the Adelphi to the Theatre Royal, Haymarket has been announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:36AM[SHARE]Welcome to the first "short shorts" column of the New Year, a weekly round-up of notes and quotes that don't fit into the blogs on individual subjects I file on the other four days of the we…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2012
Cast members of the original London production of Les Miserables will continue to receive royalty payments for their participation in the original cast recording.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PM[SHARE]A leading Australian website critic last week made an astonishing admission: she fled from the opening night of the Sydney premiere of Love Never Dies at the interval. Yet she reviewed as mu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Andrew Lloyd Webber has announced that he will search for the star of a new U.K. arena stage production of Jesus Christ Superstar via a new reality TV program entitled "Superstar,"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AM[SHARE]Original casts of long-running musicals, of course, often make an invaluable contribution to the development of their shows, but they are typically unrewarded and uncredited beyond the origi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 17, 2012
It's peak theatre season in Sydney at the moment, partly because its the height of the summer there, but mainly because of the avalanche of theatrical activity thanks to the Sydney Festival …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:59AM[SHARE]Monday, January 16, 2012
The original London company of Les Miserables, which included Alun Armstrong, Roger Allam, Michael Ball, Patti LuPone and Frances Ruffelle (who won a Tony Award when she reprised her perform…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AM[SHARE]West End actors Tom Pearce (Les Miserables), Jamie Papanicolaou, Daniella Bowen and Daisy Tonge complete the cast of Stephen Schwartz and John Caird's 1991 biblical musical Children of E…
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I am finally on British soil again today, after landing this morning on the first flight to arrive into Heathrow at 4.40am, following a 22-hour flight from Sydney (plus a brief stop-o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:44AM[SHARE]Friday, January 13, 2012
Joining the previously announced Samantha Spiro in the title role of Eduardo de Filippo's Filumena, which begins performances at London's Almeida Theatre March 15 prior to an officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Josie Lawrence and Gay Soper will join Louise Gold and Caroline Quentin in sharing the role of Pippin's grandmother Berthe in the Menier Chocolate Factory's production of Pippin, now…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PM[SHARE]Simon Callow will reprise his Being Shakespeare one-man play at the West End's Trafalgar Studios 1 for 30 performances only, beginning March 7 for a run through March 31, prior to season…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:37PM[SHARE]West End actors Louise Dearman (Wicked) and Aaron Sidwell ("EastEnders") have been added to the cast of Stephen Schwartz and John Caird's 1991 biblical musical Children o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Eve Myles, best known for her role as Gwyn in TV's "Torchwood," and RSC and National Theatre actress Susannah Fielding will join Zach Braff in the West End premiere of his own …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:13AM[SHARE]Shrek the Musical, now running at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, will welcome a new ensemble, beginning performances Feb. 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:02AM[SHARE]Monday, January 9, 2012
London's Menier Chocolate Factory will present a new production of Mike Leigh's classic 1970s comedy Abigail's Party, to begin performances March 2 prior to an official opening M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:54AM[SHARE]The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced further details for its winter 2012-13 season in Stratford-upon-Avon, which will include a new family show The Mouse and his Child, adapted by Tam…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:39AM[SHARE]Friday, January 6, 2012
Ben Chaplin will return to the theatre to play playwright Harley Granville Barker in the world premiere of Richard Nelson's Farewell to the Theatre, beginning performances March 1, prior…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 5, 2012
Earlier this week I posted a blog on some of the shows I'm most looking forward to seeing this year in London; today it is Broadway's turn. Broadway really is a circle of life (and quote oft…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 3, 2012
A new stage adaptation of CS Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will open in a state-of-the-art theatre tent sited in London's Kensington Gardens, beginning performance…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:35AM[SHARE]Monday, January 2, 2012
Looking ahead to the 2012 spring theatre season in London and the U.K., the forecast includes the musicals Bridget Jones' Diary, Top Hat, Sweeney Todd and Susan Boyle in I Dreamed a…
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