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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 1, 2012
Ramin Karimloo, who is to release a new solo album in March via Sony Music entitled "Ramin," will embark on a U.K. tour, Ramin - In Concert, in May, beginning at London's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 31, 2011
The West End edition of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Musical shutters Dec. 31, 2011, after a run of over 1,000 performances at the Palace Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, December 23, 2011
A 19-year-old man serving on the jury for a criminal trial is reported to have feigned illness and halted proceedings, in order to able to attend a performance of the West End production of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 22, 2011
While performances have just begun for a new Broadway incarnation of the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, starring Norm Lewis and Audra McDonald in the title roles at the Richard Rodgers Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:43AM[SHARE]As I blogged on Tuesday and regular readers will be aware, I am away from London for five weeks, but the wonderful thing about the internet is that you're never far away at all. I arrived in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 21, 2011
A new production of Philip Ridley's 1991 debut play The Pitchfork Disney, which begins performances at London's Arcola Theatre Jan. 25, 2012, prior to an official opening Feb. 1 for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:03AM[SHARE]Glenn Carter, seen in the title role of Jesus Christ Superstar in the production seen on Broadway in 2000 that transferred from the West End, will play the title role in a new London fringe …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:43AM[SHARE]Iain Glen, seen on Broadway in The Blue Room opposite Nicole Kidman and best known for his TV appearances in HBO's "Game of Thrones" and BBC's "Downtown Abbey," w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 20, 2011
I'm in the midst of a five-week holiday that isn't, for once, based around theatre but about travelling instead, hence my absence from this blog last week. So where better to begin it than L…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:42AM[SHARE]Monday, December 19, 2011
Bradley Manning, whose pre-trial hearing has just opened in Fort Meade in Maryland for releasing thousands of U.S. embassy emails to Wikileaks, is to be the subject of Tim Price's new pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:27PM[SHARE]Dominic Cooke has announced his intention to step down as artistic director of the Royal Court, which he has run for the last seven years, in April 2013. His executive director, Kate Horton,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PM[SHARE]Friday, December 16, 2011
The original cast of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio show will be reunited for a live theatre version that will tour the U.K., beginning in June 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PM[SHARE]The West End company of Chicago will see Terence Maynard replacing Darius Campbell as Billy Flynn beginning Dec. 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2011
Dame Edna Everage, the comedy character created by Barry Humphries, makes her pantomime debut in Dick Whittington at London's New Wimbledon Theatre for this year's Christmas season, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Russell Tovey, best known as one of the original stars of Alan Bennett's The History Boys at the National, on Broadway and on film and for TV's "Him and Her" and "Gavi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PM[SHARE]Ambassador Theatre Group, the UK's largest theatre owning and producing company, is partnering with Tony Award-winning Broadway director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell to launch a new …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]Ardal O'Hanlon, best known for his TV appearances as the star of Channel 4's "Father Ted" and BBC's "My Hero," will star in a new production of Conor McPherso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Jonathan Coy, Janie Dee, Robert Glenister, Jamie Glover, Celia Imrie, Karl Johnson, Aisling Loftus, Amy Nuttall and Paul Ready star in the Old Vic's new production of Michael Frayn's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 12, 2011
The previously announced new U.K. production of Wonderful Town, which brings together Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, the Halle Orchestra and the Lowry in Salford Quays for its prem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]A new touring production of Romeo and Juliet, co-produced by Headlong Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse and the Nuffield Southampton, will launch a nine-week U.K. tour, beginning performances Fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2011
The names of Alan Ayckbourn and Harold Pinter will be uttered in the same breath when a new West End production of Absent Friends, a 1974 play by Ayckbourn, begins performances at the Harold…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:12AM[SHARE]Julian Fellowes, Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Gosford Park" and Emmy Award winning creator of TV's "Downton Abbey," is to be reunited with composer-lyricist duo Geo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2011
John Webster's 17th-century revenge classic The Duchess of Malfi will be revived at London's Old Vic with Eve Best in the title role, beginning performances March 17, 2012, prio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:49AM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, London: Some musicals are simply not to everyone's taste. Mitch Sebastian has boldly, and at times a little terrifyingly, taken a risk and gone for broke by pr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AM[SHARE]It's often noticed how those in the top jobs of British theatre routinely hail from Oxbridge; the current artistic director of the National Theatre Nick Hytner and each of his three predeces…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Here's a showbiz phenomenon: a show that keeps playing to above-maximum capacity (102% last week, thanks to standing room) also keeps breaking its own box office record. Hugh Jackman'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:44AM[SHARE]The Ladykillers, a new stage version of the iconic 1955 Ealing film comedy that was subsequently remade by the Coen Brothers in 2004 in a version that starred Tom Hanks, officially opens at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]A new production of Stephen Schwartz and Roger O'Hirson's 1972 Broadway musical Pippin, with a cast that includes Matt Rawle (Leading Player), Harry Hepple (Pippin), Tony winner Fran…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, December 2, 2011
Tony winner Mark Rylance (Jerusalem and Boeing Boeing) will return to Shakespeare's Globe, where he was previously artistic director from 1995-2005, to reprise his performance as Olivia …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2011
Full casting has been announced for the new production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever, beginning performances Feb. 9, 2012, at the Noel Coward Theatre for a run through June 2.
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