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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AM[SHARE]Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall will star in Nick Payne's Constellations, beginning performances at the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Upstairs Jan. 13, 2012, prior to an official …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AM[SHARE]The Broadway stage version of Green Day's American Idiot will receive its U.K. premiere, launching a tour in October 2012 that will begin at Southampton, before going on to Ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Mark Ravenhill, whose work has previously been staged at the Royal Court, National and Donmar Warehouse, amongst others, will join the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has been appointed the co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]Backbeat, the stage version of the 1994 film of the same name about the birth of the Beatles, will shutter Feb. 18, 2012, at the West End's Duke of York's Theatre. It was originally …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), the largest commercial theatre operator in the UK, will launch a new production company Theatre Royal Brighton productions.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]Stephen Schwartz and John Caird's 1991 flop biblical musical Children of Eden will be revived in the West End for a one-night-only charity concert Jan. 29, 2012, at the Prince of Wa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AM[SHARE]Should critics offer an easier ride to some kinds of theatre than others in order to offer them much needed support? In Monday's Guardian, Lyn Gardner wrote of a regional show she'd reviewed…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Siobhan Dillon and Mark Evans will take over as Molly and Sam in the original London production of Ghost the Musical, from the Broadway-bound Caissie Levy and Richard Fleeshman, who respecti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AM[SHARE]A ten-week West End run for Zach Braff's All New People, also starring the playwright, who is best known for his appearances in "Scrubs" and "Garden State," has…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AM[SHARE]OK, it's not coal-mining or formula one racing, but going to the theatre comes with health and safety risks, too, and not just when you're seized upon to ride on the shoulders of a comic uni…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:51AM[SHARE]Monday, November 28, 2011
Although it was announced that Heroes, a new production based on the works of David Bowie, would receive its charity world premiere at London's IndigO2 March 11, 2012, representatives fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:55AM[SHARE]Heroes, a new production based on the works of David Bowie, will receive its charity world premiere at London's IndigO2 for one night only March 11, 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:54AM[SHARE]A new U.K. tour of Chicago will kick off at Bradford's Alhambra Theatre, beginning performances Feb. 10, 2012. The company will feature Ali Bastian as Roxie Hart, Stefan Booth as Billy F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43AM[SHARE]Today I'll be at the London Coliseum for the annual Theatrecraft day that offers a range of seminars and workshops for young people, aged 17-25, who are contemplating a career in the theatre…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:57AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 26, 2011
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, begins performances …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, November 25, 2011
Mackenzie Crook, currently starring in the West End alongside Mark Rylance in Jerusalem following their Broadway run in that play, is to star George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer, Jo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AM[SHARE]The Mousetrap, which holds the Guinness World Record for being "the longest continuous run of any show in the world," marks its 59th birthday Nov. 25, with its 24,587th performance…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AM[SHARE]Earlier this week, the Guardian ran an extract from Sondheim's second collection of lyrics, "Look, I Made A Hat" on his feelings about critics and the personal impact of reviews. With the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 24, 2011

The West End theatre is rightly fretting about what the 2012 Olympics might mean for it, and as I wrote in a recent blog, some producers are so worried that they are considering putti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:59AM[SHARE]The West End transfer of the Royal Shakespeare Company's world-premiere production of Roald Dahl's Matilda — The Musical, first seen at Stratford-upon-Avon last Christmas, open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Carrie Fisher, an alumnus of London's School of Speech and Drama where she studied in the early 1970s but never graduated, will be awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the school.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:33AM[SHARE]Louise Gold and Caroline Quentin are the first two of several actresses who will join the company of the Menier Chocolate Factory's new production of Pippin to play the titular character…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:37AM[SHARE]This week sees the West End opening of the transfers of the National's One Man Two Guvnors and the RSC's Matilda to the Adelphi and Cambridge Theatres respectively; and both were, not so coi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 22, 2011
London's National Theatre will transfer Nicholas Hytner's production of John Hodge's play Collaborators from the smallest theatre in the building, the Cottesloe, to the largest, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:23PM[SHARE]The Royal Shakespeare Company will bring its forthcoming new productions of Julius Caesar and Much Ado About Nothing to the West End's Novello Theatre for a season from August to October…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:16AM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1984 musical Starlight Express, which played 7,461 performances during its nearly 18-year run at the West End's Apollo Victoria Theatre, is heading back to the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:02AM[SHARE]The sell-out popular appeal of Hugh Jackman's headliner Broadway show (complete with full onstage orchestra and three back-up singers) that I wrote about on the weekend now has a serious riv…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:54AM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2011
James Corden, previously seen on Broadway in the original cast of the National Theatre's production of Alan Bennett's The History Boys, who has since gone on to become a leading U.K.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 20, 2011
Two productions opening this week in London were honored with Evening Standard Theatre Awards, presented at the Savoy Theatre Nov. 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:46PM[SHARE]The Art of Concealment, a new play about the life of playwright Terence Rattigan written by Giles Cole, is to receive its London premiere, beginning performances at Jermyn Street Theatre Jan…
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