Sunday, November 20, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AM[SHARE]The long-running touring arena stage musical version of HG Wells' The War of the Worlds is to tour again, beginning performances at Liverpool's Echo Arena Dec. 1, 2012, then pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AM[SHARE]I've just had a flying visit to New York in every sense " I went out on Thursday afternoon and am returning overnight tonight. I will have seen five shows in just three nights, and it was mo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2011
Additional casting has been announced for The King's Speech, the premiere of David Seidler's play from which he subsequently developed his screenplay to the Oscar-winning film of the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Indhu Rubasingham has been appointed the new artistic director of London's Tricycle Theatre. She will take over in May 2012 from Nicolas Kent, who leaves after 28 years in the post.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AM[SHARE]Theatre is unquestionably a lot of fun. It's live, it's inter-active, it's immediate, it's sexy. Audiences love going to it. It stands to reason that a lot of people want to be part of it pr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 15, 2011
A production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I that originated at Leicester Curve in 2010 is to be revived for a new U.K. tour, beginning performances at Edinburgh's Festiv…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PM[SHARE]Trevor Nunn's new West End production of James Goldman's The Lion in Winter opens at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket Nov. 15, following previews that began Nov. 5, with a cast led by Ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2011
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced the cross-cast acting company members who will perform its first three productions in the World Shakespeare Festival of The Comedy of Errors, Twel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM[SHARE]A story last week on financial website ThisIsMoney.co.uk reported that the Really Useful Group are considering shutting down some of its West End shows during the Olympics next year. "It's b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:49AM[SHARE]Friday, November 11, 2011
Top Hat, a stage version of the 1935 film of the same name that is currently touring the U.K., is heading to the West End's Aldwych Theatre, where it will begin performances April 19, 20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58AM[SHARE]They've got (another) little list: continuing the Evening Standard's current obsession with list-making, they have followed their publication of their shortlist for this year's Evening Stand…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 10, 2011
Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton will reprise their performances in the recent Chichester Festival Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd at the West End&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31PM[SHARE]The Night of 1000 Voices, a regular charity fundraiser concert celebrating musical theatre, is to return to London's Royal Albert Hall for one night only, May 6, 2012, to raise money for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 9, 2011
The full cast has been announced for Bijan Sheibani's new production of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, beginning performances Jan. 19, 2012, prior to an official opening Jan. 26…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PM[SHARE]London's Barbican Centre has announced plans for its January-September 2012 season, being held under the umbrella title Barbican Theatre and Dance. It will include Cate Blanchett returni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:53AM[SHARE]London's Barbican Centre has announced plans for its January-September 2012 season, being held under the umbrella title Barbican Theatre and Dance. It will include Cate Blanchett returni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:53AM[SHARE]The Royal Court's new season, running January-June 2012, will include premieres of plays by David Eldridge, Joe Penhall, Nick Payne and Bola Agbaje amongst others, with actors that…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48AM[SHARE]Overheard on Twitter on Monday: "How can a show that hasn't officially opened end up on a London based theatre awards shortlist???", asked @publicreviews. And a reply came from @3rdspearcarr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Michael Sheen, last seen on the London stage in the Donmar Warehouse's production of Frost/Nixon that subsequently transferred to Broadway, opens in the title role of a new production of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2011
The London company of Shrek - The Musical will see Dean Chisnall take over in the title role and Neil McDermott as Lord Farquaad, beginning performances Feb. 29, 2012. They replace Nigel Lin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:56AM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2011
Nominees for London's 57th annual Evening Standard Theatre Awards have been announced, which include nine nominations for the National Theatre and eight for the Royal Court.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM[SHARE]I may complain regularly here about aspects of the theatre, from greedy producers and high ticket prices to the lack of good original musicals being produced and the absence of enough new pl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:52AM[SHARE]America Ferrera, best known for her Emmy-winning work in the title role of TV's "Ugly Betty," plays Roxie Hart and Darius Campbell, formerly Darius Danesh, returns to play Bill…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 5, 2011
The U.K.'s National Theatre will present the previously announced premieres of Nicholas Wright's play Travelling Light, which marks the return of Antony Sher to the South Bank theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35AM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2011
"Cagney & Lacey" star Sharon Gless, currently starring at West London's Riverside Studios through Nov. 20 in the British premiere of A Round-Heeled Woman, will now reprise …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AM[SHARE]Tyne Daly will reprise her recent Broadway performance as Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's Master Class at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre, beginning performances Jan. 21, 2012, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:40AM[SHARE]Low theatre producers are setting new highs for ticket prices: just yesterday I was pointing out that to see Driving Miss Daisy in the West End at the premium price of £90.25 a ticket wor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2011
Josie Rourke, incoming artistic director of London's Donmar Warehouse, has announced her inaugural season, in which she will direct George Farquhar's classic comedy The Recruiting Of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Horrible Histories -- Barmy Britain, co-written by Terry Deary, who is the creator of the "Horrible Histories" series of books that has made him one of Bitain's best-selling au…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]The National Theatre production of War Horse, now in its fourth year at the West End's New London Theatre, will feature a new cast of actors and puppeteers, beginning performances Nov. 1…
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