Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AM[SHARE]The hit West End production of Yes, Prime Minister, which is playing the Gielgud Theatre through Nov. 5, will tour the U.K. again, beginning at Chichester Festival Theatre Jan. 23, 2012, wh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:39AM[SHARE]Monday, October 31, 2011
Michael Crawford, of course, was already a firm family favourite, thanks to TV shows like "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em", his film role as the original Cornelius in the film version of Hello, Do…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 30, 2011
The winners for this year's Theatre Awards UK 2011, formerly the TMA Theatre Awards which since 1991 have recognized work seen in regional UK theatres, include Sir Derek Jacobi, Michael …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2011
Darius Campbell, formerly Darius Danesh, will return to the cast of the London production of Chicago, in which he was previously seen in 2006, to star again as Billy Flynn when it resumes pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PM[SHARE]This week saw the return the London stage of Death and the Maiden, a play that began life at Royal Court's tiny Theatre Upstairs back in 1991, before transferring to the West End, then seein…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Matthew Bourne's New Adventures will mark the 25th anniversary of the company's first performance in 1987 (when it was known as Adventures in Motion Pictures) with a year-long celebr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:36PM[SHARE]Ramin Karimloo will play Jean Valjean in the original West End production of Les Miserables, returning to a show in which he has previously played Enjolras, in London, in a special one-off c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Sophie Okonedo, Oscar-nominated for her appearance in "Hotel Rwanda," will be reunited with Ben Daniels, whom she appeared with the last time she appeared on a London stage in the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:55AM[SHARE]Sophie Okonedo, Oscar-nominated for her appearance in "Hotel Rwanda," will be reunited with Ben Daniels, whom she appeared with the last time she appeared on a London stage in the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:54AM[SHARE]Monday, October 24, 2011
I returned from my week in New York last night, but before I launch myself back into the London round of openings again from tonight with the West End opening of Death and the Maiden at the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:01AM[SHARE]A new West End production of Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden opens at the newly renamed Harold Pinter Theatre (previously the Comedy) Oct. 24, following previews that began Oct. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, October 21, 2011
Marianne Elliott, Tony winner for her co-direction of War Horse on Broadway, has withdrawn from directing the West End-bound Spice Girls musical Viva Forever.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PM[SHARE]A brand-new U.K. touring production of The Phantom of the Opera will hit the road, beginning performances at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth Feb. 27, 2012, prior to an official opening Marc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:23AM[SHARE]Just yesterday I was pointing out that Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, which plays out a fictitious meeting in a hotel room between a powerful alpha male and a lowly maid, might have been mor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2011
A new production of Hair will hit the U.K. touring road, kicking off performances at Liverpool Empire the week of April 9, 2012, then touring through mid-July. It will star Gareth…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM[SHARE]The rest of the 40th anniversary season at the U.K.'s Sheffield Theatres has been announced, and will include a season of work devoted to the work of playwright Michael Frayn, a producti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AM[SHARE]Potential nominees for London's 57th annual Evening Standard Theatre Awards have been announced, with the release of a "long list" that they will be drawn from.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Monty Python's Spamalot will play a four-week Christmas season at Brighton's Theatre Royal, beginning Dec. 15, before embarking on another extensive U.K. tour that kicks off in Liver…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AM[SHARE]Lee Mead, winner of the BBC "Any Dream Will Do" casting program for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat who subsequently played the title role in the West End and has sinc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 18, 2011
London's Menier Chocolate Factory has announced casting for its production of Pippin, which begins performances Nov. 22 prior to an official opening Dec. 7. It will be led by Harry Heppl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:47AM[SHARE]Monday, October 17, 2011
Walking around Broadway, it is bad enough, of course, that most musical titles are revivals (Anything Goes, How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, Chicago, Follies and Godspell, w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AM[SHARE]Mark Rylance returns to the West End in his Olivier and Tony-winning performance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron in Jerusalem at the Apollo Theatre—where the play originally r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2011
Michael Boyd, artistic director of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company since July 2002, will step down by the end of 2012, after ten years at the helm. Executive director Vikki Heyward h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AM[SHARE]Friday, October 14, 2011
Ann Emery, who originated the role of Gandma in the original production of Billy Elliot at London's Victoria Palace in 2005 and stayed with the show for five years before leaving in 2010…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:11AM[SHARE]Lindsay Duncan and Jeremy Northam will star in a new production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever that will begin performances Feb. 10, 2012, at the London theatre that bears the playwrigh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:53AM[SHARE]The original West End production of Mamma Mia! will move to its third West End address in September 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2011
On the one hand, you have to hand it to a critic who admits openly to his prejudices - and therefore vows not to go near a playwright's work again, at least professionally speaking. New York…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Susan Boyle will appear in the finale of I Dreamed A Dream, a new U.K. touring musical based around her life story, which will begin performances at Newcastle's Theatre Royal March 23, 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:43AM[SHARE]I've been thundering on (and on) about the absurd (and ultimately self-defeating, I fear) greed of producers trying to get an additional slice of the income pie by introducing premium pricin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:55AM[SHARE]Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters, which originally premiered at Newcastle's Live Theatre and was subsequently brought to London's National Theatre and later to Broadway with its or…
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