Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Monday, October 10, 2011
Backbeat, a stage adaptation of the 1994 film about the birth of the Beatles, opens at the West End's Duke of York’s Theatre Oct. 10, following previews that began Sept. 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 8, 2011
Mark Rylance returns to the West End in his Olivier and Tony-winning performance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron in Jerusalem, resuming performances at the Apollo Theatre—where the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2011
The West End production of Million Dollar Quartet is to shutter at the Noel Coward Theatre Jan. 14, 2012, after a run of less than a year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:07PM[SHARE]Joely Richardson will follow in the footsteps of her mother Vanessa Redgrave and late sister Natasha Richardson to play the role of Ellida in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea in a new produ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:20AM[SHARE]The Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park production of Crazy for You resumes performances Oct. 7 indoors at the West End's Novello Theatre, with Broadway's Sean Palmer reprising the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:18AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for Richard II, Michael Grandage's final production at the helm of the Donmar Warehouse that begins performances Dec. 1 prior to an official opening Dec. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:50AM[SHARE]Jonathan Coy, Janie Dee, Robert Glenister, Jamie Glover, Celia Imrie, Karl Johnson, Aisling Loftus, Amy Nuttall and Paul Ready have been cast in the Old Vic's new production of Michael F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:06AM[SHARE]The King's Speech, the original play by David Seidler that subsequently inspired the Oscar-wining film of the same name, will receive its world stage premiere in a production being stage…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2011
Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton open in Chichester Festival Theatre's new production of Sweeney Todd Oct. 6, following previews that began Sept. 24, for a run through Nov. 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:57AM[SHARE]Last week, Billy Elliot played to 78% capacity on Broadway. That doesn't exactly sound like a show in trouble; yet on Monday, it was announced that the show would close on January 8, 2012, a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:01AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, who made her New York Philharmonic debut in February at Avery Fisher Hall, plays London's Royal Albert Hall Oct. 6 at 7:30 PM London time.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The recent Broadway revival of Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy officially opens at the West End's Wyndam's Theatre Oct. 5, following previews that began Sept. 26, for a run thro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2011
La Soirée, a night of live entertainment that is described as a heady cocktail of cabaret, new burlesque, circus sideshow and contemporary variety, returns to London's Roundhouse …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:50AM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2011
A new collaboration between eight London producing venues and 12 U.K. and international co-producers will create eight epic productions in May 2012 under the umbrella title World Stages Lond…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:53AM[SHARE]This coming Sunday, The Phantom of the Opera celebrates the 25th birthday of its official opening in the West End at Her Majesty's on October 9, 1986, but over the weekend it jumped the gun …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:31AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 1, 2011
The 25th anniversary staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera plays three performances only at London's Royal Albert Hall Oct. 1-2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2011
David Haig will star in the West End in a new production of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III, beginning performances Jan. 18, 2012, at the Apollo Theatre, prior to an official op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AM[SHARE]Singer-songwriter Marti Pellow, formerly the lead singer of Wet Wet Wet, one of the most successful bands in British pop history, will join the West End company of Blood Brothers, now r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]London's Almeida Theatre has announced details of four productions to be staged between January and November 2012, including Jonathan Pryce returning to Shakespeare to play the title rol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:25AM[SHARE]The 50th anniversary of the release of the film version of West Side Story will be marked by a series of screenings at London's Royal Albert Hall, running June 22-June 24, 2012, accompan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:42AM[SHARE]The cast for the world premiere of Hamish Pirie's production of Tim Price's Salt, Root and Roe, which begins performances Nov. 10 at Trafalgar Studios 2, prior to an official opening…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2011
The West End cast of Million Dollar Quartet is preserved on a live London cast album, recorded at the Noel Coward Theatre, on sale Sept. 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PM[SHARE]Scott Bakula, best known for his Golden Globe Award-winning role as Sam Beckett in TV's "Quantum Leap" and as Captain Jonathan Archer in "Star Trek: Enterprise," retu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PM[SHARE]Lauren Samuels, Alasdair Harvey and Wayne Robinson are to join the West End cast of We Will Rock You, beginning performances Oct. 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM[SHARE]The West End transfer of the RSC's production of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical has announced a short delay, with performances now beginning Oct. 25 prior to a revised opening of N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AM[SHARE]In my [Short Shorts blog]( http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/shenton/2011/09/short-shorts-7/ last Friday, I mentioned that one tweeter/critic, who was there on press seats as a guest of the manage…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2011
The West End edition of Broadway’s Rock of Ages officially opens Sept. 28 with a gala performance, following previews that began Aug. 31. The company is led by British TV and radio per…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Full casting has been announced for Trevor Nunn's new West End production of James Goldman's The Lion in Winter, due to begin performances Nov. 5 at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PM[SHARE]A new production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night is heading to the West End's Apollo Theatre, starring the previously announced David Suchet, who will be jo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:06AM[SHARE]Regular readers will know that I've been banging on for some time now about the rampant greed of West End theatre producers and owners who are marking an ever-widening area of their floorpla…
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