Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:11AM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2011
Shakespeare's Globe in London has announced the full program for its Globe to Globe season in 2012 that will see all 37 Shakespeare plays presented, each in a different language, across …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PM[SHARE]The recent Broadway revival of Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy begins performances at the West End's Wyndham's Theatre Sept. 26, prior to an official opening Oct. 5, for a run t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2011
Full principal casting has now been confirmed for the 25th anniversary staging of The Phantom of the Opera being staged for three performances only at the Royal Albert Hall Oct. 1-2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]Antony Sher, who is currently appearing in the West End in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass, will return to the National Theatre in a new play and a classic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 22, 2011
The full cast for a new production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company at the U.K.'s Crucible Theatre in Sheffield has been announced. The production, which begins perform…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PM[SHARE]London's Royal Opera House in Covent Garden will follow the lead of the National Theatre (who currently runs National Theatre Live) and New York's Metropolitan Opera House in transmi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Stones in His Pockets, Marie Jones's hit play that began its London life at the Tricycle Theatre before transferring to an extended West End and Broadway life, will return there as part …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2011
London's Menier Chocolate Factory will present a new production of Stephen Schwartz and Roger O'Hirson's 1972 Broadway musical Pippin that is being billed as "high concept&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:54AM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2011
Catherine McCormack, whose leading film roles include Anna Campion's "Loaded," "Braveheart," "Spy Game" and "Dangerous Beauty," will return t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2011
Leading U.K. film and TV actor Warren Clarke will make his first stage appearance in over a decade to play Winston Churchill in Three Days in May, a new political drama by Ben Brown that wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PM[SHARE]Thanks to the internet, journalists are no longer the sole distributors of news and critics no longer have the monopoly on opinion, but it has become a process that literally everyone can no…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2011
The London show-business shop Dress Circle will welcome cast members from the new musical Betty Blue Eyes Sept. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AM[SHARE]Jonathan Church's production of Singin' in the Rain, based on the celebrated 1952 MGM film of the same name, will transfer to the West End's Palace Theatre, after its hit summer …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:32AM[SHARE]The British-born television comedienne and writer Tracey Ullman, who has long been resident in the U.S., returns to the London stage to star in the world premiere of Stephen Poliakoff's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Gina Beck and Matt Willis are to join the London company of Wicked as Glinda and Fiyero, respectively, and Desmond Barrit is to return as the Wizard, beginning performances Dec. 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2011
The original cast recording for Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical, recorded in a studio by the original cast from last year's debut run of the show at Stratford-upon-Avon's Courty…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PM[SHARE]The original cast recording for Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical, recorded in a studio by the original cast from last year's debut run of the show at Stratford-upon-Avon's Courty…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2011
David Bedella, who won the 2004 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for originating the roles of Warm up Man and Satan in Jerry Springer – the Opera and subsequently reprised tha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2011
London’s Open Air Theatre will present new productions of Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Terrence McNally’s Ragtime in rep with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, both co-direct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:43PM[SHARE]The full cast has been announced to join Michael Sheen in Hamlet, beginning performances at the Young Vic Oct. 28 prior to an official opening Nov. 9, for a run through Jan. 21, 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:17AM[SHARE]Michael Frayn's Noises Off, which has had two previous productions in both the West End and on Broadway, will be revived at the Old Vic, beginning performances Dec. 3 prior to an officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2011
The hit summer outdoor production of Crazy for You, first seen at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park (where it is currently running through Sept. 10), is to transfer indoors, resuming…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:35PM[SHARE]Decade, a new site-specific response to 9/11, opens Sept. 8 at Commodity Quay in St. Katherine’s Dock, London, located near the Tower of London and Tower Bridge, following previews tha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:52AM[SHARE]The British-born television comedienne and writer Tracey Ullman, who has long been resident in the U.S., returns to the London stage to star in the world premiere of Stephen Poliakoff's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2011
The West End's Comedy Theatre will be renamed The Harold Pinter Theatre, to honor the late playwright, screenwriter, director, political activist and actor, many of whose plays have been…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PM[SHARE]The West End closing of Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre Aug. 27, after a run of nearly 14 years, has turned out to be merely a hiatus: It will resume performances at the Garrick Theatre Nov…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Ralph Fiennes returns to the West End as Prospero in a new production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, opening officially Sept. 6 (following previews that began Aug. 27), for a season tha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AM[SHARE]Details of some 70 productions have been announced for the World Shakespeare Festival, billed as a celebration of Shakespeare as the world’s playwright, that will run from April 23, 20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AM[SHARE]Tamsin Greig and Doon Mackichan will star in the premiere of April de Angelis’s Jumpy, beginning performances Oct. 13 at London’s Royal Court Theatre, prior to an official openin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:12AM[SHARE]The Broadway summer effectively ended yesterday, marked by the Labor Day holiday and the closing the day before of a couple of limping shows, Catch Me if You Can and Baby It's You (a jukebox…
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