Tuesday, September 6, 2011
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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 3, 2011
Joanna Lumley, Douglas Hodge, Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Fiennes, James Earl Jones, Michael Sheen and Scott Bakula are among performers populating London stages in the coming weeks, in a fall s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 2, 2011
The West End edition of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Musical has confirmed that it is to shutter Dec. 31, 2011.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AM[SHARE]Backbeat, a new musical based on the 1994 film of the same name by Iain Softley and co-written by Softley and Stephen Jeffreys that tells the story of how The Beatles "became" the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AM[SHARE]Des O’Connor, who has been a star of his own TV shows on U.K. television for over 45 years since making his first TV appearance in 1963, will join the West End company of Dreamboats an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AM[SHARE]The National Theatre has announced its fall repertoire through January 2012, including dates and casting for three new productions: the premiere of John Hodges’s Collaborators and revi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AM[SHARE]The Donmar Warehouse production of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie, which officially opened Aug. 9 for a season that runs through Oct. 8, will likely head to Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Noël & Gertie, the show devised by the late theatre critic and author Sheridan Morley around the words and music of Noël Coward, will be revived at London’s Cockpit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PM[SHARE]The West End edition of Broadway’s Rock of Ages begins performances Aug. 31 at the Shaftesbury Theatre, prior to an official opening Sept. 27. The company is led by British TV and radi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AM[SHARE]Although Betty Blue Eyes, the new Cameron Mackintosh-produced musical at the West End's Novello Theatre, based on the Alan Bennett film "A Private Function," will shutter Sept.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 27, 2011
Two big West End musicals shutter Aug. 27: Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, his much-anticipated but critically kicked sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, at the Adelphi Theatre, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, August 26, 2011
A new line-up has been announced for the company of Legally Blonde the Musical from Oct. 10. Joining Carly Stenson, who continues as Elle Wood, Natalie Casey (Paulette) and Peter Davison (Pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Kimberley Walsh, a member of U.K. pop group Girls Aloud, is take over from Amanda Holden as Princess Fiona in the London production of Shrek The Musical, beginning performances Oct. 5. This …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The Royal Shakespeare Company's world premiere production of Roald Dahl's Matilda — the Musical, first seen at Stratford-upon-Avon last Christmas, will feature the same adult p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:41PM[SHARE]Lincoln Center Theater's Tony Award-winning production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific opens officially at London's Barbican Theatre Aug. 23, following previews that b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AM[SHARE]As the Edinburgh fringe enters its home stretch - and I've just come back home myself from my second weekend there last night - the little arts journalism bubble in which Scotland briefly be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:20AM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2011
Ian Kelly, Michael Hodgson, David Whitaker and Brian Lonsdale will all return to The Pitmen Painters in roles that they first created at Newcastle's Live Theatre, then reprised at the Na…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PM[SHARE]Betty Blue Eyes, the new musical that Cameron Mackintosh has produced at the West End's Novello Theatre, based on the Alan Bennett film "A Private Function," is to shutter Sept…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PM[SHARE]Meera Syal, who last year played the title role in the Menier Chocolate Factory production of Shirley Valentine that subsequently transferred to the West End’s Trafalgar Studios, is to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:39AM[SHARE]Friday, August 19, 2011
Jasper Britton will return to the RSC to play the Marquis de Sade in a new production of Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade, beginning performances at Stratford-upon-Avon's Royal Shakespea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:31AM[SHARE]Siân Phillips, the veteran actress who has recently played in a production of Noel Coward's Bittersweet at the Bard SummerScape festival in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, will next in U.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:28AM[SHARE]Tom Goodman-Hill and Anthony Calf will join the previously announced Thandie Newton in the new West End production of Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden, beginning performances at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2011
London's fringe Union Theatre in Southwark will revive Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein’s 1976 musical The Baker’s Wife that played a U.S. try-out tour that closed on the ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:27AM[SHARE]There are currently a whopping 19 musicals on seemingly full-time residencies in the West End (though one, Love Never Dies, closes at the end of next week), plus limited runs of Crazy for Yo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Craig Gazey, who starred in TV's "Coronation Street" as the character Graeme Proctor for three years and was named Best Comedy Performer at the 2010 British Soap Awards, and Em…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:37AM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2011
London’s Arts Theatre will offer three Christmas shows running simultaneously, including Simon Callow starring in A Christmas Carol.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:16AM[SHARE]Lincoln Center Theater's Tony Award-winning production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific begins performances at London's Barbican Theatre Aug. 15, prior to an official o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:06AM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2011
Louisa Lydell, Rosalind James and Kurt Kansley will play Mother, Sarah and Coalhouse Walker, respectively, in a new London production of Ragtime, beginning performances at the fringe Landor …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:24AM[SHARE]Declan Donnellan will direct John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's A Whore for an international tour by the English ensemble of his Cheek by Jowl company. It will kick off in Paris in Nove…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:12AM[SHARE]Marsha Norman's 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama ‘night, Mother will play the fringe Old Red Lion Theatre, beginning performances Aug. 30 prior to an official opening Aug. 31, for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:40AM[SHARE]Marsha Norman's 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama ‘night, Mother will receive its London premiere at the fringe Old Red Lion Theatre, beginning performances Aug. 30 prior to an off…
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