Friday, August 12, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:39AM[SHARE]Tell Them That I Am Beautiful, a new show created and performed by an international company that comprises Marcello Magni, Kathryn Hunter, Patrice Naiambana, David Bartlomeij Soroczynski and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2011
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," is…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Steven Fales will bring his autobiographical one-man play, Confessions of a Mormon Boy, that he both wrote and stars in, to London, beginning performances at the Charing Cross Theatre S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]Steven Fales will bring his autobiographical one-man play, Confessions of a Mormon Boy, that he both wrote and stars in, to London, beginning performances at the Charing Cross Theatre S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2011
London's Gate Theatre will revive its 2009 production of The Kreutzer Sonata, adapted by Nancy Harris from Leo Tolstoy's novella, ahead of a run at New York's La MaMa E.T.C.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:47AM[SHARE]Getty Images is joining forces with a major new West End musical Exposure, which is aiming for a world premiere in spring 2012; some of its content will be integrated into the musical produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:56AM[SHARE]Connie Fisher, who originated the role of Maria in the 2006 West End production of The Sound of Music after winning the public vote to play the role in the TV series "How Do You Solve a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:04AM[SHARE]Jude Law and director Rob Ashford both return to the Donmar Warehouse to, respectively, star in and direct a new production of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie, opening Aug. 9 foll…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2011
Leanne Jones, who won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for originating the role of Tracy Turnblad in the London production of Hairspray, will star as Lucy in a new Lo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:02AM[SHARE]Sean Palmer and Clare Foster star as Bobby Child and Polly Baker, respectively, in a new London production of the Gershwin musical Crazy for You, opening officially Aug. 8 at the Open Air Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 6, 2011
Lend Me a Tenor - the Musical, based on Ken Ludwig’s play, plays its final performances at the West End’s Gielgud Theatre Aug. 6. The show, which originally opened June 15 follow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, August 5, 2011
The current West End run of Yes, Prime Minister, a stage play based on the hit TV series, will return to its original West End home of the Gielgud Theatre for an extra eight weeks, once it c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 4, 2011
The new British comedy musical Betwixt!, which stars Ellen Greene, the original stage and screen Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, has extended its limited engagement at the West End's T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM[SHARE]The Young Vic and Opera Group’s 2008 production of Kurt Weill, Elmer Rice and Langston Hughes’s Street Scene, which won that year’s Evening Standard Award for Best Musical,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:11AM[SHARE]London's Soho Theatre will present the world premiere of Georgia Fitch’s Fit and Proper People, presented in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company, beginning performances …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:07AM[SHARE]Christopher Hampton’s debut play, When Did You Last See My Mother?, which when it premiered in 1966 when he was just 18 made him the West End’s youngest-ever playwright, wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Tamzin Outhwaite, Claudie Blakley and Nicola Walker will star in the world premiere of Amelia Bullmore’s Di and Viv and Rose at London’s Hampstead Downstairs, beginning performan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:11AM[SHARE]The internet is a virtual medium, of course, but it goes without saying that it's reaching places - and audiences - that live entertainment, limited by seating capacity, cannot. It's a whole…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 2, 2011
The Theatre Royal, Stratford East in London will present A Clockwork Orange, a new adaptation of Anthony Burgess' cult novel of the same name by New York writers Ed DuRanté (words…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:52AM[SHARE]Musicals rarely arrive ready-written. They need nurturing, incubating and gestating, as required " sometimes a gentle slap on the bottom is all that's necessary to get them breathing on thei…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:04AM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2011
Backbeat, a stage adaptation of the 1994 film about the birth of the Beatles, is heading to the West End’s Duke of York’s Theatre, beginning performances Sept. 24 prior to an off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM[SHARE]Backbeat, a stage adaptation of the 1994 film about the birth of the Beatles, is heading to the West End’s Duke of York’s Theatre, beginning performances Sept. 24 prior to an off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM[SHARE]Lee Blessing's 1988 Broadway play A Walk in the Woods will be revived at London's Tricycle Theatre, in a new revised version of the play originally performed at Northern Stage in Ver…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:49AM[SHARE]Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, in which a new musical is created entirely afresh each night following suggestions from the audience, will return to the West End's Ambassadors Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:39AM[SHARE]The West End posted good second quarter results last week, with box office takings up 2% on the same period in 2010. SOLT chief executive Julian Bird told The Stage he was "cautious, but opt…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 29, 2011
David Suchet, best known for playing the title role in TV's "Poirot," will return to the West End’s Apollo Theatre, the same venue where he last appeared on the London st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AM[SHARE]The Rat Pack Live From Las Vegas is heading back to the West End for a five-week Christmas season, beginning performances at Wyndham’s Theatre Dec. 20 for a run through Jan. 21, 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AM[SHARE]Michael Crawford will continue in the title role of The Wizard of Oz, currently running at the London Palladium, through Feb. 5, 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2011
Ellen Greene, the original stage and screen Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, stars in the new British comedy musical Betwixt!, which officially opens July 28 at the West End's Tr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AM[SHARE]The Bush Theatre will stage a one-night-only public promenade performance of selections of its Sixty-Six Books project at London’s Westminster Abbey, in a 12-hour overnight performance…
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