Thursday, July 28, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AM[SHARE]Edward Hall's all-male Shakespeare company will tour productions of Henry V and The Winter's Tale nationally throughout the U.K. with further international dates to be announced…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 27, 2011
The Society of London Theatre has announced that more than half of the West End's current attractions have extended their booking periods to offer sales some 15 months in advance, as Lon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:25AM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim's 1979 show Sweeney Todd was born on Broadway in 1979; but it is these days equally at home in an opera house as it is in a theatre. I've previously quoted Stephen Sondheim'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Ellen Greene, the original stage and screen Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, stars in the new British comedy musical Betwixt!, beginning performances July 26 at the West End's Tr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2011
Swallows and Amazons, a stage version of Arthur Ransome’s celebrated children’s novel of the same name, is heading to the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre for a five-week Chri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PM[SHARE]Lend Me a Tenor - the Musical, based on Ken Ludwig’s play, will shutter at the West End’s Gielgud Theatre Aug. 6. The show, which originally opened June 15 following previews fro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:57AM[SHARE]Friday, July 22, 2011
Karen Gillan, best known for her role as Amy Pond, sidekick to TV’s “Dr. Who," is set to make her professional stage acting debut in the Donmar Warehouse’s forthcoming…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Karen Gillan, best known for her role as Amy Pond, sidekick to TV’s “Dr. Who," is set to make her professional stage acting debut in the Donmar Warehouse’s forthcoming…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Thandie Newton, best known for her film credits in such features as "Crash" (for which she won a BAFTA), "Beloved," "Mission Impossible II," "2012" an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:41AM[SHARE]Hugh Jackman is planning to reprise his recent solo concert show that he performed in San Francisco and Toronto in London, during breaks from the filming of Les Miserables that is due to beg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:11AM[SHARE]Beverley Klein will play the title role in the U.K. professional premiere of Michael John LaChiusa's 2006 musical Bernarda Alba, based on Lorca's 1936 play The House of Bernarda Alba.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 21, 2011
Just yesterday I was talking here about the importance of good producers as captains of the ship for new musicals to steer them safely into port. While too many cooks may spoil the broth, th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 20, 2011
London's Laurence Olivier Awards will be presented for the first time at the Royal Opera House in 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Award-winning playwrights Christopher Shinn, Lynn Nottage and John Logan are among the team that are collaborating with director Rupert Goold on Decade, a theatrical response into the legacy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:14AM[SHARE]Award-winning playwrights Christopher Shinn, Lynn Nottage and John Logan are among the team that are collaborating with director Rupert Goold on Decade, a theatrical response into the legacy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13AM[SHARE]Ghost – the Musical, the West End's new stage version of the Academy Award-winning 1990 non-musical film, opens officially at the Piccadilly Theatre July 19, following preview…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2011
London’s Hampstead Theatre has secured a private donation of £300,000 from the Peter Wolff Trust to fund a five-year program in the Hampstead Downstairs space, where emerging pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:08AM[SHARE]Jane Asher - stage, TV and film actress as well as a famous cake maker - will play Lady Bracknell in a new production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at the U.K’…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2011
Trevor Nunn will continue his current West End residency at the helm of the Theatre Royal Haymarket by directing Tony-winning actor Robert Lindsay and recent Tony nominee Joanna Lumley in a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:05AM[SHARE]We're used now, sadly, to paying top whack for seats for West End and Broadway shows, where ticket price inflation has now spiraled out of control nearly as fast as the Zimbabwe dollar. But,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2011
The full cast has been announced for Trevor Nunn's new production of The Tempest that's heading to the West End's Theatre Royal, Haymarket, beginning performances Aug. 27 prior t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01AM[SHARE]I'm a serial repeater myself, who has been known to go back to the same show time and time again for pleasure: I saw the original production of Spring Awakening once off-Broadway, then three…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2011
London's King's Head pub theatre will host the world premiere of Oscar Wilde's unproduced Constance, beginning performances Sept. 16 for a run through Oct. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AM[SHARE]James Corden will reprise his performance in the National Theatre's current sell-out hit One Man Two Guvnors when it transfers to the West End's Adelphi Theatre, beginning performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AM[SHARE]The revival of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, currently playing at Chichester's Minerva Theatre through July 16 in a production helmed by Max Stafford-Clark, who also directed the Roya…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AM[SHARE]What's the single thing that would improve my professional life more than anything else, but also (since I don't want to be entirely selfish about things here!) the theatregoing experience m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:40AM[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2011
Frank Oz, who collaborated with Jim Henson in performing many Muppet characters including Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear, and has also directed such films as "The Muppets Take Manhattan,&qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AM[SHARE]Next month's Edinburgh Fringe promises to be the biggest-ever, with some 2,542 shows announced in the programme (memo to self: I must start looking through it to work out what to see during …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:44AM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2011
Casting is now complete for the upcoming production of Arthur Miller's Olivier-winning Broken Glass, which will play a limited season at the Tricycle Aug. 10-Sept. 10 before transferring…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM[SHARE]Ruby Wax – Losing It will transfer to the West End's Duchess Theatre, beginning performances Aug. 31, prior to an official opening Sept. 1, for a five-week run through Oct. 1.…
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