Friday, July 8, 2011
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.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2011
A merry-go-round of changing artistic directors is currently affecting some of London's leading fringe theatres, with Nicolas Kent, the Tricycle Theatre's long-serving artistic direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:15AM[SHARE]Five decades of iconic divas from Beyoncé to Bassey will be celebrated in Respect La Diva, beginning performances at the West End's Garrick Theatre Sept. 7 prior to an official op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:55AM[SHARE]Five decades of iconic divas from Beyoncé to Bassey will be celebrated in Respect La Diva, beginning performances at the West End's Garrick Theatre Sept. 7 prior to an official op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:55AM[SHARE]Menier Chocolate Factory, London: "Sooner or later we're bound to get it right," says Wilson Mizner, one of the two real-life brothers whose lives are chronicled in Road Show,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AM[SHARE]Musicals, as Stephen Sondheim once said (and Andrew Lloyd Webber now knows), aren't written, they're re-written. And you could say, too, that sometimes they're not just re-written, they're r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 6, 2011
A big theatre is like a big ship: it has a very big turning circle, and unlike a London cab, for instance, it can't be expected to execute a 180 degree turn when hailed to do so, but has to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s much-traveled musical Road Show officially opens at London's Menier Chocolate Factory July 6 following previews that began June 24 for a run thr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Alex Gaumond, who has previously played the role of Galileo in the U.K. tour of We Will Rock You, will join the West End company in the same role beginning Aug. 8. He most recently originate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:13AM[SHARE]Anna Chancellor, Sheila Hancock and Angela Thorne will star in the world premiere of Nicholas Wright's The Last of the Duchess at London's Hampstead Theatre, beginning performances O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:52AM[SHARE]Sam Attwater, winner of TV's "Dancing on Ice" celebrity ice-skating competition earlier this year, will join the West End company of Dreamboats and Petticoats, currently runnin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:33AM[SHARE]Hayley Atwell and Ian McDiarmid will star in the world premiere of Alexi Kaye Campbell's third play The Faith Machine, beginning performances Aug. 25 at London's Royal Court Theatre …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:11AM[SHARE]Friday, July 1, 2011
The British-born television comedienne and writer Tracey Ullman, who has long been resident in the U.S., will return to the London stage to star in the world premiere of Stephen Poliakoff…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]The 25th anniversary of the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera will be marked with a fully staged production that will play three performances at Lon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:10AM[SHARE]Monday, June 27, 2011
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group is restructuring its theatre-property and producing arms, with future plans including a West End return for Cats and a Broadway production of Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PM[SHARE]"Cagney & Lacey" star Sharon Gless is to return to the London stage to appear in the British premiere of A Round-Heeled Woman, based on Jane Juska's best-selling true-story…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AM[SHARE]Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy, previously seen in the West End in 1988 at the Apollo Theatre starring the late Wendy Hiller in the title role, is to return to London, with the recent …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AM[SHARE]Rupert Goold, whose productions of Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart and Enron both transferred to Broadway, is to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11 by directing Decade, a site-specific worl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]Ramin Karimloo, who has played the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera as well as originating the role in its sequel Love Never Dies, is to tour in A Night With …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy, previously seen in the West End in 1988 at the Apollo Theatre starring the late Wendy Hiller in the title role, is to return to London, with the recent …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]I got back from Las Vegas yesterday after a trip that ended on a high " not, alas, a high-roller high (in seven trips there now, I am yet to gamble), nor even on that rollercoaster that pass…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:40AM[SHARE]Friday, June 24, 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 10:23AM[SHARE]The London run of Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical is likely to shutter at the Palace Theatre by year's end.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s much-traveled musical Road Show begins performances for its U.K. premiere run at London's Menier Chocolate Factory June 24, prior to an official…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2011
Alistair McGowan will replace Rupert Everett as Professor Higgins in the current West End production of Pygmalion beginning Aug. 15 for the final three weeks of the run through Sept. 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PM[SHARE]Tracie Bennett will reprise her Olivier-nominated performance as Judy Garland in Peter Quilter's play End of the Rainbow for a U.K. tour, beginning performances at Northampton'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The cast of the first U.K. touring production of the Tony-nominated Sister Act will be led by Denise Black (best known for TV's Coronation Street) as Mother Superior, Michael Starke (TV&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Rosaleen Linehan will reprise her performance as the mother in the Young Vic's return run of its 2010 production of Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane, beginning performan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AM[SHARE]Monday, June 20, 2011
The Olivier Award-winning Slava's Snowshow, which has previously enjoyed West End seasons at the Piccadilly Theatre and Old Vic and played both Broadway and Off-Broadway, is to return to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:03PM[SHARE]Friday, June 17, 2011
I can hear the gloating already from the mad "Love Should Die" lobby of Love Never Dies detractors, who have run their disgraceful campaign of intimidation and aggravation, lies and deceit, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:28AM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, his continuation of The Phantom of the Opera story, will shutter at the West End's Adelphi Theatre Aug. 27. It was previously booking through J…
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