Wednesday, June 1, 2011
"Dr. Who" TV star David Tennant and Catherine Tate open June 1 in a new West End production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, following previews that began May 16, for a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 28, 2011
A critic's place is usually on the page, not the stage, and for good reason. We're the sort of people who know (some of) the directions, but can't drive. Sometimes, of course, we can't avoid…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AM[SHARE]Friday, May 27, 2011
Tim Curry, who has been playing the role of The Player in Chichester Festival Theatre's new London-bound production of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, has withd…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]Oscar, Tony, Golden Globe and Grammy Award-winning lyricist Tim Rice is one of the forces behind From Here to Eternity, a new musical-theatre version of the 1951 debut novel by James Jones. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:08AM[SHARE]A new production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Miles and Douglas Henshall, begins performances May 27, prior to an official opening June 16, for a run t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2011
As part of the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield's 40th anniversary season, Dominic West and Clarke Peters, who starred together in the long-running TV series "The Wire," will reun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2011
The London cast of Les Miserables will see Caroline Sheen, Alexia Khadime, Craig Mather, Katy Secome, Liame Tamne and Lisa-Anne Wood join the company in principal roles. They will join the p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AM[SHARE]Monday, May 23, 2011
So the world didn't end after all at 6pm on Saturday night. But just over an hour later, I was in the bureaucratic faded splendors of Brighton Town Hall, sitting in the council chamber liste…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 20, 2011
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation is using funds raised from the sale of Picasso's portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto (also known as The Absinthe Drinker) last year to embark on an act…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:41AM[SHARE]The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation is using funds raised from the sale of Picasso's portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto (also known as The Absinthe Drinker) last year to embark on an act…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2011
The Royal Shakespeare Company's world-premiere production of Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical, originally seen at Stratford-upon-Avon's Courtyard Theatre last Christmas, has conf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:19AM[SHARE]Several years of year-on-year record-breaking business in the West End have defied the recessionary trend elsewhere and made the theatre feel not only immune to the prevailing economic winds…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2011
The theatre, long the training ground of British acting and the bedrock, in turn, of many an actor's career, has hit a peculiar moment of crisis: a couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog that h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Caroline O'Connor, the Australian performer who has appeared on the big screen in Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge" and on the West End and Broadway stage as Velma Kelly in Chi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AM[SHARE]The London company of Mamma Mia! will be newly led by West End regular Sally Ann Triplett as Donna Sheridan, beginning performances June 13 at the Prince of Wales Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AM[SHARE]The National’s current sell-out production of the verbatim musical London Road, playing in the Cottesloe Theatre, will have an eight-week extension through Aug. 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:43AM[SHARE]Boundaries are already being re-drawn between electronic experiences of live events and the events themselves. On the one hand, things like NT Live are bringing theatrical events to a far wi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:46AM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2011
Sarah Helm, the journalist wife of Jonathan Powell, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s chief of staff at the time of the decision to go to war against Iraq, is making her playwritin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:39AM[SHARE]Sarah Helm, the journalist wife of Jonathan Powell, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s chief of staff at the time of the decision to go to war against Iraq, is making her playwright…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AM[SHARE]“Dr. Who” star David Tennant and Catherine Tate begin performances May 16 in a new West End production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, prior to an official opening J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AM[SHARE]Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley’s The Roar of the Greasepaint — the Smell of the Crowd will receive its London premiere at the fringe Finborough Theatre, beginning performance…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]Friday, May 13, 2011
There's a wonderful quarterly magazine called Musical Stages, devoted to all things musical and published by the indefatigable Lynda Trapnell (whose day job is acting as a business manager t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2011
Cameron Mackintosh is taking his recent, revised West End staging of Lionel Bart's musical Oliver! on the U.K. touring road, launching at Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre Dec. 10, p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Just yesterday I was writing here about the continuing controversy over premium ticket pricing, pointing out an interesting coincidence where every single seat that insider theatre website T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 11, 2011
The 1975 multiple Tony Award-winning Broadway musical The Wiz, which won that year's award for Best Musical and ran for nearly four years at two Broadway houses, will be revived in a new…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:21AM[SHARE]I've often sung the praises of Theatremonkey.com, a work-of-love (and word-of-mouth) website that offers a seat-by-seat guide to every West End theatre with hints about where its best to sit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2011
London's Lyric Hammersmith has announced its autumn/winter season for 2011-12 that will feature a celebration of the work of Edward Bond, including the first major London revival of Save…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AM[SHARE]Dame Edna Everage, the comedy character created by Barry Humphries, will make her pantomime debut in Dick Whittington at London's New Wimbledon Theatre for this year's Christmas seas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]The rules over the way news is being handled are changing forever. When even legally-enforced superinjunctions are insufficient to stop news leaking out, what hope is there for keeping anyth…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:46AM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2011
John Doyle will return to Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s much-traveled musical Road Show, which he previously directed and designed at New York’s Public Theater in 2008, to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:15AM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2011
Geraldine James will play Arkadina and Roger Lloyd Pack will pay Dorn in Seagull, a new (slightly re-titled) version of Chekhov's play, beginning performances at London's Arcola Thea…
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