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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the West End premiere of Lend Me a Tenor – the Musical, which will begin performances June 2 at the Gielgud Theatre, prior to an official opening Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]Ghost Stories will shutter at the West End's Duke of York's Theatre June 19, after a run of a week short of a year. First seen at the Lyric Hammersmith and the regional Liverpoo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AM[SHARE]Shakespeare's Globe, London: Even the title contains the ambiguous promise of the play - all may be well that ends well, but it's not necessarily going to be plain sailing to get there.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AM[SHARE]Shrek the Musical, originally produced on Broadway in 2008 and now on a U.S. national tour, begins performances at the West End's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane May 6, prior to an official op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 5, 2011
Simon Callow will bring his latest one-man show, Being Shakespeare, to the West End's Trafalgar Studios, beginning performances June 15, prior to an official opening June 22, for a seaso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PM[SHARE]Rupert Goold's production of Mike Barlett's Earthquakes in London, which premiered at London's National Theatre last year in a co-production between Headlong and the National, wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:54AM[SHARE]I know I run the risk of shredding every last ounce of critical cool and credibility I have left, but I'm a fanilow of Manilow. Yep, I just outed myself. But in the contemporary pantheon of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Jonathan Wilkes will star as Billy Flynn in the West End production of Chicago, running at the Cambridge Theatre, beginning performances May 9. Debbie Kurup will return to the role of Velma …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:11AM[SHARE]Given that just 39 shows opened on Broadway in the 2010/11 eligibility season for this year's Tony Awards (that ran from April 30, 2010 to April 28, 2010), the Tony nominating committee spre…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Andrew Lloyd Webber's new stage production of The Wizard of Oz, based on the story by L. Frank Baum as immortalized in the 1939 film musical featuring music and lyrics by Harold Arlen an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2011
Alex Gaumond, who is currently appearing as Emmett in the West End production of Legally Blonde (for which he was nominated for the 2011 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical), will make…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01AM[SHARE]No sooner did I get land from New York on Tuesday morning at 7am than by lunchtime I was on the road again, driving to Stratford-upon-Avon where, as I reported here yesterday I was seeing th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Stephen Dolginoff's musical Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story, originally seen at Off-Broadway's York Theatre and recently received its UK premiere at London's Tristan Bate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM[SHARE]A team of 50 emerging American actors, writers, directors and producers will travel to London's Old Vic in late May to develop new skills, expand their creative networks and showcase the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AM[SHARE]The new Stratford main house of the Royal Shakespeare Company, built within the shell of the old "jam factory" of Elisabeth Scott's 1932 building that had itself replaced the original 1879 t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2011
There are currently 38 productions playing on Broadway (though one of them, Spider-man - Turn off the Dark, is on a temporary hiatus as it has gone back into rehearsal after five months of p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:16AM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2011
The new West End-bound musical Viva Forever, using the music of the Spice Girls to tell a story of camaraderie, love and loyalty, has signed Marianne Elliott to direct.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2011
London's Donmar Warehouse has announced the second of its annual 12-week Donmar Trafalgar season at the Trafalgar Studios that enables recent graduates of its Resident Assistant Director…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:21AM[SHARE]London's Donmar Warehouse has announced the second of its annual 12-week Donmar Trafalgar season at the Trafalgar Studios that enables recent graduates of its Resident Assistant Director…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:21AM[SHARE]Oscar Wilde is famously credited with saying "Britain and America are two nations divided by a common language", and in theatrical terms that though the West End keeps a keen eye on Broadway…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Lincoln Center Theater's Tony Award-winning production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific will have its European premiere at London's Barbican Theatre this summer, beginn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:22AM[SHARE]Just yesterday I was writing here about Broadway being overrun by pop music, so perhaps the next step is for Broadway to find another outlet for its wares and work, namely the protected envi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2011
There are currently 23 musicals running on Broadway (though one of them, Spider-man - Turn off the Dark is actually on hiatus so that it can comprehensively overhauled, and another, American…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2011
I'm in New York this week (hence the late hour, for London at least, of this posting, although its only 8am here!), but I very nearly didn't get here at all last Friday. I hardly ever take t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2011
As a critic, I like giving praise where praise is due. Nothing pleases me more, in fact, than to be able to be a supporter and a champion of events like last Sunday's Perfect Pitch celebrati…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2011
Lend Me a Tenor The Musical, based on the hit Ken Ludwig stage comedy, will begin performances at the West End's Gielgud Theatre June 2, prior to an official opening June 15. It is curre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2011
While Daniel Radcliffe, the original screen Harry Potter, is currently on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, his alter-ego will return to the West End in Potted Po…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Never mind Broadway's long-previewing Spider-Man: Another fabled comic book creation is being brought to the stage in Batman Live, which will launch an international arena stage tour at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM[SHARE]The world-premiere run of Betty Blue Eyes, a new musical based on the British film comedy "A Private Function" that was originally scripted by Alan Bennett, officially opens at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Veteran director Peter Hall, who turned 80 last year, will return to Bath’s Theatre Royal in the U.K. to head up his eighth resident season of the Peter Hall Company this summer, runni…
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