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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2011
Paulo Szot will reprise his Tony-winning performance as Emile de Becque in the London transfer of Bartlett Sher's production of South Pacific, which begins performances at London's B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]London's Union Theatre in Southwark, currently represented by the transfer to Wilton's Music Hall of Iolanthe and soon to transfer Irish Blood English Heart to the Trafalgar Studios,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:48AM[SHARE]Imogen Stubbs, Doreen Mantle and Jonathan Cullen will star in a new production of Ibsen's 1894 play Little Eyolf, beginning performances at London's Jermyn Street Theatre May 3, prio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:47AM[SHARE]Imogen Stubbs, Doreen Mantle and Jonathan Cullen will star in a new production of Ibsen's 1894 play Little Eyolf, beginning performances at London's Jermyn Street Theatre May 3, prio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:47AM[SHARE]British musical theatre - or at least musical theatre originated in Britain, which is a slightly different thing - dominated the genre in the 80s, thanks largely to two men: Andrew Lloyd Web…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:02AM[SHARE]Friday, April 8, 2011
Simon Ward has joined the previously announced Rupert Everett, Diana Rigg and Kara Tointon in the company for the West End transfer of Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Pygmali…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AM[SHARE]The Cock Tavern Theatre in the London suburb of Kilburn, where the Olivier Award-winning production of La Boheme originated in 2009 before transferring to Soho Theatre last year, has shutter…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:41AM[SHARE]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 08:05AM[SHARE]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 08:05AM[SHARE]The other day I wrote a blog here in which I mentioned that when I produced a play on the fringe last year, I "made sure that my actors, at least, were paid a proper weekly salary, which I r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 5, 2011
A new production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, that was previously reported to be eyeing a West End run starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Miles and Douglas Henshall, has now confirmed th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:42AM[SHARE]Ghost the Musical, which is now in the midst of its out-of-town try-out in Manchester, England, through May 14 prior to a West End transfer to the Piccadilly Theatre where it begins performa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:32AM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2011
The West End run of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, currently running at the Gielgud Theatre, will shutter May 21. It was originally booking through Oct. 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:39AM[SHARE]In the age of Twitter and Facebook, there are no secrets anymore; news spreads like wildfire, and on Friday night the internet - or rather a tiny corner of it - was ablaze with the news that…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:01AM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2011
The previously reported next two productions in Trevor Nunn's current residency as artistic director of the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company have confirmed further details, while the curr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AM[SHARE]The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that its world-premiere production of Matilda, A Musical will transfer to London's West End in the fall. Dates, venue and casting are yet…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AM[SHARE]Rupert Goold will direct the world premiere of David Mamet's The Anarchist in London in the fall. It is the third time a Mamet play has received its world premiere in London, following G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]"ER" star Alex Kingston and Ben Daniels are among those who will join the previously announced Felicity Jones in Schiller's Luise Miller, which begins performances at London…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2011
Robert Longden and Hereward Kaye's 1991 flop musical Moby Dick, originally produced at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre by Cameron Mackintosh, will get its first major London …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:34AM[SHARE]Darren Murphy's Irish Blood, English Heart, which originally premiered at London's Union Theatre, will transfer to Trafalgar Studios 2, beginning performances May 2, prior to a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Following the U.K. Coalition government's declared aim to reduce public spending in all areas in order to reduce budget deficits, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) that c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:50AM[SHARE]London's Arts Theatre has announced details of its summer program, which will include the world premiere of Anton Burg's Bette & Joan, which will star Greta Scaachi and Anita Dob…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:20AM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2011
Kristin Scott Thomas is set to be reunited with director Ian Rickson, who helmed her last theatrical outing at the Royal Court and subsequently on Broadway in The Seagull, for a new West End…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:41PM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2011
Dame Diana Rigg, Tony winner for Best Actress in a Play for her last Broadway appearance in Medea in 1994, will return to the West End to join the company of the previously announced p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AM[SHARE]Tim Curry and Ralph Fiennes will appear in the next two productions at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket as part of director Trevor Nunn's residency as artistic director, which was launched w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2011
Dominic West, last seen on the London stage in Life is a Dream at the Donmar Warehouse but best known for his starring role in the U.S. TV series "The Wire," will play the ti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PM[SHARE]The Royal Shakespeare Company will stage the premiere of The Heart of Robin Hood as its first large-scale family show in its newly revamped Royal Shakespeare Theatre home at Stratford-upon-A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2011
As London's Bush Theatre prepares to move to a new home at the old Library in Shepherd's Bush this fall, artistic director Josie Rourke has announced the "32 Degrees West Season…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM[SHARE]Natalie Casey will replace Denise Van Outen as beautician Paulette Buonofonté in the West End company of Legally Blonde the Musical, which was recently named Best New Musical in this …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AM[SHARE]Steve Marmion, who took over as artistic director of London's Soho Theatre in July 2010, has announced a new season and new ambitions for the venue.
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