Saturday, March 4, 2017
Olivier news, a cast album for Dreamgirls, and critics review Andrew Scott’s Hamlet and the U.K. debut of an Off-Broadway hit.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, March 3, 2017
Lenny Henry will be joined by Michael Pennington and Tony nominee Tom Edden.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMGolden Days, to be released April 7, includes five original songs by the pair.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00AMThe countdown to this year’s Olivier Awards, being held on April 9 at the Royal Albert Hall, officially kicks off on Monday
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, March 2, 2017
The Royal Court premiere of Penelope Skinner’s Linda in late 2015 was overshadowed by the withdrawal, just three days before the first
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:51AMTamzin Outhwaite has temporarily stepped out of Stepping Out, to be replaced by Anna-Jane Casey.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AMAward to be presented in recognition of the actor and director’s outstanding contribution to British theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMThe double album was recorded live at the Savoy Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AM2016 Olivier winners Denise Gough and Matt Henry will make the announcements.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMJack Thorne is just 38 years old, but he’s already hurtling towards the top ranks of Britain’s most successful and prolific contemporary
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMI’ve often written here about policing audience behaviour, from having to take people to task for talking, texting and eating during shows
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
Stephen Sondheim once dubbed his macabre musical masterpiece Sweeney Todd as his love letter to London, and now London repays the compliment,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PMCurrently entitled The Robot Sings, the musical is inspired by The Tempest.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMThe original West End musical has, with a few honourable exceptions, been in the creative doldrums since the 1990s. Mamma Mia! opened
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, February 28, 2017
Immersive production is based on A Winter’s Tale.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AMThe tour will begin in October.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AMThe Pulitzer Prize finalist’s play will be directed by Jamie Lloyd.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMMonday, February 27, 2017
All Our Children will premiere at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre in April.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMThe South Bank venue will be transformed into an immersive venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMMichael Mayer’s first major revival of the 1964 Broadway musical Funny Girl, premiered at the 150-seater Menier Chocolate Factory in London in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:19AMI’ve previously addressed the ongoing debate on the all-white casting of Half a Sixpence, in which I cited the show’s book writer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, February 24, 2017
More a live rock concert for four spiky, spicy “rock chicks” than a fully-fledged musical, Lizzie is a raucous, noisy scream of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PMAll Places That the Eye of Heaven Visits will be presented in April.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMThe play, first seen at the Royal Court in 1993, will open in April.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMBenedict Andrews will direct the Young Vic production that will open at the Apollo Theatre in July.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMJukebox musicals – shows created out of the existing back catalogue of pop groups and performers – have been with us for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, February 23, 2017
Nigel Harman, the original Lord Farquaad in the West End, will reprise his directorial duties for the new tour.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:25PMWhen I first interviewed Donna McKechnie nearly 30 years ago, she was starring in a London revival of Cole Porter’s 1950s Broadway
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:54AMThe cast will feature a set of young TV comedy actors.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AMLast week the news that Samuel French is shutting down its public retail shop hit the front page of The Stage. When
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, February 22, 2017
Theatre is a place of comfort and pleasure, but sometimes it is also a place where we go to be taken out
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