Monday, February 13, 2017
The Menier Chocolate Factory revival will also feature Anthony Head and Helen George.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMFrom 1944 with their first collaboration on Oklahoma! to The Sound of Music in 1959, Rodgers and Hammerstein dominated Broadway. It was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, February 12, 2017
The BAFTA Awards presented February 12 are the U.K. equivalent to the Oscars
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Sunset Boulevard will tour the U.K.; and The Ferryman and Young Frankenstein are both West End bound.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 10, 2017
When this English National Opera production premiered in 2015, critical opinions were far from unanimous, with the Evening Standard’s Barry Millington, for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:56AMAs Valentine’s Day approaches, love is in the air (“… everywhere I look around,” as the John Paul Young song has it);
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, February 9, 2017
Show will transfer to the Garrick Theatre after an out-of-town tryout in Newcastle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMThe role, relevance and respect for the classics in British theatre has been thrown into the spotlight twice in the past few
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMBroadway is called the Great White Way because of the lights emanating from Times Square and the dozens of theatre marquees. But
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, February 8, 2017
There are times when The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin seems to trying on multiple personalities for size, only so
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PMThe production, directed by Sam Mendes, will transfer to the Gielgud Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMIf you go to see Half a Sixpence, you will see as many banjos as The Music Man has trombones. But something
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, February 6, 2017
Adrian Scarborough and Gawn Grainger will co-star with David Tennant.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AMThe musical will premiere at Curve in Leicester and then tour.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMLast Tuesday I hosted the annual Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, in my role as chairman of the drama section of the Critics’
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Performance dates announced for Audra McDonald, highlights from the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, and news on this year’s Oliviers.
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Last year’s planned bow was postponed when McDonald became pregnant.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:47AMGoing to the theatre should always be primarily about the show you are going to see, but there are a lot of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, February 2, 2017
It’s less than two months since I interviewed Scarlett Strallen in these pages, as she returned to the London stage from New
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMIn the programme notes for Shakespeare’s Globe’s new production of John Webster’s The White Devil, director Annie Ryan comments, “Here we are,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:43AMNowadays there are often more (so-called) producers named on a theatre poster than there are actors in the show: Dear Evan Hansen,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, February 1, 2017
Helen Edmundson’s play is directed by Natalie Abrahami.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AMOther plans include new productions of Twelfth Night and A Christmas Carol, plus two new plays.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMLondon Musical Theatre Orchestra will also perform Candide in July.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:58AMLots of quality newspapers (thankfully) still have dedicated arts reporters, and the tabloids cover celebrity with an almost religious fervour. But only
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, January 31, 2017
The Watermill Theatre helped to pioneer the pocket chamber actor-musician show in the UK. Director John Doyle staged Cabaret here with just
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMMonday, January 30, 2017
John Boyega will be joined by Sarah Green, Nancy Carroll, and Steffan Rhodri.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMThe nominations event on March 6 will also be carried live online.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AMThe new year never feels like it has really begun until The Stage Awards come around. It’s one of the best annual
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSaturday, January 28, 2017
Thoroughly Modern Millie is a retro-fitted hybrid of a musical. It’s based on a 1967 movie musical that is itself based on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMThe National Theatre announces a slate of new productions for 2017-2018, including Pinocchio, and Network with Bryan Cranston.
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