Saturday, January 28, 2017
The National Theatre announces a slate of new productions for 2017-2018, including Pinocchio, and Network with Bryan Cranston.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 27, 2017
The new musical with a book by Julian Fellowes and a score by Stiles and Drewe will open at the London Palladium in June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AMAnnie Baker's John will also receive its European premiere.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMOther winners include Sheffield Theatres, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and the temporary King’s Cross Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMRachelle Ann Go, soon to star as Gigi in Miss Saigon on Broadway, will play Eliza Hamilton.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:12AMArt forms have a habit of becoming more fluid, of refusing to stay in their polite little boxes. But as well as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, January 26, 2017
Lee Hall’s play with songs by ELO will transfer to the Duke of York’s Theatre in May.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMIt is 10am on the morning after the Broadway premiere of the 2016 Sydney Theatre Company production of The Present, a modern
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:15AMSubsidised theatre has long been the engine room of British performing arts. These are the places where actors, directors, writers and other
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, January 25, 2017
Peter Shaffer’s Lettice and Lovage will receive its first major revival since the original 1987 West End production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AMBrecht’s Life of Galileo will also be revived by director Joe Wright.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AMOnly 48 hours after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Kellyanne Conway, the president’s chief spokeswoman and apologist, was already threatening the press: “Chuck, if we’…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, January 23, 2017
Thom Southerland’s opening season as artistic director of Charing Cross Theatre has consisted of a trilogy of American musicals. He concludes it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30PMCreative team will include John Tiffany as director and Bob Crowley as designer with a book by Dennis Kelly.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AMThe upcoming season will also include a new play by James Graham and a revival of a Martin Crimp work.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AMJason Hughes and newcomer Archie Madekwe will join Damian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:51AMGoing back for more “Please sir, can I have some more?”, Oliver Twist famously requests in Oliver!. I’m so greedy I often
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMSaturday, January 21, 2017
The Almeida launches a digital film project, and the Lloyd Webber family keeps busy, plus casting updates.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 20, 2017
Nicholas Lyndhurst, Brenda Edwards, Alex Young, and Gavin Spokes join cast.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:20AMThe annual awards season is upon us. In the film world, the Golden Globes have already been presented, ahead of the announcements
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMThursday, January 19, 2017
The touring company has been “Defying Gravity” in the Far East.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PMScored by Nicholas Lloyd Webber, it will premiere in Leeds in November and star Jodie Prenger.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AMMany of the world’s greatest actors began their lives in the theatre, long before they became movie stars. Among the current, formidable
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMProstitution may be the world’s oldest profession. But selling goods or services that someone desperately wants at an inflated price – where
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Promises, Promises contains the only score written for the Broadway stage by the great pop tunesmith Burt Bacharach and his lyricist partner
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:16AMIn this column last week I noted that Broadway has the competitive edge over Britain when it comes to staging new musicals.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, January 17, 2017
Show will premiere at Curve in Leicester, which will also stage Scrooge this Christmas
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:58AMCheck here to see when and where.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:32AM“What’s new Buenos Aires?”, sings Eva Peron in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s 1970s musical masterpiece Evita, and she answers it:
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMMonday, January 16, 2017
Last Sunday, Cate Blanchett made her Broadway debut in the transfer of Sydney Theatre Company’s production of The Present, which I saw
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSaturday, January 14, 2017
London’s Hamilton will beat the scalpers, and Aladdin is holding another open call.
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