Thursday, October 6, 2016
This weekend, Ian McKellen will receive the UK Theatre award for outstanding contribution to British theatre at a ceremony on October 8
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMNot a week, it seems, goes by without the announcement of yet another new theatre opening in London. Last week came news
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, October 5, 2016
Lots of people write musicals, just as lots of people write books and plays. Anyone who wants to write – or act,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, October 3, 2016
We’re used to seeing revivals of successful musicals, as producers try to get a second (or even third) slice of a previously
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Jersey Boys will say farewell, Follies will take the National, and Seth Rudetsky is to reprise Disaster! in London.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 30, 2016
Also in the cast are Tim Key and Paul Ritter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMKwame Kwei-Armah has written the book and directs.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMSeth Rudetsky will appear in the concerts November 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:34AMThere’s no venue more singularly evocative of its own history than Wilton’s Music Hall, tucked behind a tenement row of houses down
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, September 29, 2016
A second U.K. national tour will launch in December 2017.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMBy a strange sort of coincidence, October sees Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton all appearing on the London stage. No sooner
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThis week, the West End production of Wicked formally celebrated its 10th anniversary at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. It is currently also
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, September 28, 2016
This week, Oberon Books celebrated its 30th anniversary as an independent publisher of plays and other performance-based texts, including biographies and textbooks.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, September 27, 2016
The performance on October 10 will feature current and original cast members.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AMNew U.K. tour will launch in 2018.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AMPast recipients include Sir Kenneth Branagh, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Derek Jacobi, Dame Eileen Atkins and Kevin Kline.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AMThe creator and star explains more behind the one-man show, a unique theatrical experience for all.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, September 26, 2016
The price of celebrity Last week, I went to the Wyndham’s Theatre to meet and interview Ian McKellen. It was the day
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSaturday, September 24, 2016
Imelda Staunton cast in Albee’s Virginia Woolf?, Sheridan Smith will take Funny Girl on the road, plus reviews for No Man’s Land, the London premiere of Father Comes Home From the War an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 23, 2016
James Macdonald will direct the play at the Harold Pinter Theatre, opening in February 2017.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AMThe production, which is helmed by Maria Friedman, will transfer to the Vaudeville Theatre beginning March 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AMHe joins the previously announced Ed Harris and Amy Madigan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AMIt coincides with a 20th anniversary revival of Rent playing in the St. James Theatre upstairs.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMTheatre Royal Stratford East dubs itself “a people’s theatre”, but for once, it is not an idle aspiration but a reality: this
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, September 22, 2016
The limited engagement begins in November.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMA new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and a play by and starring sex workers have also been announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AM“You wish to have the curse reversed?/ I’ll need a certain potion first,” sings the Witch to the Baker and his wife
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Martin Kemp, original member of British pop group Spandau Ballet, will star.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AMTuesday, September 20, 2016
The star will appear at selected venues in the U.K.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMThe press release announcing the February 2017 opening of new West End musical The Girls, a stage version of Calendar Girls, had
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Critics, at least in this country, usually stay out of the rehearsal room. It isn’t regarded as our place to see actors
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