Thursday, April 13, 2017
Sophie Okonedo has come a long way from a now demolished council estate in Wembley, north London where she grew up. She
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThe winner of the six Tony Awards (the most by a single performer in Broadway history), Audra McDonald wears her accomplishments lightly.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:36AMAs the recording industry has changed beyond recognition over the last decade or so, pop performers have had to go on the
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Will Swenson will also make a guest appearance, with Seth Rudetsky as host.
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English National Opera’s ongoing flirtation with popular musicals began with a version of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd in 2015. This was followed last
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45PMThe production will also visit Dublin, Sunderland, Milton Keynes, Birmingham, Manchester, and Cardiff.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AMGlee star Matthew Morrison is to perform for a limited run of concerts in London next month. Club 11 London, which has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMSo it was virtually a clean sweep for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Olivier Awards. It had already set
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A musical based on the songs of Hoagy Carmichael called Stardust Road was to have premiered at the St James Theatre in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:39AMLast Friday I got back to London after a six-night/eight-show jaunt to New York – and I’ll be going back again for
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Amber Riley, Andy Karl, Billie Piper, and Jamie Parker win major performance awards at the April 9 ceremony.
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Oslo will transfer to the National, and see what critics thought of the revivals of 42nd Street and The Goat .
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The annual ceremony takes place April 9 at the Royal Albert Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:13AMNothing, surely, is ever going to beat the fiasco of this year’s Academy Awards, when Faye Dunaway announced the best picture win
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David Stone and Marc Platt, lead co-producers of Wicked, return to Broadway with a new musical featuring another pair of duelling divas.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PMThe season announcement of plans through November also includes the return of Jane Eyre and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMThere is a quote that adorn’s Audra McDonald’s press pack: “It is no exaggeration to say that I regard her as the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMIf, like me, you are an avid collector of original cast albums of musicals, the chances are you will have many albums
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“I will not play a light French comedy to an auditorium that looks like a Gothic edition of Wembley Stadium,” protests actor
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PMThe bi-annual theatre festival will next take place in June 2018.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMOne of the joys of going to the theatre is that we each have our own responses to it. There’s no right
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Following the triumphant opening of An American in Paris in the West End, Broadway is now offering this modest, whimsical portrait of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PMThe show features winners of a TV reality competition.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMShows don’t get more right from going wrong. The Play That Goes Wrong has been turning the stuff of disaster into a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMEveryone has their own personal favourite theatres – last week, for instance, I listed some of my favourite places to see musicals,
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Heading toward the Oliviers, Harry Potter casting news, and verdicts for Don Juan and The Life.
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The highest weekly attendance of the year was set during Christmas week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMWhere you see a show can sometimes matter as much as the show itself. I heard a producer repeating a story this
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The musical, which features Louis Jordan’s greatest hits, will play in a brand-new pop-up London theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AMJamie Glover will take over as Harry Potter beginning May 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AMThe 1980 Broadway musical 42nd Street – about a girl who gets off the bus from Allentown determined to make it in
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