Thursday, March 30, 2017
The 1980 Broadway musical 42nd Street – about a girl who gets off the bus from Allentown determined to make it in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AM“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” The stock reply to verbal bullies doesn’t necessarily apply
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
The season comprises Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus, and Coriolanus.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AMThe show will include appearances by Gary Barlow, Amber Riley, Tim Minchin, and Audra McDonald.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMThis amiable tease of a fringe musical suggests that Adam might have been led astray in the Garden of Eden in a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:22AMExcluding the National Theatre, there are currently plays, comedies and musicals playing in 35 West End theatres. Fourteen of those have been
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
To have one misappropriation of a Moliere comedy – Sean Foley’s reworking of The Miser – in the West End is misfortune.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PMAs the show enters its second year, the Disney musical gets a new Aladdin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AMThe Robert Icke production will transfer from the Almeida to the Pinter Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMMonday, March 27, 2017
Trevor Nunn’s production is currently at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:13AM“Let’s get together and feel all right,” is the prominent refrain of Bob Marley’s hit song One Love. It’s also the take-home
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:11AMTheatre can make you forget time – or be acutely aware of its passing. This was brought into sharp relief for me
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSaturday, March 25, 2017
What do critics think of An American in Paris on the West End, and will Simon McBurney return to Broadway?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, March 24, 2017
Sheena Easton has had quite some professional life, spanning a recording career, live concert artist, TV actor and the Broadway stage. But
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMAntony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s epic drama of the passionate and violent co-dependent relationship between the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Roman power broker
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:57AMLast week I listed my favourite directors of the classics, and today it’s the turn of directors whose work in musicals I
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Simon McBurney, whose last solo show for Complicite was the astonishing sensory experience of The Encounter, which cocooned each theatregoer in a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59PMThe Royal Shakespeare Company launches its Rome season with Julius Caesar, a play I’ve seen twice recently – in Phyllida Lloyd’s remarkable
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:02PMDenise Welch, Gary Wilmot, Craig Mather, and Simon Lipkin join the cast of the new musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMChristopher Wheeldon trained as a child at the Royal Ballet School and then graduated to join the Royal Ballet at 18, before
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMI know times are tough, and with standstill public subsidies theatres need to be creative when it comes to doing the work
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMWednesday, March 22, 2017
The hit stage version of the best-selling novel will have a second London run at the Playhouse Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMThe production will raise money for the theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AMTheatre, like society itself, is in a constant state of flux, and it goes without saying that we are living in changing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMTuesday, March 21, 2017
Hot on the heels of Matthew Bourne’s adaptation of the 1948 dance film The Red Shoes as a new narrative ballet comes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00PMThe award-winning production makes its official West End bow March 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, March 20, 2017
Last year the National revived Rattigan’s bleakly stunning masterpiece The Deep Blue Sea, in which the reservoirs of pain caused by unrequited
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30PMThis time last week I was remarking on the coincidence of seeing the Almeida Theatre’s new Hamlet and Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMSaturday, March 18, 2017
Seven years after it was first seen at the Barbican, Ivo van Hove’s astonishing distillation of three of Shakespeare’s Roman plays into
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMThe Edinburgh festival announces its international program, and over 40 theatres band together to defend a critic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, March 17, 2017
David Hare recently railed against European directors who “distort” classic plays in a way that is beginning, he said, to infect British
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