Thursday, October 29, 2015
Producers of the upcoming London stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II are warning ticket buyers that they will not accept any ticket they find has been resold. F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMWednesday, October 28, 2015
Earlier Oct. 28, producers of the upcoming London stage sequel Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II announced that the first three-month block of tickets had sold out w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PMAll tickets for the first booking period (June 7-Sept. 19, 2016) for the London stage sequel Harry Potter and the Cursed Child sold out within hours during priority sale Oct. 28. As a re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AMMonday, October 26, 2015
An audience member who insisted on singing "loudly and badly" during an Oct. 24 performance by the national touring company of The Bodyguard in Nottingham, U.K., was removed from t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMFriday, October 16, 2015
The Oct. 15 live international screening of Hamlet, starring Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, was seen by more than 225,000 people around the world, making it the larges…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45PMThursday, October 15, 2015
The recent sold-out London production of Hamlet, starring Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, is broadcast to cinemas around the world Oct. 15 as part of the National T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, October 3, 2015
Vicky Featherstone, director of London’s Royal Court theatre, has said audiences are less at ease with female leads than with male ones. Is she right?Mark Shenton, joint lead critic and as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AMFriday, September 18, 2015
Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, whose Broadway hit Kinky Boots has just opened in the West End, has been tapped to revise the original book to Funny Girl in advance of the musical's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMTuesday, September 15, 2015
What should you put on your stage acting résumé? Louise Dearman and Mark Evans, the stars of Wicked and The Book of Mormon, offer some adviceShare your tips and resources below the lineYou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AMTuesday, August 18, 2015
Sheridan Smith will star in the first major London production of Funny Girl since its original 1966 West End run this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMA Desert Island Discs spoof, brooding circus performers who strip naked and a Yoko Ono-inspired love-fest … our critics choose their hot tickets at this year’s fringeO No!In less skilled…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:49AMFriday, August 14, 2015
Tony nominee Stephen Fry will join Emma Bunton (a.k.a. Baby Spice of the Spice Girls) and "The Great British Bake Off" host Mel Giedroy in the upcoming special London performance o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMThe new U.K. revival of Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart's 1974 Broadway musical Mack & Mabel, starring Michael Ball and Rebeccca LaChance in the title roles, is considering a Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:09AMWednesday, July 22, 2015
Theatres have been struggling with rude audience members texting and taking calls for years, but things have gotten even worse this year.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:51PMTuesday, July 21, 2015
As Broadway faces off against pocket-size sound-and-light shows, performers and some patrons say a hyper-connected culture are shredding the immersive experience of live theatre
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:01PMMonday, July 20, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway: Marimba ringtones! Rat-a-tat texting! The shaming "shhhhh!"...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:05AMFriday, July 17, 2015
Bend It Like Beckham, the new British musical version of the 2002 film of the same name, is getting set to original its cast album and has released teasers for two tracks from the score, whi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMWednesday, May 27, 2015
The absurdist standup duo applaud the silver-haired master of deadpan comedy and his regular collaborators David Zucker, Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMMonday, May 25, 2015
The original London cast recording of Love Story, the West End musical version of the Erich Segal novel that became the famous tear-jerker film of the same name, will be released Feb. 7, acc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe London production of the Tony-nominated musical Million Dollar Quartet begins performances Feb. 8 at the Noël Coward Theatre prior to an official opening Feb. 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTuesday, May 12, 2015
Elaine Paige's sell-out 50th anniversary farewell concert I'm Still Here, which was filmed in October 2014 at the Royal Albert Hall, makes its U.S. debut beginning May 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, May 2, 2015
After US movie star John Goodman praised British theatre-goers following his UK stage debut last week, two leading critics discuss whether you get a better class of punter on one side of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMMonday, April 27, 2015
The cast album of the Imelda Staunton London production of Gypsy is released by First Night Records April 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, April 23, 2015
Elaine Paige's sell-out 50th anniversary farewell concert I'm Still Here, which was filmed in October 2014 at the Royal Albert Hall, begins worldwide screenings April 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, April 15, 2015
Music Theatre International (MTI), already the largest company in the field of licensing performance rights to musicals in its extensive catalogue in America, has announced a big internation…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:43AMMonday, April 6, 2015
The complete track listing has been announced for the cast album of the Imelda Staunton London production of Gypsy, which will be released by First Night records April 27. Samples from the 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09PMTuesday, March 17, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- The hills are alive with the sound of a big, lucrative anniversary....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:52AMSaturday, March 14, 2015
A serious fire has destroyed a historic part of South London's influential BAC (once known as Battersea Arts Centre). The fire, which broke out in the venue's Grand Hall March 14 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AMThursday, February 26, 2015
The Broadway engagement of Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, based on the history novels by Hilary Mantel about Henry VIII, which will begin performances March 20 at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PMFriday, January 9, 2015
The hit London revival of Miss Saigon, which opened May 21, 2014, at the West End's Prince Edward Theatre, has extended its booking through Sept. 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMMonday, December 8, 2014
Theatre is a white invention. It’s in their DNA, Suzman says after Meera Syal appeals for theatres to look more to Asian audiences Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:53PM 
