Thursday, December 15, 2016
To celebrate the festive season, the Royal Albert Hall has recreated the world's first ever commercial Christmas card - designed by Sir Henry Cole, instrumental in creating the iconic venue …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMTom Parker rose to fame as a member of band The Wanted. He's now taking on his first theatrical role, starring as Danny Zuko inthe UK tour of musicalGrease, along with Danielle Hope, Louise …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00AMThursday, December 8, 2016
One of the big theatre stories of 2016 is women reclaiming Shakespeare, from Gillian Bevan's Cymbeline and Michelle Terry's Henry V to Glenda Jackson's Lear and Phyllida Lloyd's landmark all…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:14AMFor those seeking festive revelry, but with an equally seasonal undertow of quiet melancholy, She Loves Me is the blissful solution. Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's 1963 musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03AMFriday, December 2, 2016
This revival of Sam Shepard's apocalyptic 1978 play has gained resonance since 2016's most apocalyptic political development - namely, Donald Trump cynically harnessing Midwestern anger and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46AMAnna-Jane Casey made her West End debut in Cats, and has since starred in Chicago, West Side Story, Sunday in the Park with George and Billy Elliot, among others. She's currently in rehearsa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:07AMWednesday, November 30, 2016
Alexia Khadime made her West End debut inThe Lion Kingaged 17, and went on to play Nala. Her other West End leadsincludeWicked, Les MiserablesandThe Book of Mormon, and this Christmas she st…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00AMTuesday, November 29, 2016
London is never short of theatre temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a big musical revival to starry panto and Matthew Bourne's latest, he…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:44PMActress Lisa Dillon's numerous stage credits include King John at Rose Theatre, Kingston, Hapgood at Hampstead Theatre, Design for Living at the Old Vic, The Knot of the Heart at the Almeida…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:57AMFriday, November 25, 2016
Mark Rylance is waiting for cod-ot in this absurdist trifleMark Rylance was once renowned for skipping thank yous to agents, friends and everyone he’s ever met in award speeches and instea…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:02PMMark Umbers' diverse work includes Home Fires and Mistresses on screen and, on stage, The Glass Menagerie at the Apollo Theatre and the acclaimed revival of Merrily We Roll Along at Menier C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00AMThursday, November 24, 2016
The Hospital Club is auctioning two tickets to HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD Parts One and Two at the Palace Theatre in London's West End.Between the shows the winner will experience a d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMFollowing rave reviews for both the show and its leading man Charlie Stemp, Cameron Mackintosh announced today that booking for the Cameron Mackintosh and Chichester Festival Theatre product…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMImelda Staunton has revealed plans for the London production of GYPSY to hit Broadway in 2018, according to The Stage. The show, already tipped for a New York transfer, began at Chichester F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04AMFollowing a critically acclaimed world tour, the UK's leading circus company NoFit State bring their ground-breaking promenade show BIANCO to London's Southbank Centre for the first time, ru…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:25AMGlobe Education's production for the 2017 Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank will be THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, opening at Shakespeare's Globe on 28 February and running until 25 March. Ov…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00AMWednesday, November 23, 2016
New family musical MR POPPER'S PENGUINSwill open at the Criterion Theatre for a magical Christmas season from15 December to 31 December. Mr andMrs Popper and their remarkable family of perfo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10AMInmates, coming through. That's our introduction to Phyllida Lloyd's landmark trilogy, as the homogenised prisoners are steered by prison officers through the waiting audience outside the th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AMMonday, November 21, 2016
Following sold-out seasons at the RoyalAlbert Halland several world tours, The Imperial Ice Stars have brought their dazzling production of THE NUTCRACKER ON ICEto London's Hyde Park. The sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:56PMCabaret sensation LA SOIREE has returned to London for its seventh season in the capital this Christmas, running until 8 January, 2017 - read our review here. The spectacular line-upincludes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMFriday, November 18, 2016
Photographs from the opening of HALF A SIXPENCE
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:13AMThis Sixties Tommy Steele vehicle is joyfully reborn in another Chichester Festival Theatre musical triumph, now comfortably ensconced in the West End. The unstoppable George Stiles and Anth…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:34AMThursday, November 17, 2016
Renowned choreographer Arlene Phillips is making her pantomime debut inas Fairy Bowbells in New Wimbledon Theatre's Christmas Pantomime, DICK WHITTINGTON, from Friday 9 December 2016 to Sund…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34PMSinger and actor Jack Shalloo's theatre credits include Madness musical Our House, Departure Lounge and Hamlet the Musical, and he released an album, London Soul, in 2011. He's currently app…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:20AMAndrew Lloyd Webber may seem an unlikely rock god, but he's harnessedanarchic musical liberation forthis big-hearted, irresistibly entertaining new show, adapted from the popular Jack Black …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:33AMWatch videos of the West End cast of DEAD FUNNY at Vaudeville Theatre
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00AMWednesday, November 16, 2016
Actor Jeremy Irvine got his big break as the lead in Steven Spielberg's film version of War Horse. His other screen credits include Great Expectations, The Railway Man and Stonewall,but he's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:58AMTuesday, November 15, 2016
Composer Howard Goodall's remarkable career ranges from lauded choral works to West End musical Bend It Like Beckham, the Emmy Award-winning score for HBO film Into the Storm, and themes for…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:50PMMonday, November 14, 2016
New musical SCHOOL OF ROCK opened at the West End's New London Theatre tonight. Based on the smash hit 2003 film of the same title, the showfeatures music from the movie, as well as new musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:40PMLast night, theatre luminaries turned out for the Evening Standard Awards at the Old Vic, where winners included Glenn Close, Ralph Fiennes, Billie PiperandHarry Potter and the Cursed Child.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06AMThe latest instalment ofLET THERE BE LIGHT, our series showcasing some of Britain's best theatrical lighting designers, focuses onLucy Carter. A regular collaborator with Wayne McGregor, as …
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