Friday, August 19, 2016
The Menier Chocolate Factorytoday announces the full company for a major new revival ofTom Stoppard's TRAVESTIES - the first London revival in over 20 years.Patrick MarberdirectsClare Foster…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:10AMSheffield Theatres are searching for three exceptional young local performers to appear in their whip-crackin' Christmas musical, Irving Berlin's ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, which runs fromThursday …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMSwedish director Maria Aberg came to the UK to study at Mountview aged 20. She's since become a bold force in British theatre, with work ranging from Hotel at the National Theatre and Wildef…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00AMThursday, August 18, 2016
HighTide Festival, internationally renowned for discovering some of the UK's best new playwrights and producing new plays, has today announced the full ancillary programme for the 2016 Festi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:01AMRyan Molloy, Cassie Compton, Greg Oliver and Jack Donnelly star in the world premiere of the new British rock musical 27.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:51AMWest End megastar Kerry Ellis got her break understudying Martine McCutcheon in My Fair Lady, and has since played leading roles in numerous hit shows, including We Will Rock You, Wicked, Le…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:50AMWednesday, August 17, 2016
It's deja vu all over again, as the Matilda dream team reconvenes to bring the beloved Bill Murray-starring 1993 movie to stage. Serious expectations, then, but you wouldn't know it from thi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:25PMArtistic Director of the Old VicMatthew Warchus, composer and lyricistTim Minchin, choreographerPeter Darling, and designerRob Howell, four of the creators of the international sensationMati…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:47AMThe path from screen to stage hasn't always been a smooth one, and celluloid success is no guarantee of musical triumph just ask the Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark team. But London is currentl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:03AMDirect from a 33-week UK tour and following sell-out hit shows Midnight Tango and Dance 'Til Dawn, Strictly superstars Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace will bring their final ever theatre sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42AMFollowing sell-out performances in 2013, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's acclaimed production of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, adapted for the stage by Simon Reade, returns this year t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42AMCasting has been announced forTHE AMERICAN WIFE,a new thriller coming toPark Theatrefrom7 September - 1 October. Looking at the real human cost behind the war on terror and myriads of misinf…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:28AMSam Hodges, Director of Nuffield Theatre, today announces the cast for his world premiere production of Nick Dear's new play DEDICATION - SHAKESPEARE AND SOUTHAMPTON, which investigates the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:28AMThe Gate Theatre today announces that Ellen McDougall has been appointed as its new Artistic Director. McDougall, who takes up the position in March 2017, is currently an Associate Artist at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:22AMIn addition to her recording career, Soul queen Beverley Knight has become a musical theatre star,beginning with her acclaimed performance as Rachel Marron inThe Bodyguard in 2013, followed …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12AMTuesday, August 16, 2016
Casting has been announced for first major revival of Caryl Churchill's BLUE HEART, nearly 20 years after its Royal Court premiere, co-produced by Tobacco Factory Theatres and the Orange Tre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:37AMBirmingham Repertory Theatreand theCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, two of Birmingham's most iconic arts offerings, join together next month September 2016 for theworld premiereofCOLD …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:37AMDominic Cooper stars in Stephen Jeffreys' sexually charged masterpiece The Libertine this autumn. Directed by Olivier and Tony Award-winning Terry Johnson, the play will have a limited run f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:37AMMonday, August 15, 2016
The Lyric Hammersmith's critically acclaimed stage production of Sir Alan Parker's Bugsy Malone, directed by Sean Holmes, will end its scheduled run at the Lyric on Sunday 4 September 2016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:13AMWhat A Nice Production has announced the cast for the London professional premiere ofIN LOVE AND WARCRAFT, which will be performed at Theatre N16, Balham, in November.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06AMFriday, August 12, 2016
Production photos have been released for the professional European premiere ofRodgers amp Hammerstein's ALLEGRO. The musical opened on Broadway in 1947, their third collaboration for the sta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:07AMSheffield TheatresandEnglish Touring Theatretoday announce full casting for Phillip Breen's adaptation ofD.H. Lawrence's classic novelLADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER, which opens at the Crucible on2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:07AMBritain's original and best festival of innovative feminist theatre, CALM DOWN DEAR, is back for a fourth year with a scintillating line-up including porn, pole dancing, power dressing and f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:07AMRehearsal photos have been released for the world premiere of Zoe Lewis'sBRITTEN IN BROOKLYN at Wilton's Music Hall. The play, based on true events, stars Sadie Frost as Gypsy Rose Lee, alon…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:02AMMatthew Lewis is beloved by millions as Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films, but since his wizarding days he's taken on a range of projects, including Ripper Street and Happy Valley…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:04AMThursday, August 11, 2016
This summer, Selfridges have joined forces with one of the most exciting emerging young British theatre companies in the UK, The Faction, to celebrate Shakespeare400 with a new staging of Mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:37AMThis is our show, proclaims one of the musically angelic but devilishly foul-mouthed convent schoolgirls descending on Edinburgh for a choir competition. And by God it is. A cracking ensembl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:37AMThe Lyric Hammersmith has announced its 2016 Autumn season of Little Lyric especially for audiences aged aged 2-11. This programme is sure to delight young audiences with stories of beanstal…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:37AMOur new series, LET THERE BE LIGHT, focuses on some of Britain's finest theatrical lightning designers. First up is James Farncombe, whose projects range from plays at venues like the Royal …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15AMWednesday, August 10, 2016
The all-star cast of Kerry Ellis, Ramin Karimloo, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt and Norman Bowman, directed by Sam Yates,brings the UK premiere of American musical MURDER BALLAD to the Arts Thea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMIn the 60th anniversary year of A.A Milne's death and the 90th anniversary of Winnie-the-Pooh's publication, Close Quarter Productions, in association with Jermyn Street Theatre, today annou…
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