Friday, January 17, 2014
Churchill Theatre, Bromley: Based on the popular sit-com from the 1970s, the musical version of Happy Days carries all the hallmarks of the original show. A rose-tinted window on life in mid…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:15AM[SHARE]Jermyn Street Theatre, London: It is said that Anton Chekhov, the author of classics such as Uncle Vanya, didn't like plays. More to the point, he didn't like long plays and with t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 8, 2014
St James Studio, London: One day in 1957 an envelope lands on the doormat of photographer Derek Eveleigh's rather seedy flat in Pimlico. It contains details of an unusual, fairly innocu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AM[SHARE]Friday, January 3, 2014
Finborough Theatre, London: On the eve of battle in 1914 Captain George Llewellyn Davies, the inspiration for the character of Peter Pan, dreams of life after Neverland. Phil Willmott's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 2, 2014
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London: As exquisitely crafted as Cole Porter's songs are, his tricksy rhymes, dated references and propensity to overplay a lyric pattern can become tiresome…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 19, 2013
Towngate, Basildon: Of the Grimm brother's repertoire, Rapunzel is perhaps one of the least adapted fairy tales, but this pantomime version by Brad Fitt carries all the right ingredient…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Orchard, Dartford: Contrary to popular belief, the dynamics of a good pantomime don't rely on a star name, but on the company as a whole being able to deliver that all important mix of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Landor Theatre, London: Against the backdrop of the 1904 World Fair, the Smith family busy themselves with the more immediate issues of romance, coming of age and sibling squabbles. A distin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Lilian Baylis Studio, London: With its mixture of live performance and short film, Exposure sees the graduating costume designers of the MA Costume Design for Performance examining the relat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:03PM[SHARE]Ashcroft, Croydon: Back for a third year at the Ashcroft, Evolution Pantomimes mounts an adaptation of JM Barrie's much-loved story of the boy who never grew up. It is always a controve…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2013
Leicester Square Theatre Studio, London: The story of Dick Whittington is given a burlesque treatment here from a cast led by popular drag-queen, Miss Dusty 'O'. Stuart Saint'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:09AM[SHARE]Friday, December 6, 2013
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London: Fairy Bow Bell arrives on the dot at seven o'clock to ring the changes over Stratford's unique take on the story of Dick Whittington. With an …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2013
Above The Stag, London: For more than three years the theatre company above the Stag pub in Victoria developed a loyal audience providing a mix of comedy, musicals and contemporary drama, al…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Jermyn Street Theatre, London: Against the economic and political chaos of the Weimar Republic, Berlin became the playground for the sociosexual outcasts of the world. Amid the drug dens and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Palladium, London: After last year's spectacular at the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Variety Performance returns to the spiritual home of variety at the London Palladium for the 38th ti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Gate Theatre, London: Originally produced by The Public Theatre in New York, No Place to Go is the story of modern redundancy set to a jazz/blues score. Our hero, Ethan Lipton and his band a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 14, 2013
St James Studio/Crazy Coqs/St James Studio/Palace/Crazy Coqs/Pheasantry: The London Festival of Cabaret, curated by Neil Marcus, celebrates the resurgence of the art form with a mix of inter…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:47AM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2013
The Duke New End, London: In the early 1920s two men meet up in an act of remembrance of their comrades who died in Europe. Adapted and devised for the stage by director Stuart Clarke, Voice…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AM[SHARE]Friday, November 8, 2013
Hope Theatre, London: The Hope Theatre has been founded by artistic director Adam Spreadbury-Maher and the team at the King's Head Theatre to promote new work including plays, operas an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:51AM[SHARE]Monday, November 4, 2013
Millfield Arts Centre, London: One of the many interesting things about Doris Day is that, in the early 1970s, she chose retirement from a career that had seen her established as one of the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AM[SHARE]Union Theatre, London: In 1878 WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's satire on the British class system viewed through the prism of the Royal Navy was to become their breakaway success, ceme…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:14AM[SHARE]Monday, October 28, 2013
Jack Studio, London: Cut short from its initial West End run after a much lauded premiere in Chichester, this adaptation of Erich Segal's novel suffers from a brevity that even Howard G…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2013
New Wimbledon, London: Based loosely on Plutarch's Rape of the Sabine Women, the 1954 MGM movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers became a showpiece of the studio's musical output. N…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2013
Union, London: Based on The Comedy of Errors, The Boys From Syracuse reinterprets the plot as a musical vaudeville. This style and Shakespeare's farcical comedy make fairly happy bed-fe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2013
The Albany, London: Here, we see the action shifted from Norway to a fictional community on the coast of Cornwall, where a co-operative is on the verge of launching a spa. Dr Stockmann is pi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Playhouse, London: Based on the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot originally opened in the UK at the Palace in 2006, where it ran for four years before embarking on a successfu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2013
Crazy Coqs, London: Although this new show is running as part of the London Festival of Cabaret, the opening of Out Of This World actually marks 15 months of Miss Hope Springs as resident pe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:50AM[SHARE]Fairfield Halls, Croydon: Aside from the glorious and occasionally bawdy humour of this, one of Shakespeare's most accessible comedies, the play is original in that its characters are d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Crazy Coqs, London: One might be mistaken into thinking that the much-loved comedy actor, Celia Imrie, is a veteran of the cabaret stage. Known for her performances alongside Victoria Wood, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2013
Cockpit Theatre, London: This new musical is the quirky but heart-warming tale of six Londoners and their aspirations. The central focus is initially on Bart Edwards as Toby and Aiden Crawfo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Tabard, London: This new play by Richard Harris aspires to tell the story of Liza Minnelli from her own perspective. In a neat coup de theatre, Harris uses three actors to play the multi-awa…
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