Monday, October 28, 2019
High Fidelity didn’t last long on Broadway in 2006, but the musical adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel has had plenty of airings elsewhere since that time and is now in previews at southw…
Linked From Theatre.com at 02:59PMDavid Hasselhoff is headed back to the London stage. The Broadway and West End alum most known for his small-screen turn on Baywatch will take over the role of egotistical boss Franklin H…
Linked From Theatre.com at 10:33AMFriday, October 25, 2019
A talented pair of leading ladies has been selected to appear in the upcoming London return run of the hit musical Hairspray. Lizzie Bea will star as Tracy Turnblad with Marisha Wallace as …
Linked From Theatre.com at 11:25AMThe first round of casting is here for Leopoldstadt, a new play by legendary dramatist Tom Stoppard scheduled to make its world premiere in London's West End this winter. Patrick Marber wil…
Linked From Theatre.com at 11:02AMOscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain will take to the West End stage for first time next year as Nora in a fresh staging of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. The new production, adapted by …
Linked From Theatre.com at 10:22AMThursday, October 24, 2019
Whoopi Goldberg is getting back in the habit. The beloved star who introduced filmgoers to the role of Deloris Van Cartier in the 1992 film Sister Act will return to the role for the upcomin…
Linked From Theatre.com at 10:26AMWhoopi Goldberg is getting back in the habit. The beloved star who introduced filmgoers to the role of Deloris Van Cartier in the 1992 film Sister Act will return to the role for the upcomin…
Linked From Theatre.com at 10:26AMFriday, October 18, 2019
The Lion King this month marks 20 years on the London stage, during which time it has become the sixth longest-running West End musical ever, with no end in sight. The iconic Disney musical …
Linked From Theatre.com at 02:08PMFurther casting is here for the upcoming fresh West End staging of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, featuring a new adaptation by Conor McPherson. The previously announced production, directed by Ian …
Linked From Theatre.com at 10:46AMFurther casting is here for the upcoming fresh West End staging of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, featuring a new adaptation by Conor McPherson. The previously announced production, directed by Ian …
Linked From Theatre.com at 10:46AMFurther casting is here for the upcoming fresh West End staging of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, featuring a new adaptation by Conor McPherson. The previously announced production, directed by Ian …
Linked From Theatre.com at 10:46AMBroadway's new smash hit Moulin Rouge! The Musical is heading across the pond. The spectacular show based on Baz Luhrmann's 2001 motion picture will receive its debut in London's West End …
Linked From Theatre.com at 10:09AMSaturday, October 12, 2019
The Tony-nominated composer/lyricist Dave Malloy of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 fame hasn’t had a London presence until this fall, when he is unexpectedly being represent…
Linked From Theatre.com at 12:00AMThursday, October 10, 2019
King's Head Theatre's acclaimed staging of Kevin Elyot's groundbreaking 1982 play Coming Clean, which examines the breakdown of a gay couple's relationship, will return to the London stage …
Linked From Theatre.com at 01:00PMStage veteran Paterson Joseph has been cast as the evil Ebenezer Scrooge in the Young Vic's upcoming remount of A Christmas Carol. The smash-hit London production, adapted by Jack Thorne and…
Linked From Theatre.com at 12:50PMMonday, October 7, 2019
Henry Shields is an invaluable part of London’s invaluable and in-demand Mischief Theatre Company, having long doubled as both a writer and actor on such hits as The Play That Goes Wrong, …
Linked From Theatre.com at 04:36PMThursday, October 3, 2019
London's Menier Chocolate Factory has announced initial casting for its upcoming production of Sandy Wilson's delightful 1953 tuner The Boy Friend. Matthew White will direct the previously a…
Linked From Theatre.com at 11:02AMTuesday, October 1, 2019
Lloyd Owen has one of the best, most resonant speaking voices in the business and has leant his vocal luster to such roles as Nick in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, opposite Diana Rigg, …
Linked From Theatre.com at 04:31PMWednesday, September 25, 2019
A pair of TV favorites are headed to the London stage. David Mitchell and Gemma Whelan, celebrated for their screen turns as Shakespeare and Kate on the BBC sitcom Upstart Crow, will star in…
Linked From Theatre.com at 11:55AMMonday, September 23, 2019
This news has us seeing double! Nottingham Playhouse has announced the new musical Identical, an adaptation of Erich Kastner's 1949 novel Lottie and Lisa, which was popularized by the 1961 a…
Linked From Theatre.com at 02:30PMThe talented foursome who led the worldwide cult phenomenon Ghost Stories at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre have signed on to haunt West End audiences for its upcoming fall engagement at The…
Linked From Theatre.com at 12:35PMAhead of concluding a sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre, Olivier winner Robert Icke's acclaimed staging of his play The Doctor has been scheduled to receive a West End transfer in the spr…
Linked From Theatre.com at 11:55AMFriday, September 20, 2019
The celebrated London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's fan-favorite musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which recently concluded a hit engagement at the London…
Linked From Theatre.com at 10:43AMThursday, September 19, 2019
The French writer Florian Zeller is rarely long absent from the London or New York stage. On Broadway he is represented at the moment by the transfer from the West End of The Height of the S…
Linked From Theatre.com at 03:47PMWednesday, September 18, 2019
Full casting is here for the tap-happy Irving Berlin musical White Christmas, making a return to London's West End this holiday season. The previously announced production will begin previe…
Linked From Theatre.com at 10:48AMMonday, September 16, 2019
High Fidelity, the short-lived 2006 Broadway musical based on Nick Hornby's 1995 novel, will receive a new life this fall with a U.K.-debut staging at London's Turbine Theatre. Tom Jackson G…
Linked From Theatre.com at 12:53PMSunday, September 15, 2019
Jay McGuiness was a member of the popular English boy band The Wanted and won the 2015 edition of Strictly Come Dancing, the U.K. precursor to Dancing with the Stars. But he is currently ret…
Linked From Theatre.com at 06:00AMThursday, September 12, 2019
The record-breaking Michael Jackson musical Thriller Live has set a final performance date of its 11-year run at the West End's Lyric Theatre, which is scheduled to undergo a major refurbis…
Linked From Theatre.com at 04:37PMMonday, September 9, 2019
British playwright Peter Nichols, who is best known for his play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, has died at the age of 92, according to his agent, Alan Brodie. He died on Saturday, September…
Linked From Theatre.com at 04:29PMChicago actress Samantha Pauly has been in three previous productions of Evita, none of which can have been as conceptually daring as the director Jamie Lloyd’s provocative and edgy curren…
Linked From Theatre.com at 12:02PMLondon audiences can officially gear up to see the celebrated Broadway smash Pretty Woman: The Musical. The previously announced London transfer will kick off performances on February 14, …
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