American Stages: Bradley Cooper opens in The Elephant Man by Catherine Gerbrands

When it debuted on Broadway in 1979, Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man wasn't positioned as a star vehicle, with the relatively unknown Philip Anglim taking on the title role. Stars succe…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on December 5, 2014☆⚑

American Stages: Sting tries to stop The Last Ship sinking by Catherine Gerbrands

Rumored for weeks, it was finally confirmed days ago that Sting would join the cast of his Broadway musical The Last Ship, which has been struggling at the box office following mixed reviews…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on November 28, 2014☆⚑

American Stages: Up Here musical to premiere at La Jolla Playhouse by Catherine Gerbrands

Exciting news abounds in New York theatre at the moment, as we find out where Up Here (the musical from the writers of Disney's Frozen) will premiere next year, and the celebrity casting rad…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on November 14, 2014☆⚑

American Stages: Al Pacino to star in China Doll by David Mamet in 2015 by Catherine Gerbrands

The big news this week has been the controversy surrounding the Met Opera's The Death of Klinghoffer, which has attracted protests amid accusations of glorifying terrorism. For all the press…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on October 24, 2014☆⚑

Interviews: Helen Goalen: actor by Catherine Gerbrands

Performer Helen Goalen is a founding member of award-winning theatre company RashDash, which she started with Abbi Greenland after they studied together at Hull university. Their new show, O…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:00pm on October 4, 2014☆⚑

American Stages: Steve Martin's new musical and America's top ten plays by Catherine Gerbrands

Howard Sherman's fortnightly dispatch from Broadway is your essential catch-up guide to all the latest news, rumours and castings on the other side of the Atlantic. In this edition, Wolf …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 8:49am on September 26, 2014☆⚑

American Stages: Broadway's first female-penned play in two years by Catherine Gerbrands

Howard Sherman's fortnightly dispatch from Broadway is your essential catch-up guide to all the latest news, rumours and castings on the other side of the Atlantic. In this edition, he celeb…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:00am on September 12, 2014☆⚑

American Stages: Song catalogues continue to woo producers and bullets for Broadway shows by Catherine Gerbrands

Above and beyond the Broadway closings already announced, and in many cases already completed, two more shows announced this week that they'd be calling it quits. The Tupac Shakur musical Ho…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:12am on July 18, 2014☆⚑

American Stages: Les Mis reinvented by Catherine Gerbrands

Javert in militaristic police garb. Valjean in an orange jumpsuit. Thenardier in dreadlocks. Student revolutionaries in camouflage fatigues. Just a glimpse at photos from the Dallas Theatre …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:30am on July 4, 2014☆⚑

American Stages: Chicago picks up the slack for Broadway's summer lull by Catherine Gerbrands

As awards season in New York theatre has wound down, the summer reduction on Broadway begins " whether according to the schedule of limited runs or shows just running out of steam at the box…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:20am on June 20, 2014☆⚑

American Stages: Californian premieres, busy Rees and Off-Off-Broadway finally hits Broadway by Catherine Gerbrands

While Broadway has been holding its breath since the end of April, afraid to exhale until after Sunday's Tony Awards, a spate of new productions of note are happening along the California co…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:05am on June 6, 2014☆⚑

American Stages: Blood, mud and magic of Shakespeare heads across the Atlantic by Catherine Gerbrands

Kenneth Branagh will make his long awaited New York stage debut (though he directed The Play What I Wrote on Broadway) when the Manchester International Festival co-production of Macbeth com…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:15am on May 23, 2014☆⚑

American Stages: Irish revival, Lucille Lortel Awards and Abba goes Greek by Catherine Gerbrands

While the work of Irish playwright Dion Boucicault is intermittently revived, his long ago hit The Octoroon, a melodrama about a mixed-race woman (one-eighth black, per the title) in the pre…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:15am on May 9, 2014☆⚑

American Stages: Tony determinations kick off the awards season and God gets the theatre bug by Catherine Gerbrands

With the opening of Roundabout Theatre Company's Cabaret revival last night, the 2013-14 Broadway season is complete. The Tony administration committee meets this morning to make final categ…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:29am on April 25, 2014☆⚑

American Stages: Radcliffe on Broadway, King and I rumours and Carole King off stage by Catherine Gerbrands

When Norm Lewis takes on the title role of The Phantom of the Opera next month, it will mark the first time that a black actor has played the role on Broadway and a great…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 8:39am on April 11, 2014☆⚑

Features: 50 years of the National Theatre by Catherine Gerbrands

On the 50th birthday of the National Theatre, we explore The Stage Archives and look at some of the defining moments

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 8:45am on October 22, 2013☆⚑

Diamanda Galas, Royal Festival Hall, London by Catherine Gerbrands

Royal Festival Hall, London: With tumbleweed blowing across tracts of the West End it was comforting to see the Southbank thronging with life on the first night of this year's Meltdown …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:54am on August 3, 2012☆⚑