(Nov. 6 11:42 AM) - Jonathan Pryce is set to star in the first West End Pinter production, The Caretaker, since Harold Pinter's death in December last year. The Caretaker runs at Trafalgar Studios from January 12 - April 17, 2010.
(Nov. 6 11:09 AM) - Reports are circulating that Jeffrey Katzenburg, who runs Dreamworks Animation, has been looking around the London Palladium with the creative team of Shrek: The Musical.
(Nov. 6 10:27 AM) - Whatsonstage.com is reporting that Loserville: The Musical, which was successfully staged at Bracknell's South Hill Park Arts Centre in August, may be heading to the West End -- if the play's creator, James Bourne's twitter account is to be believed.
(Nov. 6 9:48 AM) - In big news from the U.K. today, Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton have teamed up to star in a new production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at the Chichester Festival Theatre, prior to leading the show to the West End, according to a report from Baz Bamigboye in the U.K.'s Daily Mail.
(Nov. 6 8:01 AM) - Directed by Amon Miyamoto, a new production of this much-loved musical will invigorate and illuminate the show with fresh visual, emotional and musical energy.
(Nov. 5 5:37 PM) - Jim Steinman is working on a musical based on his "Bat Out of Hell" albums. Steinman has revealed that the musical, Bat Out of Hell, will be based on the songs from the three-album cycle. Described as a Cirque du Soleil-type spectacle, Steinman wrote both the music and lyrics for this dynamic project.
(Nov. 5 1:49 PM) - Jimmy Akingbola, Aml Ameen, John Boyega , Karl Collins, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Abhin Galeya, Jaye Griffiths, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Amelia Lowdell, Cecilia Noble, Rebecca Scroggs and Robert Whitelock are the full cast announced for the Not Black and White season - three plays to be presented by the Tricycle Theatre examining the state of Britain at the end of the first decade of the twenty first century.
(Nov. 5 11:15 AM) - As part of the Wilton Music Hall's 150 Anniversary celebration, internationally celebrated actress Fiona Shaw will reprise her acclaimed performance in TS Eliot's The Waste Land in a limited engagement performance at the venue from December 30, 2009 to January 10, 2010 at the venue.
(Nov. 5 9:39 AM) - Variety is reporting that The Stephen Daldry-helmed revival of his 1992 production of An Inspector Calls, currently running in a limited engagement at the Novello Theatre in the West End, will transfer to Wyndhams Theatre in early December for a 16-week run. This move will fill the gap for the theatre created by the early closing of The Shawshank Redemption, as previously announced.
(Nov. 4 3:40 PM) - Quick-change master Arturo Brachetti took time out of his busy schedule to reveal his skills to BWW:UK editor Carrie Dunn. He's currently playing the Garrick Theatre, London, into the New Year, and is delighted to be back in Theatreland after a spell living in the city as a crazy-haired New Romantic in the mid-1980s.
(Nov. 4 2:17 PM) - Variety is reporting that The Stephen Daldry-helmed revival of his 1992 production of An Inspector Calls, currently running in a limited engagement at the Novello Theater in the West End, will transfer to Wyndhams Theater in early December for a 16-week run. This move will fill the gapfor the theater created by the early closing of The Shawshank Redemption, as previously announced.
(Nov. 4 12:30 AM) - Uncle Vanya : A workshop production at Maria Theatre 4 to 14 November 2009
A unique chance to see work in development at the Young Vic. Young Vic associate director, Joe Hill-Gibbins directs a workshop production of Anton Chekhov's tragic comedy Uncle Vanya for 11 performances only.
(Nov. 3 12:46 PM) - Whatsonstage.com is reporting that the stage adaptation of the Shawshank Redemption, which opened just a few months ago on September 13 at the Wyndham's Theater in the West End, has posted an early closing notice. The production will play through its 100th performance on November 29. Initially, booking had been open through February 2010.
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