UK Live Entertainment News
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Three Days in May at Trafalgar Studios
Dalziel and Pascoe star Warren Clarke will lead an all-star cast as ‘Winston Churchill’ in the West End transfer of Ben Brown’s wartime thriller Three Days in May The play has been winning rave reviews on a national tour and will open at the Trafalgar Studios at the beginning of ...
Rowan Atkinson in Simon Gray Revival
Rowan Atkinson will return to the West End in in a revival of Simon Gray’s black comedy Quartermaine’s Terms according to an article by Charles Spencer in the Telegraph Atkinson was last seen on stage playing ‘Fagin’ in Oliver at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane Paul McGann Amanda Drew and ...
Schools Finally Get Cats and Phantom!
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Really Useful Group has announced that two of the impresario’s most famous musicals – The Phantom of the Opera and Cats – will be released for schools and colleges to perform to mark the th anniversary of Phantom’s West End debut The sought after licences can ...
New Wicked Cast Announced
Wicked the Musical has announced a cast change before the end of the year with former Phantom of the Opera star Gina Beck taking over the role of ‘Glinda’ and ex-Flashdance actor Matt Willis playing ‘Fiyero’ from Monday th December They will be joined by Desmond Barrit The Wizard Lillie ...
The Lion King Reaches 5,000 Performances
The Lion King will reach its th performance this evening at the Lyceum Theatre The milestone has been reached years after the show opened in the West End back in October and is a huge credit to the large cast and production team who have managed to keep the musical ...
Noises Off at The Old Vic this Christmas
Michael Frayn’s award-winning play within a play - Noises Off - will receive its first major London revival since the year when a new production opens at The Old Vic this Christmas directed by Lindsay Posner The hilarious show will open on Tuesday th December previews from Saturday rd December ...
Russell Crowe Will Star in Les Miserables Movie
Russell Crowe has been cast as ‘Inspector Javert’ in the forthcoming Hollywood film version of Les Misérables according to reports on BroadwayWorld com Fellow Australian actor Hugh Jackman has already been confirmed in the role of reformed prisoner ‘Jean Valjean’ Shooting is likely to begin in the UK next February ...
Comedy Theatre Renamed after Harold Pinter
The Comedy Theatre has become The Harold Pinter Theatre today Thursday th September after being renamed by The Ambassador Theatre Group ATG in honour of the late Nobel Prize-winning playwright who created such iconic works as The Caretaker and Betrayal The name change is made ahead of the venue’s next ...
World Shakespeare Festival Launched
The World Shakespeare Festival was launched at the British Museum yesterday as part of next year’s Cultural Olympiad which will run alongside the London Olympic Games More than arts organisations and thousands of performers will come together around the country to produce nearly productions between April and November Highlights include ...
The Playboy of the Western World Cast Confirmed
The full cast has been announced for the upcoming Old Vic production of J M Synge’s outstanding Irish drama The Playboy of the Western World which opens on Tuesday th September following previews from Saturday th September Gwendolen Chatfield Karen Cogan John Cormack Drew Dillon Christopher Doyle Diarmuid de Faoite ...
