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London's West End theaters won't be re-opening May 31. The Society Of London Theater posted an update on its website saying that date has now been revised beyond June 28, pending further delays due to the continued coronavirus pandemic. "This does not mean theatres will reopen on 29 June; if further cancellations…

Cameron Mackintosh, the theater owner and producer, has said that it is likely venues in both the UK and U.S. won't be able to re-open until 2021 due to the ongoing pandemic. In an interview with BBC Radio Two, Mackintosh said that the West End and Broadway would be "the last to go back" after lockdowns ease. “For…

A new stage musical version of the 1993 Tom Hanks comedy Sleepless in Seattle is set for a London world premiere next spring. Sleepless, a Musical Romance will begin previews March 21 at London’s Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, with an opening night of March 31. The production was announced on the theater’s…

EXCLUSIVE; Update with Complicité response  Two years ago, a West End staging of a new play based on Hollywood producer Robert Evans’ classic Hollywood memoir The Kid Stays In The Picture seemed all but certain for an imminent transfer to Broadway. Strong reviews, a sold-out run, rampant press rumors of a transfer, a…

Ann Crumb, the stage’s Aspects of Love star who became the first American actress chosen by Andrew Lloyd Webber to originate a starring role, died yesterday of ovarian cancer at her parents’ home in Pennsylvania. She was 69. Her death, which followed a nearly five-year battle with the disease, was announced by her…

EXCLUSIVE: Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, creators of the Olivier Award-nominated musical Six, have signed with CAA for representation. Marlow and Moss wrote the book, music, and lyrics for Six, a pop concert-style modern retelling of the lives of Henry VIII's six wives. Moss co-directed the West End production (along…

Broadway’s Tootsie musical is hitting the road and going global: In addition to a just-announced national North American tour, producers confirmed plans for London, Australia and a Japanese-language production to premiere in Tokyo. The North American tour will kick off at Shea's Buffalo Theater in Buffalo, New York in…

Michael Mayer’s West End production of Funny Girl starring Olivier Award winner Sheridan Smith will be broadcast in cinemas globally on Wednesday October 24. A trailer was released today. The performance was filmed by Digital Theatre during the final week of the musical’s run at the Manchester Palace Theatre. The film…

Broadway hit Waitress will make its London bow next spring, producers announced today, with performances beginning February at the Adelphi Theatre on the West End. Casting was not announced, but the production will have an all-female creative team, a first for a West End musical, according to producers. The same…

When we last saw Harry Potter at the end of Deathly Hallows Part 2, he was an adult, seeing off his own son to Hogwarts from King’s Cross’ Platform 9 3/4. Harry Potter And The Cursed Child will pick up from there. Details were revealed today about the stage play that’s based on a story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and…

It’s been 17 years since Kidman last appeared on stage, compelling and briefly starkers in David Hare’s The Blue Room, a West End performance that transferred to Broadway. Last night, she opened at the Noël Coward Theatre in Anna Ziegler’s intense biodrama Photograph 51, a character study of chemist Rosalind Franklin…

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Coogan (Philomena) will star in Oliver Schmitz’s Shepherds And Butchers. The film is set in South Africa and follows a jaded lawyer, Johan Webber (Coogan), who takes on a seemingly hopeless multiple murder case and uncovers scandalous shortcomings in South Africa's capital punishment system as he…