Additional Casting Announced for London Follies; National Will Also Present European Premiere of Oslo by Mark Shenton

The season announcement of plans through November also includes the return of Jane Eyre and more.

SOURCE: Playbill at 9:20am on April 6, 2017☆⚑

Audra McDonald: 'Awards don't change your life the way you think they will' by Mark Shenton

There is a quote that adorn's Audra McDonald's press pack: "It is no exaggeration to say that I regard her as the

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:00am on April 6, 2017☆⚑

Bill Rosenfield: 'The record company sacked me, so I became a writer' by Mark Shenton

If, like me, you are an avid collector of original cast albums of musicals, the chances are you will have many albums

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on April 6, 2017☆⚑

Present Laughter starring Kevin Kline " review at St James Theatre, New York " 'lugubrious' by Mark Shenton

“I will not play a light French comedy to an auditorium that looks like a Gothic edition of Wembley Stadium,” protests actor

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00pm on April 5, 2017☆⚑

Broadway Producer David Binder Appointed Guest Artistic Director of London's LIFT by Mark Shenton

The bi-annual theatre festival will next take place in June 2018.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02am on April 5, 2017☆⚑

Mark Shenton: I felt like asking Don Juan to get help for his sex addiction by Mark Shenton

One of the joys of going to the theatre is that we each have our own responses to it. There’s no right

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on April 5, 2017☆⚑

Amelie review at Walter Kerr Theatre, New York " 'full of charm' by Mark Shenton

Following the triumphant opening of An American in Paris in the West End, Broadway is now offering this modest, whimsical portrait of

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00pm on April 3, 2017☆⚑

The Band, New Musical Featuring Music of Take That, to Open in Manchester by Mark Shenton

The show features winners of a TV reality competition.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08pm on April 3, 2017☆⚑

The Play That Goes Wrong review at Lyceum Theatre, New York " 'deliriously funny' by Mark Shenton

Shows don’t get more right from going wrong. The Play That Goes Wrong has been turning the stuff of disaster into a

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:43am on April 3, 2017☆⚑

Mark Shenton's week: Is gay theatre back on form? by Mark Shenton

Everyone has their own personal favourite theatres " last week, for instance, I listed some of my favourite places to see musicals,

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on April 3, 2017☆⚑

What's Hot in London: April 1"7 by Mark Shenton

Heading toward the Oliviers, Harry Potter casting news, and verdicts for Don Juan and The Life.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on April 1, 2017☆⚑

New Records Set as West End Releases Box-Office Data for 2016 by Mark Shenton

The highest weekly attendance of the year was set during Christmas week.

SOURCE: Playbill at 9:28am on March 31, 2017☆⚑

Mark Shenton's top 10 musical theatre venues by Mark Shenton

Where you see a show can sometimes matter as much as the show itself. I heard a producer repeating a story this

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on March 31, 2017☆⚑

Five Guys Named Moe to Be Revived in London by Mark Shenton

The musical, which features Louis Jordan’s greatest hits, will play in a brand-new pop-up London theatre.

SOURCE: Playbill at 9:24am on March 30, 2017☆⚑

New Casting Announced for West End Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Mark Shenton

Jamie Glover will take over as Harry Potter beginning May 24.

SOURCE: Playbill at 9:17am on March 30, 2017☆⚑

The Life review at Southwark Playhouse, London " 'gritty and glorious' by Mark Shenton

The 1980 Broadway musical 42nd Street " about a girl who gets off the bus from Allentown determined to make it in

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:43am on March 30, 2017☆⚑

Mark Shenton: When critics start fights, both verbal and physical by Mark Shenton

“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” The stock reply to verbal bullies doesn’t necessarily apply

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on March 30, 2017☆⚑

Royal Shakespeare Company's Rome Season to Transfer to London's Barbican by Mark Shenton

The season comprises Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus, and Coriolanus.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37am on March 29, 2017☆⚑

Olivier Awards to Be Streamed on Facebook and Broadcast Live on Sirius XM by Mark Shenton

The show will include appearances by Gary Barlow, Amber Riley, Tim Minchin, and Audra McDonald.

SOURCE: Playbill at 9:25am on March 29, 2017☆⚑

Adam and Eve and Steve review at King's Head Theatre, London " 'camp and corny' by Mark Shenton

This amiable tease of a fringe musical suggests that Adam might have been led astray in the Garden of Eden in a

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 8:22am on March 29, 2017☆⚑

Mark Shenton: Long-running shows can be a curse as well as a blessing by Mark Shenton

Excluding the National Theatre, there are currently plays, comedies and musicals playing in 35 West End theatres. Fourteen of those have been

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 2:00am on March 29, 2017☆⚑

Don Juan in Soho starring David Tennant " review at Wyndham's Theatre " 'charmless and creepy' by Mark Shenton

To have one misappropriation of a Moliere comedy " Sean Foley's reworking of The Miser " in the West End is misfortune.

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:00pm on March 28, 2017☆⚑

London Aladdin Will Welcome New Title Player and More by Mark Shenton

As the show enters its second year, the Disney musical gets a new Aladdin.

SOURCE: Playbill at 9:31am on March 28, 2017☆⚑

Andrew Scott to Reprise Hamlet in the West End by Mark Shenton

The Robert Icke production will transfer from the Almeida to the Pinter Theatre.

SOURCE: Playbill at 9:20am on March 28, 2017☆⚑

Terence Rattigan's Love in Idleness to Be Revived in West End by Mark Shenton

Trevor Nunn’s production is currently at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

SOURCE: Playbill at 9:13am on March 27, 2017☆⚑