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The West End musical "125th Street" is to close after just four months, the producers announced on Tuesday.
NEW YORK (Variety) - The makers of 1998 comedy feature "The Opposite of Sex" are looking to consummate a stage musical.
Simon Callow's first acting job was as the front end of a horse at the Edinburgh Festival 37 years ago. Now he is a star performer with an acclaimed play on Shakespeare at the world's larges…
William Shakespeare's Globe theater has finally put a 400-year-old taboo to rest by staging the play which burned the original house down during the Bard's lifetime.
A current round of shows depend on million-dollar multimedia displays like never before, bringing video upstage after years of being relegated mostly to backdrop status.
"Yes, it's weird, it's crazy," said British playwright Lucy Prebble, 29, in an interview. While Prebble said she wished the economic collapse hadn't occurred, she noted that the timing of it…
Musician Billy Bragg wants the English to think about what it means to be English.
Roberts says that it's good business and in line with how Decca wants to grow.
"If these shows never made any money, nobody would ever invest in them," he says. "And as a company, we're not just a record company anymore. We're more of a cultural and entertainment company. This is another extension of what we do."
"This is not 'Oklahoma' -- it's 'American Idiot'," singer Billie Joe Armstrong told Reuters in an interview. "It's live and right in your face, flesh and blood."
Why is it that when a company like the Roundabout produces the same old theatrical warhorses they get nailed, while the avant-garde Wooster Group can repeatedly trot out its vintage pieces w…
If you're scouring London for impressive theater to suit a budget reduced by the recession, chances are it's just around the corner.
Miller's 1955 work, with its overdone Greek-tragedy overtones, never has managed to be fully convincing. But it remains a gripping theatrical experience despite its flaws, and director Grego…
It gained early success on the awards circuit, but the star-studded musical "Nine" will likely be pulled back from hundreds of smaller U.S. cities, after disappointing box office and lacklus…
Screen-to-stage adaptations have become a theatrical staple in recent years, and leave it to the Brits to do it with far more imagination than we.
