Peter Hall News

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & UPRIGHT CABARET are thrilled to announce the performers for their second sensational UPRIGHT CABARET experience at the NEW Cabaret Lounge at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & UPRIGHT CABARET are thrilled to announce the performers for their second sensational UPRIGHT CABARET experience at the NEW Cabaret Lounge at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

Elaine Paige will celebrate the release of her concert DVD with an appearance at Dress Circle in London. Paige will sign copies of her DVD for fans beginning at 1:30pm on February 27th. The DVD is from a concert stop on Paige's 40th Anniversary Tour. The concert, entitled 'Live in Australia,' was filmed during the New Zealand/Australian tour that took place earlier this year. This specific concert took place on October 31st, 2009.

American Repertory Theater presents Clifford Odets's drama Paradise Lost directed by Daniel Fish February 27 - March 20, 2010 at the Loeb Drama Center.

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & UPRIGHT CABARET are thrilled to announce the performers for their second sensational UPRIGHT CABARET experience at the NEW Cabaret Lounge at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

WhatsOnStage.com is reporting that Oscar and Tony Award winner Judi Dench will star as Titania in a revival of A Midsummer Night's Dream to be directed by Peter Hall. The performance will be a homecoming for Dench; she first played the role nearly 50 years ago, when she apppeared in Hall's 1962 Royal Shakespeare Company production.

In the wake of the media storm that has ensued as a result of comments run in the U.K. Daily Mail in which Elaine Paige - famous for her performances in EVITA and CATS in the West End - states that Susan Boyle was a 'virus,' Paige has just released the following statement to clarify her comments, which she asserts, were grossly misinterpreted and skewed. The pair had recently sung a duet together for an ITV special.

Elaine Paige had some choice words for international singing sensation and former duet partner Susan Boyle this week according the the UK Daily Mail. Paige, who is famous for her performances in EVITA and CATS in the West End, stated that '[Boyle] was like a virus really that spread across the world in a nanosecond.'

Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle is to make his National Theatre debut directing a new production of Frankenstein.

OperaUpClose Presents Giacomo Puccini's LA BOHÈME: A new translation by Robin Norton-Hale. Runs through 17th April 2010

Daniel Craig is currently in talks to star in the upcoming film 'Cowboys and Aliens,' directed by John Favraeu. After announcing earlier this week that Robert Downey Jr. would no longer be able to star in the film due to scheduling conflicts, Craig was tapped to star in the film. Craig is in talks to play a cowboy character in the sci-fi film.

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & UPRIGHT CABARET are thrilled to announce the performers for their second sensational UPRIGHT CABARET experience at the NEW Cabaret Lounge at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

OperaUpClose Presents Giacomo Puccini's LA BOHÈME, A new translation by Robin Norton-Hale. Runs 8th December 2009 - 20th March 2010. Conductor: Andrew Charity; Director: Robin Norton-Hale; Set and Costume Design by: Kate Guinness and Lucy Read

After a recent national tour David Essex and All The Fun Of The Fair will make its West End Debut at London's Garrick Theatre previewing from 17 April and running until 5 September with press night on 28 April 2010.

Lynne Meadow and Barry Grove have announced full casting for the New York premiere of EQUIVOCATION by Bill Cain (former artistic director of Boston Shakespeare Company), directed by Tony Award winner Garry Hynes (Translations, Beauty Queen of Leenane).

Whatsonstage.com is reporting that Ian Fricker will produce George Bernard Shaw's Candida in London next year. The production, rumored to be directed by Peter Hall, will reportedly play the Rose Theatre in Kingston before transferring to the West End in the summer.

Following their heralded tour of 'Measure for Measure' in 2005, the venerable Shakespeare's Globe Theatre of London returns to the United States from October 20th through December 23rd with the triumphant production of 'Love's Labour's Lost', directed by Shakespeare's Globe Artistic Director, Dominic Dromgoole. This is the first American tour under Mr. Dromgoole's stewardship.

LA BOHÈME is transported to the gritty realism of vibrant modern day North London from 1830s Bohemian Paris. The inspirational experience of Puccini's music is brought to an intimate staging with a young cast and chorus. This production has been conceived to make LA BOHÈME as visceral, funny, accessible and emotionally engaging for audiences as its first performance in 1896.

Mrs Warren's Profession transfers to London's Comedy Theatre on 16 March for a 14 week run until 19 June 2010.

Jean-Baptiste Molière is on top of the world - at the centre of Louis XIV's court, author of countless popular hits, and in love with a woman half his age. But what the audiences see as sparkling satire, the authorities see as dangerous and subversive. As soon as he takes a wrong step, his fall from grace is assured.