Barbican Theatre News

Closing Aurora Theatre Company's 19th season is the first professional American production of METAMORPHOSIS. Award-winning Bay Area director, performer, and playwright Mark Jackson returns to Aurora Theatre Company, where he helmed the company's acclaimed productions of Salome and Miss Julie, to put his own unique spin on this landmark work of existential literature.

Paulo Szot, who has recently emerged as one of the most exciting voices in opera and who won a Tony for his performance as Emile de Becque in the Lincoln Center Theater (Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) production of SOUTH PACIFIC, will be recreating the role of the French plantation owner at the Barbican Centre in London, where the production will run for a limited season of 7 weeks only from 15 August to 1 October, with an opening night on 23 August.

Baz Bamigboye has revealed in the UK Daily Mail today that Daniel Koek will take the stage as Lt. Cable when South Pacific hits the Barbican Theatre in London this summer. The Bartlett Sher production, which opened at Lincoln Center in 2008 and is currently on tour, will also star original Bloody Mary Loretta Ables Sayre and Paulo Szot as Emile DeBecque. The UK's Samantha Womack will play Nellie Forbush.

Tony winner Paulo Szot is set to return to SOUTH PACIF as Emile de Becque in the upcoming London transfer of the 2008 Broadway revival. The production opens at the Barbican Theatre AUgust 15 before beginning a UK tour. Samantha Womack will play Nellie Forbush.

The premiere Detroit engagement of Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables will be at the Fisher Theatre, thru April 3.

With a show as well-known worldwide as LES MISÉRABLES, casting is of the utmost importance. Though West End star Alfie Boe is Cameron Mackintosh's reported first choice to play the iconic role of Jean Valjean in the long-anticipated film version of LES MISERABLES, there are other roles that need casting, and they'll most likely be filled with stars.

Tickets for Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary production of LES MISÉRABLES are now on sale for the premiere Omaha engagement at the Orpheum Theater. The all new production of LES MISÉRABLES features glorious new staging and spectacular reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo. The production will run in Omaha Tuesday, April 26 through Sunday, May 1, 2011 and is being presented as part of the Omaha Performing Arts and Broadway Across America Broadway Series. Tickets for LES MISÉRABLES start at $25 and can be purchased at the Ticket Omaha Box Office in the Holland Performing Arts Center, 13th and Douglas streets, Omaha, Neb.; online at TicketOmaha.com; or by calling 402-345-0606. For group sales call 402-661-8516 or toll-free at 866-434-8587.

The premiere Detroit engagement of Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary production of Les Miserables will be at the Fisher Theatre, March 22 - April 3.

The production will end on March 20.

Tickets for the CAPA and Broadway Across America presentation of Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary production of Les Miserables are on sale now for the premiere Columbus engagement at the Ohio Theatre.

Following sold-out engagements in Montreal and Toronto, world-renowned Cirque Eloize presents its critically-acclaimed new production Cirque Eloize iD. Described by The Montreal Gazette as 'West Side Story gone hip-hop circus,' Cirque Eloize iD will play eight performances at the Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre from May 10 to 15.

The 25th anniversary production is now on a major US National Tour. The all new production of Les Misérables features glorious new staging and spectacular reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo. The company gave the New York press a sneak peak at three performance numbers. Click below for the preview!

Tickets for Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables are on sale now for the premiere Cleveland engagement at PlayhouseSquare. The all new production of Les Misérables features glorious new staging and spectacular re-imagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo.

The breathtaking Lincoln Center Theater production which reinvented this classic musical, won 7 Tony Awards, sold out on Broadway for 2 years and is currently selling out across America, will next premiere in the UK at the Barbican Theatre from 12 August 2011 to 1 October 2011 at the Barbican Theatre.

Witness Matt Lucas, joined by Cameron Mackintosh and Alfie Boe in a comic conversation regarding Matt's role as Thenardier and talk of the Les Mis movie - a moment in theatrical history not to be mizzed!

The LA Times 24 Frames blog has the scoop that Tom Hooper, who was recently Oscar-nominated for directing THE KING'S SPEECH has now been offered the film version of LES MISERABLES. The blog reports that it's being conceived as a fully 'big budget musical'.

Tickets for the CAPA and Broadway Across America presentation of Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary production of Les Miserables are on sale now for the premiere Columbus engagement at the Ohio Theatre.

The longest running musical of all time, Les Misérables, celebrated it's 25th anniversary in a special concert event, which was recorded live from London's famous O2 theater on October 3. Now Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released the video on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download. Here, in this BWW TV: Les Mis 25th Anniversary Concert Preview, Robert Madge and cast perform 'Little People'

The longest running musical of all time, Les Misérables, celebrated it's 25th anniversary in a special concert event, which was recorded live from London's famous O2 theater on October 3. Now Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released the video on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download. Here, in this BWW TV: Les Mis 25th Anniversary Concert Preview, Alfie Boe, Lea Salonga and Samantha Barks perform Valjean's Death Scene.

The longest running musical of all time, Les Misérables, celebrated it's 25th anniversary in a special concert event, which was recorded live from London's famous O2 theater on October 3. Now Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released the video on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download. Here, in this BWW TV: Les Mis 25th Anniversary Concert Preview, Matt Lucas performs 'Master of the House!'