The holiday season is approaching with promises of hits like 'Spring Awakening' getting in the words of its producers a 'muted opening the Lyric ('we don't DO New York hype here!')Theatre in South London and the London opening of David Hare's 14th new play 'Gethsemane' in November. This UK based play more than any other resonates with modern US politics with its themes of greed, party funding, the media etc. It exposes the way in these cruel and lean times business, media and politics are now too intertwined to nobody's real advantage!
What's On Stage is reporting that actor and director Kenneth Branagh, who is currently starring in Ivanov at Donmar, has pulled out of directing Hamlet and will be replaced by Donmar Artistic Director Michael Grandage.
The Gate Theatre has announced its upcoming season. Plays include Hedda, a new translation, of Hedda Gabler, State of Emergency by Falk Richter, Unbroken by Alexandra Wood, and I Am Fallingby Jenny Worton.
The 40th Anniversary revival of Harold Pinter's Tony Award-winning masterpiece The Homecoming, starring Golden Globe Award-winner Ian McShane, two-time Tony-nominee Raul Esparza, and Academy Award-nominee Michael McKean - under the direction of Tony Award-winner Daniel Sullivan - will now begin performances on Friday, November 23rd
Raul Esparza will appear in matinees (and evening performances) of a Pinter play with the Roundabout Theatre Company's previously announced production of The Homecoming
The Carol Tambor Theatrical Foundation has announced that the winner of this year's The Best of Edinburgh Award, the highest honor at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, is Michael Redhill's Goodness
Casting is now complete for Daniel Kramer's new production of Martin Sherman's award-winning Bent, which will open at the Trafalgar Studios on September 22nd with press night on October 5th; Alan Cumming stars
The Devil's Larder, adapted by Scotland's Grid Iron from a book of short stories, will run at P.S. 22 in New York after winning the 'Best of Edinburgh' award at this years's Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Billy's first production shot is unveiled, the new Leo Bloom is announced, Cabaret lights up the West End and Sienna Miller 'Likes It' over the summer..
David Lan, Artistic Director of the Young Vic, will direct Helen McCrory, Sienna Miller, Dominic West and Reece Shearsmith in a new production of Shakespeare's great romantic comedy, As You Like It.
A year-long search has led to the appointment of Roger Rees as the new Artistic Director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF). Ira Lapidus, President of the Festival's Board of Trustees made the announcement. Rees, who will assume his post January 1, 2005, replaces Michael Ritchie, who is leaving the Festival to become Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles.
