In a year when new musical theatre productions in London consisted of juke box transfers, classic revivals, whimsical adventure stories and majestic failures, one might be forgiven for thinking that the age of great new musicals exists merely in days of Auld Lang Syne.
Matthew Lloyd will direct Juliet Stevenson and Henry Goodman as Stephanie Abrahams and Dr Feldmann in Tom Kempinski's two-hander Duet for One runs at the Almeida from 22 January 14 March 2009, with press night on 29 January.
Hayley Atwell joins Ken Stott and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in a new production of A View from the Bridge which opens at the Duke of York's Theatre for a limited season from January 22, 2009 with the press night on February 5th.
Acknowledged as one of the great classics of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge, opens at the Duke of York's Theatre for a limited season from 22 January 2009 with the press night on 5 February.
Considered one of the great modern classics of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE will open at the Duke of York's Theatre on 24 January 2009, with a press night on Thursday 5 February 2009.
The 2009 season at the Almeida Theatre will include five premieres, two major revivals and a Shakespeare.
The upcoming revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, starring Lesley Garrett, will transfer to the West End at the conclusion of its fall tour.
Directed by Indhu Rubasingham and performed by Holly Aird, Cavan Clerkin, Brendan Coyle, Amanda Drew, John Marquez and Javone Prince, Chain Play II will be performed for one night only on 29 February 2008 at 7.
After a jam-packed Autumn season last year, with 8 musicals in 8 weeks, the West End goes one better and gives us 10 musicals to look forward to over the summer months.
A bumper issue of openings and closings! Fiddler, Hairspray and Jersey Boys move in whilst Evita, Porgy and Bess and Guys and Dolls move out.
Trevor Nunn's West End revival of Porgy and Bess will close in order to make room for a new production of Fiddler on the Roof starring Olivier Award-winner Henry Goodman as Tevye.
Will Keen and Frances O'Connor will play the great modernist poet and his temperamental wife in an upcoming London revival of Michael Hastings' Tom and Viv, running from September 12th through November 4th
Martin Henderson has been cast opposite Juliette Lewis in the upcoming London revival of Sam Shepard's Fool for Love, opening June 13th
Lindsay Posner has been announced as the director of the upcoming West End revival of Fool for Love, starring Juliette Lewis, and opening on June 13th
John Mahoney leads cast in European premiere of David Mamet's Romance
Chitty in London Bangs no more whilst Bedella goes to Heaven and Stoppard premieres a new translation.
European premieres of David Mamet's Romance and Sam Shepherd's The Late Henry Moss feature in the Almeida's 2005/6 season
Ahead of a West End transfer, the Birmingham Rep's production of The Birthday Party intrigues but fails to grip
Henry Goodman invites us to his Birthday Party whilst everything extends - including Michael Ball's waistline!
Joshua Jackson and Patrick Stewart give us A Life in the Theatre and news of a sizzling revival of On The Town
