Peter Hall News

Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall will be honored in her adopted Canada with one of the country's highest accolades. The actress will be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame outside Toronto's Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on September 12th, 2009.

During a break from rehearsals, A STEADY RAIN stars Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig chatted with USA Today on a break from rehearsals. The pair talk about how they both joined the project, meeting each other previously at Hollywood parties and how they'd like to be remembered.

Producers Frederick Zollo, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Raymond L. Gaspard, Frank Gero, Cheryl Wiesenfeld, Jeffrey Sine, Michael Rose and Robert Cole announced today that Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman will star together on Broadway in A STEADY RAIN, a critically acclaimed two-character play by Keith Huff. Directed by Tony Award nominee John Crowley, A STEADY RAIN begins previews on Thursday, September 10, 2009 and opens Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street) for a strictly limited 12 week engagement through Sunday, December 6, 2009.

Shakespeare?s Globe will revive Dominic Dromgoole?s 2007 production of Love's Labour's Lost between September 25 and October 10, concluding the Globe's highly successful 2009 summer theatre season. Following its run in London, it will transfer to the US for a two month tour of North America ? the first under Dominic's direction of the Globe ? visiting Ann Arbor, Philadelphia, Berkeley, Davis, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, Holyoke and New York.

James Macdonald returns to the Almeida to direct the world premiere of Christopher Hampton's new version of Ödön von Horváth's Judgment Day. Judgment Day will run at the Almeida from 3 September - 17 October 2009, with press night on 10 September. Set designs are by Miriam Buether with costume design is by Moritz Junge, lighting by Neil Austin, sound by Chris Shutt and music by Matthew Herbert.

Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall will be honored in her adopted Canada with one of the country's highest accolades. The actress will be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame outside Toronto's Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on September 12th, 2009.

Next summer, from 26 May to 30 August 2009, a new production of JM Barrie's Peter Pan will be performed in the specially commissioned Neverland Pavilion in London's historic Kensington Gardens.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9pm - Upright Cabaret presents Broadway star Jennifer Leigh Warren (Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Big River, Marie Christine) and 2-time Star Search Grand Champion Jake Simpson as they collide in cosmic cocktail with 'JEN AND JAKE: SONGS FOR GROWN FOLK!'

Daniel Craig has signed on to star in the Morgan Creek psychological thriller Dream House, it was announced today by James G. Robinson and Rick Nicita, co-chairmen of Morgan Creek Productions.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9pm - Upright Cabaret presents Broadway star Jennifer Leigh Warren (Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Big River, Marie Christine) and 2-time Star Search Grand Champion Jake Simpson as they collide in cosmic cocktail with 'JEN AND JAKE: SONGS FOR GROWN FOLK!'

The First Lady of British musical theatre, Elaine Paige will release a new album, 'Elaine Paige Live - Celebrating a Life on Stage'. The album will be released worldwide on iTunes on September 21.

The First Lady of British musical theatre, Elaine Paige will tour Australia and New Zealand in a new concert tour, beginning in October.

The South Wales Evening Post is reporting that actor Michael Sheen is set to return to the West End stage next year. Sheen will be starring in 'Inadmissible Evidence' for what is described as a four-month run.

Carrie Dunn talks to Janie Dee about being live at the Delfont Rooms and when she may return to musical theatre...

The Insights & Revelations Performance Series, is delighted to be in residence at The Emelin Theatre of Mamaroneck for the 2009/2010 season. There, the Series will present a wide range of sneak previews and behind-the-scenes looks at New York City's finest off-Broadway companies, with its signature moderated artist discussion and reception following each performance.

Hynes is cast alongside Rachael Stirling in Michael Wynne's play.

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.

Richard Briers pulls out of 'career-closing' Endgame, Hamlet makes a 3D move, and Ruthie Henshall heads out on tour. Miriam Zendle reports.

Funny, magical, and moving, Lorenzo Pisoni's Humor Abuse is a tour-de-force journey through the photo album of his extraordinary life. A touching homage to his father, Humor Abuse opens Philadelphia Theatre Company's 2009/2010 season at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. Co-written by Pisoni and Erica Schmidt, who also directs the piece, Humor Abuse runs September 25-October 25.

With Matthew Modine playing a role he is unequivocally perfect for (a fictionalized version of himself), one can imagine the casting challenge for the rest of the characters in the Geffen Playhouse's upcoming production of Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas. But - barring having identical names to the characters they play - the Geffen Playhouse's cast includes a troupe of comedians befitting their satirical roles.