Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman, whose many credits include the Tony Award-winning musicals Crazy for You, Contact, and The Producers, makes her Met debut with a lavish new staging of Lehr's effervescent operetta The Merry Widow.
Adam Karim (Sajit Khan), Assad Zaman (Saleem Khan), Dharmesh Patel (Abdul Khan), Salma Hoque (Meenah Khan) and Simon Nagra (George Khan) join the previously announced comedy award-winning actress Pauline McLynn (Ella Khan) and original West End cast members, Ashley Kumar (Tariq Khan) and Darren Kuppan (Maneer Khan) to complete the casting of the Khan family in the national tour of Ayub Khan Din's critically-acclaimed play East is East. The Khans are joined by Kammy Darweish (Mr Shah), Sakuntala Ramanee (Mrs Shah) and Sally Bankes (Auntie Annie).
The staff and trustees of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts are thrilled to announce that three of the UK's most prestigious and well-loved actors -- Elaine Paige OBE, Brian Cox CBE, and Dame Judi Dench -- will participate in exclusive 'In Conversation' events at the Oak Room in The Hospital Club, London's hub for the creative community, as part of Mountview's 70th birthday celebrations in 2015.
59E59 Theaters will welcome Ovalhouse and Arch 468 to the 2015 Brits Off Broadway festival with CUDDLES, written by Joseph Wilde and directed by Rebecca Atkinson-Lord. CUDDLES begins performances on Wednesday, June 3 for a limited engagement through Sunday, June 28. Press opening is Tuesday, June 9 at 7:30 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Thursday at 7:30 PM; Friday at 8:30 PM; Saturday at 2:30 PM & 8:30 PM; and Sunday at 3:30 & 7:30 PM. (Please note there is no 7:30 performance on Sunday, June 28.) Performances are at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues). Tickets are $25 ($17.50 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or go to www.59e59.org.
In this taut 2013 theatrical adaptation of Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela's award winning-book, the apartheid regime's most notorious assassin and head of its death squad, Eugene de Kock (played by Matthew Marsh), sits opposite psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (played Noma Dumezweni) in Pretoria Central Prison in 1997. Gobodo-Madikizela is a member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission determined to understand his actions. She questions de Kock, who is sentenced to two life terms plus 212 years for crimes against humanity, murder, conspiracy to murder, attempted murder, assault, kidnapping, illegal possession of firearms, and fraud.
This week's New York Times In Performance video features Olivier Award-winning actress Lesley Manville in the role of Helene Alving, the aggrieved wife and mother featured in Ibsen's family drama GHOSTS
Everyman presents Henrik Ibsen's 1882 tragedy.
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Olivier winner Lesley Manville will be joined by newcomer Billy Howle in Ibsen's GHOSTS, directed and adapted by Richard Eyre and beginning at Brooklyn Academy of Music tonight, April 5.
This Spring at New Conservatory Theatre Center, it's the end of an era and a battle of the sexes, with the San Francisco Premiere of a sumptuous and wildly theatrical comedic drama, Compleat Female Stage Beauty by Jeffrey Hatcher, directed by Founder & Artistic Director Ed Decker.
UKTV has commissioned a life-size chocolate statue of 'Sherlock' star, Benedict Cumberbatch, as part of their promotion for the new on demand channel.
Fathom Events, in partnership with National Theatre Live and BY Experience, are pleased to present 'NT Live: Hamlet' on October 15, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. local time. Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game) takes on the title role of William Shakespeare's great tragedy directed by Lyndsey Turner and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions. Captured live earlier the same day, the event will be broadcast from London's Barbican Theatre to select U.S. cinemas.
Joe Armstrong will join Louise Brealey in the Royal Court's UK tour of Nick Payne's award-winning Constellations.
The Daily Mail reports that Olivier winner Lesley Manville will be joined by 'brilliant' newcomer Billy Howle in Ibsen's GHOSTS, directed and adapted by Richard Eyre, when it comes to Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 5.
Met Music Director James Levine conducts Wagner's epic human comedy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg('The Mastersinger of Nuremberg') in its first Great Performances at the Met broadcast.
The staff and trustees of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts are thrilled to announce that three of the UK's most prestigious and well-loved actors -- Elaine Paige OBE, Brian Cox CBE, and Dame Judi Dench -- will participate in exclusive 'In Conversation' events at the Oak Room in The Hospital Club, London's hub for the creative community, as part of Mountview's 70th birthday celebrations in 2015.
At a ceremony at the Garrick Club today, John Lahr was awarded the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography for Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh.
Last August, an agreement was reached to resolve a potential labor crisis at the Metropolian Opera, the nation's largest performing arts organization.
Pauline McLynn (Father Ted, Shameless, EastEnders) will play Ella Khan in Ayub Khan Din's critically-acclaimed play East is East, embarking on a 16 week national tour and making its Scottish debut at the Theatre Royal Glasgow from Monday 10 until Saturday 15 August 2015.
Pauline McLynn (Father Ted, Shameless, EastEnders) will play Ella Khan in Ayub Khan Din's critically-acclaimed play East is East, which was part of Jamie Lloyd's second Trafalgar Transformed season, directed by Sam Yates, on a 16 week National Tour from 11 June 2015, commencing at Theatre Royal, Brighton. East is East is designed by Tom Scutt, with lighting by Richard Howell and sound and music by Alex Baranowski.
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