Simon Russell Beale News

Sanjeev Bhaskar is to join the cast of the multi award-winning record-breaking Monty Python's SPAMALOT, to be crowned as the new Arthur.

Sanjeev Bhaskar is to join the cast of the multi award-winning record-breaking Monty Python's SPAMALOT, to be crowned as the new Arthur, the King of the Britons, following in the footsteps of Tim Curry, Simon Russell Beale, Peter Davison and Alan Dale.

Sam Mendes directs a transatlantic company of actors in a double-bill of classic works for The Bridge Project's inaugural 2009 season.

Alan Dale, best know on television for playing Publishing mogul Bradford Meade in Ugly Betty, will join the London cast of Monty Python's Spamalot at the Palace Theatre from 3 March 2008 to play King Arthur, following in the footsteps of Tim Curry, Simon Russell Beale and Peter Davison (who continues in the role until 1 March 2008). Currently playing to packed houses at the Palace Theatre the award-winning and record-breaking Monty Python's Spamalot is booking until 27 September 2008.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.), in conjunction with Break-Away Tours, will be leading a theater tour this holiday season to London, England, December 28 - January 4, 2008. A tentative itinerary includes three West End theater productions, excursions, interaction with expert guides, and discussions with theater professionals, as well as six nights of first-class hotel accommodation.

Award-winning TV stars Peter Davison and Bill Ward joined the London cast of Monty Python's Spamalot at the Palace Theatre on July 23, 2007

Simon Russell Beale, Zoe Wanamaker and Alex Jennings will star in productions for London's National Theatre during the 2007 fall season.

The Bridge Project will be delayed by a year due to the withdrawal of Tony Award-winner actor Stephen Dillane

Award-winning TV stars Peter Davison and Bill Ward will join the London cast of Monty Python's Spamalot at the Palace Theatre from July 23, 2007.

Award-winning TV stars Peter Davison and Bill Ward will join the London cast of Monty Python's Spamalot at the Palace Theatre from July 23

Kevin Spacey, Sam Mendes and Stephen Dillane have been added to the Old Vic's 2007-2008 season

On Thursday 21 June the cast of the hit West-End musical Monty Python's SPAMALOT will perform a special midKnight matinee in aid of The Theatrical Guild (TTG). To coincide with the summer solstice, this one-off midsummer midKnight performance, on the longest day of the year, will start at 11.30pm.

The Bridge Project, presented by Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Old Vic in London, will offer three year's worth of touring productions that will play BAM, the Old Vic and other international theatres

Altar Boyz, the acclaimed musical comedy at Dodger Stages, winner of the coveted Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical Off-Broadway, will have its 3rd anniversary Off-Broadway March 1st.

The National Theatre's artistic director Nicholas Hytner has announced a diverse new season of plays.

Tuesday night, the cast of London's Spamalot threw a party for Simon Russell Beale's opening night while Saturday night the entire cast wished Christopher Sieber 'Bon Voyage' as he headed back to New York, and back into Spamalot on Broaway for a limited six-week run

From Monday, January 8th 2007, multi-award winning actor Simon Russell Beale will re-create his critically acclaimed Broadway performance as King Arthur in Eric Idle and John du Prez's sell-out production of Monty Python's Spamalot at the Palace Theatre

Ken Davenport and Robyn Goodman proudly announce the long running off-Broadway show, Altar Boyz (now also in the midst of a National Tour), has endorsed Attorney General Eliot Spitzer for Governor of New York. No other musical has ever endorsed a candidate.

Actress Caroline Sheen, of the New York Musical Theatre Festival Musical show 'Three Sides,' begins a four-part series of blog entries about her experiences with the new UK-born musical

Ken Davenport and Robyn Goodman, in association with Walt Grossman, Ruth Hendel, Sharon Karmazin, Matt Murphy and Mark Shacket, proudly announce that ALTAR BOYZ offer a special post- performance Talk-Back following the matinee on Sunday September 10th, featuring the cast along with the creators, Gary Adler, Michael Patrick Walker and Kevin Del Aguila.