Stephen Daldry News

Spamalot kicks out the Woman in White, Avenue Q cuts Gary Coleman from the London production and the 30th Laurence Olivier Awards are announced

The nominations have been released for the 2006 Laurence Olivier Awards. The ceremony for this year's awards will take place at the Park Lane Hilton on February, 2006. Leading the pack this year are Billy Elliot with nine nominations, and Guys and Dolls with eight.

The London cast recording of the West End smash Billy Elliot will dance into American stores on February 7th, 2006, while the show itself will open on Broadway sometime in 2007

Billy Elliot has been extended to run at London's Victoria Place Theatre through October 21st

Billy and the Donmar pick up major awards, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf transfers, Dawn French joins Kathy Burke for Smaller and two shows post closing notices

I Am My Own Wife comes to London as part of worldwide tour, Jeremy Irons and Woody Harrelson return to the West End and the Royal Court unveils its 50th Anniversary plans.

Broadway In Chicago announces their 2006 Neumann Homes Broadway In Chicago Season Series.

A plethora of new musicals based on hit films will be brought to Broadway by major Hollywood players

Fourteen year-old Leon Cooke has been cast as one of the alternating Billy Elliots in the London hit musical

The production will play a pre-Broadway engagement at San Francisco's Curran Theatre September 13th to October 9th.

Becky Ann Baker, Jessica Hecht and Ellen McLaughlin are some of the stars of the Williamstown Theatre Festival's production of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, which will run at the Main Stage from July 20th to 31st

For 10 performances only, the British premiere of Stephen Dillane's solo Macbeth

The smash London musical Billy Elliot has extended its booking period to April 1st, 2006 after rave reviews and healthy box office

Billy Elliot The Musical, which opened earlier this month to extraordinary reviews, has now extended its booking period until 1 April 2006.

Capturing the essence of social despair and eternal hope, Billy Elliot raises the game for film to stage adaptations

Billy Elliot cancels his first three previews, Jerry's Opera tour is postponed and Frodo goes to Canada!

Billy Elliot The Musical is to re-schedule its first three preview performances. Performances will now begin on Thursday 31 March . The previews have been re-scheduled in order to give the 45 children who are performing in the production a less arduous rehearsal period leading up to their West End debut.

GOLDEN AGE - a hilarious and thought-provoking new play by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (fresh from his Second Stage Theater hit The Mystery Plays) - will receive its New York Premiere at The Kraine Theater on March 29.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is proud to present Natasha Richardson (Blanche Du Bois) & John C. Reilly (Stanley Kowalski) in a new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' classic drama A Streetcar Named Desire, with Amy Ryan (Stella Kowalski) & Chris Bauer (Mitch), directed by Edward Hall at Studio 54 (254 West 54th Street).

As Mary Poppins opens to a rave celebrity reception, Billy Elliot announces casting and Liza makes a TV comeback.