Terence Rattigan News

For all Roundabout productions, Education at Roundabout creates an issue of UPSTAGE, designed to enhance students' theatre-going experience. Each edition features interviews with the production's creative team members, contextual information about the play and teacher resources and activities. The latest issue of UPSTAGE features interviews with David Morse, Steven Levenson, Christopher Denham and Jill Rafson, quotes from each of the designers about their process, and much more!

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce Golden Globe nominee Rebecca Hall will make her Broadway debut as 'Young Woman' in a new Broadway production of Machinal, by Sophie Treadwell, directed by Lyndsey Turner.

I am thrilled to announce two more productions for our 2013-2014 Season. The first production at the American Airlines Theatre will be a revival of The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan, directed by Lindsay Posner and starring Roger Rees and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. We will also produce the World Premiere of Cutie and Bear, a Roundabout Commission by Bekah Brunstetter that will be directed by Evan Cabnet at the Laura Pels Theatre.

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced its 2013-14 season of plays. Each season, Roundabout offers revivals of classic plays and musicals as well as development and production of new works by established playwrights and emerging writers.

Following a successful UK tour last year Less Than Kind will be at the Oxford Playhouse from Tuesday May 14 for one week and will tour the UK for a further 7 weeks to Saturday 29 June 2013.

Chris Larkin joins David Bark-Jones, Maureen Beattie, Simon Bubb, Danielle Flett, Geoffrey Freshwater, Neil Pearson, Thomasin Rand and Sasha Waddell in the UK tour of Michael Frayn's multi- award-winning backstage comedy Noises Off, directed by Lindsay Posner. Following its acclaimed run at The Old Vic and then at the Novello Theatre in the West End, Noises Off will tour theatres across the UK and Ireland from tonight, 27 March 2013. New dates have also been confirmed, which include Birmingham New Alexandra Theatre, Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre, Glasgow King's Theatre and the Wycombe Swan.

Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy opened at The Old Vic last night 19 March 2013. Directed by Lindsay Posner, Rattigan's compelling play is based on the true story of a father's fight to clear his son's name when he is expelled from Naval College after being convicted of theft.First staged in 1946, The Winslow Boy portrays the battle between personal principles and conscience and an impenetrable establishment under the media.

Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy opens at The Old Vic tonight 19 March 2013. Directed by Lindsay Posner, Rattigan's compelling play is based on the true story of a father's fight to clear his son's name when he is expelled from Naval College after being convicted of theft.First staged in 1946, The Winslow Boy portrays the battle between personal principles and conscience and an impenetrable establishment under the media. Check out production shots below!

Henry Goodman plys the role of Arthur Winslow in Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy, which will open at The Old Vic tonight, 19 March 2013. Directed by Lindsay Posner, Rattigan's compelling play is based on the true story of a father's fight to clear his son's name when he is expelled from Naval College after being convicted of theft.

December 8, 1980, 10.52pm New York City, The Dakota Apartments. Five bone- chilling gunshots ring out, shattering the stillness of the night. One of the most iconic figures of the Fighting to stay alive, John Lennon finds himself caught in a limbo between life and death. As his former years flash before him, Gatekeepers of his past help him confront the five stages of death - Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance.

This March at Jermyn Street Theatre, Christopher Timothy stars in the first major revival of Graham Greene's 1953 drama The Living Room for sixty years. This powerful and shocking story of sex, sin and guilt was Greene's first work for the stage and prompted the critic Kenneth Tynan to describe it as 'The best first play of its generation'. At the time it launched the career of a young Dorothy Tutin and enjoyed acclaimed runs in the West End and Broadway.

Scarecrow Press announces the release of Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection by Amnon Kabatchnik. Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000 (Hardcover, 608 pages, ISBN: 978-0-8108-8354-3, $125.00) is now available wherever fine books are sold. Blood on the Stage is also available in an eBook edition.

This March at Jermyn Street Theatre, Christopher Timothy stars in the first major revival of Graham Greene's 1953 drama The Living Room for sixty years. This powerful and shocking story of sex, sin and guilt was Greene's first work for the stage and prompted the critic Kenneth Tynan to describe it as 'The best first play of its generation'. At the time it launched the career of a young Dorothy Tutin and enjoyed acclaimed runs in the West End and Broadway.

According to the Daily Mail, Henry Goodman will star as 'Arthur Winslow' in The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan, which will open on March 19, 2013 at the Old Vic.

Casting is announced for the UK tour of Michael Frayn's multi-award-winning backstage comedy Noises Off. Following its acclaimed run at The Old Vic and then at the Novello Theatre in the West End, Noises Off will tour theatres across the UK and Ireland from 27 March 2013.

Master directors such as David Cronenberg, Terence Davies, Hong Sang-soo, Bela Tarr, and Jafar Panahi (filming secretly while under house arrest) were all working at the top of their form in 2012, and there was also exciting work by new directors, such as the Brazilian critic-turned-filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho. Museum of the Moving Image will present a "Best of 2012" program of films, selected by Chief Curator David Schwartz and Assistant Film Curator Rachael Rakes, from January 8 through February 22, 2013.

Kevin Spacey, Artistic Director of the Old Vic, just announced the new season, which will include another collaboration between James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave, who recently starred in Driving Misss Daisy on Broadway and the West End.

Jermyn Street Theatre presents the UK premiere of the vintage off Broadway musical Boy Meets Boy. The line up comprises Stephen Ashfield, Craig Fletcher, Johnjo Flynn, Ben Kavanagh, Anna Nicholas and Benjamin Bailey, Carly Mackelvie, Gregory Sims, Biancha Szynal, Helen Turner, Jay Webb and ARon Wild.

Joe Orton's ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE will be directed by Daniel Goldstein and produced by Anne Kaufman and will star Nancy Opel (Kath) John Behlmann (Sloane) Paxton Whitehead (Kemp) and Marc Vietor (Ed).

At Jermyn Street Theatre, the smallest theatre in the heart of the West End, three giants of the British stage came together as Trevor Nunn directed Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon in All That Fall, a radio play by Samuel Beckett. The work, which had never been seen in London before, continued and extended this small and intimate theatre's burgeoning reputation for attracting the very best talent in British theatre in order to rediscover and stage lesser-known works by major writers. Jermyn Street's production of ALL THAT FALL closes tonight, 3rd November.