The Donmar Warehouse News

The 20th Anniversary revival of DAVID MAMET's Speed-The-Plow is proud to announce it will now begin previews at the ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE (located at 243 West 47th St.) on Friday, October 3, 2008 with a new official opening set for Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 7pm.

The new production of Lerner and Loewe's BRIGADOON, directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford and scheduled to play in Boston this fall, prior to a Broadway opening, has been postponed. The delay is due to the lack of an appropriate Broadway theatre in Spring, 2009.

Alan Cox will play TV talk-show host David Frost in the upcoming national tour of the Tony-nominated Peter Morgan play Frost/Nixon.

Samuel West and Penelope Wilton will return to the Donmar Warehouse later this year to star in Jeremy Herrin's revival of TS Eliot's drama 'The Family Reunion.' The production will be the centrepiece of the Donmar's upcoming festival celebrating the work of the 20th-century writer. It will run at the Donmar's Covent Garden home from 25 November 2008 to 10 January 2009.

Following a sold out run at the Donmar Warehouse and in London's West End, Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter will recreate their acclaimed performances on Broadway in Friedrich Schiller's classic play, MARY STUART.

X-Files star Gillian Anderson is the latest actress to take on the role of Nora in the controversial play A Doll's House by Henry Ibsen.

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

Theatre Royal Haymarket Hosts Notes from New York Fifth Anniversary Gala Starring Atherton and Spicer.

A new production of BRIGADOON will have its world premiere at the Colonial Theatre (106 Boylston Street) in Boston this fall, prior to opening on Broadway in Spring, 2009 at a theatre to be announced. The production will play October 14-November 9, 2008 in Boston.

Profiles Theatre announces the extension of 'In a Dark Dark House', the final play of the 2007-2008 Season devoted to the works of acclaimed playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute.

It was confirmed today that new production of 'Brigadoon will be having its world premiere in Boston followed by an opening on Broadway in the Spring of 2009. The show features original book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

The nominations were just released for the 2008 Olivier Awards and Haispray is leading the pack with 11 nominations.

The Menier Chocolate Factory's record-breaking, sold out production of Patrick Marber's play Dealer's Choice, directed by Samuel West is transferring to Trafalgar Studios 1 for a West End season.

On October 22, 2007 West End musical stars Simon Paisley Day, Josefina Gabrielle and Martyn Ellis will join long standing cast member Simon Gregor in Maria Aitken's hit production of The 39 Steps.

Nicolas Kent, the Tricycle Theatre's Artistic Director, will direct Dearbhla Molloy as Sister Aloysius, Nikki Amuka-Bird as Mrs Muller, Padraic Delaney as Father Flynn and Marcella Plunkett as Sister James in the British premiere of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt. Doubt will run from November 22 - January 12, 2008.

Two Free Opportunities to Vist Behind the Scenes at the Studio Theatre and Center Stage

Nine years after its Broadway premiere at Lincoln Centre's Vivian Beaumont theatre, the Jason Robert Brown/Alfred Uhry musical Parade finally made its way to the London stage on September 24 when it opened at the Donmar Warehouse. It has been eagerly anticipated by musical theatre afficionados in the UK and Rob Ashford's production, with a slightly revised and improved score, does not disappoint.

Frost/Nixon, the new play by Oscar nominated and Golden Globe-winning writer Peter Morgan and directed by Tony Award-nominee Michael Grandage, had its best week ever grossing $566,562 for the week ending August 12

Michael Sheen, currently starring as David Frost in Broadway's Frost/Nixon, will have his caricature unveiled at world famous Sardi's Restaurant on Friday, August 10

Pirates of the Caribbean's Kevin McNally will join the cast of the hit West End comedy, Boeing-Boeing on September 3 for four weeks only to play Parisian playboy Bernard.