The Royal Shakespeare Company News

While he performed in Florida this week, the Orlando Sentinel appears to have gotten the scoop that Norm Lewis will start as Javert in the upcoming revival of Les Miserables.

Bartlett Sher and Michael Yeargan, as part of LCT's Platform Series, will discuss Awake and Sing! on April 20th

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Tickets for the Broadway transfer of Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore will go on sale March 26th

The Atlantic Theater Company's limited run of Martin McDonagh's new play The Lieutenant of Inishmore is sold out; the play will continue through Sunday, April 9th before it moves to the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway beginning April 18th (opening night is Wednesday, May 3rd)

Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore, which opened on February 27th at the Atlantic Theater Company after beginning previews on February 8th, will transfer to Broadway's Lyceum Theatre, where it will begin performances on April 18th and open on May 3rd

Liev Schreiber will star in an upcoming Broadway revival of Pinter's The Homecoming, according to The New York Post

Martin McDonagh's THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE opens tonight: Monday, February 27 at 7pm at The Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Andrew D. Hamingson, Managing Director).

To celebrate LES MISÉRABLES becoming the longest-running musical in the world in October of this year, producer Cameron Mackintosh announced today that Boublil and Schönberg's legendary musical will return to Broadway for a special limited six-month engagement, beginning this coming fall at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street).

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.

A full program has been announced for the Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works Festival in April

On February 8th, Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore will begin its off-Broadway run

BroadwayWorld checks in with the orchestrator and musical supervisor of The Lord of the Rings for the lastest on the ambitious production!

Rehearsals for The Lieutenant of Inishmore, presented by Atlantic Theater Company and starring Brian D'Arcy James, will begin January 10th

The Storm Theatre will present Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz' House of Desires from January 6th through 28th

From December 8th through 11th, four one-act plays will be presented as part of DirectorFest 2005

Patrick Stewart will take his acclaimed solo version of A Christmas Carol to London this holiday season

Shakespearean icons such as Laurence Olivier and Judi Dench will be among the actors featured in the RSC's new CD set The Essential Shakespeare--Live

Jim Nolan's drama The Salvage Shop will open off-Broadway on November 2nd

Aruba Productions and Buddy & Sally Productions will present the New York premiere of BINGO, a winning new musical opening Monday, November 7, 2005 at Off-Broadway's St. Luke's Theatre (308 West 46th Street).