Watermill Theatre News

Spend Spend Spend, a show that first hit the West End back in 1999 - with its tuneful score, hard-nosed but also raunchily humorous book and an emotional core that rings with human truth - is a much underrated gem of a musical. Now, in a newly forged 'actor-musician' production at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, the gem sparkles and shines even brighter.

Sunset Boulevard at the West End's intimate Comedy Theatre closes today May 30, 2009. UK theatre sources are reporting that plans are in the works to launch a UK tour in early 2010 as well as some talk of bringing the production to New York, but no official announcement has yet been made.

The current London production of Sunset Boulevard at the West End's intimate Comedy Theatre has posted a closing notice for May 30, 2009.

UK Productions of The Lion King, Blood Brothers and Sunset Boulevard have all been extended in the West End. The Lion King is running at the Lyceum Theater and has added four months to its schedule, bookings are being taken until January 31 2010. This company features Shaun Escoffery as Mufasa.

The Royal Albert Hall is pleased to announce that Ralph Bernard will be succeeding David Elliott as Chief Executive when David retires at the end of May after eleven years in the post.

The Menier Chocolate Factory's sell out production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music is to transfer to the West End for a strictly limited run. Trevor Nunn's critically acclaimed production will transfer to the Garrick Theatre from 28 March, with press night on Tuesday 7 April and is booking until 25 July 2009. A Little Night Music is produced in the West End by David Babani for Chocolate Factory Productions, Andrew Fell and Nica Burns and Max Weitzenhoffer for Nimax Theatres.

BAM is delighted to present a new staging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice from Edward Hall's award-winning company Propeller. Last at BAM with renowned productions of The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night (2007 Spring Season), comedies that revel in the trials and inevitable tribulations of romantic love, Propeller returns with an audaciously compelling interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, critically acclaimed in its recent U.K. run.

Sunset Boulevard at the Comedy Theater, London, has extended its run and will now close June 27, 2009. The run of this musical originally opened in 2008 and was set to run until April 18th; however, after being nominated for three Laurence Olivier Awards the production lengthened its engagement.

SWEENEY TODD, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, will make its Detroit premiere at the Fisher Theatre for a limited three-week engagement, March 17 - April 5, 2009. Tickets are available for purchase at the Fisher Theatre box office, online at www.ticketmaster.com or www.broadwayindetroit.com and by phone at 1- 800-982-2787.

The Menier Chocolate Factory's sell out production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music is to transfer to the West End for a strictly limited run. Trevor Nunn's critically acclaimed production will transfer to the Garrick Theatre from 28 March, with press night on Tuesday 7 April and is booking until 25 July 2009. A Little Night Music is produced in the West End by David Babani for Chocolate Factory Productions, Andrew Fell and Nica Burns and Max Weitzenhoffer for Nimax Theatres.

SWEENEY TODD, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, will make its Detroit premiere at the Fisher Theatre for a limited three-week engagement, March 17 - April 5, 2009. Tickets are available for purchase at the Fisher Theatre box office, online at www.ticketmaster.com or www.broadwayindetroit.com and by phone at 1- 800-982-2787.

First there was the classic, stylish Billy Wilder Hollywood 'film noire'; then there was the highly melodic but perhaps slightly overblown Trevor Nunn staging of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical; now there is the darkly stylish Craig Revel Horwood staging of the Lloyd Webber musical, transferring from a sell-out run at the Watermill Theatre, bringing Sunset Boulevard back to the West End.

An old favourite of Champagne Charlie's returns; it's SUNSET BOULEVARD will once again open on a West End stage for the 1st time in 11 years with in a brand new production opening on December 15th 2008.

Watermill Theatre's acclaimed revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard shall transfer to the West End's Comedy Theatre in December 2008. The production begins performances on December 5th.

From the moment the cast of twelve actor/musicians step out onto Diego Pitarch's atmospheric set, which draws its focus from a central black spiral staircase, and begin to play the strains of Andrew Lloyd Webber's haunting musical prologue for Sunset Boulevard, the audience at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury are drawn into a dark, yet richly evocative world that captivates the mind and thrills the senses throughout.

Newbury's Watermill Theatre will present Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Sunset Boulevard.' Kathryn Evans will star as silent film star Norma Desmond and Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood will direct.

Flamenco Flamen'ka, a new dance show directed and choreographed by Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood, will open for an eight-week season at the West End's Lyric Theatre from 22 September to 15 November 2008 (previews from 18 September).

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will soon find Randolph Street when Broadway In Chicago presents the new national touring production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) from April 23 - May 4, 2008. Tickets range in price from $25 - $75 and are available at all Broadway In Chicago Box Offices, by calling (312) 902-1400, or logging onto ticketmaster.com.

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will soon find Randolph Street when Broadway In Chicago presents the new national touring production of 'Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) from April 23 - May 4, 2008.