The Life - 2017 - West End Articles Page 1

Four-time Olivier Award-nominee Summer Strallen, will take on the role of Delia Deetz in the London production of Beetlejuice The Musical for a strictly limited season. Learn more here!

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and five-time Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Beal released Body in Motion, featuring a violin concerto with soloist Kelly Hall-Tompkins and Four Score, conducted by Leonard Slatkin.

Actor David M. Lutken, who has spent nearly two decades portraying Woody Guthrie on stage, brings WOODY SEZ: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF WOODY GUTHRIE back to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, exploring the folk icon's enduring influence on protest music.

Luna Composition Lab announced its 2026-27 season, continuing the Luna Lab@10 anniversary initiative featuring over 90 new commissions for 50 alumni, with premieres by Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, and more.

Joy Machine Records announced the release of PENELOPE: Live at Joe's Pub, a chamber musical starring Broadway's Grace McLean, as the one-woman show prepares to run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Actor, singer, and ventriloquist Darci Lynne will come to The Metropolitan Theatre in West Virginia this September. Learn more about the upcoming performance here.

A special benefit performance of I'M NOT A COMEDIAN… I'M LENNY BRUCE, starring Ronnie Marmo and directed by Joe Mantegna, will honor the memory of Kitty Bruce at Theatre 68 in North Hollywood, raising funds for the Lenny Bruce Memorial Foundation.

Single tickets are now on sale for The Soraya's 2026-27 season, a 44-performance lineup featuring eight debuts, including Sutton Foster, Snarky Puppy, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Audra McDonald, and the National Symphony Orchestra.

Audible announced The Infinite Extent, the sixth installment in Dennis E. Taylor's Bobiverse series, narrated by Ray Porter, marking the franchise's 10th anniversary with nearly three million audiobooks sold.

Off-Broadway actor Juan Castro will make his solo concert debut at The Green Room 42 with LOVERBOY: A CELEBRATION, a one-night-only show exploring love through songs from the Great American Songbook, Sondheim, and iconic divas.

Michael Hagins brings his award-winning solo show CONQUERING THE CANON to Philadelphia's Yellow Bicycle Theater for a limited three-performance run, chronicling his journey through all 38 plays in Shakespeare's complete canon.

A special kind of magic fills The Theatre at Solaire as a major international tour arrives. Beyond the resort’s radiant lights, the lobby buzzes in eager anticipation, drawing together theater purists, chic weekenders, and families teeming with excitement.

Paines Plough announced the lineup for COME TO WHERE I AM, a new writing showcase at Shedinburgh during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, featuring monologues by Uma Nada-Rajah, Hannah Lavery, and Linda McLean.

Salt Lake Acting Company announced its 2026/2027 season, featuring a world premiere, two Utah premieres, and a rock musical, as the company celebrates 55 years of professional theatre in Salt Lake City.

OPERA America announced the recipients of its 2026 National Opera Trustee Recognition Awards, honoring outstanding trustees from North American opera companies for leadership and service. Winners will be celebrated at an awards dinner at The Plaza Hotel in New York City.

Deafinitely Theatre, Birmingham Rep, and Park Theatre announced the full cast and creative team for the UK tour of Mike Bartlett's BULL, performed entirely in British Sign Language with creative captions.

Karen Campion's drama, set in a women's prison cosmetology classroom, will receive a full festival production at the Gene Frankel Theatre with an Equity cast, co-directed by Nick Luis and Sabrina Zara.

Tony ® Award-winning stage and screen legend Betty Buckley today releases her new live album, Enough, via Palmetto Records. Recorded during her acclaimed 2025 residency at Joe's Pub in 2025, the 13-track collection is now available on all major streaming and digital platforms

Emmy Award Winner Derek Hough will be delivering Chicago’s opening monologue on Broadway. A post-performance talk back with Mark Ballas will follow the performance. 

The historic Sierra Madre Playhouse celebrating 102 years, which in its rich century has earned a reputation as one of the Southland’s leading jazz presenters in recent years, continues its popular Jazz @ the Playhouse Summer Jazz Series with noted jazz and R&B vocalist and songwriter Sidney Jacobs on Sunday, August 2, 2026, 8:00 PM. Tix click: sierramadreplayhouse.com

Four young Adelaide performers have been cast as Little Anastasia in the Broadway musical ANASTASIA, joining Rhonda Burchmore and Nancye Hayes AM at Festival Theatre.

The Flea announced the cast of BEYOND THE STARDUST, an immersive nightlife show conceived by Niegel Smith and The Illustrious Blacks, featuring aerialists, vocalists, and dancers in an Afro-disco-space-punk production.

Irish Repertory Theatre revealed four productions for its 2026 Fall Season. Irish Rep’s 2026 Fall Season will kick off on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage with Eugene O'Neill’s The Hairy Ape directed by Ciarán O'Reilly.

We’ve Been Here Before: A One-Woman Musical will make its New York stage premiere off-Broadway this summer, created by, written and starring Lindsey Kraft, and music directed by singer, songwriter and composer Ben Folds.

I want to praise the quality of the large cast for their dedication to bringing so many authentic characters to life onstage while changing costumes, accents and physicality often in the blink of an eye. But with so much interesting history to be explored about a man who was often quoted, and misquoted, in the press, I was hoping to learn more about the iconic physicist as a profoundly complex human being, exile, husband, philosopher and thinker, and not watch him be represented singing silly songs.