The Life - 2017 - West End Articles Page 10

Des Moines Metro Opera (DMMO)’s Linda Koehn General and Artistic Director, Michael Egel, has announced the repertory for the company’s 2027 Festival Season. It will features a new production of Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, a new production and company premiere of Philip Glass’s Orphée, and the revival of the company’s acclaimed 2017 production of Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd.

Playful People Productions, a theater education nonprofit in San Jose, is set to present the musical You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, performed by two mixed casts of teens and adults.

York Theatre Royal announced a new revival of Arthur Miller's DEATH OF A SALESMAN, co-produced with Glasgow's Citizens Theatre and directed by Dominic Hill, alongside a revival of TRISTAN & YSEULT with the Emma Rice Company.

For Aline Mayagoitia, taking on the role of Elphaba in the national tour of Wicked represents both the greatest challenge of her career and the culmination of years of growth as a performer. A veteran of the Twin Cities stage, Mayagoitia previously appeared in In the Heights at the Ordway in 2017 and returned with the national tour of SIX in 2022.

Whether you are Team Black or Team Green, there is probably a stage veteran on your side. Like other HBO shows such as The Gilded Age and Julia, the Game of Thrones spin-off, House of the Dragon, is full of Broadway, West End, and stage alums. 

Goodbye Dandelion, a humorous, moving new work by award-winning writer and performer Maddie Rice and composer Marcus Rice, has been selected as the recipient of the inaugural Underbelly Futures Fund Award.

Paper Mill Playhouse announced the election of six civic leaders and professionals to its Board of Trustees, expanding the board to 34 members as the theater wraps up its Next Act Campaign.

Esplanade will present Gabrielle Cavassa this month as part of Jazz in July 2026. Learn more about the upcoming performance and find out how to get tickets here.

Opera Parallèle and the San Francisco Transgender District will present the 5th annual EXPANSIVE concert at A.C.T.'s Strand Theatre, featuring opera singers Katherine Goforth, Nina Jones, and RuPaul's Drag Race runner-up Sapphira Cristál.

The show is directed by Olivier Award nominee Stafford Arima and features choreography from Rujuta Vaidya, music and lyrics by Sam Willmott, and a book by Rehana Lew Mirza and Mike Lew,

Trafalgar Entertainment announced the acquisition of The London Theatre Company, adding The Bridge Theatre and King's Cross Venue to its growing portfolio of entertainment venues.

James Norton will play the title role in a new production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, conceived and directed by Thomas Ostermeier in the West End in Autumn 2027. Learn more here.

Carolyn Marcell Elmore passed away peacefully in her New York City apartment on June 19, 2026

wild project will present the 10th Annual East Village Queer Film Festival, featuring LGBTQIA+ films, a retrospective honoring Lola Rock'N'Rolla hosted by Murray Hill, and shorts starring John Cameron Mitchell.

MIGRATION DIARY: NEW YORK CITY EDITION, a multimedia documentary theater work by Romanian director Carmen Lidia Vidu, will have its world premiere at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, presented in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute.

Broadway alum Rodney Ingram took over the title role in Aladdin earlier this year, and new production photography of him with Sonya Balsara (Jasmine) has been revealed!

Opera Colorado announced Martha Crawley Tracey as Chair of its Board of Directors, succeeding Richard Koseff, who becomes Chair Emeritus. Tracey, a board member since 1997, will focus on expanding community access to opera across Colorado.

Portland State University will host the Global Improvisation Symposium, featuring Tony Award winner Anthony Veneziale and 50+ sessions on theatrical improv, healthcare, and peacebuilding at Lincoln Hall.

The stories about Francis Albert Sinatra are endless. Two decades before Beatlemania hit the States, thousands of girls queued around the block so they could see the short, skinny kid from Hoboken sing while they cried, screamed and fainted. He had a thick New Jersey accent and a thin skin, punching one critic in the back of the head and physically threatening other members of the press. His friendship with mob members and their goons supposedly helped him out of a recording contract and for decades the FBI kept a file on him running to thousands of pages. He was close friends with Marilyn Monroe and gifted her a dog; she named it “Maf”, short for Mafia Honey, just to wind him up. At the age of 48, he dated a teenage Mia Farrow and the two eventually married in 1966.

Noah Mannion, Rafferty Smale, Spencer Collins, and William Gurney will share the title role in Billy Elliot the Musical's national tour and limited West End season, with original Olivier Award-winning Billy, Liam Mower, returning as 'Older Billy.'

King Hamlet, the documentary that follows Oscar Isaac during the 2017 production of Hamlet at The Public Theater, will be available to rent for a limited time from July 1 to July 31 as part of the 'Unreleased Gems' collection on Letterboxd Video Store.

Newsies, featuring music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein premiered on Broadway in 2012. BroadwayWorld is looking back at what the cast has been up to since the show first burst onto Broadway!

Jazz man Mark Winkler, smile-inducing jazz man, came to play in NYC for the first time in four years. Here's hoping he'll come back sooner next time. Here are some details about a nice musical night.

China Arts and Entertainment Group will present the New York premiere of MULAN, a China Dance Lotus Award-winning dance drama by China Ningbo Performance & Arts Group, at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.

Stage and screen performer Meghann Fahy is starring alongside actor Glenn Howerton in The Girlfriend, a new feature from director Natalie Morales and XYZ Films.