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Sweet Nothings/ Arthur Schnitzler, David Harrower translation(London 2010)Private Lives Ghost Stories Disconnect The Dead School Ghosts Off The Endz Serenading Louie Measure for Measure A Midsummer Night's Dream ---> Really Old, Like Forty Five Enron-updated: new venue, some new cast members The Little Dog Laughed Six Degrees of Separation The Caretaker The Misanthrope Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Nation . . .Past reviews and features are archived in two master indexes: Reviews . . . Features New and Noteworthy Harold Prince and Susan Stroman will direct an all-American cast including Kate Baldwin, John Cullum, Shuler Hensley, Judy Kaye and Mandy Patinkin, in the world premiere of Paradise Found, based on the novel The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Viennese author Joseph Roth. Paradise Found will have music by Johann Strauss II, adapted and arranged by Jonathan Tunick, and book by Richard Nelson and lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh. Previews from 19 May with an official opening night on 26 May 2010 at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London SE1 . Further casting TBA More often than not, when a show is a hit in London, it's a case of wait and see for New Yorkers hoping to see it on their side of the pond. It's wait and see as to IF it will transfer and if it does, whether the London actors will come along. Not so the new production of New York City born and Yale and Oxford educated David Hirson's 1991 play La Bête which will play at the Comedy Theatre in the West End from 26 June to 28 August, and then immediately transfer to Broadway's Shumbert Theater. Both productions will be directed by Matthew Warchus and star Mark Rylance, David Hyde Pierce and Joanna Lumley. The play is a comic tour de force about Elomire (Pierce), a high-minded classical dramatist who loves only the theatre, and Valere (Rylance), a low-brow street clown who loves only himself. When the fickle princess (Lumley) decides she’s grown weary of Elomire’s royal theatre troupe, he and Valere are left fighting for survival as art squares off with ego in a literary showdown for the ages. The Mountaintop, American actress/playwright Katori Hall's Olivier Award Best New Play nominee will get a Broadway production in the upcoming 2010-11 Broadway Season. The producers are in negotiations with Kenny Leon (Fences, A Raisin in the Sun) to direct this American premiere. The nominations for the Olivier Awards are in, with winners to be presented 21st of March at which time we'll add an asterisk before the winners of the following nominations list:
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best Actress In A Supporting Role
Best Actor In A Supporting Role
Best New Play
Best New Comedy
Best Musical Revival
Best New Musical
Best Entertainment
Best Actress In A Musical Or Entertainment
Best Actor In A Musical Or Entertainment
Best Supporting Performance In A Musical Or Entertainment
Best Director
Best Revival
Best Theatre Choreographer
Best Lighting Design
Best Set Design
Best Costume Design
Best Sound Design
The Audience Award For Most Popular Show
Outstanding Achievement In An Affiliate Theatre
Best New Opera Production
Outstanding Achievement In Opera
Best New Dance Production
Outstanding Achievement In Dance Comes 28th of March and it's down with the curtain for the smash hit Hairspray at the Shaftsbury Theatre. But the show goes on with a UK tour. THE CRITICS’ CIRCLE THEATRE AWARDS 2009 WINNERS Best New Play: Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court, London award presented to Jez Butterworth by Kate Bassett: Independent on Sunday The Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical (new or revival): Spring Awakening Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, London, followed by transfer to Novello Theatre, London award presented to the producers of Spring Awakening by Ian Shuttleworth: Financial Times & Theatre Record Best Actor: Mark Rylance in Jerusalem Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court, London award presented to Mark Rylance by Benedict Nightingale: The Times Best Actress: Rachel Weisz in A Streetcar Named Desire Donmar Warehouse, London award presented to Rachel Weisz by Fiona Mountford: Evening Standard The John and Wendy Trewin Award for Best Shakespearean Performance: Jude Law in Hamlet Donmar at Wyndham’s Theatre, London award presented to Jude Law by Claire Allfree: London Metro Best Director: Rupert Goold for Enron Headlong at Minerva Theatre, Chichester & Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court, London award presented to Rupert Goold by Charles Spencer: Daily Telegraph Best Designer: Christopher Oram for Red Donmar Warehouse, London award presented to Christopher Oram by Susannah Clapp: The Observer Most Promising Playwright: Alia Bano for Shades Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court, London award presented to Alia Bano by Michael Billington: The Guardian The Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer (other than a playwright): Tom Sturridge in Punk Rock Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, London and Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester award presented to Tom Sturridge by David Benedict: Variety New Olivier award. The prestigious Laurence Olivier Awards- have created a new category :Favourite long-running show to be voted for by the general public. The award is for shows which opened before January 1, 2009 and ran throughout 2009. All other categories are limited to shows that opened during 2009. Productions in the running for the new award: Blood Brothers, Hairspray, Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia, La Cage Aux Folles, War Horse, Les Misérables, The 39 Steps, Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage, The Woman in Black, The Mousetrap, Avenue Q, Grease, Stomp, Billy Elliot - The Musical, The Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, The Lion King, Chicago and We Will Rock You. Voters have until 12 noon on 1st of February to clock in with their choices at this web site: www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/vote. Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot, returns to the Haymarket Theatre, opening 27 Jan 2010, following previews from 21 Jan - booking to 3 April 2010. (The production originally ran at the Haymarket Theatre from from 30 April 2009 to 9 Aug 2009.) Ian McKellen (Estragon) and Ronald Pickup (Lucky) are returning with the show, Roger Rees (Vladimir) and Matthew Kelly (Pozzo), replace former cast members Patrick Stewart & Simon Callow. It is again directed by Sean Mathias. Evening Standard Award Winners/a> Update: The Evening Standard have published their long list of nominees for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2009 from productions shown in London from November 2008 to October 2009. An asteriks has now been placed before the winners BEST PLAY BEST ACTOR THE NATASHA RICHARDSON AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS THE NED SHERRIN AWARD FOR BEST MUSICAL BEST DIRECTOR BEST DESIGN The Charles Wintour Most Promising Playwright award was given to Alia Bano for Shades, (Royal Court) Lenny Henry won the Best Newcomer prize for his lead role in Othello at the Trafalgar Studios in London. A brand new production of the The Fantasticks is coming to London, opening in May 2010 at the Duchess Theatre. Directed by Amon Miyamoto, it is expected to invigorate this much-loved musical with fresh visual, emotional and musical energy. Designer Rumi Matsui joins Miyamoto on The Fantasticks following their previous collaboration on the Broadway production of Pacific Overtures for which Matsui's work was Tony Award nominated. Lighting design will be provided by 2009 Tony Award winner Rick Fisher. The Fantasticks first played in New York nearly fifty years ago and has since become the longest running show of any kind in the United States and the longest running musical in the world. It has played in over 2000 cities and towns in the States, and internationally, it has been staged in 67 countries. London's Royal Court Theatre has announced a slate of seven premieres for its spring season of productions running from February to July 2009. Female playwrighting voices take centerstage, with four of the seven plays written by women, including a debut play from 17-year-old Anya Reiss, as well as second Royal Court plays from Bola Agbaje, Anupama Chandrasekhar and Laura Wade. The plays to be staged are as follows: The mainhouse season in the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Downstairs is launched with Bola Agbaje's Off the Endz, beginning performances 11th of Feb. The play looks at two young men's aspirations for a better life and how to go about achieving it. Ashley Walters stars. Beginning 9th of April, there's Laura Wade's Posh featuring Oxford young bloods intent on restoring their right to rule, it is inspired by the legendary Bullingdon club. In the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, which will be specially reconfigured for this production, Roy Williams' Sucker Punch begins 11th of June which takes a look back on what it was like to be young and black in the '80s and asks if the right battles have been fought, let alone won, as two former friends step into the ring and face up to who they are: In the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Anupama Chandrasekhar's Disconnect features bright young graduates in a Chennai call centre working to claw back cash spent by Americans crippled by debt. It begins performances 17th of Feb. DC Moore's The Empire follows, beginning performances 31st of March . Described in press materials as dissecting the politics of occupation, home and abroad, it is set in Helmand in the height of the summer as Gary, a British soldier, and Hafizullah, his Afghan colleague, guard an injured young prisoner, Zia, found in the heat of battle. Nick Grosso's Ingredient X begins performances 20th of May 20. It's a tough new comedy about addiction. Finally, Anya Reiss' debut play Spur of the Moment begins performances 14th of July 14 it examines the chasms in middle-class family life and a young girl on the brink of adolescence, and revolves around pre-teen Delilah who enjoys High School Musical, swim parties and ogling the lodger. Jez Butterworth's hit play Jerusalem (our review at the Royal Court)" will transfer to London's West End in January with an eye toward Broadway. The National Theatre's War Horse has caught the imagination of the audience and thanks to its record breaking sales will gallop on at the New London Theatre into October 2010. Broadway Shows and London Shows
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