The latest Theatre News http://www.talentandproduction.com 2013-06-20T00:00:00Z Arthur Millers first successful play All my Sons is his greatest theatrical creation.Brilliantly directed by Howard Davies the play takes place at the end of the Second World War in 1946. The setting is the backyard of the Keller home on the outskirts of an American town. William Dudley has designed a set with overpowering trees and greenery which ... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/An-experience-not-to-be-missed/19059602/ 2010-06-13 19:40:44 The work-in-progress Rough Cut season at the Royal Court will see Ravenhill and composer Conor Mitchell work together on Ten Plagues, a new work based on eyewitness accounts from the 1665 Black Death, following one man’s journey through a city in crisis. Almond (pictured right) will perform the piece through a series of songs and will explor... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/Mark-Ravenhill-and-Marc-Almond-team-up-at-Royal-Court/19058894/ 2010-03-26 12:03:24 It was the surprise victory at this year’s Olivier Awards. The Mountaintop, a play penned by American playwright Katroli Hall, beat off stiff competition for Best New Play. Having received its world premier at Theatre503, a pub venue in south London. The production was picked up by commercial producer Sonia Friedman, who transferred it to th... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/Katori-Halls-The-Mountaintop-will-return-after-Olivier-win/19058892/ 2010-03-25 01:09:45 The biggest theatre awards of year, presented by Anthony Head, will be have a string of high profile stars in attendance, celebrating what has been an outstanding year in theatre in the UK. Guests will include Rowan Atkinson, Jude Law, Matthew Bourne, Tom Stoppard, Elaine Paige, Lesley Sharp, Maureen Lipman, Patina Miller, Barbara Windsor, Jonatha... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/34th-Laurence-Olivier-Awards-very-nearly-upon-us/19058886/ 2010-03-21 04:57:44 Les Mis received its world premiere at the Barbican Theatre  in 1985, and now 25 very successful years later, the current touring production will revisit the venue later this year for a short run. It means that for the very first time, two productions of the same show will run in the same city simultaneously. The original West End version is ... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/Celebrating-25-years-of-Les-Mis-with-two-productions/19058884/ 2010-03-16 11:45:15 Mark Gatiss has unexpectedly pulled out of a Christmas production due to the serious illness of a close family member. The actor (pictured), best known for his roles in The League of Gentlemen and Dr Who, was due to play Professor Gabriel Stokes in Michael Punter’s Victorian ghost play, Darker Shores, at the Hampstead Theatre. The play is directe... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/Mark-Gatiss-withdraws-from-Hampsteads-Christmas-play/19058833/ 2009-12-02 06:10:48 Star of Wicked to take over from I’d Do Anything winner Jodie Prenger. Kerry Ellis will take over the role of Nancy in Cameron Mackintosh’s Oliver! in the West End. The award-winning actress who is best known for playing Elphaba in Wicked (pictured above left), will step into role at the end of March 2010. Oliver! was the focus of BBC1’s Iâ... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/Kerry-Ellis-to-star-as-Nancy-in-West-Ends-Oliver/19058831/ 2009-12-01 12:25:31 Sadie Frost’s return to the stage earlier this year has given her the appetite to act again. It’s been announced she will go into rep in the New Year. Frost is to team up with ex-Libertines band member Carl Barat (pictured above with Frost), who has now turned to acting, in a 80s play Fool for Love at the Riverside Studios. The production open... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/Sadie-Frost-returns-to-the-London-stage-in-rep/19058828/ 2009-11-27 11:29:32 Billy Elliott the Musical is celebrating five outstanding years in the West End and to mark the occassion, producers are offering schools and youth theatres the chance to stage their own version of the award winning show. First directed by Stephen Daldry in 2000 as a film, the story was an instant success. Audiences were transfixed with young Bill... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/Schools-get-the-chance-to-perform-their-own-Billy-Elliott/19058820/ 2009-11-18 11:45:54 It is being reported that the Tony Award-winning revival of the Sixties’ musical Hair is to travel across the pond and into the West End. The “American Tribal Love Rock Musical” will find its new home at the Gielgud Theatre when it opens on 14th April 2010, according to What’s on Stage. When Claude, a country boy from Oklahoma, arrives i... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/The-Broadway-hit-musical-of-Hair-to-cross-the-pond/19058815/ 2009-11-13 10:35:45 The West End hit La Cage Aux Folles is to close on 2nd January 2010. The award-winning show, currently playing at the Playhouse Theatre, will close with Douglas Hodge playing Albin. He opened with the original production at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2007, before it transferred into the West End. He will be joined by Denis Lawson, who repris... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/La-Cage-Aux-Folles-to-close-in-the-West-End/19058814/ 2009-11-12 02:42:20 Simon Callow is to play the Victorian novelist Charles Dickens in a one-man play at the Riverside Studios. Dr Marigold and Mr Chops is two stories written by the writer at the height of his popularity. He performed them himself in public readings but they’re largely unknown. Inspiring, enchanting, compassionate and relevant these two one-man pla... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/Simon-Callow-to-play-Dickens-at-Riverside-Studios/19058802/ 2009-11-10 12:00:00 Harold Pinter’s classic The Caretaker is to open in the New Year at the Trafalgar Studios. As Governor Weatherby Swann in Pirates of the Carribean – 2006 The Liverpool Everyman production, starring Jonathan Pryce as Davies, will commence in the main studio on 12 January 2010, reports the Daily Mail. The Chester Chronicle review of the Live... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/Jonathan-Pryce-returns-to-West-End-in-Pinter-transfer/19058795/ 2009-11-06 11:51:38 Jude Law has proved a big hit on Broadway. The Donmar has confirmed that they have recouped the £1.5 million ($2.5 million) costs on their production of Hamlet, in which Law stars in the title role. The production is currently running at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York until Sunday 6th December. Ben Brantley of The New York Times writes of Law... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/Jude-Laws-Hamlet-a-big-hit-on-Broadway-says-Donmar/19058796/ 2009-11-05 02:29:28 Unfortunate news in the West End theatre world, as two major shows announce early closure notices. Prick Up Your Ears, the Simon Bent play about the life and untimely death of playwright Joe Orton, will close on  15th November. It was due to close on 6th December. The show suffered a blow when Matt Lucas pulled out following the death of his ex-hu... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/Early-closures-for-two-major-West-End-productions/19058798/ 2009-11-04 11:25:32 The Ambassador Theatre Group yesterday completed the deal to purchase Live Nation’s UK theatre portfolio. The £90 million acquisition of 16 venues across the country make ATG the biggest theatre holder. It now has 39 venues, which now includes West End venues the Apollo Victoria and the Lyceum, and one-third stake in the Dominion. ... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/ATG-completes-ï90-million-Live-Nation-portfolio-deal/19058799/ 2009-11-03 12:00:00 I was fortunate to see John Patrick Shanley’s award-winning Doubt on Broadway, a production that had me gripped from start to finish. I was intrigued, therefore, to catch Women of Manhattan, a play he penned in 1986 and which has been revived at the Old Red Lion in Angel. Judy, Billie and Rhonda Louise are having a girly night in on the ... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/Theatre-review-Woman-of-Manhattan-ï-Old-Red-Lion/19058801/ 2009-10-30 12:00:00 The Old Vic has announced that this year’s 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala will go ahead with an exciting cast. Graham Norton is set to host the event this Sunday 1st November, which will feature the following line-up: Jane Asher, Lorraine Burroughs, Eliot Cowan, Kerry Fox, William Houston, Haydn Gwynne, John Light, Nigel Lindsay, Art Malik, Sharon ... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/24-Hour-Plays-Celebrity-Gala-cast-announced/19058803/ 2009-10-28 12:00:00   Coco Chanel is a flawed, but well acted film, especially after the slow moving first thirty minutes have passed. The film loses out by ignoring great chunks of Chanel’s later life, her collaboration with the Nazis and anti-semitism.  In choosing to dispose of these later aspects, and by focussing only on the growth of Chanel&rsqu... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/Coco-Chanel-Review-By-Judith-Brown/19058724/ 2009-08-02 10:25:15 This version of 'The Cherry Orchard' is a compelling production of the play, highlighting miscommunication as the main theme; the key contributor to the characters' distressing lives. On a most basic level, the central strand of the play revolving around the business man Lopakhin's (Simon Russell Beale) effort to convince Ranavskaya ... http://www.talentandproduction.com/news/The-Cherry-Orchard,-at-the-Old-Vic-theatre,-London/19058721/ 2009-07-17 22:41:13