Category: Features
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Theatre Openings: from w/c March 6
LAST UPDATED: March 6 2023 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from March 6 2023 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS LONDON: The Great British Bake Off Musical (Noel Coward Theatre) February 25-May 13, press night March 6. The TV baking show comes to the stage in a musical first seen at Cheltenham’s Everyman […]
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Theatre Openings: from w/c February 27
LAST UPDATED: March 3 2023 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from February 27 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Tuesday February 28 LONDON: Oklahoma! (Wyndham’s Theatre) February 16-September 2, press night February 28. Daniel Fish’s Tony winning Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, re-orchestrated and re-imagined for the 21st century, transfers to […]
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Theatre Openings: from w/c February 20
LAST UPDATED: February 22 2023 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from February 20 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Monday February 20 LONDON: Trouble in Butetown (Donmar Warehouse) February 10-March 25, press night February 20. Tinuke Craig directs the world premiere of Diana Nneka Atuona’s play set in an illegal boarding house in […]
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Theatre Openings: from w/c February 13
LAST UPDATED: February 17 2023 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from February 13 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Monday February 13 LONDON: Standing at the Sky’s Edge (National’s Olivier Theatre) February 9-March 25, press night February 13. Originally premiered at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre in 2019, Richard Hawley and Chris Bush’s musical, set […]
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Theatre Openings: from w/c February 6
LAST UPDATED: February 8 2023 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from February 6 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Wednesday February 8 LONDON: The Lehman Trilogy (Gillian Lynne Theatre) January 24-May 20, press night February 8. Sam Mendes’s production of Stefano Massini play, adapted by Ben Power, returns to London, after originally premiering […]
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Theatre Openings: from w/c January 30
LAST UPDATED: February 3 2023 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from January 30 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS LONDON: Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Harold Pinter Theatre) January 18-March 18, press night January 31, then at Manchester Opera House and Brighton Theatre Royal. Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner star in the West […]
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Theatre Openings: from w/c January 23
LAST UPDATED: January 29 2023 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from January 23 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS LONDON: Noises Off (Phoenix Theatre) January 19-March 11, press night January 25. The current 40th anniversary production of Michael Frayn’s backstage farce transfers to the West End for a limited eight week season. The […]
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Theatre Openings: from w/c January 16
LAST UPDATED: January 20 2023 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from January 16 onwards 2023 THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS * Tuesday January 17 LONDON: George Takei’s Allegiance (Charing Cross Theatre) January 7-April 8, press night January 17. The Star Trek star George Takei (famous for playing Mr Sulu) stars in the London […]
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Theatre Openings: from w/c January 9
LAST UPDATED: January 12 2023 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from January 9 onwards 2023 THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS The year starts with with two shows that were supposed to open before Christmas — but were delayed, respectively, by cast illness and a cast replacement. LONDON: Watch on the Rhine (Donmar Warehouse) […]
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Feature: The Broadway art of Al Hirschfeld
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, the first of 2023, and is also the first of a new monthly interview feature series. Broadway’s latest hit show is a museum devoted to itself: the Museum of Broadway which opened its doors on west 45th Street, east of 7th Avenue, last November. The history of Broadway […]