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National Theatre Live to Broadcast West End's WAR HORSE, Rob Ashford & Kenneth Branagh's MACBETH & More in 2013-14 Season
by BWW News Desk - Jun 17, 2013
National Theatre Live is pleased to announce that the June 13 live broadcast of Peter Morgan's Olivier Award-winning new play The Audience was seen by nearly 30,000 people in North America and nearly 80,000 people in the UK - the largest audience ever for a live broadcast from National Theatre Live. Due to the record-breaking response to the National Theatre Live broadcast of The Audience, many encore screenings have already been added, and more encores will be added throughout the summer internationally. In North America, there are currently 700 screenings scheduled throughout the summer, with additional encores to be added still; in the UK, nearly 800 screenings will take place - the largest number of screenings for a National Theatre Live broadcast in both North America and the UK ever. The Audience played its final performance at London's Gielgud Theatre on June 15, starring internationally acclaimed actress Helen Mirren as The Queen, directed by Stephen Daldry, and won two 2013 Olivier Awards for Best Actress (Helen Mirren) and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Richard McCabe). (more...)
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St. Ann's Warehouse Announces 2013-14 Season
by BWW News Desk - May 14, 2013
St. Ann's Warehouse has announced programming highlights of its 2013-14 season, which will kick off in October with the American Premiere of the Donmar Warehouse's tremendously acclaimed all-female production of Julius Caesar. (more...)
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Review Roundup: RSC's AS YOU LIKE IT
by Review Roundups - Apr 29, 2013
The Royal Shakespeare Company's AS YOU LIKE IT opened at Stratford's Royal Shakespeare Theatre on 24 April 2013. Featuring music from the English folk musician Laura Marling, and directed by Maria Aberg, the play follows Rosalind and Orlando, who are banished by the French court and flee to the Forest of Arden; finding romance, mischief and anarchy. As You Like It runs in rep until 28 September 2013. (more...)
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Amphibian Announces National Theatre Live Screenings
by BWW News Desk - Apr 15, 2013
Amphibian Stage Productions today announced additional National Theatre Live screenings for 2013, presented in association with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Productions of The Audience, starring Helen Mirren, and Othello, broadcast from London, will follow the previously announced screenings of This House in the fourth season of this critically acclaimed series. (more...)
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National Theatre to Feature OTHELLO, AMEN CORNER, and More in 2013
by BWW News Desk - Jan 30, 2013
Forthcoming productions at the National Theatre, announced today by Nicholas Hytner, include plays familiar, rare and new: Shakespeare's Othello, Gorky's Children of the Sun,James Baldwin's The Amen Corner;Marlowe's Edward II, Pirandello's Liola, Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude and Georg Kaiser's From Morning to Midnight. Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson's musical The Light Princess will premiere in October, and there will be a new adaptation of Emil and the Detectives for family audiences at Christmas. (more...)
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Stephen Byrd & Alia Jones Join THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL Producing Team
by BWW News Desk - Jan 10, 2013
Producers NELLE NUGENT and KENNETH TEATON welcome STEPHEN BYRD and ALIA JONES as producing partners on the Broadway production of THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, starring Academy Award nominee and three-time Emmy Award winner CICELY TYSON, Academy Award winner CUBA GOODING, JR, (Jerry Maguire, Red Tails), Emmy Award nominee and recording star VANESSA WILLIAMS (Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives), and Tony Award nominee CONDOLA RASHAD (Lifetime's Steel Magnolias, Broadway's Stick Fly). Directed by MICHAEL WILSON, this 14-week limited engagement will begin previews on Easter Sunday, March 31st at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124 W 43rd St). Opening night is scheduled for Tuesday, April 23rd. (more...)
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Tricycle Theatre Hosts Fundraising Performance of RED VELVET Tonight
by BWW News Desk - Nov 24, 2012
The Tricycle Theatre is hosting a special fundraising performance of the critically acclaimed production of Red Velvet tonight, 24 November. This gives ticket buyers an opportunity to attend the sell out show and a pre show reception with the writer and director while supporting the future work of the Tricycle Theatre. (more...)
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Tricycle Theatre Hosts Fundraising Performance of RED VELVET, Nov 24
by BWW News Desk - Nov 14, 2012
The Tricycle Theatre is hosting a special fundraising performance of the critically acclaimed production of Red Velvet on 24 November. This gives ticket buyers an opportunity to attend the sell out show and a pre show reception with the writer and director while supporting the future work of the Tricycle Theatre. (more...)
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