Bill Kenwright News

With no less than 8 major musicals opening in Fall 2006 in London, which ones are steaming ahead and which ones lagging behind? Jake takes a look and finds out..

The West End is in for a dose of divine decadence; a revival of Cabaret has been confirmed to open on October 10th at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, after beginning previews on September 22nd

Festen will close at the Music Box Theatre on May 20th

FESTEN, the Broadway play about a family with a dark secret, will extend a special offer for 10 days only entitled Student Pricing For All! This unique program will offer $25 mezzanine seats for all Monday thru Friday performances from May 8-19. These tickets must be purchased by Sunday, May 14.

Dirty Dancing sells £3m of tickets, Rufus Norris helms Cabaret revival with Bill Kenwright and controversy rages for Kevin Spacey. Plus news on Tom Stoppard and Paul Nicholls.

These days the West End is booming, with one of the busiest slates of shows to open in recent memory. To shed some light on what's hot right now in London, as well as on the business side of the ticket broker industry - on both sides of the pond - I sat to chat with Tracy Schiller, the Managing Director for Keith Prowse, one of the leading authorized ticket agencies in the world.

Stars turned out for the Broadway opening of FESTEN, starring Jeremy Sisto, Julianna Margulies, Larry Bryggman, Ali MacGraw and more, on April 9th

Festen, starring Julianna Marguilies, Jeremy Sisto, Larry Bryggman, Ali MacGraw and more, opens on Broadway April 9th

Four hit West End productions--Embers, Whistle Down the Wind, The Rat Pack--Live From Las Vegas and The Producers--have extended their runs

Bonnie Langford stars in Chicago, Wicked sets box office records, The Crucible transfers and casting is confirmed for the UB40 musical

The Royal Shakespeare Company's current production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible will receive a West End transfer, with the play to begin previews on March 29th and open on April 5th

A press preview was held for Festen on March 7, and BroadwayWorld was there! The show begins previews at Broadway's Music Box Theatre on March 23rd for an official press opening on April 9th.

Wicked, Avenue Q, Caroline or Change, Evita and Spamalot join a long list of musical productions opening in 2006..

The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Whistle Down the Wind will be seen at the West End's Palace Theatre from March 15th through August 12th, after the closing of The Woman in White and before the opening of Spamalot

Jeremy Sisto has been added to the starry cast of Festen, which will begin previews at Broadway's Music Box Theatre on March 23rd and open on April 9th

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.

Woody Harrelson will return to the West End in The Night of the Iguana, the Tennesse Williams drama opening November 23rd

PRIMO, starring Antony Sher as Italian chemist and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, will extend its run at the Music Box Theatre for one more week, through Sunday, August 14.

An up close and personal chat with the creative team of 'Waiting For The Moon,' a new musical journey about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayer.

Sir Anthony Sher, currently starring in Primo at the Music Box Theatre, will appear at Barnes and Noble on July 18th to discuss his book Primo Time