Lady Windermere, I Presume? Noel Coward's 'After the Ball' Gets U.S. Premiere; Tony Walton Directs
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Playbill - Tony Walton designs and directs the American premiere of After the Ball, the Noel Coward musical based on Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, beginning performances Dec. 7 at The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan.
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Offstage as well as on, David Hare's "Stuff Happens" blurs the line between heady drama and headline news. The play, which opens Friday at the National Theatre, features actors playing George W. Bush, Tony Blair and other U.S. and British officials as they pressed for the invasion of Iraq.
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Arts & entertainment: The National Theatre's new star director, Marianne Elliott, is staging Shaw's Saint Joan. But can an 80-year-old play about a medieval warrior still speak to us, asks Lyn Gardner.
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Playbill - Molly Ringwald, Jason Biggs, Jenn Harris and Craig Bierko star in the Off-Broadway premiere of Daniel Goldfarb's Modern Orthodox, beginning previews Nov. 11 at the 499-seat Dodger Stages at Worldwide Plaza.
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Arts & entertainment: The verdict on Damon Albarn's Monkey opera, plus what to look out for in the Manchester Festival.
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The film in which Dame Helen Mirren portrays the Queen is being premiered at the Venice festival.
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Hugh Grant, Colin Firth and Renee Zellweger will all be in Leicester Square to tread the red carpet. &quot;I think I&#39;ma little bit more of a realist, but very much like her in the fact that I&#39;ma hopeless romantic.
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A musical adaptation of Gone With The Wind is set for the West End in 2008, with Sir Trevor Nunn at the helm.
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Sir Peter Hall brings Waiting for Godot back to the West End, more than 50 years after his original production.
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Life as heavenly spectacle is presented with exuberance in âSalvage,â the concluding play in Tom Stoppardâs âCoast of Utopiaâ trilogy.
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Scarlett Johannson stars in an adaptation that is better than it has any right to be
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The film of Alan Bennett's award-winning play The History Boys receives its UK premiere in London.
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Playbill - Tony Award winner Frances Ruffelle will be among the stars of the London premiere of Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn, which is scheduled to launch March 3 at the Off West End Players Theatre.
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A new animated version of Peter and the Wolf has its world premiere at London's Royal Albert Hall.
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Variety - HOLLYWOOD -- The pre-Broadway Boston run of August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean" has a new director and a new schedule.
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UK drama Footballers' Wives will be adapted for the US for a pilot episode commissioned by the ABC network.
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Playbill - Sam Shepard's fall just got busier. In addition to appearing in Caryl Churchill's A Number at New York Theatre Workshop this fall, the playwright-actor will see his latest drama, God of Hell, staged at the Bank Street Theatre space in Greenwich Village for four weeks beginning Oct. 29, the New York Times reported.