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A brand new production of the The Fantasticks is coming to London, opening in May 2010 at the Duchess Theatre. Directed by Amon Miyamoto, it is expected to invigorate this much-loved musical with fresh visual, emotional and musical energy. Designer Rumi Matsui joins Miyamoto on The Fantasticks following their previous collaboration on the Broadway production of Pacific Overtures for which Matsui’s work was Tony Award nominated. Lighting design will be provided by 2009 Tony Award winner Rick Fisher. The Fantasticks first played in New York nearly fifty years ago and has since become the longest running show of any kind in the United States and the longest running musical in the world. It has played in over 2000 cities and towns in the States, and internationally, it has been staged in 67 countries.
The stage adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption has posted early closing notices. It opened on 13 September 2009 at Wyndham’s Theatre, where it was initially booking until 14 February 2010. It will now close on Sunday 29 November 2009, after its 100th performance
The Evening Standard have published their long list of nominees for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2009 from productions shown in London from November 2008 to October 2009.
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Damian Lewis leads an ensemble that features Tara FitzGerald, Keira Knightley, Dominic Rowan, Tim McMullan, Chuk Iwuji, Kelly Price and Nicholas Le Prevost in Martin Crimp’s version that transports Molière's The Misanthrope to modern-day London with Alceste (Lewis) a famous British playwright who falls madly in love with Jennifer (Keira Knightley), an ambitious American film star. Directed by Thea Sharrock, the play opens at the Comedy Theatre on 17 December 2009 with previews from 7 December 2009.
London's Royal Court Theatre has announced a slate of seven premieres for its spring season of productions running from February to July 2009. Female playwrighting voices take centerstage, with four of the seven plays written by women, including a debut play from 17-year-old Anya Reiss, as well as second Royal Court plays from Bola Agbaje, Anupama Chandrasekhar and Laura Wade. The plays to be staged are as follows:
The mainhouse season in the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Downstairs is launched with Bola Agbaje's Off the Endz, beginning performances 11th of Feb. The play looks at two young men's aspirations for a better life and how to go about achieving it. Beginning 9th of April, there's Laura Wade's Posh featuring Oxford young bloods intent on restoring their right to rule, it is inspired by the legendary Bullingdon club. Finally in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, which will be specially reconfigured for this production, Roy Williams' Sucker Punch begins 11th of June wich takes a looksback on what it was like to be young and black in the '80s and asks if the right battles have been fought, let alone won as two former friends step into the ring and face up to who they are:
In the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Anupama Chandrasekhar’s Disconnect features bright young graduates in a Chennai call centre working to claw back cash spent by Americans crippled by debt. It begins performances 17th of Feb.
DC Moore’s The Empire follows, beginning performances 31st of March . Described in press materials as dissecting the politics of occupation, home and abroad, it is set in Helmand in the height of the summer as Gary, a British soldier, and Hafizullah, his Afghan colleague, guard an injured young prisoner, Zia, found in the heat of battle.
Nick Grosso's Ingredient X begins performances 20th of May 20. It's a tough new comedy about addiction.
Finally, Anya Reiss' debut play Spur of the Moment begins performances 14th of July 14 it examines the chasms in middle-class family life and a young girl on the brink of adolescence, and revolves around pre-teen Delilah who enjoys High School Musical, swim parties and ogling the lodger. Showing at the Greenwich Playhouse until 4th October 2009 is a production of Steven Berkoff’s East with young actors.
Another London to Broadway transfer: A Little Night Music. The Broadway production, again directed by Trevor Nunn will have added star power via the casting of Angela Lansbury and Catherine Zeta-Jones. For full details about the Broadway production see Curtainup's Broadway Listings.
Jez Butterworth's hit play Jerusalem (our review at the Royal Court)" will transfer to London's West End in January with an eye toward Broadway.
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The London production of Avenue Q reviewed three years ago and previously planned to close last March, has had enough of a bounce in sales to extend its booking period at the West End's Gielgud Theatre through January 2010.
The show, which first opened in the West End at the Noel Coward Theatre in June 2006, was originally announced to end its London run permanently on March 28. But after a box office rise that followed that announcement — during which London co-producer Cameron Mackintosh said the show saw "its best box office sales yet and the highest weekly grosses since the production opened in June 2006— it was put on hiatus instead, and resumed performances June 1 at the Gielgud on Shaftesbury Avenue.
Box Office: 020 7922 2922. Running time: 75 minutes without an interval. Lizzie Loveridge
The National Theatre's War Horse has caught the imagination of the audience and thanks to its record breaking sales will gallop on at the New London Theatre into February 2010.
The Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with an all black cast, will open in London’s West End this winter at the Novello Theatre. As on Broadway, the cast will be headed by Tony Award winners James Earl Jones as ‘Big Daddy’ and Phylicia Rashad as ‘Big Mama’. Joining them will be Olivier Award winner Adrian Lester and Tony Award nominee Sanaa Lathan, starring as ‘Brick’ and ‘Maggie’ respectively. Further casting TBA.
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