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2024 WhatsOnStage Awards
The 24th WhatsOnStage Awards took place on Sunday 11 February 2024 at the London Palladium. Winners and nominees The nominees for the 24th WhatsOnStage Awards were announced on 7 December 2023 by ''The Time Traveller's Wife'' stars Hiba Elchikhe and Tim Mahendran at the Apollo Theatre. Voting closed on 11 January 2024. Productions with multiple accolades Multiple wins * 7 wins: ''Sunset Boulevard (musical), Sunset Boulevard'' * 3 wins: ''Guys and Dolls'' * 2 wins: ''Cabaret (musical), Cabaret'', ''A Little Life'' Multiple nominations * 12 nominations: Guys and Dolls, ''Guys and Dolls'' * 10 nominations: ''Dear England'' * 9 nominations: Sunset Boulevard (musical), ''Sunset Boulevard'' * 8 nominations: ''Stranger Things: The First Shadow'' * 6 nominations: ''Next to Normal'' * 5 nominations: ''The Effect'', ''The Witches (novel), The Witches'' * 4 nominations: Cabaret (musical), ''Cabaret'', ''La Cage aux Folles (musical), La Cage aux Folles'', ''The Little Big Things (mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Palladium
The London Palladium () is a Grade II* West End theatre located on Argyll Street, London, in Soho. The theatre was designed by Frank Matcham and opened in 1910. The auditorium holds 2,286 people. Hundreds of stars have played there, many with televised performances. Between 1955 and 1969 '' Sunday Night at the London Palladium'' was staged at the venue, produced for the ITV network. The show included a performance by the Beatles on 13 October 1963; one newspaper's headlines in the following days coined the term " Beatlemania" to describe the hysterical interest in the band. While the theatre hosts resident shows, it is also able to host one-off performances, such as concerts, TV specials and Christmas pantomimes. It has hosted the Royal Variety Performance 43 times, most recently in 2019. Architecture Walter Gibbons, an early moving-pictures manager, intended for the Palladium, in 1910, to compete with Sir Edward Moss's London Hippodrome and Sir Oswald Stoll's London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dear England
''Dear England'' is a play about England football manager Gareth Southgate, the pressures of elite sport, and the role of the national men's football team in the national psyche. The play explores how Southgate helped to change notions of masculinity on the England team. Written by James Graham, it opened in June 2023 at the National Theatre in London starring Joseph Fiennes and directed by Rupert Goold. The title of the play comes from the open letter Southgate wrote to England fans in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The play won the 2024 Laurence Olivier Awards for Best New Play and Will Close won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for his portrayal of Harry Kane. Playwright James Graham said after the England men lost the UEFA Euro 2024 final to Spain that he would rewrite the ending of ''Dear England'' to bring it up to date. Plot The play follows the England men's football team under Gareth Southgate in the run-up to, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Of The Rings (musical)
''The Lord of the Rings'' is a stage musical with music by A. R. Rahman, Värttinä, and Christopher Nightingale, and lyrics and book by Shaun McKenna and Matthew Warchus, based on the novel of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. It is the most prominent of several theatre adaptations of the novel. Set in the world of Middle-earth, the musical tells the tale of a humble hobbit who is asked to play the hero and undertake a treacherous mission to destroy an evil, magic ring without being seduced by its power. The musical has been performed in four professional productions. It was first performed in 2006 at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto. The second production opened at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London's West End in June 2007 where it played until July 2008. The musical was revived in 2023 at the Watermill Theatre in Berkshire, winning Best Regional Production in TheWhatsOnStage Awards 2024. The Watermill production was announced to open in July 2024 at the Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Cage Aux Folles (musical)
''La Cage aux Folles'' () is a musical with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and a book by Harvey Fierstein. Based on the 1973 French play of the same name, the show tells the story of a gay couple, Georges, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin, his romantic partner and star attraction; farcical adventures ensue when household dynamics intersect with an ultra-conservative politician. Opening on Broadway in 1983, ''La Cage'' broke barriers for gay representation by becoming the first hit Broadway musical centered on a homosexual relationship. The show's act one finale " I Am What I Am" received praise as a " gay anthem" and has been widely recorded. The original production ran for more than four years (1,761 performances), and won six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book. The success of the musical spawned a West End (London) production and several international runs. Subsequent revivals have garnered c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Valentine
''Shirley Valentine'' is a one-character play by Willy Russell. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad. Plot Wondering what has happened to her youth and feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley feels as if her family treats her more like a servant and she finds herself regularly alone and talking to the wall while preparing an evening meal of "chips and egg" for her emotionally distant husband. When her best friend wins a competition for two to Greece, she packs her bags, leaves a note on the cupboard door in the kitchen, and heads for a fortnight of rest and relaxation. In Greece, with just a little effort on her part, she rediscovers everything she had been missing about her existence in England. She finds so much happiness, in fact, that when the vacation is over she decides not to return, ditching her friend at the airport and going back to the hotel where she' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pillowman
''The Pillowman'' is a 2003 play by British-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It received its first public reading in an early version at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 1995, also a final and completed version of the play was publicly read in 1998 and then finished and released as a book in some places in 1999. Production started in 2000 for the eventual 2003 performance. It tells the tale of Katurian, a fiction writer living in a police state, who is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of bizarre child murders occurring in his town. The play received the 2004 Olivier Award for Best New Play, the 2004-5 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play, and two Tony Awards for production. It was nominated for the 2004 Evening Standard Award for Best New Play. Summary Katurian, a writer of short stories that often depict violence against children, has been arrested by two detectives, Ariel and Tupolski, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Effect
''The Effect'' is a play by the British playwright Lucy Prebble. The story revolves around two protagonists, Connie and Tristan, who volunteer in a clinical drug trial, where they start to fall in love. Their relationship throws the trial off-course. It received its premiere at the Royal National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in London in November 2012, and starred Billie Piper and Jonjo O'Neill. A revival production played at the National's Lyttelton Theatre in London in 2023, and later transferred to The Shed in New York City in 2024. Synopsis Tristan and Connie each agree to volunteer in a clinical drug trial, where they start to fall in love. What they are not sure of is whether their newfound passion is instinctive or a byproduct of dopamine. Thus, the two throw the trial off course, much to the frustration of the clinicians involved. Cast and characters Production history 2012 National Theatre ''The Effect'', a The National Theatre and Headlong co-production, op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Streetcar Named Desire
''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her once-prosperous situation to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley. ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is one of the most critically acclaimed plays of the 20th century and Williams's most popular work. It still ranks among his most performed plays, and has inspired many adaptations in other forms, notably a critically acclaimed film that was released in 1951.Production notesDecember 3, 1947—December 17, 1949IBDb.com Name Blanche is mentioned in the play as arriving at Stella's apartment by riding in a streetcar on the Desire streetcar line. Tennessee Williams was living in an apartment on Toulouse Street in New Orleans' French Quarter when he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uncle Vanya
''Uncle Vanya'' ( rus, Дя́дя Ва́ня, r=Dyádya Ványa, p=ˈdʲædʲə ˈvanʲə) is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897, and first produced in 1899 by the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski. The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yelena, to the rural estate of the professor's late first wife that now supports their urban lifestyle. Two friends—Vanya, brother of the professor's late first wife, who has long managed the estate, and Astrov, the local doctor—both fall under Yelena's spell while bemoaning the ennui of their provincial existence. Sonya, the professor's daughter by his first wife, who has worked with Vanya to keep the estate going, suffers from her unrequited feelings for Astrov. Matters are brought to a crisis when the professor announces his intention to sell the estate, Vanya and Sonya's home, with a view to investing the proceeds to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Time Traveller's Wife (musical)
''The Time Traveller's Wife'' is a stage musical with a book by Lauren Gunderson and music and lyrics by Joss Stone and Dave Stewart (with additional lyrics by Kait Kerrigan and additional music by Nick Finlow), based on the novel by Audrey Niffenegger and the 2009 film. Background A stage musical based on the book was announced to be in development in March 2021, which was due to premiere in the UK in late 2021 or early 2022. The musical is titled ''The Time Traveller's Wife'' and features a book by Lauren Gunderson music and lyrics by Joss Stone and Dave Stewart with additional lyrics by Kait Kerrigan. The production is directed by Bill Buckhurst and produced by Colin Ingram for InTheatre Productions by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures. In response to the announcement, Niffeneger revealed on Twitter she did not know about the project and then clarified that the theatrical rights belonged to Warner Bros. Production history Chester (2022) The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newsies (musical)
''Newsies: The Musical'' is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein. The show is based on the 1992 musical film of the same name, which in turn was inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York City, with Fierstein's script adapted from the film's screenplay by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White. The musical premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse in 2011 and made its Broadway debut in 2012, where it played for more than 1,000 performances before touring. Productions Paper Mill Playhouse (2011) ''Newsies The Musical'' premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, from September 25, 2011, through October 16. The production was directed by Jeff Calhoun with choreography by Christopher Gattelli. This production was later transferred to Broadway with several changes in the music and actors. Broadway (2012–2014) The musical opened on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre for limited engagement. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Next To Normal
''Next to Normal'' is a 2008 American rock musical with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt. The story centers on a mother who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effects that managing her illness has on her family. The musical addresses grief, depression, suicide, drug abuse, ethics in modern psychiatry, and the underbelly of suburban life. Before its Off-Broadway debut, ''Next to Normal'' received several workshop performances and won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Score and received Drama Desk Awards nominations for Outstanding Actress ( Alice Ripley) and Outstanding Score. After its Off-Broadway run, the show played from November 2008 to January 2009 at the Arena Stage while the theater was in its temporary venue in Virginia. The musical opened on Broadway in April 2009. It was nominated for eleven Tony Awards that year and won three: Best Original Score, Best Orchestration, and Best Performance by a Leading Actre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
