Before commencing its Off-Broadway season, Theatre for a New Audience jumps first across the pond. The company take the world premiere of Bartlett Sher's staging of Cymbeline to the UK's Royal Shakespeare Company in their first trip outside of the United States. Cymbeline opens Nov. 22 for a run on Stratford-Upon-Avon's Other Place studio theatre and will play through Dec. 8.

The Peter Hall Company at London's Old Vic has announced its inaugural, nine-month season, to run March 4-Dec. 6, 1997. The repertory company will play seven days a week, offer 10 performances a week and keep 12 plays in repertory during the 40-week season.

The winners of the 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards, announced in a ceremony at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden April 15, saw a record seven wins for the Broadway-bound Matilda - the Musical, including being named Best New Musical, as well as both the Best Actor in a Musical (Bertie Carvel) and Best Actress in a Musical (shared between the original quartet who originated the role) and Best Director (Matthew Warchus).

The nominations for the 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards saw the RSC's production of Matilda the Musical, which has already announced its intention to open on Broadway in 2013, lead the way with ten nominations in the maximum possible categories for a musical, including a collective nomination for its four young actresses who share the title role as Best Actress in a Musical.

Details about City of Angels, featuring Vanessa Williams, Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe in Endgame, the stage debut of The Prince of Egypt, plus the U.K. premieres of Pretty Woman, Be More Chill, Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over, and more London offerings.