"If someone asks me what's the difference between conducting opera and conducting symphonic repertoire or playing chamber repertoire — the answer is the differences are only technical," he said.
With another four shows playing in repertoire at its South Bank premises, the National Theatre will have a total of eight shows open across the capital.
Both describe a 20-year working relationship virtually devoid of conflict; both have extensive experience playing the repertoire favored by Mr. Penn's character, mostly prewar standards and compositions by Reinhardt.
The double-bill of Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies premieres in the Swan Theatre, with the two works playing in repertoire from December to March.
On their way to perform with the L.A. Phil, Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra are on tour — by bus, as Marsalis hates to fly — playing a repertoire of Marsalis originals and classics by Ellington, Coltrane and Mingus.
In the Shakespeare's Globe production of Richard III, currently playing in repertoire with Twelfth Night at the Belasco the audience is allowed to come early and see the actors getting dressed and in the course of the play, Rylance himself steps in and out of his role, seemingly at will.
'Our play repertoire is very good and we are language-orientated.
"I just want to continue the growth of this wonderful orchestra, and to play a repertoire that goes from Haydn up to contemporary composers.
Why don't we bring some of these Polish musicians over and encourage some of our musicians in New York to play Polish repertoire?' " That was the theory, anyway.
He returned to swing music as leader (1966 74) of the Glenn Miller Orchestra, a "ghost band" that played the repertoire of the famous 1940s bandleader.
