BatmanLive

To say that I am eagerly anticipating Batman Live, the stage show in which Robin's origin is told through Cirque du Soleil-esque theatrics and horrifying moments where the Joker's teeth and eyes come to life, is a bit of an understatement...

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark may have broken the hearts of superhero-loving theater goers with its uninspired take on New York's webslinging photographer, but American audiences are in for a delightfully insane consolation prize. Batman Live, the live-action stage show that's been touring arenas in Latin America, Europe and the United Kingdom, is finally making its North American debut, with a fu

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I'm not going to lie, you guys: I'm getting more and more excited about Batman Live, the live-action stage show making its debut in England this month, with every piece of news that comes out about it. Mostly because every new bit of information makes it seem like the most insane interpretation of Batman that has ever existed...

While American audiences are going to have to wait a full year for it to cross the Atlantic, the UK opening of Batman Live is a mere two months away! And that means that it's time for the marketing to start in earnest. As spotted on DC Women Kicking Ass, ads are now playing on European television promoting the Dark Knight's arena show, and I have to admit, they're looking pretty awesome... Read M

A handful of promotional photos from the Batman Live: World Arena Tour were released on the event's official Facebook page Tuesday morning, revealing what Batman, Robin, The Joker, Catwoman, Harley Quinn, The Riddler, The Penguin and Poison Ivy will look like in the forthcoming theatrical show...

Batman Live just got some serious superhero writing cred. Today Warner Bros. Consumer Products, DC Entertainment and Water Lane Productions Ltd. announced that Allan Heinberg (Young Avengers, Wonder Woman), Stan Berkowitz (the animated The Batman, Justice League) and Alan Burnett (Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Green Lantern: First Flight), have been tapped to script the action show's original sto

Our friends at Asylum UK went down to the Shaftsbury theatre in London's West End where the upcoming productionof 'Batman Live' was holding open auditions for the roles of Batman, Robin, Catwoman, the Joker and Harley Quinn. What they found was 2000 hopeful auditionees radiating with the kind of heart-felt sincere enthusiasm that we ourselves can barely muster for anything anymore -- the kind of

Aside from quicker access to Doctor Who episodes and certain kinds of Toblerone bars, I haven't had many reasons to be outright jealous of UK residents of late. Leave it to new concept art from Batman Live to change all that, though. The Telegraph's debuted three new images depicting future sets from the action show, which is set to run from July 20 through October 8 in the UK before it heads to N

While the wait for the July 2011 opening of Batman Live in Manchester, England may seem like an eternity for fans, new details from the Manchester Evening News have shed some new light on what attendees can look forward to seeing next summer...