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The reality of TV casting

Published: 17 August 2010

In July 2006, 200 young women, all determined to don a habit and declare The Hills Are Alive at the top of their voices eight times a week, were introduced… Read More

Kennedy increases Rock You’s Watt-age

Published: 17 August 2010

Kevin Kennedy, best known for playing Coronation Street’s Curly Watts, is to lead the cast of West End rockathon We Will Rock You from 6 September.Kennedy, who will play Pop… Read More

Crook, Little and Alexander lead Aliens

Published: 13 August 2010

Mackenzie Crook, Ralf Little and Olly Alexander will open the Bush theatre’s autumn season, starring in the UK premier of Annie Baker’s The Aliens. The production, directed by Peter Gill,… Read More

Record breaking Kids Week launches in London

Published: 13 August 2010

London theatres will be filled with thousands of excited children in the next three weeks as Kids Week 2010 gives young theatre fans a chance to immerse themselves in Theatreland.The… Read More

Willis will wiggle with welder in West End

Published: 13 August 2010

Busted star Matt Willis and West End regular Victoria Hamilton-Barritt will pick up their welders and pull up their legwarmers this autumn as they take on the starring roles in… Read More

Wicked night of entertainment for Apollo Victoria’s 80th

Published: 12 August 2010

The Apollo Victoria theatre will celebrate its 80th birthday later this year with a gala performance featuring West End stars past and present.The special anniversary event will take place on… Read More

Introducing… Lucy May Barker

Published: 11 August 2010

Currently singing Marina And The Diamonds at the National Theatre in Mike Bartlett’s new play Earthquakes In London, Lucy May Barker has come a long way from playing Annie and… Read More

Miranda Raison

Published: 11 August 2010

It is quite a leap from 21st century spy to 16th century queen, but it is a leap that Miranda Raison is taking – finds Matthew Amer – with the… Read More

Spence plays pirate in Peter Pan

Published: 11 August 2010

Pineapple Dance Studios’s inimitable Artistic Director Louie Spence will swap leg-warmers for a peg leg – maybe – this Christmas, when he joins Captain Hook’s pirates in the New Wimbledon… Read More

Over The Rainbow’s Robinson replaces Fearon

Published: 11 August 2010

One wannabee Dorothy is being replaced by another in the Landor theatre’s production of Smokey Joe’s Café. Jessica Robinson will perform Stephanie Fearon’s role from 20 to 22 August, while… Read More

Stars help celebrate tkts 30th birthday

Published: 10 August 2010

Stars of the West End stage joined queuing theatre fans in Leicester Square today to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the opening of London’s iconic tkts ticket booth.Tanguera’s gangster-like dancers,… Read More

Ben Barnes joined by full Birdsong cast

Published: 9 August 2010

Nicholas Farrell, Iain Mitchell, Genevieve O’Reilly and Lee Ross have joined the previously announced Ben Barnes in the forthcoming stage adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s novel Birdsong, which opens at the… Read More

Court reveals cast for Wanderlust

Published: 6 August 2010

London regulars Siân Brooke, Charles Edwards, Pippa Haywood, Stuart McQuarrie and Howard Ward are joined by Isabella Laughland and James Musgrave in Nick Payne’s new play about sex and intimacy.Wanderlust,… Read More

Shakespeare’s Globe extends Henry IV

Published: 6 August 2010

Shakespeare’s Globe will stage an extra eight performances of Henry IV Part 1 and Part 2 due to popular demand, as well as filming the plays along with others in… Read More

Earthquakes In London

Published: 5 August 2010

I will be very honest; I have been looking forward to Earthquakes In London since it was first announced. The combination of rising playwright Mike Bartlett, the ever talent-nurturing National… Read More

Wests do A Number for Menier autumn

Published: 4 August 2010

Father and son Timothy and Samuel West will star in Caryl Churchill’s A Number at the Menier Chocolate Factory this autumn, returning to roles they previous played in Sheffield four… Read More

Simon Webbe

Published: 4 August 2010

Simon Webbe never even dreamed he would one day be performing in a West End musical. But being prepared and seizing the day are mottos that have helped Webbe come… Read More

Bush promises season of Aliens, History and School

Published: 3 August 2010

The Bush theatre has revealed a 2010/11 season featuring work by playwrights Annie Baker, DC Jackson, John Donnelly, Steve Waters and Deirdre Kinehan, which explores everything from education to office… Read More

La Bohème

Published: 3 August 2010

Last night’s press night at the Soho theatre ended with a rousing ovation and the unfamiliar sound of men in the first two rows boasting that they had sobbed their… Read More

Award-winning play receives all-female revival

Published: 2 August 2010

Joe Penhall’s multi-award-winning Blue/Orange is to be revived at the Arcola theatre with a twist; the previous all-male cast will be replaced with an all-female ensemble.The witty tale of institutional… Read More

Young audiences in Hall’s Pocket

Published: 2 August 2010

The new Artistic Director of Hampstead theatre, Edward Hall, will kick off his first season at the venue with a visit from his own theatre company, Propeller, which presents a… Read More

RAD teaches toddlers to dance

Published: 2 August 2010

Toddlers can get dancing this autumn thanks to a new Family Dance Movement class for youngsters and their parents/carers at the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD).Taught by a RAD teacher… Read More

Londoners get lost in Trafalgar Square

Published: 2 August 2010

Tourists, theatregoers, London regulars and daytrippers are being encouraged to get lost at Trafalgar Square this week in a newly erected pop-up West End maze.The temporary topiary, which will be… Read More

Introducing… Michael Arden

Published: 2 August 2010

The actor playing the lovestruck young Englishman Alex Dillingham in Aspects Of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory is actually an American. Michael Arden talks to Caroline Bishop about working… Read More

Old Vic Tunnels get Scorched

Published: 30 July 2010

The Old Vic’s programming of its new theatre space under Waterloo Station continues this autumn with Scorched, a new play by Wajdi Mouawad, which plays in the Old Vic Tunnels… Read More

Donmar Lear gets worldwide audience

Published: 30 July 2010

The forthcoming Donmar Warehouse production of King Lear, which stars Derek Jacobi as the foolish sovereign, will be seen by many more people than previously expected as it will be… Read More

Holden to be Shrek’s London princess

Published: 30 July 2010

TV reality show judge Amanda Holden will prove she has talent next year when she takes to the London stage as Princess Fiona in the musical adaptation of the hit… Read More

Carlos Acosta: Premieres

Published: 30 July 2010

It is clear from the moment the curtain rises at the London Coliseum that the great Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta has created a starkly contemporary, surreal show that leans as… Read More

Gambon brings Beckett’s Last Tape to London

Published: 29 July 2010

Michael Gambon is to return to the London stage this autumn when he stars in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape at the Duchess theatre from 15 September to 20 November.The… Read More

Recording released for Legally’s London cast

Published: 29 July 2010

Fans of the perky pink show Legally Blonde The Musical will be bending and snapping with delight at the news that the London production will release a cast recording this… Read More

Two premieres for Unicorn new season

Published: 28 July 2010

A new show based on the novel The Garbage King and another in-house Christmas show top and tail the autumn season at the Unicorn children’s theatre this year. The season… Read More

Toby Stephens

Published: 28 July 2010

It is a somewhat depressing subject for a summer’s day but given Toby Stephens is starring in a play called Danton’s Death it is inevitable that mortality comes up more… Read More

tkts celebrates 30th birthday with free tickets

Published: 28 July 2010

Leicester Square’s official and most famous ticket booth, tkts, has reached an important milestone this year. The half price ticket outlet will celebrate its 30th birthday on 10 August with… Read More

The Prince Of Homburg

Published: 28 July 2010

Jonathan Munby, who directed Dominic West in Life Is A Dream, returns to the Donmar Warehouse with a play that conjures a similar dream-like atmosphere, Heinrich Von Kleist’s The Prince… Read More

Smokey Joe’s Café welcomes La Barrie

Published: 27 July 2010

West End regular Melanie La Barrie has joined the cast of Smokey Joe’s Café, which has extended its run at the Landor theatre to 12 September. It had been due… Read More

Dyson tells Twisted Tales in Lyric Hammersmith new season

Published: 27 July 2010

Jeremy Dyson, co-writer of TV’s The League Of Gentlemen and the Lyric Hammersmith’s hit show Ghost Stories, will return to the West London venue next year to present his new… Read More

The House Of Bilquis Bibi

Published: 27 July 2010

Theatre company Tamasha marks its 21st birthday with a powerful drama where class, complicated matters of the heart and the role of women take centre stage as Hampstead theatre is… Read More

Burn The Floor

Published: 27 July 2010

From its opening, featuring a stage flooded with dry ice, a mirror ball and neon-coloured lights filtering through the haze, you know where you stand with ballroom show Burn The… Read More

Disappearing Number found at the Novello

Published: 26 July 2010

Complicite’s Laurence Olivier Award-winning play A Disappearing Number is to play a strictly limited season at London’s Novello theatre from 10 to 25 September.The production’s original cast – David Annen,… Read More

Third week announced for phenomenal Kids Week

Published: 26 July 2010

Kids Week in the West End, the annual festival of theatrical family fun, has proved so popular in 2010 that, for the first time ever, it will extend its spectacular… Read More

Best Newcomer Smith joins Globe for Bedlam

Published: 26 July 2010

Lauded actress Ella Smith, who won a brace of awards for her 2008 breakthrough performance in Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig, is to appear at Shakespeare’s Globe later this summer in… Read More

Exclusive: Jeremy Dyson on creating Ghost Stories

Published: 26 July 2010

As Lyric Hammersmith hit Ghost Stories brings frights, scares and nervous laughter to the West End, The League Of Gentlemen’s Jeremy Dyson, who created the play with performer Andy Nyman,… Read More

O’Connor releases inner Showgirl in West End

Published: 26 July 2010

Multi-award-winning performer Caroline O’Connor is to dazzle London audiences this autumn with a limited run of her one-woman show Caroline O’Connor: The Showgirl Within.Playing at the Garrick theatre from 27… Read More

McKee joins Jacobi in King Lear

Published: 23 July 2010

Gina McKee will join Derek Jacobi in Michael Grandage’s production of King Lear at the Donmar Warehouse this December. Also joining the cast are Pippa Bennett-Warner and Justine Mitchell as… Read More

Callow joins Hall’s birthday Twelfth Night

Published: 23 July 2010

Simon Callow is to play Sir Toby Belch in Peter Hall’s new production of Twelfth Night at the National Theatre early next year, staged in celebration of the esteemed director’s… Read More

Carroll and Drew in House Of Games

Published: 23 July 2010

Nancy Carroll is to star in the psychological thriller House Of Games at the Almeida theatre in September. She will be joined by Trevor Cooper, Dermot Crowley, Amanda Drew, Peter… Read More

Hanson’s Ideal Husband stars with Bond at Vaudeville

Published: 23 July 2010

Husband and wife Alexander Hanson and Samantha Bond will star together in a new production of Oscar Wilde’s play An Ideal Husband at the Vaudeville theatre from 4 November (press… Read More

Danton’s Death

Published: 23 July 2010

Michael Grandage, the director who has spent the last two years turning all he touches to gold at the Donmar Warehouse, has crossed the river to the National Theatre to… Read More

West End gets Chichester’s Love Story

Published: 23 July 2010

A theatrical Love Story will be played out at the Duchess theatre from 27 November when Chichester Festival Theatre’s musical adaptation of the best-selling romantic novel transfers to London.  American… Read More

New season pulls into Waterloo East theatre

Published: 23 July 2010

A new musical and three one-person shows will feature in the very first season at Waterloo East theatre, a new venue under a railway arch south of the river. The… Read More

Sophie Evans cast as alternate Dorothy

Published: 22 July 2010

Over The Rainbow runner-up Sophie Evans will make her dream of playing Dorothy in the West End production of The Wizard Of Oz a reality when she takes on the… Read More

The Beauty Queen Of Leenane

Published: 22 July 2010

Set in a small town in County Galway, Martin McDonagh’s play is dark, beautiful and dangerous, like a starlit whirlpool. I say starlit whirlpool… it takes place in a chilly… Read More

Pam Ann flies into Vaudeville theatre

Published: 21 July 2010

Comedy air hostess Pam Ann, the creation of Australian comedian Caroline Reid, will bring her stand-up show Flying High to the Vaudeville theatre this autumn.The A-list air hostess to the… Read More

David Hyde Pierce

Published: 21 July 2010

The former Frasier star talks to Matthew Amer about the bravery of producers, performing with Mark Rylance and what La Bête has in common with Big Brother.It can’t be easy… Read More

Black Watch makes Barbican return

Published: 21 July 2010

The award-winning production Black Watch, which collected the Best New Play accolade at the 2009 Laurence Olivier Awards, is to be revived at the Barbican this autumn.Black Watch joins an… Read More

Spur Of The Moment

Published: 21 July 2010

Anya Reiss was just 17 when she wrote Spur Of The Moment, and you wonder exactly what personal experience she brought to it. Delilah is a 12-year-old girl whose main… Read More

The Secret Of Sherlock Holmes

Published: 21 July 2010

What mystery awaits the great Sherlock Holmes in his return to the West End? Not an unsolvable crime, but an exploration into one of the most enduring friendships in literature.… Read More

Dury play hits Garrick theatre

Published: 20 July 2010

Jeff Merrifield’s play Hit Me! The Life And Rhymes Of Ian Dury will return to London in September to play three dates at the Garrick theatre in the West End.A… Read More

Camden Fringe entertains kids

Published: 20 July 2010

Swashbuckling pirates, medical experiments and puppet adventures feature in the line-up of family shows in this year’s Camden Fringe, which runs from 2 to 29 August. Showcasing the talents of… Read More

Regional Billy Elliots descend on Victoria Palace

Published: 20 July 2010

Young people from 14 school and youth theatre groups got a taste of West End fame on Sunday as they took to the stage at the Victoria Palace as part… Read More

Underneath the arches

Published: 19 July 2010

As Waterloo East theatre prepares to announce its very first season, Caroline Bishop talks to its director Gerald Armin about the process of creating a brand new theatre.As commuters pack… Read More

Blithe Spirit gets Cold Feet

Published: 16 July 2010

Robert Bathurst and Hermione Norris will play husband and wife once more when the Cold Feet duo reunite for Thea Sharrock’s production of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit at the Apollo… Read More

Journey continues for Railway Children

Published: 16 July 2010

Like so many commuters, the stars of The Railway Children will be spending more time on train platforms than they expected, but these actors will be delighted about it. The… Read More

Aspects Of Love

Published: 16 July 2010

Following his chamber production of A Little Night Music, Trevor Nunn revisits Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1989 musical Aspects Of Love in a downsized version at the Menier Chocolate Factory.The production… Read More

Henry IV Part I and Part II

Published: 15 July 2010

It might not be the entirety of the Histories, but six hours of Henry IV Part I and Part II at Shakespeare’s Globe is a Bard-athon full of battles, bravado… Read More

Avenue Q closes its doors in October

Published: 15 July 2010

The residents of Theatreland’s favourite neighbourhood, Avenue Q, will be packing their bags on 30 October as they perform for the last time at the Wyndham’s theatre.Broadway import Avenue Q… Read More

Kids Week celebrates record-breaking first day

Published: 14 July 2010

Kids Week in the West End 2010 is celebrating another record-breaking year, selling over 25,000 tickets in its first day of sales, six thousand more than the previous record set… Read More

Desmond Barrit

Published: 14 July 2010

Desmond Barrit is no veteran actor. But he certainly is an actor, though he nearly wasn’t. He talks it through with Caroline Bishop.Desmond Barrit is about to replace Richard Griffiths… Read More

The Prisoner Of Second Avenue

Published: 14 July 2010

With two high profile Shakespearean plays currently running at the Old Vic, Kevin Spacey decided to cross the river and place two of America’s most respected actors on stage in… Read More

Freeman in Royal Court’s Clybourne Park

Published: 13 July 2010

Martin Freeman, Lucian Msamati and Sophie Thompson will star in Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park at the Royal Court from 26 August. The cast of this satirical comedy about the fault… Read More

Help bring a werewolf to life in London

Published: 13 July 2010

Theatre company Punchdrunk and English National Opera are offering the unusual opportunity to help create a movie soundtrack. Anyone aged seven and over who can play an instrument or sing… Read More

The Railway Children

Published: 13 July 2010

There is more than a touch of time travel about a trip to see The Railway Children. Audiences pass through the shiny, silver, 21st century Eurostar terminal at Waterloo station… Read More

Introducing… Sarah Quintrell

Published: 12 July 2010

Sarah Quintrell talks to Charlotte Marshall about playing Roberta in The Railway Children, why Harry Potter fans should come and see it and how she feels having to stop a… Read More

Booking opens for Kids Week 2010

Published: 12 July 2010

Tickets are now available for the Society of London Theatre’s annual extravaganza of family-friendly fun, Kids Week in the West End. Excited parents with even more excited children can get… Read More

Company members return Merrily to Donmar

Published: 9 July 2010

Daniel Evans, Samantha Spiro, Adrian Lester and Clive Rowe are among the stars returning to work with the Donmar Warehouse as they join the festival celebrating the 80th birthday of… Read More
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