Follow
Signup
Published: 25 September 2014
Excited by the thought of a career in theatre, but not sure what to do and how to go about doing it? Annual beyond-the-stage careers fair TheatreCraft is perfect for… Read More
Published: 24 September 2014
West End leading lady Scarlett Strallen and 1984 directors Duncan Macmillan and Robert Icke are flying the flag for London in the nominations for this year’s UK Theatre Awards. Strallen,… Read More
What’s it all about? It isn’t surprising that there isn’t a playtext available for the Royal Court’s latest production; in fact, it’s hard to believe that Tim Price’s off-the-wall concept… Read More
From Woody Allen to Cameron Diaz, British actor Lucy Punch has worked alongside a star-studded line-up of Hollywood greats but, while the glamour of LA is all well and good,… Read More
Published: 23 September 2014
What’s it all about? The clue’s in the name. This musical charts the tale of Eva Perón, who rose from anonymity in rural Argentina to become an actress, First Lady… Read More
Champagne, glitter and Cameron Mackintosh driving Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil on stage in a white Cadillac; last night was the Miss Saigon 25th anniversary gala performance and with many… Read More
The Theatre Royal Stratford East is to build a second performance space inspired by the National Theatre’s Temporary Theatre. The Red Crate, as the East London sister to the space… Read More
Published: 22 September 2014
What’s it all about? The rise to the main stream of far right politics and the sanitisation of racism told with the help of karaoke classics. Yep, that’s right. Sound… Read More
At a press event last week, East Is East director Sam Yates gave little away about the forthcoming production of Ayub Khan Din’s comedy drama. Yates talked of the set… Read More
American musical theatre star Jennifer DiNoia will join the cast of Wicked from 27 October to lead the hit show as Elphaba for a limited season until 31 January. While… Read More
Michael Morpurgo’s World War I-drama War Horse will continue to entertain West End audiences for another year following the acclaimed National Theatre production’s announcement that it has extended its booking… Read More
Published: 19 September 2014
Jamie Lloyd has revealed that 55% of theatregoers attending a performance of his Martin Freeman-led Richard III at the Trafalgar Studios have been first time West End theatregoers. The Artistic… Read More
When someone says Shakespeare, the last things you think of are Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Heat magazine, yet both were present in Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Julius Caesar that brought a… Read More
Published: 18 September 2014
Historical stage epics are having something of a moment. After the Royal Shakespeare Company’s hugely successful double-bill Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, the National Theatre follows with The… Read More
There will be even more moonwalking across the stage of the Lyric Theatre next year thanks to the announcement that Michael Jackson tribute concert Thriller Live has extended its booking… Read More
What’s it all about? Well, not Dr Scroggy really. Everyone’s War would probably be a more apt title, but that’s nowhere near as catchy. Howard Brenton’s new World War I-set… Read More
The Almeida Theatre’s production of King Charles III will reign in the West End for longer after the critically acclaimed show announced it has extended its booking period to 31… Read More
Published: 17 September 2014
Liam Tamne is back on the London stage and starring in The Phantom Of The Opera. For those of us who’ve experienced his theatrical performances, this news is only good.… Read More
What’s it all about? Cor, that’s a tough one. On the surface it’s about two men – with numbers instead of names – who have been cooped up in a… Read More
It may be Strictly Come Dancing season but Flavia Cacace and Vincent Simone are nowhere to be seen. On screen that is… Fans of the hugely talented pair are in… Read More
Samuel Beckett will take centre stage at the Barbican Theatre next year when the London venue stages a season of plays celebrating the Irish playwright’s work as part of its… Read More
Jamie Lloyd’s soulful musical The Commitments now has a new cast bringing Roddy Doyle’s music-packed story to life on stage, including Brian Gilligan in the lead role of charismatic singer… Read More
Published: 16 September 2014
What’s it all about? A revolution. A big British one. Lady Catherine, an aristocrat resentful of her own class, recruits Leo, a beautiful young homeless man who will eventually take… Read More
What’s it all about? After more than 35 years and dozens of runs on both sides of the pond, musical theatre satirical cabaret Forbidden Broadway reached cult status long ago… Read More
Sunny Afternoon is yet to even open in the West End but today The Kinks musical has announced it has extended its booking period until 31 January at the Harold… Read More
The Young Vic will stage the London premieres of two internationally acclaimed dramas next year; Mike Bartlett’s UK Theatre Award-winning Bull and Edinburgh Festival hit Lippy. Clare Lizzimore’s production of… Read More
Emma Thompson will return to the London stage for the first time in 25 years to star alongside Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel in musical thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber… Read More
Published: 15 September 2014
Barry McCarthy will return to the Lyric Hammersmith this Christmas to reprise his role as everyone’s favourite festive gift bearer in Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas. He is joined at the… Read More
She has played Bond girls on screen, tragic heroines on stage and even showcased her presenting skills at this year’s Olivier Awards with MasterCard, but next month marks the debut… Read More
Max Bennett will star alongside Fiona Button in Michael Longhurst’s production of ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore when it opens at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse next month. The duo will… Read More
The Royal Court Theatre’s Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone will open this year’s TheatreCraft, the annual theatre careers event that offers young people the chance to explore the many opportunities to… Read More
The National Theatre’s hugely successful The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time has extended its West End run at the Gielgud Theatre until 23 May. More than 100,000… Read More
Tamzin Outhwaite, Samantha Spiro and Jenna Russell will star in Di And Viv And Rose when the comedy transfers to the Vaudeville Theatre in the new year. Anna Mackmin’s critically… Read More
Published: 12 September 2014
What’s it all about? Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society is attempting to pull off its latest production, the thrilling Murder At Haversham Manor, without a hitch. Unfortunately from the moment you… Read More
With a title that has been known to send shudders down the spine of fluid-sensitive theatregoers, have you been wondering ‘What is Urinetown?’ Wee have. Okay, we haven’t, we saw… Read More
What’s it all about? The Queen is dead. Charles is on the throne and finally seizes his chance to make a difference. His first decision, though, is so contentious it… Read More
Hampstead Theatre’s winter season will tackle two of the UK’s most essential – and controversial – public services, the Metropolitan Police Force and the NHS, with a new play by… Read More
Celebrity gardener turned talk show host Alan Titchmarsh will join the cast of The Wind In The Willows when the Royal Opera House’s ballet version of the famous tale returns… Read More
The West End will tonight dim its lights in tribute to the great actor Sir Donald Sinden who has passed away aged 90. The grand tradition, which is performed to… Read More
Published: 11 September 2014
Acclaimed interactive theatre company Punchdrunk has teamed up with the National Maritime Museum to create a theatrical exhibit for six to 12-year-olds and their families. Against Captain’s Orders: A Journey… Read More
If ever there was a sign of a cast working hard for the opening of a West End show it would be the copious amounts of coffee cups, Red Bull… Read More
Jack Shepherd and Rebecca Night have joined the cast of Anya Reiss’ forthcoming adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, which will open at the St James Theatre next month. Shepherd, who… Read More
Sam Mendes’ Olivier Award-winning musical Charlie And The Chocolate Factory will release more golden tickets this month after the show announced it will extend its booking period until 31 October… Read More
Published: 10 September 2014
When it was announced in June that Lindsay Lohan was to make her stage debut in London, we – along with the rest of the theatre industry and beyond –… Read More
Once a year, as the nights begin to draw in and the children are safely back in the school education system, the stars of the London stage perform a charity… Read More
Rupert Goold will bring his acclaimed production of The Merchant Of Venice, originally stage by the RSC, to the Almeida Theatre as part of a winter/spring season that includes new… Read More
Published: 9 September 2014
Inspired by its unique dystopian premise, Jamie Lloyd’s forthcoming West End offering Urinetown The Musical will hold a special gala performance on 20 October to help raise funds for charity… Read More
Haydn Gwynne, Anna Skellern and Jerome Pradon are to join the previously announced Tamsin Greig in the UK premiere of new musical Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown.… Read More
What’s it all about? Lesbian couple Caroline and Andrea want to start a family and look to Andrea’s brother Jimmy to provide the goods, thereby insuring the child carries both… Read More
For more than 30 years, Forbidden Broadway has been taking a warm-hearted, acid-tongued pop at all things musical theatre. Anyone who’s anyone in the world of jazz hands, high kicks… Read More
Published: 8 September 2014
It’s September, so the schools are full of new kids trying to make friends. Spare a thought for Lucy Punch and Ben Mansfield who are also doing just that in hit… Read More
Popular cabaret show La Soirée will return to London this Christmas to play as part of the Southbank Centre’s Winter Festival in its decadent Spielgeltent home. The 10th anniversary of… Read More
Olivier Award-winning actor Mark Rylance will return to the stage next year to star in the premiere of musician and playwright Claire van Kampen’s Farinelli And The King at the… Read More
Catherine Tate will make her Stephen Sondheim debut in Jamie Lloyd’s forthcoming production of Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory. The actress, best known for her hugely successful BBC comedy… Read More
Published: 5 September 2014
Screen star Helen Baxendale will return to the stage to lead forthcoming drama The Distance, Deborah Bruce’s exploration of parenthood that plays at the Orange Tree Theatre this autumn. Directed… Read More
What’s it all about? A pair of identical twins and their identical twin servants are cruelly separated as children by a freak storm at sea; this was a constant watery… Read More
Clare Cathcart, a regular on the London stage at venues including the National Theatre and Royal Court, has died aged 48. The tragic news was confirmed by the Call The… Read More
An incredible 27 former and current Billy Elliots will unite to perform a special one-off finale for the forthcoming live broadcast performance that will be screened to cinemas worldwide later… Read More
It may be the scariest show in the West End – though we’re sure The Woman In Black would have something to say about that – but that hasn’t scared… Read More
As the West End’s magical hit Wicked zooms on its hugely popular broomsticks into its 9th year, the show has announced it has extended its run to 7 November 2015.… Read More
Musical theatre icons Bonnie Langford and Gary Wilmot are to join Robert Lindsay, Rufus Hound and Katherine Kingsley in hit musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. From 16 September, the experienced pair… Read More
Former Coronation Street star Katherine Kelly will make her Donmar Warehouse debut later this year in much-anticipated musical City Of Angels. Kelly, who played Becky Granger in the long-running ITV… Read More
The Tony Award-winning Beautiful – The Carole King Musical will open in the West End next February following the autobiographical show’s huge success on Broadway. Featuring some of King’s most… Read More
Published: 4 September 2014
What’s it all about? Leading verbatim playwright Alecky Blythe took her dictaphone to the streets of Hackney during 2011’s summer riots and interviewed everyone from looting teenagers to terrified bystanders.… Read More
Ben Forster, who rose to fame by winning ITV casting show Superstar, will join Wet Wet Wet’s Marti Pellow and Argentine star Madalena Alberto in Evita when the musical opens… Read More
What’s it all about? A Brechtian-inspired metaphor on the battle between…. I kid, you know what this is about already; Michael Flatley is back with his world famous dance entertainment… Read More
‘Procreational comedy’, it’s hardly a familiar genre, but look up the word ‘procreational’ in the dictionary – well, online at least – and you’ll see it’s defined as ‘having the… Read More
Published: 3 September 2014
2014’s Kids Week was a record-breaking success with a staggering 176,000 tickets sold as part of the hugely popular kids go free ticket campaign. Now in its 17th year, our… Read More
Published: 2 September 2014
John Hannah will return to the London stage to play the title role in Anya Reiss’ new version of Chekhov’s masterpiece Uncle Vanya at the St James Theatre next month.… Read More
Cirque du Soleil will head to London next year with the return of its critically acclaimed big top theatrical production Kooza at the Royal Albert Hall. Described as “an adrenaline… Read More
Last month Kerry Ellis made her return to the hit musical Wicked more than five years since she had departed the production following critically acclaimed, much-loved performances in the role… Read More
Published: 1 September 2014
Matilda The Musical has announced BBC Radio 2’s Sir Terry Wogan will host a special gala performance of the hit family show this autumn in aid of BBC Children In… Read More
What would you do if your sister asked you to donate your sperm so that she could have a child with her lesbian partner? It may not be a question… Read More
Published: 29 August 2014
Acclaimed choreographer Arthur Pita will present his magical take on the classic story The Little Match Girl at Sadler’s Wells this Christmas. Playing from 13 December to 4 January, the… Read More
Over the last month, thousands of children have excitedly taken their seats in theatres across the capital to enjoy a show as part of the 17th annual Kids Week. But… Read More