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Published: 12 March 2014
Children aged between seven and 11-years-old have the incredible opportunity to audition for Disney’s The Lion King’s Cub School programme this weekend. The hugely successful musical’s Cub School is a… Read More
To celebrate the extra St Patrick’s Day performance being added to The Commitments’ schedule, the show’s stars have recorded their own version of The Irish Rover. The Guinness-waving performance, which… Read More
What’s it all about? To be read in your best blockbuster voice-over voice: “In a city ravaged by drought, an evil tycoon and his brutal police force control all the… Read More
Published: 11 March 2014
Award-winning stage actor William Houston will star in Lucy Bailey’s revival of Titus Andronicus this summer alongside an impressive company of stage regulars. Bailey’s revisiting of Shakespeare’s bloody drama, following… Read More
The Lyric Hammersmith’s Secret Theatre project will continue into a second year and expand to include a tour thanks to an Exceptional Award from Arts Council England. The project, which… Read More
After more than 12 years in the West End, smash hit Queen musical We Will Rock You will come to the ends of its reign on 31 May. The former… Read More
Published: 10 March 2014
Earlier today more than 300 producers, performers, press and theatremakers gathered with bated breath at London’s stunning Rosewood Hotel to hear former Olivier Award with MasterCard winners Nigel Harman and… Read More
Olivier Award-winning actress Michelle Terry will star in James Graham’s new play Privacy when it receives its world premiere at the Donmar Warehouse next month. Playing from 10 April to… Read More
Following today’s news that Charlie And The Chocolate Factory has picked up an impressive seven Olivier Awards with MasterCard nominations, the show has announced a new cast including fellow Olivier… Read More
Published: 7 March 2014
The Royal Court will showcase the skills of theatre’s youngest writers this summer with Primetime, a new production made up of nine short plays written by pupils from London primary… Read More
The acclaimed Nottingham Playhouse, Headlong and Almeida Theatre production of George Orwell’s 1984 is to transfer to the West End’s Playhouse Theatre in April. The tale of a dystopian future,… Read More
Game Of Thrones’ Gethin Anthony will star alongside Jamie Ballard, Imogen Doel and Laura Rees in In The Vale Of Health, a series of Simon Gray plays to be performed… Read More
Published: 6 March 2014
Amelia Lowdell and Paul Hickey will star in Nick Payne’s new play Incognito when it comes to the Bush Theatre in May as part of a national tour. Playing from… Read More
Olivier Award-winning actress Sara Kestelman will star in a new adaptation of Moomin creator Tove Jansson’s magical novel The Summer Book as part of the Unicorn Theatre’s forthcoming summer season.… Read More
What’s it all about? What makes you a good person? Helping others as part of your profession? Telling the truth? Lying for the sake of another? Sacrificing your own future… Read More
What’s it all about? A play within a play, a group of eager actors present an interactive, multimedia lecture about the history of Namibia from 1884 to 1915, when German… Read More
Published: 5 March 2014
The stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor dramas Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies will run at London’s Aldwych Theatre this summer. The acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company productions, which… Read More
Casting has been announced for Roxana Silbert’s forthcoming production Khandan (Family), which will play at the Royal Court this summer. Running at the Sloane Square venue from 11 to 28… Read More
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s one-woman show Fleabag, which has won a clutch of awards for both performance and play, will return to Soho Theatre this May. The story of a modern girl… Read More
Published: 4 March 2014
Disney’s hit musical The Lion King will present its second autism-friendly performance in May, following the success of its first specially adapted performance last year. Taking place on 4 May,… Read More
Olivier Award winner Noma Dumezweni and Matthew Marsh will reprise their roles in A Human Being Died That Night when it returns to the Hampstead Theatre Downstairs later this year.… Read More
Urinetown The Musical is undoubtedly one of the most eagerly anticipated openings of 2014. So when we received these incredible production shots, we just had to share them with you.… Read More
What’s it all about? If I said the world’s most renowned playwright, would that surprise you? In Being Shakespeare, writer Jonathan Bate has, with an abundance of warmth and wit,… Read More
Published: 3 March 2014
Occasionally I feel for actors. Every now and then I stroll cheerfully into a dressing room to do an interview and realise I’m number 21 of 23 that day, and… Read More
Paul McGann will star alongside Olivia Hallinan and Holliday Grainger in Anya Reiss’ new adaptation of Three Sisters when it opens at Southwark Playhouse next month. The production of Chekhov’s… Read More
Published: 2 March 2014
Gemma Arterton will take the lead role in a new stage adaptation of Made In Dagenham, which is set to open at the Adelphi Theatre this autumn. Playing from 9… Read More
Published: 1 March 2014
I Can’t Sing! has further delayed preview performances due to technical problems. The first preview of the Harry Hill-penned show will now take place next week. After cancelling the first… Read More
Published: 28 February 2014
What’s it all about? This one is fairly self-explanatory. It’s about ghost stories. A professor takes you through examples of photographs and videos believed to picture supernatural happenings before introducing… Read More
Olivier Award-winning actress Ruthie Henshall will join the cast of West End hit Billy Elliot The Musical in May, taking on the role of Billy’s dance teacher Mrs Wilkinson. The… Read More
Published: 27 February 2014
What’s it all about? Jo and Harry, an explosive couple who stay up all night waiting for news from the hospital where Jo’s sister is in labour. Sex, an unexpected… Read More
The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable, the hit co-production between Punchdrunk and the National Theatre that has been bringing 1960s glamour to the capital since June last year, has extended… Read More
Cabaret star Meow Meow will return to London later this year for a limited three-week season of her Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize-winning show Feline Intimate at the London Wonderground.… Read More
What’s it all about? A member of the audience storms on to the stage in disgust at the unfolding production. But this is no ordinary audience member, this is Phil… Read More
Published: 26 February 2014
What’s it all about? Not content with having written one of the most successful British films of the 1990s, Simon Beaufoy has adapted it for the stage. Set during the… Read More
In her final diary, Jenna Russell takes us through Urinetown The Musical’s tech week, with all its highs and painful lows. So this week we are in our new home… Read More
Nikki Amuka-Bird and Daniel Cerqueira will return to the Royal Court Theatre in April to star alongside Andrew Scott in Simon Stephens’ new play Birdland. The drama about a rock… Read More
Published: 25 February 2014
After more than 40 years away from our stages, Angela Lansbury is back in the West End playing a character craftier than even that typewriter loving Jessica Fletcher. From 1… Read More
Are you a miniature mischief maker, a West End witch or a theatrical tunester? To celebrate all the shows eligible for this year's BBC Radio 2 Audience Award at the… Read More
Jasper Rees’ hit show I Found My Horn will return to London to play a season at the Trafalgar Studios this spring with co-writer Jonathan Guy Lewis reprising his role… Read More
Immersive theatre fans are invited to sleepover with the murderous Macbeths in a unique overnight experience spanning 12 hours at a secret East London location this summer. Running on Friday… Read More
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest musical Stephen Ward will close on 29 March after a four month run at the Aldwych Theatre. The show was originally booking until 31 May. Starring… Read More
Published: 24 February 2014
It has been more than six years since audiences have had the pleasure of Angel Coulby’s presence on stage, but with high-profile screen roles in an eclectic mix of hits… Read More
What’s it all about? When I mentioned Not Now, Bernard to my parents, their blank expressions surprised me almost as much as finding a child-devouring beastie lurking in the garden… Read More
A West End fixture since opening in Jersey Boys in 2008, Ryan Molloy will join the cast of Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be when it runs at the Theatre… Read More
The Elephantom will become the latest National Theatre production to transfer to the West End when it plays a limited season at the New London Theatre this summer. Playing at… Read More
The West End transfer of Let The Right One In has been confirmed. The acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland production will, as expected, run at the Apollo theatre from 26… Read More
I Can’t Sing has cancelled its first two preview performances following technical issues described by producers as caused by the highly anticipated musical comedy’s “ambitious staging”. Audience members with tickets… Read More
A quartet of young actors will recreate the iconic line-up of hit 1960s band The Kinks in Hampstead Theatre’s forthcoming musical biopic Sunny Afternoon. John Dagleish, George Maguire, Adam Sopp… Read More
The Bodyguard’s Beverley Knight will follow her acclaimed West End debut with Tony Award-winning musical Memphis, which will make its London premiere later this year at the Shaftesbury Theatre. David… Read More
Former Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint were waving their wands with delight (probably) as they both won Whatsonstage awards last night. Radcliffe was named Best Actor in… Read More
Olivier Award nominated actor Tim Pigott-Smith will take the title role in the world premiere of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III this spring alongside a company of London theatre regulars.… Read More
Published: 21 February 2014
Eddie Arnold will take on the role of everyone’s favourite sandwich-loving canine when he leads the cast of Scooby-Doo Live! The Mystery Of The Pyramid, which will make a stop… Read More
Imaginative children’s theatre company Theatre-Rites will breathe new life into objects more usually found in the bin in its new show Rubbish this spring, beginning its national tour at the… Read More
Former Doctor Who star Arthur Darvill is to join the London production of Once from 17 March, playing the lead role of Guy at the Phoenix Theatre. The casting finds… Read More
Leigh Zimmerman will join the cast of Relative Values next month for the hit comedy’s forthcoming run at the Harold Pinter Theatre. The Olivier Award-winning actress took home one of… Read More
Gemma Arterton’s performance as an impish yet resolutely regal Duchess of Malfi earlier this year raise the curtain on a new stage in the life of Shakespeare’s Globe. The performance… Read More
What’s it all about? Smallholding is one of those plays that you come to not knowing what it’s about. Even if you’ve read the synopsis. It comes as a shock,… Read More
Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In The Heights will make its London premiere this May at the Southwark Playhouse. The winner of four of the prestigious US theatre awards in 2008,… Read More
Since Trevor Nunn’s production of Fatal Attraction was announced back in September, we’ve been wondering how you can take such an iconic movie and make it work on stage. There… Read More
Published: 20 February 2014
David Essex will return to the West End in May to introduce a one-off charity concert of hit rock musical Godspell at the Lyric Theatre starring Zoe Tyler and Andy… Read More
Published: 19 February 2014
As Urinetown The Musical leaves the rehearsal room behind and heads for the St James Theatre, Jenna Russell lets us in on a hectic week. Hello all, it’s week five… Read More
The Tricycle Theatre has announced two further co-productions to join its busy spring/summer season, as well as the world premiere of award-winning Canadian playwright Adam Bock’s The Colby Sisters Of… Read More
Over the past month, we at Official London Theatre feel we’ve been enlightened about the Urinetown The Musical rehearsal experience. Through Jenna Russell’s weekly insights we’ve learned about becoming a… Read More
Mark Benton will return to the London stage this summer to star in Nadia Fall’s production of Hobson’s Choice at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. He will take on… Read More
What’s it all about? This is a revival of Shelagh Delaney’s seminal drama featuring possibly one of the most vivid mother/daughter relationships ever to be penned. For those of you… Read More
What’s it all about? A young English girl heads to New York City hoping to start a new life. What awaits her is relationship upon failed relationship. Hollywood producers, married… Read More
What’s it all about? Loneliness. Abuse. Victimhood. It’s the story of Julie, an auxiliary nurse who lives alone with her cat, enjoys clubbing and, in her own words, is a… Read More
Published: 18 February 2014
This season has seen the Unicorn attract some of the UK’s most exciting theatremakers and its current magical offering Hannah is no exception. Taking Christopher Marlowe’s Dr Faustus for inspiration,… Read More
The Apollo Theatre, which has been closed since the end of December, will reopen on 26 March, owner Nica Burns has told the London Evening Standard. In an interview with… Read More
Christopher Malcolm, the actor who originated the role of Brad Majors in the premiere production of The Rocky Horror Show, has died of cancer aged 67 following a respected career… Read More
Published: 17 February 2014
The Donmar Warehouse’s Versailles is that rarest of treats, a premiere production by a playwright who has been thrilling audiences for near five decades, Peter Gill. As always, Gill is… Read More
It is no overstatement to say that if you’re a fan of British musical theatre, the name Frances Ruffelle is probably near the top of your list of people the… Read More
Edward Petherbridge and Paul Hunter will return to the Young Vic in September, reprising their roles in Told By An Idiot’s hit show My Perfect Mind. Playing from 3 to… Read More
Published: 14 February 2014
What’s it all about? Let’s get one thing straight, Sizwe Banze isn’t dead. He’s not even close to dead. He’s strolling around Port Elizabeth under the guise of another man… Read More
Star of Jersey Boys on Broadway John Lloyd Young will bring his Tony Award-winning performance as Frankie Valli to the West End next month when he takes over from Ryan… Read More