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Published: 19 March 2013
Alex Beard has been announced as the new Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House, following Tony Hall’s departure from the venue to take up the role of Director General… Read More
Published: 18 March 2013
Hit Harry Potter parody Potted Potter will – like an exceedingly studious Hermione at the end of levitation class – stay behind for an additional helping of magic, having extended… Read More
Hit musical Wicked spread some of its famous magic recently when it joined forces with Starlight Children’s Foundation to grant the wish of one 16-year-old musical fan, arranging for her… Read More
Published: 15 March 2013
It has been an incredible week for The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time. It has opened in the West End, won a South Bank Sky Arts Award… Read More
Phyllida Lloyd will direct Cush Jumbo’s debut play Josephine And I, which opens at the Bush theatre this summer. Playing from 12 July to 10 August, the tale of a… Read More
The premiere of Howard Brenton’s new adaptation of August Strindberg’s The Dance Of Death will open at the Gate theatre later this year, starring Linda Marlowe and Michael Pennington. Directed… Read More
Renowned director Katie Mitchell will present a promenade piece based on Gertrude Stein’s work at the Hampstead theatre’s Downstairs venue this spring. Say It With Flowers, which will play from… Read More
The Lenny Henry-led production of August Wilson’s Tony Award-winning drama Fences will open at the Duchess theatre for a limited 13-week season later this year following its acclaimed run at… Read More
Actress and writer Zawe Ashton, best known for her performance in Channel 4's university sitcom Fresh Meat, will star in Anthony Neilson's new play Narrative at the Royal Court. The… Read More
X Factor – It’s Time To Face The Musical, a new musical comedy written by television comedian Harry Hill and directed by double Olivier Award winner Sean Foley, is set… Read More
Mad Dogs star John Simm will return to the London stage later this year when he teams up with Simon Russell Beale for Harold Pinter's The Hothouse. The tale of… Read More
Published: 14 March 2013
It was a little surreal earlier this week to watch characters from 17 long-running West End shows chatting on stage. Who'd have thought we'd have ever seen Joey from War… Read More
Nick Fletcher and Darrell D’Silva will star in David Harrower’s new Ibsen adaptation Public Enemy, which opens at the Young Vic theatre later this year. Playing from 4 May (press… Read More
Betty Blue Eyes star Reece Shearsmith will join Jim Broadbent in the Bush theatre’s special gala performance of The Chapel Of Unrest this Friday. The reading of screenwriter Stephen Volk’s… Read More
The fight to save and support local theatres across the UK was given a huge boost today with the launch of new campaign My Theatre Matters! Spearheaded by theatre trade… Read More
Published: 13 March 2013
The Tricycle theatre's tale of unlikely drag performers, Paper Dolls, has proved so popular at the Kilburn venue that two extra weeks have been added to its run. The production,… Read More
From a stage of polar tiles sitting like tessellated mini icebergs, lamps of different heights scattered across it, watching the performance attentively like illuminated metal meerkats, a lone actress addresses… Read More
Published: 12 March 2013
This week, a new cast takes to the stage in the National Theatre’s hit West End production War Horse. It’s a show that needs no introduction and a story that… Read More
With temperatures continuing to plummet and the UK facing yet another onslaught of wintry weather, the Shaftesbury theatre has just what the West End ordered as Burn The Floor turns… Read More
Published: 11 March 2013
Charlie Rowe has worked with Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel and Bob Hoskins, appeared in hit films The Golden Compass and The Boat That Rocked, won an… Read More
Christopher Luscombe will direct the stage adaptation of Graham Greene’s Travels With My Aunt when it comes to the Menier Chocolate Factory later this year. Adapted for the stage by… Read More
Shakespeare’s Globe will present a relaxed performance of Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy Romeo And Juliet this weekend. Telling the Bard’s well-known story of two star-crossed lovers, the specially adapted 90-minute production… Read More
Graham Linehan’s imaginative 2011 hit adaptation of the classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers will return to the West End this summer. Nominated for an impressive five Olivier Awards including Best… Read More
Published: 8 March 2013
The Royal Court theatre has announced casting for the rehearsed readings of plays written by Georgian and Ukrainian playwrights, which are to be staged at the venue’s Jerwood Theatre Upstairs… Read More
House star Robert Sean Leonard will return to the London stage for the first time in 22 years to star in Timothy Sheader’s production of To Kill A Mockingbird, the… Read More
The Chichester Festival Theatre production of The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui will transfer to the Duchess theatre later this year, with double Olivier Award-winning actor Henry Goodman reprising his… Read More
Rarely has a play's title so succinctly encapsulated a piece's overwhelming emotion. So strong is the unspoken history between Tamsin Greig's provincial doctor and Iain Glen's successful Moscow lawyer that… Read More
Brian Cox, Dervla Kirwan, Ardal O'Hanlon (pictured), Ciarán Hinds and Jim Norton will all take to the Donmar Warehouse stage this year as the intimate theatre revives Conor McPherson's The… Read More
Samantha Bond and Owen Teale will join Olivier Award-winning actress Zoë Wanamaker in David Leveaux’s forthcoming revival of Peter Nichols’ Passion Play at the Duke of York’s theatre. Playing from… Read More
Published: 7 March 2013
TV astrologer and Strictly Come Dancing legend Russell Grant will turn the judging tables later this year when he gets the chance to give fellow performers anything from nil to… Read More
Based on Israeli director Tomer Heymann’s 2006 documentary, Paper Dolls tells the true story of five Filipino men who find work in Tel Aviv looking after elderly Orthodox Jews. While… Read More
The Unicorn theatre has announced some extra special, creepy crawly events to take place alongside its forthcoming show Mister Holgado, a dark grisly tale about a boy and his invisible… Read More
“I didn’t want to do something bogus or sentimental or saccharin or half-arsed,” Simon Stephens says, pausing between each adjective for emphasis, as he tells me how you deal with… Read More
Published: 6 March 2013
The Menier Chocolate Factory will present the European premiere of the Tony Award nominated musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple later this year. Directed and… Read More
Olivier Award-winning hip hop company Boy Blue join the Royal Shakespeare Company, venue regulars Michael Clark Company and Dutch outfit Toneelgroep Amsterdam in returning to the Barbican in the coming… Read More
Sadler’s Wells’ National Youth Dance Company (NYDC) has completed its search to find its first company members, with 30 young people aged between 16 and 20-years-old emerging triumphant over hundreds… Read More
Booking is now open for our annual season of Theatreland Walking Tours, the sightseeing excursions that prove you don’t have to be sat in the theatre watching a show to… Read More
So steeped in gravitas and detail is The Audience, you’d be forgiven an hour into the play for forgetting you were watching fiction. But fiction it is with Peter Morgan… Read More
Published: 5 March 2013
Oscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent will return to the stage for a special one-off gala reading of Stephen Volk’s The Chapel Of Unrest at the Bush theatre. Taking place on 15… Read More
Ralf Little will lead the cast of Stephen Unwin’s production of Peter Nichols’ A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, which opens at the Kingston’s Rose theatre next month.… Read More
Actress, singer and writer Nina Kristofferson will bring her one woman show about legendary jazz performer Billie Holliday to the Charing Cross theatre next month for a strictly limited eight… Read More
Edd Post and David McGranaghan will join the cast of Jersey Boys later this month, as the hit musical prepares to celebrate its fifth anniversary in the West End on… Read More
Following her debut in the West End last summer, Dora The Explorer’s search is back on in the City of Lost Toys as she brings her live stage show to… Read More
It must be strange making your London stage debut in a play that is virtually sold out before it's even had its first preview, but for young actress Catrin Stewart,… Read More
Zach Atkinson will become the latest talented youngster to express himself on the Victoria Palace theatre’s stage when he joins the cast of Billy Elliot The Musical this evening, playing… Read More
Published: 1 March 2013
One of the most famous dogs in the world, Spot the dog will step out of the pages of Eric Hill’s much-loved picture books and onto the stage with the… Read More
Politics and rock music isn’t a combination you’d expect to find in the House of Commons, but, in James Graham’s This House, they co-exist like parliamentary meetings and the ceremonial… Read More
Published: 28 February 2013
With more than 35,000 votes already cast for the BBC Radio 2 Audience Award and the nominations for this year's Olivier Awards with MasterCard less than a month away, we… Read More
Max Bennett scares me. His searing blue eyes. His predatory prowl. I would not want to be confronted by his attitude-soaked Polish Piotr. This is less the case at the… Read More
Published: 27 February 2013
Analysing the marketing shot for Matthew Dunster’s forthcoming drama Before The Party, it appears audiences can expect an array of vintage dresses straight out of Mad Men’s enviable dressing-up box… Read More
The Judas Kiss star Rupert Everett, who has been enjoying phenomenal stage success in the biographical tale of Oscar Wilde, has won the 2013 Sheridan Morley Prize for his own… Read More
Published: 26 February 2013
The National Theatre’s hit production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time has triumphed once again, scooping a pair of awards at The Mousetraps, the annual theatre… Read More
Edward Fox has joined the cast of The Audience, following the announcement earlier today that Robert Hardy has been forced to withdraw due to injury.Fox steps into the role of… Read More
Robert Hardy has made the tough decision to withdraw from upcoming production The Audience after falling and cracking his ribs. The 87-year-old actor had been playing Winston Churchill in the… Read More
Published: 25 February 2013
Intimacy is a word that goes hand in hand with the Donmar Warehouse. A theatrical powerhouse reaching far beyond its modest 250 seats, acting on stage at the Covent Garden… Read More
If you have a budding ballerina at home dreaming of a life spent pirouetting on stage, the Royal Academy of Dance has announced new workshops for young dancers of all… Read More
Imogen Stubbs (pictured on the right) will return to the Trafalgar Studio 2 later this year to star in Ian Talbot’s production of Third Finger, Left Hand. Playing a limited… Read More
Dirty deeds feel grubbier than ever in this hotly-anticipated James McAvoy-led production of Macbeth. I felt like leaping into a hot shower as I left the Trafalgar Studio press night,… Read More
Published: 22 February 2013
Chickenshed will be serving up a host of treats for five to 12-year-olds this Easter in the form of Easter Shed, a series of events designed to let children explore… Read More
Birmingham Stage Company’s hugely popular adaptations of Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories series return to London next month with a double bill at Hackney Empire. If you’ve ever wondered why the… Read More
A touching musical tale, The Tailor-Made Man brings to life the controversial relationship between 1920s movie star William ‘Billy’ Haines and his partner Jimmie Shields. Talking to a journalist following… Read More
The Young Vic theatre will host the UK premiere of Kander and Ebb’s provocative musical The Scottsboro Boys later this year. Described by the Young Vic’s Artistic Director David Lan… Read More
Helen Mirren's return to the role of royalty in Peter Morgan's new play The Audience will reach a much wider... audience than previously thought possible as it will be screened… Read More
Published: 21 February 2013
We love a world premiere, so when we received images from the rehearsal room of Paper Dolls, we had to share them. Written by Philip Himberg of influential US organisation… Read More
Published: 20 February 2013
Following the death of composer Marvin Hamlisch last year, the cast and creative team behind A Chorus Line had a challenge on their hands in order to make the show’s… Read More
Following its sell-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Merrily We Roll Along will play a strictly limited 12 week run in the West End at the Harold Pinter theatre… Read More
Published: 19 February 2013
TKTS, Leicester Square’s famous ticket booth run by the Society of London Theatre (SOLT), has won the Society of Box Office Managers Award for Outstanding Customer Service for a second… Read More
The Tricycle theatre’s forthcoming season will see actors Lia Williams and Lucian Msamati showcase their directing talent for two productions set to open at the Kilburn venue later this year.… Read More
Published: 18 February 2013
Coney Island will return to the Southbank this summer when London Wonderground opens its doors for a five month residence in May with headline show Limbo providing the eclectic entertainment.… Read More
If there were such a thing as a theatrical royal family, Judi Dench would undoubtedly be the Queen of the stage and the Noël Coward theatre would make a fitting… Read More
Richard Briers has died aged 79. The actor revealed earlier this year that he had been diagnosed with emphysema five years ago. Arguably still most famous for his role in… Read More
Howard Brenton will return to the Hampstead theatre later this year to present the world premiere of his new play #aiww: The Arrest Of Ai WeiWei as part of the… Read More
The results of the annual Whatsonstage.com Awards were revealed last night with the West End transfer of Chichester Festival Theatre’s Sweeney Todd coming away the big winner of the night,… Read More
Published: 15 February 2013
Double Olivier Award winner Samantha Spiro will play Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare’s Globe’s production of Macbeth, which will mark the directorial debut of fellow Olivier Award winner Eve Best when… Read More
The National Theatre is inviting families to take a peek backstage and discover some of the iconic theatre institution’s magical secrets this half-term.Between 18 and 22 February the venue behind… Read More