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Published: 27 October 2011
Former Pop Idol contestant turned West End leading man, Darius Campbell, is to return to the London stage next month, starring opposite Ugly Betty’s America Ferrera in Chicago.Campbell, who was… Read More
The combination of Sheila Hancock, Anna Chancellor and Angela Thorne on stage together is a tempting prospect, and it reaps rewards in this new play by Nicholas Wright. Though ostensibly… Read More
Ramin Karimloo, who has played the Phantom Of The Opera in the West End both in the original musical and in Love Never Dies, is to join the cast of… Read More
Published: 26 October 2011
As his seminal play Death And The Maiden is revived in London, Matthew Amer talks to writer Ariel Dorfman about Harold Pinter and living in exile.How often, as a child,… Read More
Mike Bartlett is not afraid to think epic. After the futuristic Earthquakes In London comes his second National Theatre production, 13, a dystopian look at a society desperately searching for… Read More
Matthew Bourne will celebrate the 25th anniversary of his critically acclaimed dance company New Adventures at Sadler’s Wells next year, with revivals of some of the company’s most seminal pieces… Read More
After the success of Into The Hoods, dance company ZooNation is back with a beautifully crafted piece of dance theatre which has a love story at its heart. I can’t… Read More
Published: 25 October 2011
Thandie Newton makes her West End stage debut as a dead woman walking in the first London revival of Ariel Dorfman’s devastating story of revenge, Death And The Maiden.Set in… Read More
Published: 24 October 2011
When Aimée-Ffion Edwards auditioned for a new play by Jez Butterworth at the Royal Court, she had no idea that two and a half years later she would not only… Read More
Published: 21 October 2011
Sadler’s Wells are bouncing into the Christmas spirit by announcing Travelling Light Theatre Company’s BOING! will play the Lillian Baylis Studio this December.A Christmas show with a difference, BOING! combines… Read More
Gather round, my pretties, gather round, and let me tell you a terrifying tale of witches, death, blood, scarecrows and Sir Ian McKellen.This shocking story concerns 80 minutes of horrifying… Read More
Chickenshed will premiere a brand new version of Cinderella with a Bollywood twist this Christmas, while the venue’s popular Tales From The Shed gets a sprinkling of festive magic for… Read More
Published: 20 October 2011
For a comedy, Jumpy paints a very bleak picture of womanhood. Motherhood, marriage, sex, body-image, self-worth… playwright April De Angelis depicts women in a permanent state of confusion. Whether you… Read More
Published: 19 October 2011
It is a decade since The Office propelled him to fame, and what a decade it’s been. Caroline Bishop talks to Mackenzie Crook as he returns to the West End… Read More
A very long longlist, published today by the Evening Standard, reveals that performers including James Corden, Jude Law, Kevin Spacey, Kristin Scott Thomas and Sheridan Smith are in contention for… Read More
It may not always be easy to keep up with Douglas Hodge as he spirals, sometimes seemingly faster than light, into a heap of paranoia in John Osborne’s surreal nightmarish… Read More
Published: 18 October 2011
The Lyric Hammersmith is getting into the festive spirit announcing full details of its previously announced Christmas programming which includes Aladdin for over six year olds and Holly And Ivan’s… Read More
Simon Callow is to star in a new version of Charles Dickens’s festive favourite A Christmas Carol, which will play at the Arts theatre from 8 December.The much-loved British actor,… Read More
Lee Blessing’s drama of rival arms negotiators, A Walk In The Woods, might be better titled Bargaining On The Bench, as this is really where the play’s two differing diplomats… Read More
Frances Ruffelle and Matt Rawle are to star in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s festive production of Pippin from 22 November. Pippin, a 1972 musical by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked), is a… Read More
Published: 17 October 2011
Following the success of claustrophobic submarine-set drama Kursk, theatre company Sound&Fury is to return to the Young Vic with a story of galactic proportions.Going Dark, which runs at the Waterloo… Read More
Stella Feehily’s new play begins with the most dramatic of juxtapositions. Opening in the Congo, we see two European women staring down the barrel of a gun faced with the… Read More
In the beginning, there was nothing. A new home for the Bush theatre. A space. Endless possibilities. Excitement. Potential.Then, an idea. A seed. 66 writers each responding to a single… Read More
Published: 14 October 2011
Cool Hand Luke, which opened at the Aldwych theatre last week, is to bring its West End run to a premature close on 19 November. It had been booking until… Read More
Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, will step down from the role in 2012.The announcement of Boyd’s intention to leave was made at the RSC’s AGM today,… Read More
Ann Emery, Billy Elliot The Musical’s original Grandma, is to return to the production at the Victoria Palace in November.Emery, who played the role from 2005 until 2010, is joined… Read More
What begins as an easy comedy about new neighbours turns into something darker in Jason Hall’s new play at Trafalgar Studios 2. It is appropriate, given the playwright’s name, that… Read More
Sean Holmes’s production of Edward Bond’s Saved is the first in over a quarter of a century so you’d be forgiven for knowing nothing more about the seminal play than… Read More
Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Northam, Kevin McNally and Olivia Colman are to star in Noël Coward’s Hay Fever at, appropriately, the Noël Coward theatre, from 10 February (press night 23 February).… Read More
Hit Abba musical Mamma Mia! is to pack up its bright lyrca suits next September and move its cast of dancing queens to the Novello theatre.The move, an exact date… Read More
I headed through the packed crowd to the bar with some trepidation and, I admit, a slight desperation for booze. Here I was, at the annual Christmas party, having heard… Read More
Published: 13 October 2011
Birmingham Stage Company’s adaptation of Philip Pullman’s The Firework-Maker’s Daughter will play the Bloomsbury theatre this Christmas.The magical adventure tells the story of Lila, a girl who dreams of becoming… Read More
Football. The beautiful game. In the hands of writer Georgia Fitch and director Steve Marmion it has never looked uglier. Between them the pair explore the seedier side of the… Read More
Published: 12 October 2011
Malcolm X, Jesse James, birthing pigs and removing testicles; Matthew Amer finds it’s amazing how much you can get through in one hour with Driving Miss Daisy star James Earl… Read More
Published: 11 October 2011
Improvised musical troupe Showstopper! is to play three late night performances at the Criterion theatre in November as part of the Criterion Presents series. Showstopper!, which is currently enjoying a… Read More
The Society of Ticket Agencies and Retailers (STAR) has launched a new kitemark to help consumers avoid being ripped off by rogue ticket sellers.The kitemark, which will be displayed by… Read More
Ugly Betty star America Ferrera will swap her trademark glasses and braces for fishnets and red lipstick next month when she makes her West End debut in Kander and Ebb… Read More
A show about the early days of The Beatles could be simply an excuse to play some cracking tunes, but, surprisingly, Backbeat isn’t just another jukebox musical. Iain Softley has… Read More
Published: 10 October 2011
Lee Hall’s hit play The Pitmen Painters has already been a hit in Newcastle, at London’s National Theatre, on Broadway and on national tour. Inspired by a book by William… Read More
Jukebox musical Million Dollar Quartet is to close at the Noël Coward theatre on 14 January, just short of a year after it opened in the West End. The musical,… Read More
Published: 7 October 2011
Joely Richardson is to take to the London stage next year to star as Ellida in Ibsen’s The Lady From The Sea at Kingston’s Rose Theatre.When she debuts on 23… Read More
Audiences at Richmond theatre will be among the first to see the premiere production of The King’s Speech, the play by David Seidler that inspired this year’s Oscar and BAFTA-winning… Read More
CBeebies fans are in for a treat next spring when CBeebies Live! Reach To The Stars comes to London with a host of popular characters and presenters in tow.CBeebies presenters… Read More
Celia Imrie, Janie Dee and Robert Glenister will lead the cast of the Old Vic’s forthcoming revival of Michael Frayn’s Olivier Award-winning comedy Nosies Off.Lindsay Posner’s take on the famous… Read More
Ron Cook, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Harry Attwell and Michael Hadley are among the familiar faces joining Eddie Redmayne and Andrew Buchan in Richard II at the Donmar Warehouse this December. The… Read More
Published: 6 October 2011
Thriller Live, the West End show celebrating the music of Michael Jackson, is launching a Facebook campaign to find new stars for the London production and the world tour. Talented… Read More
Go intergalactic this Christmas with Twinkle Twonkle, a musical adventure for children from Tall Stories at the Roundhouse in the Studio theatre. Suitable for children aged four and older, Twinkle… Read More
Alfred Uhry’s seminal piece, Driving Miss Daisy, is less of a play and more a series of short scenes and touching snapshots that combine to tell the story of the… Read More
Published: 5 October 2011
Vanessa Redgrave, James Earl Jones and Boyd Gaines are full of praise for the London audiences who have been rushing to see them in Driving Miss Daisy.“The attention of the… Read More
What does it take to persuade an actor to play the same part three times in the space of one year? Matthew Amer found out by talking to Sir Antony… Read More
Wicked Day is back for its sixth year of family Halloween-inspired fun later this month, with a jam packed schedule of face-painting, storytelling and magic.The annual free event, which takes… Read More
Conor McPherson’s interest in ghost stories continues with this tale of a defrocked Reverend who attempts to out the spirits haunting his young cousin.Jim Norton’s Reverend Berkeley is a jocular… Read More
Published: 4 October 2011
Former Wet Wet Wet singer/songwriter Marti Pellow is to join the cast of long running West End musical Blood Brothers later this autumn.Pellow will play the role of the Narrator… Read More
Calm and cool or hiding from the dangers and extremes of emotion? Marc Warren’s Cool Hand Luke is an enigmatic character.Following the Oscar-nominated performance of Paul Newman – surely one… Read More
Rock Of Ages will be power-stancing and devil horn-flicking in aid of charity on 16 November, when it stages a special gala performance in aid of Children In Need.The new… Read More
Published: 3 October 2011
When faced with performers playing the original line up of the greatest band ever to have graced the universe, it seems only right to delve into their own musical background… Read More
The National Theatre is planning to transfer its hit production of One Man, Two Guvnors to Broadway next year. The show, which played to rave reviews and packed houses at… Read More
A site-specific production inspired by the biblical tale of the tower of Babel is one of eight productions to be staged as part of World Stages London, a season of… Read More
The line-up for the return of cult cabaret show La Soirée has been announced with tap-dancing on roller skates, hula-hooping and lycra-clad divas all featuring on the bill.The Olivier Award-winning… Read More
Published: 30 September 2011
The Theatre Awards UK 2011-nominated production, The Madness Of George III, will play a limited West End run next January at the Apollo theatre.Christopher Luscombe’s production will run from 18… Read More
Imogen Stubbs, Anna Calder-Marshall, Anna Carteret and Roger Evans are set to star in the first production in the Donmar Trafalgar season this autumn.The quartet will appear in Tim Price’s… Read More
Saul Rubinek’s cynical stage sitcom, Terrible Advice, is a romantic comedy with less of the rom and more of the com. The men are adolescents and the woman demanding, but… Read More
The Almeida theatre has announced its 2012 season will feature Bijan Sheibani’s The House Of Bernarda Alba, a new version of Filumena starring Samantha Spiro, and the world premiere of… Read More
Lauren Samuels, who leapt into the public consciousness as one of the leading contestants on Over The Rainbow, is to join the cast of hit Queen musical We Will Rock… Read More
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that the first five previews of forthcoming Cambridge theatre production Matilda The Musical have been cancelled.The show – which today celebrates two Theatre Awards… Read More
New website pricelesslondon.co.uk, launched today by MasterCard, aims to give its card users the most exclusive deals available in London across theatre, museums, restaurants, shops and attractions.The new website brings… Read More
Published: 28 September 2011
There are a few key ingredients that every good soft rock music video needs – a wind machine, pyrotechnics, dry ice, lasers, guitarists adopting a wide-legged stance – Rock Of… Read More
London can look forward to seeing the cream of the wider UK’s theatre in the coming months as leading nominees at the Theatre Awards UK 2011 are set to transfer… Read More
Actor Jim Norton tells Caroline Bishop why meeting playwright Conor McPherson has led to the best decade of his life. The government should thank actors. Specifically, for the fact that… Read More
Never afraid of trying something new, the Young Vic’s revival of After Miss Julie, which opens in March next year, will be the venue’s first show to experiment with its… Read More
Perhaps I missed something, but, to see the characters in J M Synge’s Irish comedy fawning over a roguish newcomer to the village, you’d think that killing one’s father was… Read More
Published: 27 September 2011
Kyle Soller is to join David Suchet and Laurie Metcalf in Long Day’s Journey Into Night at the Apollo theatre in April next year. Soller, who is currently appearing in… Read More
Stage One, the Society of London Theatre supported initiative for young producers, has been chosen as the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards’ adopted charity.The four month campaign running up to the website’s… Read More
Published: 26 September 2011
Theatre companies from Afghanistan, Palestine and South Sudan are among the international guests joining Shakespeare’s Globe’s ambitious Globe To Globe project next spring. The epic play cycle, announced earlier this… Read More
As The Phantom Of The Opera prepares to celebrate its 25th birthday this weekend at the Royal Albert Hall, it marks an anniversary for Lynn Jezzard, too. Caroline Bishop speaks… Read More