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Published: 17 April 2008
The Palace theatre was awash with lake-dwelling ladies yesterday (10 January) as King Arthur (otherwise known as Peter Davison) welcomed his potential new Swedish co-stars in Monty Python’s Spamalot. Yes,… Read More
Thousands of reduced price tickets to top London shows are still available through Get Into London Theatre, which runs until 8 February. More than 21,000 people have already snapped up… Read More
Kneehigh Theatre is to bring an innovative new stage production of Brief Encounter to London’s West End from 2 February, staged not in a traditional theatre but in the Cineworld… Read More
If you are aged between 9 and 12 years old, and would do anything to play the part of orphaned urchin Oliver Twist in the West End, put 1-3 February… Read More
High camp, gloriously sparkly and provocative costumes, plush drapery, champagne; the Menier Chocolate Factory has been transformed into fabulously frilly transvestite revue bar La Cage Aux Folles for the theatre’s… Read More
If you caught Cirque Du Soleil’s last London outing in 2006, Alegría, you may be wondering how the circus troupe could top the gravity-defying acrobatic feats seen in that show.… Read More
Practitioners from four of London’s theatres spent the final months of 2007 proving that the reach and effect of Theatreland goes far beyond the boundaries of London and the UK.… Read More
The winners of the Old Vic New Voices Theatre503 Award will be extending their new year celebrations to the end of this month, when their shows are given a limited… Read More
London auditions for Youth Music Theatre: UK’s annual summer residential courses will be held on 27 January and 21-22 February as part of a nationwide search for new musical theatre… Read More
Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, which returned to the West End stage in August 2007, has announced an extension to its current run. The musical tale of the tragically… Read More
Forty years after he first originated the role in the West End, veteran actor Roy Dotrice, recently awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours list, is to revive… Read More
Icicle BicycleIcicle Bicycle, which ran at the Half Moon Young People’s Theatre in November, returns for a longer season this January-March, alongside the theatre’s new programme of Saturday shows for… Read More
Rosemary Squire, Nicholas Kenyon, Richard Griffiths and Julie Walters are among those arts professionals named in the Queen’s 2008 New Year Honours list.Squire, who is joint Chief Executive of Ambassador… Read More
Southwark Playhouse is staging a festival celebrating theatre, music and art from Lithuania this January. Produced by Vilnius-based company Arts Printing House, A Lithuanian Festival runs from 7 to 26… Read More
The Perfect Picnic, a comic piece of opera theatre set to the music of Mozart, comes to Jermyn Street theatre from 15 January to 2 February. Produced by Opera On… Read More
When Jatinder Verma formed Tara Arts in 1977 in response to a racist murder, he knew that he had begun a mission that would occupy his whole life. Now, as… Read More
Cameron Mackintosh will join Andrew Lloyd Webber in the BBC’s latest West End talent search, this time to find an actress to play Nancy and three young boys to fill… Read More
Broadway actress Jill Paice has been cast as Scarlett O’Hara in Trevor Nunn’s forthcoming stage musical adaptation of epic novel Gone With The Wind at the New London. British actors… Read More
Ever wondered what Anthony Hopkins’ garden looks like? Or where Roger Moore has a holiday house? The photographer Cambridge Jones found out when he was granted a window into the… Read More
Christopher Fry’s adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s comedy Ring Round The Moon returns to the West End next spring, opening at the Playhouse on 19 February (previews from 5 February). The… Read More
Marianne Dreams, Moira Buffini’s adaptation of Catherine Storr’s 1958 tale of a young girl who survives illness by escaping into her drawings, is the Almeida’s first attempt at a Christmas… Read More
From the opening peal of church bells and the warm glow that rises across balconied windows, it is clear that this will be a traditional interpretation of Shakespeare’s Sicilian-set comedy… Read More
The Young Vic production of The Magic Flute – Impempe Yomlingo transfers to the Duke Of York’s on 11 February for an eight-week West End run.The production, a reimagining of… Read More
The Apollo welcomes the mob in the new year as the anonymous figure known only as Mercy Man presents his one-man show An Audience With The Mafia from 21 January-16… Read More
The future of many London theatres and theatre companies is under threat following the announcement of funding cuts by the Arts Council. In letters received last week, theatres including the… Read More
X Factor may be over, Gethin may be out of Strictly, but reality television fans can continue to get their fix via the newly relaunched website for Monty Python’s Spamalot,… Read More
Michael Ball, currently playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, has extended his stay in the hit musical by six months, until 25 October 2008. In Hairspray, Ball dons a dress to… Read More
After last weekend’s press night was postponed due to Sandi Toksvig being ill, the comedienne was back on fine form and back in her Narrator’s chair on Saturday when Caroline… Read More
Macmillan Cancer Support received an early Christmas present this week, when it was given a cheque for £500,000 from the hit high school musical Grease. The half a million pounds… Read More
This summer is a boon time for fans of Irish playwright Brian Friel; at the Comedy theatre Tom Courtenay is currently starring in The Home Place, while last night a… Read More
Clare Higgins, Hayley Atwell and Paul Ready join the previously announced Simon Russell Beale in the National Theatre’s 2008 production of Major Barbara. Following the success of Saint Joan –… Read More
Husband and wife Julian Glover and Isla Blair are to star together when The President’s Holiday opens at the Hampstead in January. The couple will play Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev… Read More
At a time when comic book heroes all have super powers, one Belgian boy reporter stands alone with nothing but quick wits, a tremendous heart and a small white furry… Read More
The latest edition of Access London Theatre, the brochure which lists all audio described, captioned and sign language interpreted performances in London’s Theatreland, has just been published. The brochure contains… Read More
Gina McKee is to replace Tara Fitzgerald in the cast of The Lover and The Collection, due to open at the Comedy theatre on 29 January (previews from 15 January).The… Read More
Christmas is a time to bring families together, to bring different generations into the same room and to spread good cheer. With that in mind Matthew Amer headed to the… Read More
The party season may be in full swing, but it won’t be long until the fun and frolics die down and the only social engagement in your diary is a… Read More
Were it not for the fact that Romola Garai has spent much of her formative years in the acting profession building a significant number of credible credits, 2007 would be… Read More
Former EastEnder Jessie Wallace heads to the West End this Christmas as she takes over the role of Maureen in Rent from Denise Van Outen, who leaves the show on… Read More
Get Into London Theatre, the annual event offering incredible ticket offers for many of London’s most loved shows, launched today, earlier than ever before. Theatregoers can now purchase tickets for… Read More
Last night saw the opening of Talking To Terrorists at the Royal Court, the latest piece of verbatim theatre to be developed by Max Stafford-Clark’s Out Of Joint company. Robin… Read More
With enough comings and goings through doors to give even Boeing Boeing a run for its money, Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular begins as a farce centred on a people-pleasing… Read More
Most parents would be chuffed if their offspring had manners, brushed their teeth without being nagged and said pardon after burping. But not Little Wolf’s mum and dad; they would… Read More
The Royal Shakespeare Company is holding several family storytelling sessions this Christmas season to accompany its stay at the New London theatre with King Lear and The Seagull. Storytelling for… Read More
New musical Hairspray has dominated the nominations for the 2008 What’s On Stage Theatregoers’ Choice Awards, receiving 10 nominations. The Lord Of The Rings is also strongly represented with seven… Read More
The Cambridge theatre was awash with talent yesterday as a phalanx of former Chicago cast members returned to the production for a special one-off 10th anniversary production of the sexy… Read More
Last year the Barbican staged its inaugural pantomime, Dick Whittington, penned by the oft-controversial playwright Mark Ravenhill. The success of that production sees panto return to the cultural venue in… Read More
If Dickens was to set A Christmas Carol today, what kind of man would Scrooge be? That is the question Anthony Neilson asked when creating this new production. The answer… Read More
The anticipation was high and the ticket sales equally so for Michael Grandage’s production of Shakespeare’s Othello, for which the Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director has lined up a high calibre… Read More
Tara Fitzgerald, Timothy West, Richard Coyle and Charlie Cox are to star in two rarely-performed plays by Harold Pinter, The Lover and The Collection, at the Comedy from 15 January… Read More
The President Of An Empty Room by Steven Knight, screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things, opened at the National’s Cottesloe Theatre last night. The play is set in a Cuban cigar… Read More
The Lyric Hammersmith has announced its line-up of children’s shows for spring and summer 2008 which covers half-terms, the Easter holidays and Saturdays throughout the season, culminating in the annual… Read More
After the success of the inaugural Chain Play fundraising event earlier this year, the Almeida theatre has invited a sextet of leading authors to pen its sequel for 2008. Stephen… Read More
The Lyric Hammersmith has announced a spring/summer 2008 season which celebrates some of the radical greats of world theatre. Highlights of the season include Artistic Director David Farr and Zimbabwean… Read More
Desperately Seeking Susan is to close at the Novello theatre on 15 December, just a month after its press night. It had been booking until 19 April 2008.Devised by Peter… Read More
For the second of its two shows at the Young Vic this Christmas season South African company Isango/Portobello presents a vibrant and uplifting version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, with… Read More
A Christmas Carol: the consummate tale of a snow-covered, frost-bitten yuletide London full of woollen scarves, top hats and roasted chestnuts. Not at the Young Vic. This is A Christmas… Read More
The cast of Boeing Boeing, the hit farce at the Comedy theatre, will be packing its flight bags after Christmas as the show closes on 5 January prior to a… Read More
The Old Vic and the Barbican may have turned their hands to the art of panto-making of late, but Hackney Empire has been a purveyor of quality pantomime for years.… Read More
Hampstead theatre will start 2008 with a new Executive Director at its helm. Rebecca Morland joins the new writing venue in January to work alongside Artistic Director Anthony Clark. Morland,… Read More
We are pleased to be able to offer you the chance to win £100 of theatre tickets simply by telling us about your past theatre experiences, as part of a… Read More
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, the new show based on the songs of the Smiths, opened last week at the Lyric Hammersmith. Laura North spoke to Andrew Wale and… Read More
In the stark space of a disused warehouse a group of women sit, pace and wait in the dim yellow light, hearing the ominous sounds from behind the locked doors… Read More
King Lear, like Hamlet and Macbeth, is one of those Shakespearean roles that, when played by an acclaimed actor, has audiences salivating at the thought. It has the phrase career-defining… Read More
The press night of the illness-troubled Menier Chocolate Factory production of La Cage Aux Folles has been postponed again due to the continuing ill-health of lead Douglas Hodge. The media… Read More
Trafalgar Studio 2’s spring 2008 season has been announced and is brimming with new shows for the London stage. Among the productions are the award-winning comedy Angry Young Man, playing… Read More
Following its premiere in the new Courtyard theatre in Stratford and a world tour, Trevor Nunn’s Royal Shakespeare Company production of Chekhov’s The Seagull comes to the capital in repertoire… Read More
Anne-Marie Duff and Patrick Stewart collected the awards for Best Actress and Best Actor at today’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards, for their eponymous roles in Saint Joan and Macbeth. The… Read More
Dominic Dromgoole has announced an ambitious new season for Shakespeare’s Globe in 2008, which kicks off earlier than usual on 23 April, Shakespeare’s birthday, with the tragedy King Lear.Presented under… Read More
The cast of Never Forget, the new musical based on the songs of boy band Take That, performed at a special event in London on 26 November to launch the… Read More
Showbusiness – it is a risky business indeed, as Daniel Boys well knows. Having paid his dues as a jobbing actor, in and out of work, he considered giving it… Read More
Nothing quite prepares you for meeting Tameka Empson, currently playing the audience-dwelling Mrs Aphrodite in The Big Life. Her diminutive stature belies a character big enough to envelope entire continents… Read More
is not the first production to delve into the abuse of children by authority figures, particularly of a religious persuasion. What makes it stand apart is that there is no… Read More
The full cast has been announced for Kwame Kwei-Armah’s newest play Let There Be Love, which opens at the Tricycle in January. Joining the previously announced Joseph Marcell are Sharon… Read More
One of the West End’s longest-running shows, The Woman In Black, welcomes a new cast on 3 December as Sean Baker and Ben Porter take over the two-hander from current… Read More