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Published: 13 November 2015
What’s it all about? 30 Million Minutes. The length of time a Friday in the office feels like? No. The notes from a very long meeting? No. The duration of… Read More
What's it all about? A video – one of those kinds of videos – that makes its way online. That's a problem in itself for the two individuals involved but… Read More
Published: 12 November 2015
What’s it all about? There is something very fitting about the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of Henry V opening at the Barbican on Armistice Day. This, so often seen… Read More
There’s only one Sherlock Holmes. Okay, strictly speaking there are many Sherlock Holmeses, a certain Mr Cumberbatch being arguably the most high profile. But we’re yet to see – and… Read More
Michael Boyd will make his Bush Theatre debut in 2016, directing a new translation of Catherine-Anne Toupin’s exploration of one woman’s crisis and darkest secrets, Right Now. The play, which… Read More
Published: 11 November 2015
Ian McKellen, Andrew Scott, Stanley Tucci and Juliet Stevenson are among the performers set to give voice to Homer’s The Odyssey when the Almeida Theatre’s epic reading is staged in… Read More
What’s it all about? Sex, scandal, politics, fatal abortions and ruined lives (several of them). This is the story of independent MP Henry Trebell and how his relations with a… Read More
The Battersea Arts Centre is working with the BBC and Arts Council England to create an evening of live theatre that will be broadcast on BBC Four this Sunday, 15… Read More
Ben Hanlin has joined the line-up for the West End’s latest magical offering, The Illusionists – Witness The Impossible, when it arrives at the Shaftesbury Theatre this weekend. The magician,… Read More
Kyle Riabko’s innovative journey through the songbook of one of music’s best loved singer songwriters, Close To You: Bacharach Reimagined, has extended its run in London’s West End by five… Read More
Published: 10 November 2015
Theatre fans delight! Our hugely popular new year ticket promotion Get Into London Theatre will return next month, offering incredible cut-price deals for more than 40 of London’s hottest productions.… Read More
We’ve had the pleasure of meeting Rosalie Craig before and found her to be what your parents would term “a very nice girl indeed”, so when we asked her to… Read More
Stephen Tompkinson, star of Drop The Dead Donkey and Ballykissangel, is waxing lyrical about the sound of 15,000 pigs while sitting next to a beautiful, sweeping marble staircase. I am… Read More
Published: 9 November 2015
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice will have their work seen on the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s stage for the first time next summer when their global hit musical… Read More
What’s it all about? Playing alongside The Winter’s Tale, the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company troupe gets their hands on one of Terence Rattigan’s lesser known plays, the short, sweet and… Read More
What’s it all about? Deck the halls! Kenneth Branagh and his humble company of players (Judi Dench! Zoë Wanamaker!) have officially begun their year-long residency at the Garrick Theatre. And… Read More
Published: 6 November 2015
The Voice UK star Samuel Buttery will play Buttons in the Lyric Hammersmith’s annual festive pantomime, which comes in the form of Cinderella for 2016. The former talent show contestant,… Read More
A long-awaited revival of Akram Khan’s Kaash, the UK premiere of a piece inspired by Shakespeare’s As You Like It and the world premiere of a new triple bill starring… Read More
Eleanor Bron will return to the stage this winter to star in the European premiere of award-winning Australian playwright Tom Holloway’s devastating historical drama Forget Me Not. Steven Atkinson’s production… Read More
What’s it all about? It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… This, as if you didn’t know, is the story of Buddy the Elf, made famous by the Will… Read More
Elf’s Christmas invasion at the Dominion Theatre will be followed by an attack by aliens when a new production of Jeff Wayne’s The War Of The Worlds lands for a… Read More
Joanna Vanderham will join Andrew Scott in the UK premiere of Richard Greenberg’s The Dazzle at new venue Found111 next month. The Scottish actress, who was recently seen on screen… Read More
Published: 5 November 2015
Orange Is The New Black star Uzo Aduba will make her London stage debut alongside Laura Carmichael and Zawe Ashton in Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton’s The Maids when it… Read More
Sally Cookson’s Olivier Award nominated production of Hetty Feather and Tall Stories’ The Gruffalo’s Child are among the theatrical treats on offer for families at the Rose Theatre Kingston in… Read More
Who’d be Pericles, eh? First you’re forced to leave everything and everyone behind and run for your life after facing an impossible choice. Then you’re shipwrecked. But that’s tickety-boo because… Read More
Hampstead Downstairs’ production of Firebird will be available for audiences to stream for free from Friday. The tale of a teenage girl who is groomed by an older man, which… Read More
Published: 4 November 2015
Close To You: Bacharach Reimagined’s Kyle Riabko is a real guitar hero. He makes my leaping around the living room with a plastic instrument and a PlayStation look even more… Read More
What’s it all about? This is Shakespeare's classic pastoral comedy about love and a woman who rules the roost (or should that be flock?). Don't worry, all will become clear...… Read More
Published: 3 November 2015
Glenn Close will return to Sunset Boulevard next year for the first time in more than 20 years. You may have heard. There has been more buzz about the production,… Read More
Children (and adults) aged between five and 25-years-old will have the chance to showcase their writing talent yet again this year with the return of the Wicked Young Writer Awards.… Read More
In just two days’ time fireworks will bring sparkle to the night sky, effigies of Britain’s most notorious gunpowder plotter will be set ablaze and Buddy The Elf will take… Read More
Published: 2 November 2015
Remember remember 10 December. Not the usual turn of phrase used at this time of year, but one we’ve been employing here at Official London Theatre since it was announced… Read More
From representing Great Britain at Eurovision – and coming a frankly amazing fifth, given our recent dismal attempts – to appearing in Australian school-set comedy Out There and replacing Keisha… Read More
More people saw a show at the theatre in the UK last year than watched a live football match in the English Premier League, English Football League and Scottish Premiership… Read More
James McAvoy, Ralph Fiennes and Nicole Kidman are among the performers nominated at this year’s London Evening Standard Theatre Awards. McAvoy (The Ruling Class) and Fiennes (Man And Superman) will… Read More
Hangmen director Matthew Dunster has joined Shakespeare’s Globe as Associate Director. The Globe regular joins today as Emma Rice also officially begins in the role of Artistic Director Designate. Dunster… Read More
London’s West End and New York’s Broadway; the world’s two great capitals of theatre. Many shows do well on one side of the Atlantic, wowing British crowds or bringing American… Read More
Published: 30 October 2015
Alistair McGowan will return to the Park Theatre, where he starred as Jimmy Savile earlier this year, to lead the cast of amnesia drama 4000 Days as part of the… Read More
What’s it all about? This is the Eugene O’Neill play, the impact of which on US theatre, when it was first staged in 1922, was as thumping as a gorilla’s… Read More
Ripper Street star MyAnna Buring will reprise her role in Hampstead Theatre hit The Wasp when the drama transfers to London’s Trafalgar Studio 2 in December. Buring will be joined… Read More
Lisa Dillon will lead the cast of Hapgood when Tom Stoppard’s 1988 Cold War drama is revived at the Hampstead Theatre in December. Dillon will play the title role in… Read More
Ghost Stories co-creator and Assassins star Andy Nyman will join the cast of Royal Court Theatre hit Hangmen when the Martin McDonagh-penned dark comedy transfers to London’s West End in… Read More
Double Olivier Award winner Sheridan Smith will return to London’s West End next year when the Menier Chocolate Factory production of Funny Girl transfers to the Savoy Theatre in April… Read More
Published: 29 October 2015
Following a day of unprecedented ticket sales yesterday, producers of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Parts I and II have announced that even more tickets will go on sale… Read More
Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery has had to withdraw from the Donmar Warehouse’s forthcoming production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. She will be replaced by The Paradise’s Elaine Cassidy. Cassidy will… Read More
Published: 28 October 2015
The Broadway League is offering US-based theatre fans the chance to win an incredible trip to London’s glittering West End this autumn. Launched in collaboration with our own fantastic prize… Read More
Tickets for Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Parts I and II are now on sale through priority booking until 8 January 2017 after tickets for the initial 16-weeks of… Read More
What’s it all about? Cats. Specifically the Jellicle Cats. Who are the Jellicle Cats? Jellicles are and Jellicles do. Jellicles do and Jellicles would. Jellicles would and Jellicles can… this… Read More
Published: 27 October 2015
With Jamie Lloyd’s 50th anniversary staging of The Homecoming a matter of weeks away, Gemma Chan, Gary Kemp, John Simm and their fellow cast members are busy getting ready for… Read More
Matilda The Musical’s Tim Minchin will lead the line-up for the first in a series of Variety Nights staged at The Old Vic as part of Artistic Director Matthew Warchus’… Read More
Motown The Musical is set to hold open auditions to find the performers who will portray Marvin Gaye and the Young Michael Jackson for the production’s 2016 premiere at London’s… Read More
What's it all about? The 26th President of the United States and one of the most prolific music icons of the 20th century, or rather the spirits of them as… Read More
Published: 26 October 2015
“I don’t want a cheque that’s made out to cash or a corporate re-gift from some secret stash.” No neither do we, Michael; for Christmas we want another instalment of… Read More
Academy Award nominated actor Stephen Rea will lead the cast of David Ireland’s Cyprus Avenue at the Royal Court next year. News of Rea’s stage return comes as the Sloane… Read More
Published: 23 October 2015
When Rufus Norris took on the biggest job in British theatre back in April he brought with him a diverse programme of work that truly put the National in National… Read More
Strictly Come Dancing winner Tom Chambers will lead a production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives set to tour the UK before arriving in the West End. The former Top Hat… Read More
Harry Potter fans should cast aside J K Rowling’s books and get out their diaries as dates and details for the highly anticipated Harry Potter And The Cursed Child… Read More
Bond and Sherlock star Andrew Scott is to return to the West End stage, starring in the UK premiere of Richard Greenberg’s play The Dazzle when it opens at new… Read More
Published: 22 October 2015
As The Winter’s Tale and Harlequinade / All On Her Own, the first shows in the eagerly anticipated Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company season, take to the stage, we glimpse into… Read More
Just what do you have to do to get into character for one of the most iconic musicals of all time? In Olivier Award-winning David Haig’s case… shave off your… Read More
Our annual kids go free promotion Kids Week is going spooky for Halloween, offering children aged eight to 12-years-old the chance to take part in free acting classes at the… Read More
The St James Theatre is taking a tuneful turn for its forthcoming spring season with premieres of two musical offerings – acclaimed play with music The Pianist Of Willesden Lane… Read More
Published: 21 October 2015
Matilda The Musical today performed a version of Quiet for Xi Jinping, President of The People’s Republic of China, as it represented theatre at a showcase of Britain’s cultural industries.… Read More
Following the success of its live streamed reading of The Iliad, featuring 66 actors, London’s Almeida Theatre will repeat the feat with Homer’s epic The Odyssey as the final event… Read More
What's it all about? A popular topic in today's Theatreland, this is another tale of the heartbreak and destruction caused by dementia. While Florian Zeller's The Father, which is currently… Read More
Published: 20 October 2015
In Matilda The Musical he played a demonic headmistress. In Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell there was an air of fantasy about him and his facial hair. In The Hairy… Read More
Greg Hicks will star in Shakespeare’s The Tempest when Kelly Hunter brings her production for children with autism and their families to the Bloomsbury Theatre Studio this weekend. The Flute… Read More
Families should expect more scary fun in the West End this Christmas as The Gruffalo travels on his turned-out toes all the way to London’s Vaudeville Theatre. Julia Donaldson and… Read More
Lesley Garrett will take to the stage of the Lyric Hammersmith next year as part of an eclectic spring season featuring two Royal Opera collaborations, the first major revival of… Read More
Published: 19 October 2015
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear. It’s a mantra, let me tell you, that does not ring quite as true at 02:00… Read More
An incredible seven million theatregoers have now been put under the spell of the West End’s most gravity-defying musical, Wicked, after the Oz-set hit celebrated welcoming its seven millionth audience… Read More
The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air’s Joseph Marcell and Father Ted’s Pauline McLynn will play husband and wife in Cymbeline when Shakespeare’s late romance runs at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse this… Read More
The hit West End production of Mamma Mia! will dance into its 18th year in 2016 as the much-loved musical has extended its run at London’s Novello Theatre until next… Read More
People, Places And Things, the latest hit London play to be created by Headlong and the National Theatre, will transfer to the West End’s Wyndham’s Theatre next spring. The acclaimed… Read More
Published: 16 October 2015
Olivier Award nominee Rolan Bell will lead the cast of the Park Theatre’s “surreal and wacky” take on Rapunzel this Christmas. Bell, who was nominated at this year’s awards for… Read More