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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
Tom Bateman and Lucy Briggs-Owen will play the romantic leads in this year’s much anticipated stage adaptation of Shakespeare In Love. The performers begin their romantic summer at the Noël… Read More
Carey Mulligan will make her West End debut in June when she stars in Stephen Daldry’s revival of David Hare’s Olivier Award-winning play Skylight. The Great Gatsby star will appear… Read More
Published: 13 February 2014
What’s it all about? Staying true to the Lyric Hammersmith’s Artistic Director Sean Holmes’ speech launching the innovative season last year, this production is indeed about “provoking, horrifying, charming and… Read More
The Confessions Of Gordon Brown, Kevin Toolis’ acclaimed comedy about the darkest secrets of the former Prime Minister, will play a limited season at the Ambassadors Theatre from June. Playing… Read More
Peter Polycarpou and Colin Stinton will reprise their roles in The Pajama Game when it transfers to the West End later this year. The duo, who originally played the roles… Read More
Young Vic Artistic Director David Lan is to join the creative team of New York’s Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Centre (the PAC) as Consulting Artistic Director. He… Read More
You might have thought that starring in one of the West End’s most popular shows would make you immune to the novelty of seeing War Horse’s magnificent Joey in the… Read More
Half Moon Theatre has teamed up with Rose Bruford College for a third year running to create a new children’s show about growing up in 2014. Colour, which is suitable… Read More
Published: 12 February 2014
A host of West End musical theatre regulars, led by former Avenue Q star Julie Atherton, will appear in the world premiere of a new musical adaptation of Émile Zola’s… Read More
The National Theatre has announced that it will delay the opening of the Dorfman Theatre until autumn 2014. The world-leading institution instead hopes to extend the tenure of its temporary… Read More
Rupert Goold’s inaugural season as Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre will continue this spring with the UK premieres of two visions of the future penned by acclaimed playwrights Mike… Read More
Simon Callow will return to the West End later this month when he brings his acclaimed one-man show Being Shakespeare back to the capital for a strictly limited season at… Read More
Published: 11 February 2014
West End leading man Ryan Molloy has announced that he will leave the cast of Jersey Boys on 9 March after playing the iconic role of Frankie Valli for more… Read More
Lily Cole will make her Shakespeare’s Globe debut in Simon Armitage’s new play The Last Days Of Troy this summer, marking her first major role on stage. Playing from 10… Read More
Trevor Nunn’s acclaimed production of Relative Values starring Patricia Hodge, Caroline Quentin and Rory Bremner will transfer to the West End next month following a sold-out run at the Theatre… Read More
Following two sell-out performances last month, Grease 2 tribute concert Cool Rider will return to the West End for a week of romantic motorcycle rides and sing-along sex education classes… Read More