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Mendes brings Charlie And The Chocolate Factory to London stage

Published: 18 June 2012

Sam Mendes will direct a new musical stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the London Palladium next summer. Due to open in June 2013, Charlie… Read More

Minsk 2011 A Reply To Kathy Acker

Published: 18 June 2012

Belarus Free Theatre is offering audiences the chance to take a tour through Minsk in its new show at the Young Vic and, as proved very literally on press night,… Read More

Boggess to make Misérables London return

Published: 15 June 2012

US musical theatre star Sierra Boggess, who originated the role of Christine in Love Never Dies, will return to the West End this summer to play Fantine in Les Misérables.The… Read More

Law, Dench and Radcliffe lead groundbreaking season

Published: 15 June 2012

A septet of stars, including Jude Law, Judi Dench and Daniel Radcliffe, will appear in a season of London work offering 100,000 tickets at just £10. The first season programmed… Read More

Wizard gives up the Ghost

Published: 15 June 2012

The stage productions of Ghost The Musical and The Wizard Of Oz are both to leave the West End later this year.Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of the magical MGM film… Read More

Our Boys to play Duchess season

Published: 15 June 2012

Cian Barry, Arthur Darvill and Laurence Fox will star in a 12-week limited season of Jonathan Lewis’ Our Boys at the Duchess theatre this autumn. Written from Lewis’ own experience,… Read More

Schedule revealed for West End LIVE

Published: 14 June 2012

The tip top tappers of Top Hat will be the opening act at the free entertainment extravaganza West End LIVE, in association with MasterCard, kicking off the weekend of theatrical… Read More

Beatles musical performs park Prom

Published: 14 June 2012

Forthcoming West End musical spectacular Let It Be will help prepare revellers for the Last Night Of The Proms in Hyde Park, playing 30 minutes of Beatles hits prior to… Read More

Henry V at the Globe theatre

Published: 14 June 2012

In a month when the Queen has been celebrated for the 60 years of inspiring service she has bestowed on her nation, Shakespeare’s Globe diverts the royal focus to a… Read More

West End LIVE’s Stars on Sunday

Published: 14 June 2012

With free theatrical extravaganza West End LIVE in association with MasterCard barely a week away (23 & 24 June), we quizzed three of Sunday’s performers, musical theatre stars Mark Evans,… Read More

The Comedy Of Errors at the Roundhouse

Published: 14 June 2012

When Jon Bausor has designed a set, it’s becoming increasingly hard for the actors on its inevitably inventive stage to take the starring role. But in Amir Nizar Zuabi’s raucously… Read More

Record start for 15th Kids Week

Published: 13 June 2012

London’s theatres will be alive with excited children this August as over 42,000 tickets were snapped up in the first 24 hours of 2012’s Kids Week booking opening.Speaking about the… Read More

Nicholas Day on preparing an RSC season

Published: 13 June 2012

As the Royal Shakespeare Company’s What Country Friends Is This? season opens at the Roundhouse, veteran performer Nicholas Day shares his rehearsal experiences with us:I so wanted this job. While… Read More

Kids Week celebrates 15th birthday

Published: 12 June 2012

Henry VIII, a gingerbread man and a huge hungry tiger – no doubt after some of the specially made birthday cake pictured above – were among the theatrical folk helping… Read More

Horne to star in Charley’s Aunt

Published: 12 June 2012

Gavin And Stacey star Mathew Horne will star in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s forthcoming production of Charley’s Aunt. Directed by Ian Talbot, Brandon Thomas’ classic comedy will play from 10… Read More

Original Hair stars return for charity performance

Published: 12 June 2012

Oliver Tobias and Paul Nicholas, original stars of Hair when it premiered in the West End in 1968, will appear in the fundraising performance of the cult musical on 1… Read More

Smith and Nunn in Old Vic’s new season

Published: 12 June 2012

Sheridan Smith will return to the London stage later this year to star in Brian Friel’s adaptation of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, which will play as part of the Old Vic’s… Read More

Kids Week tickets on sale this week

Published: 11 June 2012

Tickets for the 15th annual Kids Week go on sale tomorrow with a record-breaking 38 top London shows taking part in the incredible campaign that offers parents the chance to… Read More

Jerusalem team reunite for Court autumn

Published: 11 June 2012

The team behind stage phenomenon Jerusalem, writer Jez Butterworth and director Ian Rickson, will reunite for a new show as part of Dominic Cooke’s penultimate season as Artistic Director of… Read More

The Witness

Published: 11 June 2012

When Vivienne Franzmann’s debut play Mogadishu premiered last year, it was commended for its emotive power, simultaneously reducing audiences to both tears and laughter. Now, back again with The Witness,… Read More

Corden wins at Tony Awards

Published: 11 June 2012

James Corden has been awarded a Tony Award for his role in the Broadway transfer of hit National Theatre production One Man, Two Guvnors.Corden accepted the Best Performance by an… Read More

Priority tickets for Book Of Mormon fans released

Published: 8 June 2012

Theatregoers excited about the announcement that Broadway hit The Book Of Mormon will open in the West End next year will be pleased to hear that producers are offering fans… Read More

The Physicists

Published: 8 June 2012

They say madness is contagious, and since Sean Foley brought the farcically insane to the West End last month with Joe Orton’s What The Butler Saw, the milieu of madness… Read More

Stars line-up for Hampstead’s autumn season

Published: 8 June 2012

Rupert Everett and Freddie Fox will star in a rare revival of David Hare’s The Judas Kiss as part of the newly announced autumn season at Hampstead theatre.The season will… Read More

Greig, Suzman and Stevenson lead Gate line-up

Published: 8 June 2012

Acclaimed actresses Tamsin Greig, Dame Janet Suzman and Juliet Stevenson will all appear at the Gate theatre this summer as part of the venue’s unique production White Rabbit Red Rabbit.The… Read More

Stott stars in Posner’s Vanya

Published: 8 June 2012

Ken Stott, Anna Friel and Samuel West will star in Lindsay Posner’s new production of Uncle Vanya this autumn.Adapted by Christopher Hampton, Chekhov’s drama about the trials and tribulations of… Read More

Atkinson returns to West End for Gray revival

Published: 8 June 2012

Rowan Atkinson will star in the first major West End revival of Simon Gray’s tragicomedy Quartermaine’s Terms at the Wyndham’s theatre next January. The production will be directed by former… Read More

Prince of Wales welcomes The Book Of Mormon

Published: 8 June 2012

The much-anticipated London production of controversial musical The Book Of Mormon will begin previews next February at the Prince of Wales theatre. Penned by South Park creators Trey Parker and… Read More

Casting announced for Private Peaceful

Published: 7 June 2012

Paul Chequer and Mark Quartley will share the title role in the Theatre Royal Haymarket’s forthcoming run of Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful.Directed and adapted for the stage by Simon Reade,… Read More

Hurly Burly returns for naughty summer run

Published: 7 June 2012

The Hurly Burly Show will bring burlesque back into the West End when the all-singing, all-dancing troupe returns to Theatreland with its new show Naughty But Nice! this summer.The Hurly… Read More

Introducing… Pippa Bennett-Warner

Published: 6 June 2012

Pippa Bennett-Warner must have one of the most impressive CVs going for an actress still in her early 20s. Before she had even trained at one of the most prestigious… Read More

Musical trio join West End LIVE

Published: 6 June 2012

Ghost The Musical’s Mark Evans and former Wicked and We Will Rock You stars Louise Dearman and Alex Gaumond will all perform solo sets at this year’s West End LIVE,… Read More

Renshaw directs Taboo revival

Published: 6 June 2012

Chris Renshaw will direct a site-specific revival of his hit Boy George musical Taboo at the Brixton Club House this autumn. Marking a decade since it premiered in the West… Read More

Hair offers Helps For Heroes

Published: 1 June 2012

Rock musical Hair will let the sun shine into the West End for a one-off performance at the Piccadilly theatre in aid of Help For Heroes.The Gary Lloyd-directed production of… Read More

Wah! Wah! Girls

Published: 1 June 2012

It is hard to imagine what a Bollywood musical set in the East End of London might be like, but Wah! Wah! Girls wasn’t quite the Pat Butcher-meets-opulent India experience… Read More

New Trunchbull for acclaimed Matilda

Published: 1 June 2012

Actor David Leonard will make his Royal Shakespeare Company debut by stepping into Bertie Carvel’s award-winning shoes this summer.The performer, a regular villain in the York Theatre Royal pantomime, faces… Read More

The Unusual Suspects

Published: 31 May 2012

Normally we would describe a line-up including Paterson Joseph, Ray Fearon and Cyril Nri as stellar or exciting, but today ominous feels more fitting.The actors are all appearing in the… Read More

Billy’s Best of British birthday

Published: 31 May 2012

Billy Elliot The Musical celebrated its seventh birthday and 3,000th performance with a gala night for a special patriotic audience.Olympic gold medallists James Cracknell (rowing) and Kelly Holmes (athletics) joined… Read More

National Theatre goes alfresco

Published: 31 May 2012

This summer, the National Theatre is making its way outdoors with National Theatre Inside Out, a season packed full of entertainment, exhibitions and workshops on its riverside squares and terraces… Read More

Antigone at the National theatre Olivier

Published: 31 May 2012

More than two thousand years after it was written, it is incredible how modern Sophocles’ Antigone feels in the hands of director Polly Findlay.On reflection, that may be a depressing… Read More

Carvel and Shaw lead NT season

Published: 31 May 2012

Bertie Carvel, Fiona Shaw and Philip Glenister will star in the National Theatre’s new season, with three new plays announced to play at the Southbank venue this year. James Graham’s… Read More

Dining with the Donmar

Published: 30 May 2012

When the Donmar Warehouse invited me to The Ivy, this was not what I expected. “I’ve made it,” I thought. “Finally my hard work, theatrical acumen and journalistic brilliance have… Read More

The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

Published: 30 May 2012

I’m generally opposed to the idea of clapping when a star walks on stage before they’ve even uttered a line, but in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, you’d… Read More

Last chance to Get Into London Theatre

Published: 30 May 2012

Theatre fans looking for a bargain this summer have just a couple of days left to take advantage of our Get Into London Theatre Summer 2012 promotion.Our incredible deal is… Read More

Kids Week reveals record line-up

Published: 30 May 2012

The 15th Kids Week will be the largest ever, with a record 38 shows taking part in the annual event that will run throughout the whole of August this year.An… Read More

Evans replaces Menzies in Fear

Published: 29 May 2012

Rupert Evans and Louise Delamere have joined the cast of Dominic Savage’s debut stage play Fear, after Tobias Menzies and Eva Birthistle left the company.According to a spokesperson, the parting… Read More

West End LIVE 2012 line-up announced

Published: 29 May 2012

This year’s West End LIVE is set to be the biggest and best yet with entertainment from every West End musical playing in the theatre capital of the world on… Read More

Savoy gets Soul for summer

Published: 29 May 2012

Soul Sister, the musical inspired by the music, life and times of musicians Ike and Tina Turner, will play a limited season at the Savoy theatre this summer.Starring Emi Wokoma… Read More

Ragtime The Musical

Published: 29 May 2012

After a trio of Olivier Award-winning musical revivals in three years, expectations were rightly sky high for the Regent’s Park Open Air theatre’s Ragtime The Musical.Unlike two of those previous… Read More

Q&A: Abigail’s Party

Published: 28 May 2012

Cheese and pineapple nibbles, gin and the squeamish feeling of an evening falling apart; Mike Leigh’s 70s hit Abigail’s Party has returned to the London stage with a brown-tinged bang.… Read More

Spamalot returns to London

Published: 28 May 2012

Monty Python’s Spamalot is to return to the West End this summer, when a host of famous faces will take to the stage of the Harold Pinter theatre for more… Read More

Daws and Simkins star in return of Yes, Prime Minister

Published: 28 May 2012

Robert Daws will take on the role of PM Jim Hacker in Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn’s production of Yes, Prime Minister, which arrives back in the West End from… Read More

Atkins and Gambon star in Nunn’s All That Fall

Published: 28 May 2012

Trevor Nunn will direct two of Britain’s most respected actors, Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon, in the London premiere of Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall this autumn at the intimate… Read More

Comic gigs in support of Court

Published: 25 May 2012

Comedian and star of Grandma’s House Simon Amstell is to perform a special one-off gig in aid of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme.The former presenter of Never Mind The… Read More

Life is a Cabaret for Ryan

Published: 25 May 2012

Michelle Ryan will make her West End musical theatre debut opposite Will Young in the revival of Rufus Norris’ hit production of Cabaret. The decadent and darkly comic production will… Read More

Square performance for Chicago and Mamma Mia!

Published: 24 May 2012

Two of the West End’s hit musicals will liven up Leicester Square this Friday as they perform live to celebrate the square’s relaunch.Chicago and Mamma Mia! will perform for the… Read More

The Suit

Published: 24 May 2012

Legendary director Peter Brook’s The Suit opened at the Young Vic last night and at only 75 minutes it’s certainly short and sweet, but it’s an atmospheric production set to… Read More

Q&A: Posh

Published: 23 May 2012

Laura Wade’s acclaimed political drama Posh transfers into the West End this week following its sell-out run at the Royal Court in 2010. Packed full of elitist snobbery, debauchery, misogyny… Read More

Barbershopera brings cabaret show to London

Published: 23 May 2012

Following a national tour, the barbershop quartet Barbershopera will return to London this summer with a brand new cabaret show.Now That’s What I Call Barbershopera! will play at the Soho… Read More

Chariots Of Fire

Published: 23 May 2012

What better way to celebrate our Olympic year than with a stage adaptation of one of Britain’s greatest sporting films. In bringing the Oscar-winning motion picture to the stage, director… Read More

Mallyon appointed RSC Executive Director

Published: 22 May 2012

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that Catherine Mallyon will succeed Vikki Heywood as Executive Director at the prestigious theatre company. Mallyon will take up the post on 14 September… Read More

Theatre Tokens launches new gift packs for Father’s Day

Published: 22 May 2012

Sons and daughters who are struggling to find the perfect present this Father’s Day can now get their hands on a gift that will outdo even the most garish novelty… Read More

Constellations joins Royal Court hits in the West End

Published: 22 May 2012

Royal Court hit Constellations will be the third sell-out play from the much-lauded new writing venue to transfer to the Duke of York’s theatre this year as part of its… Read More

Cantina

Published: 22 May 2012

London’s appetite for vaudevillian chic and cabaret kitsch seems unwavering but Cantina, the capital’s newest offering, has raised the bar and given the pastime a darker twist. Wonder down to… Read More

Abigail’s Party

Published: 21 May 2012

Following closely in the footsteps of Alan Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends, Lindsay Posner’s revival of Abigail’s Party takes us back in time once again to an era when wallpaper made you… Read More

Big Interview: Richard Griffiths

Published: 21 May 2012

The Withnail And I, Harry Potter and Sunshine Boys star talks to Matthew Amer about autograph hunters, celebrity and growing older.“Sometimes people say ‘The thing about Richard Griffiths is he’s… Read More

Maxwell joins Trafalgar Studios’ Chicken

Published: 21 May 2012

Lisa Maxwell has joined the cast of Trafalgar Studio 2’s forthcoming drama Chicken, joining previously announced cast members Craig Kelly and George Georgiou in the New York-set drama.American playwright Mike… Read More

Some Like It Hip Hop returns for Sadler’s new season

Published: 18 May 2012

ZooNation’s acclaimed family production Some Like It Hip Hop will return to the West End later this year, playing a limited run at the Peacock theatre prior to a UK… Read More

Menzies leads Savage’s Fear

Published: 18 May 2012

London stage regular and Eternal Law star Tobias Menzies will lead the cast of Fear, the debut play by Dominic Savage, when it opens at the Bush theatre next month.The… Read More

The Sunshine Boys

Published: 18 May 2012

If being grumpy were an Olympic event, the West End would have two of London 2012’s hottest contenders.In the red corner is Danny DeVito’s Willy Clark, a miniature malcontent who… Read More

Private Peaceful plays Haymarket season

Published: 18 May 2012

Audiences have the chance to see another of War Horse author Michael Morpurgo’s stories on stage, with First World War drama Private Peaceful set to play a short season at… Read More

Fry in Cinders at the Soho

Published: 18 May 2012

Following a one-off concert performance at the Queen’s theatre last year, Stiles and Drewe’s new musical Soho Cinders will receive its world premiere at the Soho theatre this August. Featuring… Read More

Young to make West End debut in Cabaret

Published: 18 May 2012

Will Young will make his West End debut in a revival of Rufus Norris’ Olivier Award-winning production Cabaret this autumn, starring as Emcee at the Savoy theatre from 3 October.… Read More

What The Butler Saw

Published: 17 May 2012

The Olivier Award-nominated director Sean Foley has officially proved himself as the king of farce, moving from last year’s madcap comedy The Ladykillers to madness in the literal sense with… Read More

Stars join Lloyd Webber’s Superstar

Published: 16 May 2012

Comedian Tim Minchin, former Spice Girl Melanie C and BBC Radio 1 presenter Chris Moyles will star in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s forthcoming arena tour of Jesus Christ… Read More
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