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Detroit

Published: 16 May 2012

“Each new day in suburbia brings with it a new set of lies.” This may be the opening line of the hit American TV series Desperate Housewives but it couldn’t… Read More

Menier presents Rapp show Without You

Published: 16 May 2012

Anthony Rapp - Without You, the one-man show based on actor Rapp’s best-selling memoir about his time starring in Broadway musical Rent, will play the Menier Chocolate Factory from 29… Read More

Q & A: Samantha Bond

Published: 16 May 2012

She has starred in everything from An Ideal Husband on stage to Downton Abbey on screen, but Samantha Bond is arguably still most famous for playing Miss Moneypenny in the… Read More

Queen musical celebrates decade of Rock

Published: 15 May 2012

A star-studded gala performance marked 10 years of guitar-thrashing, foot-stomping, hand-clapping rock in the West End yesterday, with the 10th birthday party of We Will Rock You.Producer and Hollywood star… Read More

West End says Yes again to PM

Published: 15 May 2012

The hit production of Yes, Prime Minister arrives in the West End for a third time from 6 June.The political comedy is taking up residence for an open ended run… Read More

My Place: Blake Harrison

Published: 14 May 2012

Best known for playing “dumb cockney” Neil in hit comedy The Inbetweeners, Blake Harrison is making his West End debut in a very different role at the Trafalgar Studios. He… Read More

West End makes Room for Broom

Published: 14 May 2012

It won’t just be Father Christmas flying into London this Christmas, as Tall Stories’s Room On The Broom lands in the West End from 21 November.Adapted for the stage by… Read More

New boy and booking period for Billy

Published: 14 May 2012

As Billy Elliot – The Musical extends its booking period to December 2013, Harrison Dowzell will today become the 30th boy to play the title role since the show danced… Read More

Dora explores the West End

Published: 14 May 2012

Dora The Explorer will bring her love of exploration to the West End when Nickelodeon’s Dora The Explorer LIVE! Search For The City Of Lost Toys arrives at the Apollo… Read More

Royal Court names first female Artistic Director

Published: 11 May 2012

National Theatre of Scotland’s Vicky Featherstone will succeed Dominic Cooke as Artistic Director of the Royal Court when he steps down in April 2013.In doing so she becomes the first… Read More

Audiences experience Lyric Square season

Published: 11 May 2012

The Lyric Hammersmith is taking theatre out of the auditorium and into the Lyric Square this summer with a series of free shows from a quintet of innovative companies. Curious… Read More

A Slow Air

Published: 11 May 2012

David Harrower’s A Slow Air has a lot to live up to, following in the award-winning footsteps of his previous two-hander, Blackbird. Though both plays feature a man and woman… Read More

Trafalgar Studios hosts Chicken

Published: 11 May 2012

Staff at the Trafalgar Studios are undoubtedly egg-cited today as it is announced the theatre will host the West End premiere of off-Broadway hit Chicken.The gritty New York-set tale will… Read More

Hound and Myles debut in Utopia

Published: 10 May 2012

Comedian Rufus Hound and Spooks star Sophia Myles are to appear in the Soho theatre’s play cycle Utopia, making their theatre debuts at the new writing venue.They are joined by… Read More

Top Hat

Published: 10 May 2012

On a blustery, drizzly, depressing May evening, it is a treat to escape into Top Hat’s world of glamour and opulence.Here every hotel worker is a trained dancer primed to… Read More

Q&A: David Harrower

Published: 10 May 2012

As David Harrower’s Edinburgh Fringe success A Slow Air comes to the Tricycle theatre, we learn a little more about the Scottish playwright and his love of baking.Harrower’s play, already… Read More

New Access London Theatre brochure out now

Published: 9 May 2012

The summer 2012 edition of the Access London Theatre brochure is now available, listing over 110 audio-described, captioned and signed performances taking place in the capital during the months of… Read More

Des is off to be the Wizard

Published: 9 May 2012

British light entertainment icon Des O’Connor is following the yellow brick road all the way to the London Palladium, where he will replace Russell Grant in The Wizard Of Oz.The… Read More

Encounters

Published: 9 May 2012

The two parts of the Bush theatre’s double bill, Dry Ice and You’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy, are as different as chalk and cheese – an idiom which… Read More

Three Kingdoms

Published: 9 May 2012

As I try to write about Three Kingdoms, I find myself wordless, which isn’t helpful, but the show that begins as a crime drama before descending into I don’t know… Read More

TKTS offers right royal discount

Published: 9 May 2012

Namesakes of Britain’s most famous couple, The Queen and Prince Philip, are being offered free tickets at the TKTS ticket booth in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee. Sharers of the noble… Read More

Suchet announced as Narnia’s lion

Published: 8 May 2012

David Suchet will provide the voice of Aslan in threesixty's production of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, which previews from tonight in Kensington Gardens.Suchet’s roar will be heard… Read More

Step 9 (Of 12)

Published: 8 May 2012

Actor Blake Harrison might be best known for playing the intellectually challenged Neil in comedy hit The Inbetweeners, but his West End debut sees a dramatic, sinister alteration.In Step 9… Read More

Love, Love, Love

Published: 4 May 2012

Three is the magic number for the Royal Court at the moment. Not only is Love, Love, Love the second of its productions to repeat the same word in its… Read More

Ridley’s Fur comes to Trafalgar

Published: 4 May 2012

Philip Ridley’s testing drama set in a post-Apocalyptic vision of London, Mercury Fur, is to play a West End season at the Trafalgar Studios 2.Greenhouse Theatre Company’s production, which has… Read More

Bodyguard searches for child performers

Published: 3 May 2012

The upcoming musical production of The Bodyguard is scouring the country for young performers to play Fletcher, the son of stalked performer Rachel Marron.Speaking to Official London Theatre about the… Read More

Belong

Published: 3 May 2012

Since making a striking impact with her award-winning 2007 play Gone Too Far!, much is expected of every Bola Agbaje project. Belong doesn’t disappoint.An exploratory tale of identity, politics, corruption… Read More

In pictures: Children’s Children rehearsals

Published: 3 May 2012

As director Jeremy Herrin and his cast polish Matthew Dunster’s world premiere at the Almeida, we peek into the rehearsal room.Dunster’s tale of tested friendship stars Darrell D’Silva and Trevor… Read More

Introducing… Owain Arthur

Published: 2 May 2012

The new leading man of hit comedy One Man Two Guvnors had, when he took over as Francis Henshall, simultaneously the most enviable and unenviable of opportunities; he was leading… Read More

Benedick named for Syal Ado

Published: 2 May 2012

Paul Bhattacharjee is to go toe to verbal toe with Meera Syal this summer when he performs the role of Benedick opposite her Beatrice in the Royal Shakespeare Company production… Read More

Online star search steps onto stage

Published: 2 May 2012

Twitter-based talent search #searchforatwitterstar, which has had theatre fans across social site Twitter expressing their excitement in 140 characters or less, is to move out of the cyber world and… Read More

Director Foster joins Barmy Britain cast

Published: 1 May 2012

Neal Foster, co-writer of Horrible Histories and founder of Birmingham Stage Company, will join the cast of Horrible Histories Barmy Britain, the latest stage adaptation from the much-loved series of… Read More

Putting on Top Hat

Published: 1 May 2012

“I’m puttin’ on my top hat, tyin’ up my white tie, brushin’ off my tails.” So goes the title song of Irving Berlin’s musical Top Hat, which is all very… Read More

British drama celebrated at 2012’s Tonys

Published: 1 May 2012

New York’s 2012 Tony Award nominees have been announced today with British transfer One Man, Two Guvnors recognised in six categories. One Man, Two Guvnors, which was nominated for five… Read More

Sharrock directs Headley and Owen in The Bodyguard

Published: 1 May 2012

Thea Sharrock will direct the much-anticipated and long rumoured musical The Bodyguard at the Adelphi theatre later this year, with Tony Award-winning actress Heather Headley and Lloyd Owen in the… Read More

Q&A: The Wrong Crowd

Published: 1 May 2012

New theatre company The Wrong Crowd are bringing its critically acclaimed debut show, The Girl With The Iron Claws, to London this season, playing at the Soho theatre this week… Read More

Ghost stars cover Gotye

Published: 27 April 2012

Ghost The Musical’s Mark Evans and Siobhan Dillon have taken their on stage partnership into the recording studio to bring a YouTube treat to Ghost’s legion of fans.The pair have… Read More

Married couple to star in Mamma Mia!

Published: 27 April 2012

Gary Milner is to appear on stage alongside his real-life wife when he joins the cast of hit musical Mamma Mia! at the Prince of Wales theatre from 11 June. Milner,… Read More

Duff makes Donmar return in Bérénice

Published: 27 April 2012

Anne-Marie Duff will return to the Donmar Warehouse later this year to star in celebrated author Alan Hollinghurst’s new version of Bérénice, following Lyndsey Turner’s Donmar directorial debut with Brian… Read More

Criterion hosts Olympic season

Published: 27 April 2012

Former athlete Kriss Akabusi, comedian Mark Watson and writer, presenter and actor Stephen Fry will all appear on the Criterion theatre stage this summer as part of its Playing The… Read More

Old Vic transfers northern Democracy

Published: 26 April 2012

Sheffield Theatres’ critically acclaimed production of Michael Frayn’s Democracy will transfer to the Old Vic theatre this summer. First seen at the National Theatre in 2003 before playing as part… Read More

Life Lessons… Oliver Ford Davies

Published: 25 April 2012

Currently starring in Written On The Heart, Oliver Ford Davies has enjoyed a career that has spanned four decades, seen him conquer the stage and screen, and become a published… Read More

Shrek celebrates first birthday

Published: 25 April 2012

Shrek The Musical is soon to celebrate its first birthday in the West End and the swamp-dwelling ogre is having a party to mark the occasion. On Sunday 6 May,… Read More

Let It Be seeks fab four

Published: 25 April 2012

The producers of the upcoming West End theatrical concert Let It Be have launched a search for four talented musicians to step into the shoes of The Beatles this autumn.… Read More

Dillon joins Mangan for Birthday

Published: 25 April 2012

Lisa Dillon will star in the Royal Court Theatre’s forthcoming tense drama Birthday, appearing opposite the previously announced Stephen Mangan.Joe Penhall’s new play will see the pair play a couple… Read More

South Downs/The Browning Version

Published: 25 April 2012

What a renaissance Rattigan is enjoying, though as we move further from his centenary year, I fear the love for the previously unfashionable dramatist may dissolve and drift away.His short… Read More

Utopian writing team announced for Soho

Published: 25 April 2012

Comedian Dylan Moran, Olivier Award-winner Simon Stephens and controversial writer Anthony Neilson have been announced as three of the nine playwrights to collaborate on Soho theatre’s forthcoming production and unique… Read More

Exclusive: Ellen McDougall on directing Greek classics for kids

Published: 24 April 2012

As two new adaptations of Greek classics open at the Unicorn theatre – Nancy Harris’s The Man With The Disturbingly Smelly Foot for children aged seven to 10 and Ryan… Read More

Written On The Heart

Published: 24 April 2012

Unless you’re an expert on the English Reformation – something that I certainly don’t claim to be – I suggest doing a bit of research before stepping inside the Duchess… Read More

Making Noise Quietly

Published: 24 April 2012

Peter Gill’s Making Noise Quietly takes Robert Holman’s poetic triptych of plays and creates a delicate production directed with as subtle a hand as Holman offers to his writing, each… Read More

Introducing… Jonathan Bailey

Published: 23 April 2012

He has been acting since the age of six, when he made his debut in a Royal Shakespeare Company production, CBBC viewers may know him as Leonardo Da Vinci, slightly… Read More

Wild Swans

Published: 23 April 2012

How can you take 30 years of turbulent history, three generations of a family, a 700-page book, and stage it in 90 minutes? An incredible, morphing Miriam Buether-designed set is… Read More

Jaffrey to be Chicago Smash

Published: 23 April 2012

British star of American hit series Smash, Raza Jaffrey is to swap the small screen for the West End stage to play Billy Flynn in long-running musical Chicago.The actor, who… Read More

Global Globe festival launches

Published: 23 April 2012

The stage at Shakespeare’s Globe trembled under a performance unlike any it will have experienced before this morning, when a Maori haka launched the Globe To Globe FestivalA war cry… Read More

Wyndham’s hosts Party

Published: 23 April 2012

Lindsay Posner’s hit Menier Chocolate Factory production of the classic comedy Abigail’s Party will transfer to the Wyndham’s theatre from 15 May.The revival of Mike Leigh’s seminal 1977 play, which… Read More

Berkoff returns with 6 actors

Published: 20 April 2012

Writer, director and actor Steven Berkoff is to stage the world premier of his new comedy 6 Actors In Search Of A Director in London this spring.Set as a movie… Read More

In Pictures: 2012 Olivier Awards New York

Published: 20 April 2012

While many stars of London theatre were celebrating at the fabulous Royal Opera House, some were in New York, along with representatives of the Broadway theatre community.The cast of One… Read More

In Pictures: Olivier Covent Garden Piazza Event

Published: 20 April 2012

The Olivier Award celebrations grew far and wide this year. Events at the Royal Opera House were central, but in Covent Garden piazza there was a public party. Before big… Read More

Premature end for King’s Speech

Published: 20 April 2012

The stage production of The King’s Speech, which received strong reviews when it opened in the West End in March, is to close earlier than planned. The tale of George… Read More

More Tales are told from the shed

Published: 19 April 2012

Chickenshed’s popular interactive children’s show Tales From The Shed returns to the Southgate venue this summer.Aimed at children aged seven and under, Tales From The Shed brings children and performers… Read More

Misterman

Published: 19 April 2012

Cillian Murphy made an excellent villain in Red Eye and a striking teenager in Disco Pigs. In Misterman he is convincing as a host of characters, including a cursing drunkard,… Read More

Bedella and Kestelman star in Torch Song Trilogy

Published: 19 April 2012

Olivier Award-winning actors David Bedella and Sara Kestelman will star in Douglas Hodge’s forthcoming production Torch Song Trilogy which begins previews at the Menier Chocolate Factory next month. Currently starring… Read More

Webb is The Witness at Royal Court

Published: 19 April 2012

Royal Court regular Danny Webb will be joined by David Ajala and Pippa Bennett-Warner in The Witness, the Royal Court Theatre’s forthcoming thriller that will play in the Jerwood Theatre… Read More

In Pictures: The Olivier Awards 2012 Red Carpet

Published: 19 April 2012

The glamour of London theatre’s most prestigious awards ceremony, the Olivier Awards, begins on the star-studded red carpet.It’s here that we first get a glimpse of the stars of stage,… Read More

In Pictures: 2012 Olivier Award winners

Published: 19 April 2012

After the pizzazz of accepting London theatre’s most coveted statuette on stage at the Royal Opera House, the winners brave the press room.Gathered journalists from across the world are eager… Read More

In Pictures: 2012 Olivier Awards with MasterCard

Published: 19 April 2012

The biggest celebration of the London theatre year, the Olivier Awards with MasterCard, raised the Royal Opera House roof on 15 April. From the stunning opening performance which saw Brian… Read More

London theatre’s Olympic effort

Published: 18 April 2012

“I think with the Olympics there will be people here who think ‘God, we’re actually in London, we can go and see London theatre’, which is why most people come… Read More

West End warm-ups as it welcomes the world

Published: 18 April 2012

100 cast members from some of the West End’s most popular shows gathered at Trafalgar Square today for a special West End warm-up to mark 100 days to the Olympics.… Read More

Get Into London Theatre returns for summer 2012

Published: 18 April 2012

To celebrate a summer like no other, our annual ticketing campaign Get Into London Theatre is back for a special Olympic run with tickets from just £10. Theatregoers can book… Read More

Chariots roll into Gielgud for Olympics

Published: 18 April 2012

The West End is continuing to get into the spirit of the Olympics with Hampstead theatre’s forthcoming production of Chariots Of Fire set for an Olympic run at the Gielgud… Read More

Gallery: The Matildas make Oliviers history

Published: 17 April 2012

Sophia Kiely, Eleanor Worthington Cox, Kerry Ingram and Cleo de Demetriou, the four young actresses who originated the role of Matilda in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s hit West End production,… Read More

Cousins joins Chicago for Olympic run

Published: 17 April 2012

Olympic Gold medallist and Dancing On Ice judge Robin Cousins will star as Billy Flynn in Chicago The Musical this summer, bringing a taste of the Olympic Games to the… Read More

The 2012 Olivier Award winners speak

Published: 16 April 2012

While last night’s illustrious guests celebrated an outstanding year in theatre from the Royal Opera House’s auditorium, behind the stage’s sound-proofed wall other celebrations where taking place as the winners… Read More

Join us at the Olivier Awards 2012 with MasterCard this Sunday

Published: 13 April 2012

The most prestigious and spectacular event in the British theatre calendar is now just days away and we’re inviting you to come and join the excitement. The 36th Olivier Awards… Read More

Almeida hosts new Dear and annual festival

Published: 13 April 2012

Nick Dear’s The Dark Earth And The Light Sky will receive its world premiere at the Almeida theatre this November.Directed by former Director of the National Theatre, Richard Eyre, The… Read More
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