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Thompson and Raison take on The Physicists

Published: 13 April 2012

She Stoops To Conquer’s leading lady Sophie Thompson and Spooks actress Miranda Raison will star in Josie Rourke’s forthcoming production of The Physicists at the Donmar Warehouse.Playing from 31 May… Read More

Chalet Lines

Published: 13 April 2012

If there was a Most Troubled Family contest alongside the Knobbly Knees competition at Butlins Skegness, the three generations of women in Lee Mattinson’s bleak comedy would walk away with… Read More

In rehearsal: The Sunshine Boys

Published: 12 April 2012

It’s so long to wait from when a show is announced to seeing the stars on stage. So it is just as well photographer Marc Brenner made it into rehearsals… Read More

Russian Uncle Vanya visits the West End

Published: 12 April 2012

Following the success of Sovremennik Theatre Company’s season last year, the Noël Coward theatre will now welcome another Moscow-based company, as Vakhtangov Theatre arrives in the West End with its… Read More

An Instinct For Kindness

Published: 12 April 2012

While tragedies that are based on true events are probably the most moving, I can imagine that they’re also the most challenging for the performers who are entrusted to portray… Read More

EduStage returns for another musical summer

Published: 11 April 2012

Young people interested in musical theatre have the chance to show off their skills this summer by joining an EduStage holiday school at the Epsom Playhouse or Secombe theatre.EduStage has… Read More

Official London Theatre gets inside the games

Published: 11 April 2012

With the summer just around the corner, we’re already busy getting into the Olympic swing of things, joining forces with the one-stop-shop website to the world of the Olympic and… Read More

Nimax buys Lloyd Webber’s Palace

Published: 11 April 2012

Nimax Theatres Limited is now the proud owners of the Palace theatre after purchasing the historic building from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s company the Really Useful Group, taking its total number… Read More

Behind The Scenes: Radio Times Oliviers photoshoot

Published: 11 April 2012

“They’re one of the nice parts of the job,” Tom Chambers tells me as we stroll across London heading swiftly towards a subterranean car park. He’s just left the London… Read More

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Published: 11 April 2012

Eugene O’Neill described writing Long Day’s Journey Into Night as a torturous experience and it’s not hard to see why. His most autobiographical piece, it is relentlessly bleak and leaves… Read More

Morahan and Rowan in Young Vic Doll’s House

Published: 10 April 2012

The Young Vic has announced news of shows both past and present, with Hattie Morahan and Dominic Rowan to star in the venue’s forthcoming production of A Doll’s House and… Read More

Vera Vera Vera to Belong in Peckham

Published: 5 April 2012

The Royal Court’s third Theatre Local scheme will see Bola Agbaje’s Belong and Hayley Squires’s Vera Vera Vera transfer to the CLF Arts Café in Peckham’s Bussey Building from 31… Read More

Madani Younis on his plans for the Bush theatre

Published: 5 April 2012

The Bush theatre’s new Artistic Director Madani Younis talks to Charlotte Marshall about how he plans to run one of London’s leading new writing theatres by losing control and writing… Read More

The Legend Of Captain Crow’s Teeth

Published: 4 April 2012

When it’s dark, there are scary sounds all around you and there’s no moon to show you the way, your imagination can play some pretty creepy tricks on you. Then… Read More

Youthful leads get set for Chariots

Published: 3 April 2012

Rising acting stars Jack Lowden and James McArdle (pictured) will take the lead roles in Hampstead theatre’s summer stage adaptation of Chariots Of Fire.Lowden will play devout Scottish Christian Eric… Read More

Exclusive: Chris Larner on An Instinct For Kindness

Published: 2 April 2012

An Instinct For Kindness, Chris Larner’s story of a journey to an assisted suicide clinic with his ex-wife, opens at the Trafalgar Studio 2 next week. Here Larner shares with… Read More

London venues get funding boost

Published: 30 March 2012

London venues and organisations including the National Theatre, Royal Opera House, Southbank Centre and English National Opera have been successful in stage one of Arts Council England’s capital funding programme.The… Read More

Beatlemania comes to the West End

Published: 30 March 2012

Theatregoers should get ready to Twist And Shout in the aisles as Let It Be, a new theatrical concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Beatles opens at the Prince… Read More

Club reforms for West End Posh

Published: 30 March 2012

Original Posh cast members Leo Bill, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Tom Mison and Simon Shepherd will recreate their roles when the Royal Court hit transfers to the West End later this spring.They… Read More

Kinnear and McCrory make National returns

Published: 29 March 2012

Lauded performers Rory Kinnear and Helen McCrory will be back at the National Theatre this summer, starring alongside Julie Walters in The Last Of The Haussmans.The first play from screenwriter… Read More

The Duchess Of Malfi

Published: 29 March 2012

With a higher mortality rate than even the village of Midsomer, Malfi may just have topped my list of places never to go. From the safety of the Old Vic… Read More

In pictures: 2012 Olivier nominees’ lunch

Published: 28 March 2012

In keeping with tradition, the cream of London theatre in 2011 was welcomed to the Haymarket Hotel for a nominees’ celebration.Among the delighted attendees, eager to try the tempting canapés… Read More

In pictures: 2012 Olivier nominees photo

Published: 28 March 2012

As a moment capturing the past year in theatre little could be finer than the Olivier Awards nominees photo taken yesterday at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.The famous stage, currently hosting… Read More

The King’s Speech

Published: 28 March 2012

Mad King George III has just left the Apollo theatre, but now George VI has arrived at Wyndham’s with a different problem. Following the death of King George V, his… Read More

Menier directing roles for Hodge and Friedman

Published: 28 March 2012

Douglas Hodge and Maria Friedman will return to the Menier Chocolate Factory for its 2012 season, but the pair will remain backstage directing two of the productions. Hodge will direct… Read More

Brazilian Rose joins RSC London offering

Published: 28 March 2012

Two Roses For Richard III, a Brazilian spin on Shakespeare’s history plays, is the latest production to join the Royal Shakespeare Company’s line-up of London shows this summer.The piece by… Read More

Flaherty and Furst join Matilda

Published: 27 March 2012

Hayley Flaherty and Steve Furst will join the cast of the 10-time Olivier Award nominated Matilda The Musical from April, stepping into the roles of the despicable Mr Wormwood and… Read More

D’Silva and Fox lead Children’s Children

Published: 27 March 2012

Darrell D’Silva and Trevor Fox will play friends of 20 years in the world premiere of Matthew Dunster’s latest play Children’s Children.They are joined in the drama, which runs at… Read More

Vera Vera Vera

Published: 27 March 2012

There’s something in the air at the Royal Court’s Theatre Upstairs. You can smell it as soon as you enter the auditorium.Well, that might be the pungent whiff of the… Read More

Atherton joins Webb in Cinderella

Published: 26 March 2012

In the first panto news of the year (Oh no it isn’t! Oh yes it is!) Julie Atherton is to join Steven Webb (pictured) in the Lyric Hammersmith ’s seasonal… Read More

Australian Carroll leads Open Air season

Published: 26 March 2012

Antipodean actress Tamsin Carroll, who last wowed London with her Oom Pah Pah-ing as Nancy in Oliver!, is to star in the Regent’s Park Open Air theatre double bill of… Read More

Introducing… Tunji Kasim

Published: 26 March 2012

Tunji Kasim can currently be seen treading the Old Vic boards in the gory classic The Duchess Of Malfi. While he may only be in his 20s, this young actor… Read More

Court explores future of Earth

Published: 23 March 2012

Never one to duck a challenge, director Katie Mitchell’s next project will explore the future of life on Earth.Ten Billion, which runs at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs this… Read More

Dexter to bewitch Kensington Gardens

Published: 23 March 2012

Sally Dexter, who was last seen playing Gertrude opposite Michael Sheen’s Hamlet, will send an icy chill across Kensington Gardens when she plays the White Witch in The Lion, The… Read More

King’s Speech’s Malkin dies

Published: 23 March 2012

Andrew Malkin, cast member on the current London production of The King’s Speech, has died at the age of 49.An ensemble cast member on the tale of King George VI… Read More

Doran earns RSC Artistic Director role

Published: 22 March 2012

Gregory Doran will succeed Michael Boyd as Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company after 25 years working at the company as both an actor and director. Doran, currently the… Read More

After Miss Julie

Published: 22 March 2012

Last night After Miss Julie kicked off the Young Vic’s Classics For A New Climate season. In keeping with the theatre’s aim to reduce the amount of energy used in… Read More

Q&A: The King’s Speech

Published: 21 March 2012

With The King’s Speech starting previews this week at the Wyndham’s theatre, Official London Theatre decided to challenge three of the show’s leading men, Charles Edwards, Michael Feast and Ian… Read More

Svengali back for spooky summer season

Published: 21 March 2012

Following last week’s Olivier Award nomination, Derren Brown’s 2011 show Svengali will return to the West End this summer for a limited run at the Novello theatre.The mind-bending Svengali will… Read More

Sweeney Todd

Published: 21 March 2012

Reportedly, some theatregoers who saw Sweeney Todd in Chichester prior to its London transfer asked for refunds as they thought they hadn’t seen Michael Ball. They had, but not the… Read More

Prenger hosts DreamArts gala

Published: 20 March 2012

I’d Do Anything winner and current star of One Man, Two Guvnors Jodie Prenger is to host a West End gala celebrating the achievements of talented young people.The DreamArts West… Read More

Jodie Prenger hosts DreamArts gala at the Playhouse theatre

Published: 20 March 2012

Star of One Man, Two Guvnors Jodie Prenger will host this year’s West End Musical Gala at the Playhouse theatre on 1 April.Organised by DreamArts, the charity that provides creative… Read More

Theatre Tokens launches Wrapp app

Published: 20 March 2012

Our countrywide theatre gift voucher scheme Theatre Tokens has launched an innovative new app making it easy to give the gift of theatre through social media and online.The new partnership… Read More

Gates celebrates Momentous Musicals

Published: 20 March 2012

Former Pop Idol star and West End leading man Gareth Gates is to lead the cast of gala concert Momentous Musicals, which plays at the New Wimbledon theatre on 14… Read More

Meet the Horrible man!

Published: 19 March 2012

Terry Deary, the man behind Horrible Histories, will be signing copies of his book at the Garrick theatre this Easter.There will be two separate signings taking place on 4 and… Read More

Levy joins Sunshine Boys

Published: 19 March 2012

Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre veteran Adam Levy is to join Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths in Neil Simon’s comedy The Sunshine Boys.Levy, whose credits include Henry V and… Read More

In pictures: Olivier Awards nominations

Published: 16 March 2012

Almost more eagerly anticipated than the announcement of the winners themselves, the revealing of the 2012 Olivier nominees had Theatreland aquiver with nerves.Who would make it onto London theatre’s shortlist… Read More

Slava’s Snowshow sledges back to London

Published: 16 March 2012

No matter what the weather, the Olivier Award-winning stage spectacle Slava’s Snowshow will guarantee London has a white Christmas this year as it returns to the Royal Festival Hall from… Read More

Bond joins Djalili’s Butler

Published: 16 March 2012

Samantha Bond, Tim McInnerny and Georgia Moffett are to join Omid Djalili in this summer’s production of What The Butler Saw.The cast for Joe Orton’s comedy, which plays at the… Read More

White hot Foy leads Love, Love, Love

Published: 16 March 2012

Star of BBC dramas White Heat and Upstairs Downstairs, Claire Foy is to return to the London stage in Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love.Foy will star alongside Ben Miles, Victoria… Read More

Jumpy Court’s Posh West End season

Published: 16 March 2012

April De Angelis’s Olivier Award-nominated play Jumpy will transfer into the West End this summer with fellow Royal Court-production Posh for a season at the Duke of York’s theatre. 2010’s… Read More

Seven Day Drunk

Published: 15 March 2012

The first line of the programme sheet declares “Bryony Kimmings is NOT an alcoholic” but as the production commences with Kimmings, dressed in an all-in-one silver space suit, raving outrageously… Read More

Matilda leads crop of family-friendly nominees

Published: 15 March 2012

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s hit family production Matilda The Musical leads this year’s Olivier Awards with MasterCard nominations, recognised in an impressive 10 categories, the maximum number of eligible awards… Read More

The Big Interview: Lloyd Newson

Published: 14 March 2012

 “It’s like being in politics except you don’t have to lie,” Lloyd Newson tells me when I ask what the positives are of being Artistic Director of the acclaimed physical… Read More

Ayckbourn and Edmundson in Tricycle’s summer

Published: 13 March 2012

Alan Ayckbourn’s Neighbourhood Watch, Trinidad and Tobago culture and the story of a 19th century novelist will all feature in the Tricycle theatre’s new spring/summer programme.Kicking off the new season… Read More

Rain forecast to stay until 2013

Published: 13 March 2012

It will be raining at the Palace theatre for longer than expected as the critically acclaimed musical Singin In’ The Rain has extended its booking period until 23 February 2013.The… Read More

Can We Talk About This?

Published: 13 March 2012

DV8 was last at the National Theatre with a piece tackling the world’s view of homosexuality, delivering a punch of cold, harsh realism about the cruel and often backwards nature… Read More

Frost is Touched for a second time

Published: 12 March 2012

Sadie Frost is to return to the stage for a limited three-week run to take up, once again, the role of a Madonna-obsessed woman in Touched…Like A Virgin.Zoe Lewis’s new… Read More

Industry joins SOLT’s preparations for Olympic summer

Published: 12 March 2012

The Society of London Theatre (SOLT), the organisation behind Official London Theatre, is leading the way to ensure that London theatre is 'Games Ready' this summer.Working hard on behalf of… Read More

tkts wins outstanding service award

Published: 9 March 2012

tkts, the iconic ticket booth run by the Society of London Theatre (SOLT), was this week recognised with an award for its high levels of customer service. The ticket outlet,… Read More

Going Dark

Published: 9 March 2012

Sound&Fury’s beautiful, touching and tragic new play gives a whole new meaning to black box theatre. Watching the one-man drama, it feels as if you have been sealed inside a… Read More

Msamati belongs at Royal Court

Published: 9 March 2012

Lucian Msamati will return to the Royal Court this spring to star in Bola Agbaje’s forthcoming drama Belong. Directed by the Tricycle theatre’s incoming Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham, Belong runs… Read More

Les Misérables offers Hope this summer

Published: 9 March 2012

Danielle Hope will return to the West End stage this summer to star in Les Misérables alongside fellow new cast members Tam Mutu and the previously announced Géronimo Rauch. The… Read More

One Queen visits One Man

Published: 8 March 2012

Her Majesty the Queen enjoyed a night of laughter at the theatre this week, when she dropped into the Theatre Royal Haymarket to see One Man, Two Guvnors.Possibly giving herself… Read More

Lucas and friends in concert with NYMT

Published: 8 March 2012

Matt Lucas will lead the National Youth Musical Theatre alongside a host of musical theatre star alumni in a special concert at the Vaudeville theatre on 22 April.NYMT In Concert… Read More

Trio of plays for under 5s at Unicorn

Published: 8 March 2012

The Unicorn theatre has a treat in store for young theatregoers next month with its under fives season, a fortnight of plays from leading children’s theatre companies. Unicorn favourites Little… Read More

Farewell To The Theatre

Published: 8 March 2012

The title Farewell To The Theatre evokes Harley Granville-Barker’s own production. However, the play of the same name at the Hampstead theatre is something entirely different, offering an insight into… Read More

Blonde Stenson swaps pink for green

Published: 8 March 2012

Legally Blonde’s leading lady Carley Stenson will leave behind Chihuahua-filled life for more swampy living when she joins Shrek The Musical in May.The former Hollyoaks star will replace Girls Aloud’s… Read More

Speech competition offers Olivier prize

Published: 7 March 2012

A unique Facebook competition is offering theatre fans the opportunity to attend not just the Olivier Awards, but also the exclusive after-show celebration.All entrants have to do to be in… Read More

Larner’s Instinct comes to the capital

Published: 6 March 2012

Chris Larner’s award-winning solo show An Instinct For Kindness will play a three week run at the Trafalgar Studio 2 this spring. The Fringe First Award-winning show, which plays from… Read More

Merton is Out Of My Head in London

Published: 6 March 2012

Have I Got News For You team captain and improv master Paul Merton is to bring his new stand-up show Out Of My Head to the Vaudeville theatre this autumn.Merton’s… Read More

Manford joins West End Sweeney

Published: 5 March 2012

Jason Manford is to swap his razor-sharp wit for razor-sharp, well, razors when he joins the cast of Sweeney Todd.The comedian, who is a familiar face from TV shows including… Read More

G4 star leads London Tale

Published: 5 March 2012

Jonathan Ansell, best known as one quarter of X-Factor contestants G4, will lead the cast of A Tale Of Two Cities when it opens in April.Ansell rose to fame as… Read More

The only way is onwards for Essex drama

Published: 2 March 2012

Following rave reviews and full houses, David Eldridge’s play In Basildon is to extend its run at the Royal Court.The family drama, which opened on 22 February, will now play… Read More

The Leisure Society

Published: 2 March 2012

François Archambault’s The Leisure Society is a provocative look at the discontent of the wealthy. But in a series of short punchy scenes that lead the characters into ever-increasing states… Read More
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