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Paisley Day is Globe’s Petruchio

Published: 2 March 2012

Simon Paisley Day will return to the London stage this summer to play the oft-dislikeable role of Petruchio in The Taming Of The Shrew.The actor, who most recently played tricked… Read More

Q&A: A Song Cycle For Soho

Published: 1 March 2012

Musical fans have the chance this week to catch the work of a new generation of British composers and lyricists, plus hear from some old favourites, in the intimate setting… Read More

Snookered

Published: 1 March 2012

Last night I went to the pub to see Snookered. At least, that’s how it felt. I was, of course, at the Bush theatre but, if I hadn’t known any… Read More

Walking Tours return for 2012

Published: 1 March 2012

If you have ever wanted to discover more about London’s theatre district, or delve into its spookier side, Theatreland Walking Tours could be the answer.The annual weekend West End wanderings… Read More

Operatic Widdecombe is “irresistible”

Published: 29 February 2012

Former MP and Strictly Come Dancing star Ann Widdecombe will make her operatic debut in The Royal Opera House’s La Fille Du Régiment this spring. Widdecombe will play La Duchesse… Read More

The Houdini Experience

Published: 29 February 2012

It takes a performer who is brave, foolish or supremely confident to name his show after one of the world’s most influential illusionists. You set the benchmark extremely high for… Read More

Matilda heads to the US

Published: 28 February 2012

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s hit production of Matilda The Musical is set to open in New York at the beginning of 2013. The musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic story,… Read More

Goodbye To All That

Published: 28 February 2012

There’s something pleasingly topsy-turvy about opening a young writers’ festival with a play about 60 year olds. Of course it could also set a few alarm bells ringing; there’s nothing… Read More

Shrek introduces family-friendly schedule

Published: 28 February 2012

Shrek The Musical has announced two family-friendly initiatives with a new ‘school night’ performance schedule and a one-off performance for children with special needs. From 7 March, Wednesday performances of… Read More

Inbetweener takes Step to the stage

Published: 28 February 2012

TV and film star Blake Harrison, best known as Neil in The Inbetweeners, will make his West End debut in Rob Hayes’s Step 9 (Of 12).The new production, which is… Read More

In rehearsal: Filumena

Published: 27 February 2012

As London enjoyed an unexpectedly balmy weekend, the cast of Michael Attenborough’s forthcoming play at the Almeida theatre transported themselves to the heat of late 1940s Naples for Filumena rehearsals.… Read More

Djalili stars in Orton’s Butler

Published: 27 February 2012

Comic Omid Djalili will return to London this summer to star in a new revival of Joe Orton’s farcical comedy What The Butler Saw.The British-Iranian comedian, who played Fagin in… Read More

Q&A: Agyness Deyn

Published: 27 February 2012

As Agyness Deyn makes her West End debut in The Leisure Society, Official London Theatre learns more about the iconic supermodel.In François Archambault’s satire of the young rich, model Agyness… Read More

Rylance and Fry transfer Globe double bill to West End

Published: 27 February 2012

Mark Rylance will return to the West End this autumn with Stephen Fry in tow when forthcoming Shakespeare’s Globe productions Richard III and Twelfth Night transfer to the Apollo theatre.… Read More

Hay Fever starring Linsay Duncan

Published: 27 February 2012

Bunny Christie has a habit of stealing the limelight with her lavish designs and Hay Fever is no exception with a picture perfect shabby chic country house creation. But the… Read More

Duchess receives RSC’s Heart

Published: 27 February 2012

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of David Edgar’s Written On The Heart, a drama marking the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, will transfer into this… Read More

Bingo

Published: 24 February 2012

Patrick Stewart has played his fair share of Shakespearian characters in the past but, in Bingo, he is faced with the ultimate Shakespearian challenge: playing the playwright himself. It is… Read More

Climate Week challenge comes to Arcola

Published: 24 February 2012

Climate Week, Britain’s biggest climate change campaign, is teaming up with the Arcola theatre to present Climate Week Play In A Day on 16 March, a unique evening of fresh… Read More

Billy Elliot’s new young stars take to the stage

Published: 23 February 2012

Nine-year-old Dayna Dixon and 13-year-old Harris Beattie are to join the cast of hit West End show Billy Elliot – The Musical as it fast approaches its seventh birthday.Beattie will… Read More

In Basildon

Published: 23 February 2012

“I’m dying here” says Lee Ross’s Barry, as he is relentlessly ridiculed by his Uncle Len’s best friend Ken. The fact this is said in a claustrophobic room with the… Read More

Nicolas Kent: A Partial History (in two parts)

Published: 22 February 2012

After over a quarter of a century at the helm of the Tricycle theatre, departing Artistic Director Nicolas Kent is directing his final season, The Bomb: A Partial History, a… Read More

Soho show goes to Parliament

Published: 22 February 2012

A hit at Soho theatre last autumn, political drama A Walk On Part is to be performed for MPs at the House Of Commons.The one-off performance of the play, which… Read More

The Bomb – A Partial History

Published: 21 February 2012

It is fitting that Artistic Director Nicolas Kent bows out of the Tricycle theatre with an explosive cycle of short plays about nuclear armament.During his 28 years at the head… Read More

Official London Theatre’s Midnight Tango

Published: 20 February 2012

Matthew Amer puts on his dancing shoes once more and releases his inner South American with Midnight Tango.Roll back a decade and if you had asked me if I would… Read More

Matilda wins big at awards

Published: 20 February 2012

The critically acclaimed Matilda The Musical continued its award success at Sunday’s Whatsonstage.com Awards, taking home four gongs including Best New Musical.The Royal Shakespeare Company production, which has already been… Read More

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2012

Published: 17 February 2012

While Shakespeare may have been confused by the video games, Adidas high-tops and less than flattering references to Prince Philip, there is no doubt he would have been thrilled to… Read More

Fun for all at Family Weekend

Published: 17 February 2012

Sadler’s Wells’s Family Weekend is back this year with two more exciting children’s shows.The two-day festival, which will be held on 9 and 10 April, will feature balletLORENT’s magical production… Read More

King comes to the capital

Published: 17 February 2012

Right Royal drama The King’s Speech, which received its world premiere this week, will bring its regal tale to the Wyndham’s theatre this spring.The play, which tells the story of… Read More

Haydon announces rebellious first season

Published: 16 February 2012

Christopher Haydon’s inaugural season as Artistic Director of the Gate theatre will take on the topical subject of political revolution in a season entitled Resist! Three Stories Of Rebels And… Read More

Singin’ In The Rain

Published: 16 February 2012

The stage adaptation of the adored MGM film had already been showered with praise when it played in Chichester, but how would it fare in the West End?If you haven’t… Read More

Fry joins Rylance for Twelfth Night

Published: 15 February 2012

Presenter, actor and Twitter hero Stephen Fry will be exercising his thespianic muscles once more this summer when he joins Mark Rylance at Shakespeare’s Globe.The QI host will don the… Read More

Debbie Chazen

Published: 15 February 2012

The In Basildon actress talks to Matthew Amer about boobs, vajazzling, incantations and her unique view on life. “I think I needed a smacked bottom at the time.” Actress Debbie… Read More

The Recruiting Officer

Published: 15 February 2012

Chandeliers hang from the ceiling, lanterns surround the stage and a folk band performs to the audience; the romantic setting at the opening night of The Recruiting Officer is fitting… Read More

In rehearsal: One Man, Two Guvnors

Published: 15 February 2012

As the original cast of hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors prepare to take the award-winning romp to Broadway, a new set of performers are getting ready to step into… Read More

Les Mis boasts three Valjeans

Published: 14 February 2012

A trio of leading men will play Jean Valjean in Les Misérables in 2012, as Ramin Karimloo extends his run, David Shannon plays a short season and Géronimo Rauch joins… Read More

Purple cow holds Cuban dance party

Published: 14 February 2012

HAVANA RUMBA!, an intoxicating cocktail of rumba, salsa, rum and reggaeton, will dance its way onto this year’s E4 Udderbelly stage at the Southbank Centre.The dance show, which will play… Read More

Introducing… Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Published: 14 February 2012

Phoebe Waller-Bridge will make her West End debut in a star-studded production of Noël Coward’s comedy Hay Fever next week, but the young actress already boasts an impressive CV which… Read More

European classics in Young Vic’s new season

Published: 13 February 2012

David Lan, Artistic Director of the Young Vic theatre, has announced the Waterloo venue’s new season, which will feature new adaptations of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Chekhov’s Three Sisters.Other… Read More

Eccleston and Whittaker star in Antigone

Published: 13 February 2012

Christopher Eccleston and Jodie Whittaker will star in Polly Findlay’s production of Antigone at the National Theatre adding to the star-studded 2012 season at the Southbank venue.Don Taylor’s new version… Read More

Doctor Who appointed festival patron

Published: 10 February 2012

Matt Smith is to become the next patron of the Royal Court’s Young Writers Festival, which runs from 23 February to 14 April at the Sloane Square venue.Best-known as the… Read More

Absent Friends

Published: 10 February 2012

“Oo-ooh, Aa-aah, precious moments…” so goes the opening line of the famous Three Degrees song that closes Absent Friends, though painful moments may be a more apt description of this… Read More

Youth Music Theatre search for stars

Published: 9 February 2012

Youth Music Theatre is searching for 250 of the most talented, vibrant and energetic young performers, musicians and stage managers to join the 2012 company. Anyone aged between 11 and… Read More

Royal Court holds playwriting workshop for kids

Published: 8 February 2012

As part of the Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writers Festival, the much-lauded venue is holding a free playwriting workshop for children next month. Taking place on 17 March, the two… Read More

Master Class

Published: 8 February 2012

“It’s not about me”, says Maria Callas (Tyne Daly) as she steals the limelight from one of her students during Master Class. It would be tempting to call the great… Read More

Search for Wicked young writers returns

Published: 8 February 2012

Young theatregoers with literary aspirations can once again take part in Wicked’s Young Writers’ Award as it returns for its third year with the competition now open for applications.Spearheaded by… Read More

Sex With A Stranger

Published: 7 February 2012

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner but, at last night’s opening of Stefan Golaszewski’s Sex With A Stranger, romance certainly wasn’t in the air. In fact, for Russell Tovey’s… Read More

Schwimmer brings Dry Ice to Younis’s debut Bush season

Published: 7 February 2012

David Schwimmer will make his UK directing debut with Sabrina Mahfouz’s Dry Ice as part of New Writing, New Artists, Madani Younis’s inaugural season as Artistic Director at the Bush… Read More

London hosts musical Two Cities

Published: 7 February 2012

As the world celebrates the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birthday, a new musical version of A Tale Of Two Cities is to open at London’s Charing Cross theatre.The story… Read More

Malfi announces full cast to join Best

Published: 6 February 2012

Tom Bateman, Mark Bonnar, Harry Lloyd and Finbar Lynch have joined the cast of Jamie Lloyd’s forthcoming production of The Duchess Of Malfi. The cast join the previously announced Eve… Read More

Q&A: Absent Friends

Published: 6 February 2012

Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy about six friends and a tea party that goes horribly, and hilariously, wrong opens at the Harold Pinter theatre this week, so Official London Theatre decided to… Read More

The Play’s The Thing for Spiro at the Globe

Published: 3 February 2012

Olivier Award-winning actress Samantha Spiro will star in Shakespeare’s Globe’s production of the Bard’s controversial comedy The Taming Of The Shrew this summer.Directed by Toby Frow, The Taming Of The… Read More

Ellis and Langford among 1000 Voices

Published: 3 February 2012

A host of West End stars will be behind some of the many voices participating in this year’s The Night Of 1000 Voices at the Royal Albert Hall, which will… Read More

The Changeling at the Young Vic

Published: 3 February 2012

Thomas Middleton’s asylum sub-plot in The Changeling is a somewhat confusing addition to his dark revenge tragedy. To counteract this problem, director Joe Hill-Gibbins has chosen to transform his Young… Read More

Donmar announces Gill’s Noise cast

Published: 3 February 2012

Full casting has been announced for the Donmar Warehouse's forthcoming triptych Making Noise Quietly, with previous Donmar performers Susan Brown and Sara Kestleman joined by John Hollingworth, Matthew Tennyson, Jordan… Read More

Noises Off takes off

Published: 3 February 2012

Michael Frayn’s Noises Off will transfer to the West End following its overwhelming success at the Old Vic theatre. Directed by Lindsay Posner, Noises Off is the first show ever… Read More

Chancellor and Farrell star in double bill transfer

Published: 3 February 2012

Anna Chancellor and Nicholas Farrell will reprise their roles in Chichester Festival Theatre’s critically acclaimed double bill South Downs and The Browning Version when it transfers to the Harold Pinter… Read More

Dormer fronts After Miss Julie cast

Published: 2 February 2012

Natalie Dormer, Kieran Bew and Polly Frame will star in the Young Vic’s revival of Patrick Marber’s play After Miss Julie, which has extended its run by an additional week… Read More

RAD summer courses for young dancers

Published: 2 February 2012

The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) has announced forthcoming workshops for budding young dancers taking place this summer.The prestigious academy is offering two different courses; Summer School for students aged… Read More

ANGLE at the Bush

Published: 2 February 2012

It’s tempting to imagine that when it comes to new writing, talent will out. Writers will always write, bold new voices will always bubble to the surface and theatres will… Read More

Sweeney and Kelly to educate Rita

Published: 2 February 2012

Claire Sweeney and Matthew Kelly will star in a revival of Educating Rita this spring, with the production playing a three week run at the Menier Chocolate Factory before embarking… Read More

Russell Tovey

Published: 1 February 2012

“I bumped into someone the other day who is doing a play and getting a bit stir-crazy on it and they reminded me of a story I told them about… Read More

Midnight Tango

Published: 1 February 2012

The power of Strictly Come Dancing is undeniable. It reached through the Saturday night listings and inspired a nation; inspired us to give ballroom another shot, to give Bruce Forsyth… Read More

She Stoops To Conquer

Published: 1 February 2012

It is just possible that while rehearsing She Stoops To Conquer over the festive period, director Jamie Lloyd discovered how to distil pure pleasure and place it on a stage.The… Read More

Collaborative Song Cycle comes to Soho

Published: 31 January 2012

Niamh Perry will take to the Soho theatre stage alongside a host of musical stars next month in A Song Cycle For Soho, a new musical collaboration celebrating the area’s… Read More

Sullivan Rocks show’s 10th birthday

Published: 31 January 2012

Former Hear’Say singer Noel Sullivan is to join the London production of hit musical We Will Rock You next month, replacing Alex Gaumond in the role of Galileo.The performer, who… Read More

Theatre revenue continues record-breaking run

Published: 30 January 2012

For the eighth consecutive year, in 2011 London’s theatres reached record revenue levels, topping sales figures of more than £500 million for the third year in a row.The Gross Box… Read More

The Making of an Olivier Award

Published: 30 January 2012

In an unassuming backstreet in West London, beneath rattling railway arches, a furnace burns away and a process that has changed very little since the Renaissance continues. Power tools and… Read More

DeVito and Griffiths are Sharrock’s Sunshine Boys

Published: 30 January 2012

Danny DeVito will make his West End debut alongside Richard Griffiths in a new production of Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys, directed by Olivier Award-winning director Thea Sharrock. The comedy… Read More

Hampstead shares Olympic story

Published: 30 January 2012

Though the Olympics may be staged in East London this summer, Hampstead is getting in on the athletic action, staging the theatrical adaptation of Oscar-winning film Chariots Of Fire.The 1981… Read More

Nyman joins Halfpenny for Menier party

Published: 30 January 2012

Full casting has been announced for the Menier Chocolate Factory’s forthcoming comedy Abigail’s Party, with Andy Nyman, Natalie Casey, Joe Absolom and Susannah Harker joining Jill Halfpenny in the Mike… Read More

Popular New Girl extends run

Published: 27 January 2012

Following huge demand from excited audiences, the Bush theatre has added an extra week to the run of Nancy Harris’s play Our New Girl.The drama, which stars Mark Bazeley, Kate… Read More

The House Of Bernarda Alba

Published: 27 January 2012

The house of Bernarda Alba is a home colder than a snowman’s pocket, which is saying something as Bijan Sheibani’s production sets Lorca’s Spanish classic in the oppressive heat of… Read More

Demand for Deyn sparks Society extension

Published: 26 January 2012

The toxic comedy The Leisure Society has announced that it will extend its run in London by an additional week due to the overwhelming interest caused by cast member Agyness… Read More

National Theatre announces family-friendly season

Published: 26 January 2012

The National Theatre will present new productions of The Count Of Monte Cristo and Hansel And Gretel as part of its forthcoming 2012 season, as well as offering families a… Read More

Actor Nicol Williamson dies

Published: 26 January 2012

Nicol Williamson has died aged 75 following a two year battle with esophageal cancer. The actor passed away in December, his son confirmed today. Williamson enjoyed a successful stage and… Read More
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