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Spiro to star in new Almeida season

Published: 30 September 2011

The Almeida theatre has announced its 2012 season will feature Bijan Sheibani’s The House Of Bernarda Alba, a new version of Filumena starring Samantha Spiro, and the world premiere of… Read More

Samuels Rocks in Queen musical

Published: 30 September 2011

Lauren Samuels, who leapt into the public consciousness as one of the leading contestants on Over The Rainbow, is to join the cast of hit Queen musical We Will Rock… Read More

Matilda The Musical pushes back previews

Published: 30 September 2011

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that the first five previews of forthcoming Cambridge theatre production Matilda The Musical have been cancelled.The show – which today celebrates two Theatre Awards… Read More

MasterCard launches London website

Published: 30 September 2011

New website pricelesslondon.co.uk, launched today by MasterCard, aims to give its card users the most exclusive deals available in London across theatre, museums, restaurants, shops and attractions.The new website brings… Read More

Rock Of Ages

Published: 28 September 2011

There are a few key ingredients that every good soft rock music video needs – a wind machine, pyrotechnics, dry ice, lasers, guitarists adopting a wide-legged stance – Rock Of… Read More

Future transfers lead Theatre Awards UK nominees

Published: 28 September 2011

London can look forward to seeing the cream of the wider UK’s theatre in the coming months as leading nominees at the Theatre Awards UK 2011 are set to transfer… Read More

Jim Norton

Published: 28 September 2011

Actor Jim Norton tells Caroline Bishop why meeting playwright Conor McPherson has led to the best decade of his life. The government should thank actors. Specifically, for the fact that… Read More

Young Vic explores green theatre

Published: 28 September 2011

Never afraid of trying something new, the Young Vic’s revival of After Miss Julie, which opens in March next year, will be the venue’s first show to experiment with its… Read More

The Playboy Of The Western World

Published: 28 September 2011

Perhaps I missed something, but, to see the characters in J M Synge’s Irish comedy fawning over a roguish newcomer to the village, you’d think that killing one’s father was… Read More

Soller joins O’Neill’s Journey

Published: 27 September 2011

Kyle Soller is to join David Suchet and Laurie Metcalf in Long Day’s Journey Into Night at the Apollo theatre in April next year. Soller, who is currently appearing in… Read More

Stage One named as awards’ chosen charity

Published: 27 September 2011

Stage One, the Society of London Theatre supported initiative for young producers, has been chosen as the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards’ adopted charity.The four month campaign running up to the website’s… Read More

Globe brings theatre world to London

Published: 26 September 2011

Theatre companies from Afghanistan, Palestine and South Sudan are among the international guests joining Shakespeare’s Globe’s ambitious Globe To Globe project next spring. The epic play cycle, announced earlier this… Read More

The Phantom turns 25

Published: 26 September 2011

As The Phantom Of The Opera prepares to celebrate its 25th birthday this weekend at the Royal Albert Hall, it marks an anniversary for Lynn Jezzard, too. Caroline Bishop speaks… Read More

Fraser joins Phantom’s 25th anniversary celebrations

Published: 26 September 2011

Hadley Fraser has joined the cast of the forthcoming epic 25th anniversary performances of The Phantom Of The Opera at the Royal Albert Hall.Phantom producer Cameron Mackintosh and composer Andrew… Read More

Royal Opera coming to a cinema near you live

Published: 23 September 2011

The Royal Opera House has announced a new cinema venture that will see select opera and ballet performances at the much-lauded venue screened in over 700 cinemas worldwide.Entitled Royal Opera… Read More

DreamArts celebrates 10 years of musicals at the Royal Opera House

Published: 23 September 2011

DreamArts, the charity that provides creative opportunities for young people across inner London, will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its New Musicals programme with a special performance at the Royal… Read More

Sher sets up NT duo

Published: 23 September 2011

Sir Antony Sher, who won an Olivier Award for his performance in Stanley at the National Theatre, is to return to the venue to star in two productions over the… Read More

Family Sundays and half-term fun at the Albany theatre

Published: 22 September 2011

It may feel like the kids have just gone back to school but the Albany theatre has already organised a host of family fun to keep you busy during the… Read More

Riots and revival in Tricycle season

Published: 22 September 2011

Nicolas Kent will bow out as the Artistic Director of the Tricycle theatre following a season combining the recent riots, the return of Stones In His Pockets and an exploration… Read More

Grief

Published: 22 September 2011

A Mike Leigh play entitled Grief was never going to be a barrel of laughs, but despite the poignancy of the story there is plenty of humour in this 1950s-set… Read More

Have a Horrible time at Bloomsbury

Published: 21 September 2011

Children’s favourite disgustingly gruesome educational stage shows, Horrible Histories, will return to the Bloomsbury theatre next month offering two more doses of wacky facts and grotty tales.Presented by Birmingham Stage… Read More

Scott Bakula

Published: 21 September 2011

Prior to his London stage debut at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Caroline Bishop learns there’s more than one thing to know about Scott Bakula. Let’s get it out of the… Read More

Street Scene

Published: 21 September 2011

Kurt Weill considered Street Scene to be his masterpiece. Last night at the press night of the Young Vic’s revival, with the BBC Concert Orchestra on stage and singers from… Read More

Pippin pops up at Menier

Published: 21 September 2011

Stephen Schwartz’s Tony Award-winning musical Pippin is the latest tuneful production to be revived by the much-acclaimed Menier Chocolate Factory.The coming of age tale is to run at the Southwark… Read More

Raven Boy flies into Highgate

Published: 20 September 2011

Jackson’s Lane theatre will premiere Infectious Theatre’s newest imaginative offering, Raven Boy, next month.The company, which prides itself on offering audiences an alternative perspective, have created a new play that… Read More

Blonde pair lead Soho musical

Published: 20 September 2011

Current Legally Blonde stars Simon Thomas and Siobhan Dillon are to appear opposite Amy Booth-Steel and Gabriel Vick in Ex at the Soho theatre.The new British musical runs at the… Read More

Clarke plays Churchill at Trafalgar

Published: 20 September 2011

Warren Clarke will return to the stage for the first time in over a decade this autumn when he plays Winston Churchill in the London premiere of Ben Brown’s Three… Read More

St Matthew Passion

Published: 20 September 2011

Jonathan Miller’s version of Bach’s St Matthew Passion is a very different production for the National Theatre to stage. In fact, it’s very different to most productions.It should have a… Read More

this is where we got to when you came in

Published: 20 September 2011

As the Bush theatre moves into its new home, its old premises above the O’Neill’s pub in Shepherd’s Bush already feels like a relic from the past, preserved museum-style by… Read More

Beaker’s Bouncer is Lazy Elf

Published: 16 September 2011

Actor Ben Hanson, best known to younger TV viewers as Bouncer from CBBC show Tracey Beaker, will play an elf with a serious work ethic problem in London this Christmas.Hanson… Read More

My City

Published: 16 September 2011

I realised last night, watching My City, that while my memory has always been on the annoyingly foggy side, there is one aspect of my life I do remember very… Read More

Kids Week celebrates record-breaking 2011

Published: 15 September 2011

Kids Week in the West End, London’s annual festival of theatrical family fun, proved more popular in 2011 than ever before, bringing 73,426 people through the doors of London’s theatres.The… Read More

Metcalf returns to the London stage for Long Day

Published: 15 September 2011

Roseanne actress Laurie Metcalf is to return to the London stage after more than a decade to star opposite David Suchet in forthcoming drama Long Day’s Journey Into Night.Eugene O’Neill’s… Read More

Singin’ In The Rain comes to London

Published: 15 September 2011

Singin’ In The Rain, which has just completed a successful run at Chichester Festival Theatre, is to transfer to London’s Palace theatre on 4 February (press night 15 February) along… Read More

The Absence Of Women

Published: 15 September 2011

The minute you see two scruffy old men chatting about not very much, the mind leaps to Waiting For Godot. But The Absence Of Women is less existential pondering, more… Read More

Hayley Atwell

Published: 14 September 2011

The Captain America star chats to Matthew Amer about strong women – both fictional and real – as she returns to the London stage in The Faith Machine at the… Read More

Willis and Beck are Wicked this winter

Published: 14 September 2011

Busted star Matt Willis and Phantom regular Gina Beck will be sharing the emerald stage this winter when they join the cast of hit musical Wicked. The Oliver Award-winning production,… Read More

The Wild Bride

Published: 13 September 2011

Imagine a pantomime where the fairy tale has not been Disney-fied, where the gore and pain is still as raw as a bleeding steak, but which still relishes theatricality and… Read More

Autumn theatre: six degrees of separation

Published: 12 September 2011

After the lull of the summer and the exodus to Edinburgh and back, London has recharged its batteries and readied itself for what is traditionally one of the busiest times… Read More

Lloyd Stoops at National Theatre

Published: 12 September 2011

Director Jamie Lloyd is to revive She Stoops To Conquer at the National Theatre in January 2012, with a cast including Sophie Thompson, Steve Pemberton and Katherine Kelly.It will be… Read More

RESPECT La Diva

Published: 12 September 2011

From the mind of the man behind Thriller Live comes a new musical celebration, not of one performer, but of a group of women who have written pop history.Like the… Read More

Disco Pigs

Published: 12 September 2011

There’s a good chance you’ll spend the first five minutes of Disco Pigs wondering what on earth Runt and Pig are going on about. It’s partly down to their thick… Read More

Ragtime and Dream in Open Air’s Olympics year season

Published: 12 September 2011

The Regent’s Park Open Air theatre has announced it will stage two productions – as opposed to its usual four – during Olympic year in a season running from 18… Read More

Gruffalo returns for fifth London Christmas

Published: 9 September 2011

Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson’s most famous creation will be bringing its terrible tusks and terrible claws to the Lyric theatre this winter.The stage adaptation of The Gruffalo will play a… Read More

Full cast announced for Sheen’s Hamlet

Published: 9 September 2011

Four Lions star Adeel Akhtar, musical theatre regular Sally Dexter and Sherlock actress Vinette Robinson are all to join Hollywood star Michael Sheen in the Young Vic’s autumn production of… Read More

Decade

Published: 9 September 2011

It takes a brave director to do a play about 9/11. To take on such a momentous event and say something new, something that avoids simplification and arrogance, is a… Read More

Noises Off returns at Old Vic

Published: 9 September 2011

Michael Frayn’s hugely successful comedy Noises Off is to be revived at the Old Vic this Christmas, in a production directed by Lindsay Posner.The play within a play, which won… Read More

London theatre prepares access provisions for 2012

Published: 9 September 2011

As London prepares for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012, the Society of London Theatre is striving to ensure that Theatreland’s access provision is as comprehensive as possible.SOLT has… Read More

Crazy For You transfers to the Novello

Published: 8 September 2011

The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s acclaimed production of Crazy For You will be sheltered from the elements this winter as it moves to the West End’s Novello theatre.The Gershwin… Read More

Olivier Bursary winners announced

Published: 8 September 2011

Seventeen drama students heading into their final years have been awarded a combined total of £56,000 as part of the 2011 Laurence Olivier Bursaries.The scheme, which has previously helped performers… Read More

Richmond reveals Cinderella line-up

Published: 8 September 2011

Kellie Shirley, Jenny Éclair and Gary Wilmot are to star in Richmond theatre’s pantomime Cinderella this Christmas, from 9 December to 15 January. Shirley, who plays the title character, is… Read More

Christmas adventure pulls into Lyric Hammersmith

Published: 8 September 2011

The Lyric Hammersmith is to host a brand new show for children this Christmas about two toys who fall off the back of Santa’s sleigh. A collaboration with Pins &… Read More

The Kitchen

Published: 8 September 2011

Bijan Sheibani’s production of Arnold Wesker’s The Kitchen is not so much a play as an experience, a snapshot of the hot, heady, hectic goings-on in the kitchen of a… Read More

ATG renames Comedy theatre after Harold Pinter

Published: 7 September 2011

The Ambassador Theatre Group has announced it is to rename the Comedy theatre the Harold Pinter theatre after the late Nobel Prize-winning British playwright. The theatre, on London’s Panton Street,… Read More

Nicholas Lyndhurst

Published: 7 September 2011

Not many actors are lucky enough to have major career opportunities fall in their laps. But that’s exactly what keeps happening to Nicholas Lyndhurst, finds Caroline Bishop.There’s something about Nicholas… Read More

Chicago razzle dazzles at Garrick

Published: 7 September 2011

Chicago, the long-running American musical that closed at the Cambridge theatre last month, is to transfer to the Garrick theatre later this year.The fishnet-wearing satire on fame and celebrity will… Read More

Trevor Nunn’s The Tempest

Published: 7 September 2011

One of the questions I am asked on a yearly basis is: “Why do directors feel the need to relocate Shakespeare? Why not play it traditionally?” Trevor Nunn’s The Tempest… Read More

Mackichan gets Jumpy with Greig

Published: 6 September 2011

Smack The Pony actress Doon Mackichan is to join Tamsin Greig in April De Angelis’s new play Jumpy, which opens at the Royal Court next month.The funny family drama about… Read More

Olympic-sized Shakespeare Festival unveiled

Published: 6 September 2011

The World Shakespeare Festival, which will run in the UK from 23 April to November 2012, will feature 70 productions and exhibitions, and more than 50 arts organisations.Among the notable… Read More

First hand: The 39 Steps

Published: 5 September 2011

As The 39 Steps prepares to celebrate its fifth birthday with a gala performance on Wednesday, Caroline Bishop takes a sneak peak backstage to find out what keeps this successful… Read More

Des makes debut as Dreamboat

Published: 2 September 2011

Veteran entertainer Des O’Connor is to make his West End musical theatre debut this autumn at the age of 79, joining the cast of Dreamboats And Petticoats.From 3 October, the… Read More

Beatles revealed for West End Backbeat

Published: 2 September 2011

Performers Andrew Knott, Daniel Healy and William Payne are to star as Lennon, McCartney and Harrison in the forthcoming Beatles musical Backbeat.The trio are joined by Nick Blood as the… Read More

Court productions play in Peckham

Published: 2 September 2011

The Royal Court’s Theatre Local project, which last year brought a selection of the theatre’s shows to an empty shop in Elephant and Castle, is to relocate to Peckham this… Read More

Ruby Wax – Losing It

Published: 2 September 2011

If I’m honest, historically, I’ve not been a Ruby Wax fan. I’ve never felt comfortable with her comedy. Losing It might just have changed that. The brash, brutal, boundary-bounding comedian… Read More

Henry, Hinds and Hodge in NT autumn/winter

Published: 2 September 2011

The National Theatre’s autumn/winter season is to feature a debut performance by Lenny Henry, along with Sinéad Cusack and Ciáran Hinds in Juno And The Paycock and a new play… Read More

Piper has Reasons To Be Pretty

Published: 2 September 2011

Billie Piper is to return to the stage in November to appear in Neil LaBute’s new play Reasons To Be Pretty, which opens at the Almeida theatre on 17 November… Read More

Priscilla to close on New Year’s Eve

Published: 2 September 2011

Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical will celebrate its 1,000th London performance this weekend before drawing its stay in the capital to a close at the end of December.The… Read More

The God Of Soho

Published: 2 September 2011

There is something rather incongruous about a modern-day chav in a pink velour tracksuit holding court at a reconstruction of a 16th century theatre. But that is what’s currently happening… Read More

Soho announces bulging autumn/winter season

Published: 1 September 2011

Soho theatre has announced an autumn/winter season so full – it boasts 18 new plays and 26 comedy/cabaret shows – that were it to try nibbling a wafer thin mint,… Read More

The Faith Machine

Published: 1 September 2011

One decision makes or breaks a burgeoning relationship at the very start of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s latest play, yet it is the relationship between the girl and her father that… Read More

Autumn 2011 Access London Theatre Published

Published: 31 August 2011

The autumn 2011 Access London Theatre brochure is now available. With listings for over 100 audio-described, captioned and signed performances, the brochure is an invaluable tool for any theatregoer who… Read More

Mel C and Peter Andre sing for Pudsey

Published: 31 August 2011

Melanie C, the Sugababes and Peter Andre are among the singing celebrities ‘popping up’ in hit West End musicals during September to help raise money for BBC Children In Need.… Read More

Stick Man travels to Leicester Square

Published: 31 August 2011

Stick Man, the woody creation of Waterstone’s Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson, will spend his Christmas escaping from danger at Leicester Square theatre.The herbaceous hero will entertain children and adults with… Read More

Playwright NF Simpson dies

Published: 31 August 2011

NF Simpson, best known for his absurdist plays, died on Saturday 27 August following a stroke. He was 92.The son of a Baptist glass-blower, Simpson had his first play, A… Read More

Kids Week tickets get topped up

Published: 26 August 2011

As Kids Week 2011 heads into its third week of offers and activities, more shows have released tickets to the family-friendly initiative.Hit London productions including Disney’s The Lion King, Shrek… Read More
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