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Published: 15 July 2011
It’s odd to come away from a Palestinian production of a Kafka tale thinking about Harry Potter, especially as there is not a bespectacled child wizard in sight.But the device… Read More
Published: 14 July 2011
Robert Lindsay and Joanna Lumley are to return to the London stage later this year to star in royal yuletide drama The Lion In Winter at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.James… Read More
Published: 13 July 2011
Following a first day of booking that broke all opening day Kids Week records, the annual festival of theatrical family fun has extended its summer frivolity for an extra week… Read More
Caroline Bishop meets current Legally Blonde star Lee Mead on the eve of his 30th birthday and finds a man with a lot of ambition and a very mature head… Read More
The Theatrical Management Association has announced a new awards ceremony for the 2011 calendar. The Theatre Awards UK will recognise both performance and management excellence when they are presented on… Read More
Richmond theatre is offering a unique way for 12 to 16-year-olds to fill the summer holidays with its new week-long summer school. Held from 25 to 29 July, the summer… Read More
Ding ding! Like a cautious fighter, Billy Roche’s travelling roadshow-set drama steps out of the corner and eases round the square circle, quietly sizing up its audience.With a boxing ring… Read More
Nicholas Lyndhurst is to join Ralph Fiennes in Trevor Nunn’s production of The Tempest at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 27 August. Lyndhurst, who plays Trinculo, is best known for… Read More
Published: 12 July 2011
Max Stafford-Clark’s production of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, which is currently playing at Chichester’s Minerva theatre, is to transfer to London’s Trafalgar Studios 1 from 5 August to 15 October… Read More
Bad Physics theatre company is back at Southwark Playhouse with a summer treat for the family, an adaptation of Toad that gets the balance just right between frightening thrills and… Read More
James Corden, the star of Richard Bean’s comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, which is currently playing at the National Theatre, will lead the cast into the West End when the… Read More
Eager theatre fans of all ages can now hit the internet and get on their phones as tickets for Kids Week in the West End 2011, which runs from 12-26… Read More
Published: 11 July 2011
Current Royal Court hit The Village Bike has proved so successful that it will extend its run at the Sloane Square venue for a second time and will now run… Read More
After being asked to create magic effects for a 1991 production of The Invisible Man at Theatre Royal Stratford East, magician Paul Kieve found himself in a theatrical niche which… Read More
Jez Butterworth’s multi-award-winning tale of modern rural life, Jerusalem, is to return to the West End this autumn with its central casting of Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook intact.The show,… Read More
Caroline Quentin, Andy Nyman and Sharon Horgan are to star in the debut play by Canadian actor Saul Rubinek, Terrible Advice, at the Menier Chocolate Factory from 22 September to… Read More
David Wood’s latest adaptation for children takes one of the best loved children’s books of all time, The Tiger Who Came To Tea, and faithfully replicates it on stage at… Read More
Published: 8 July 2011
Stage and screen star Stanley Townsend, most recently seen in the hit BBC crime drama The Shadow Line, is to join Antony Sher and Tara Fitzgerald in the Tricycle revival… Read More
The supermodel Christie Brinkley has been forced to put her London stage debut on hold as her mother undergoes emergency surgery. She had been due to join the cast of… Read More
An actress currently playing a minor role in Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead at the Theatre Royal Haymarket will see her stock rise considerably this summer when she plays Miranda… Read More
Ruby Wax is to bring her hit show Losing It into the West End this summer following a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The show, which has already enjoyed… Read More
Published: 7 July 2011
Respect La Diva, a new show paying tribute to five decades of hits by female music icons, is to play at the West End’s Garrick theatre from 7 to 24… Read More
Madani Younis is to become the new Artistic Director of West London’s Bush theatre following the departure of Josie Rourke.Younis, who takes over the role on 1 January 2012, is… Read More
Stephen Sondheim’s Road Show has journeyed for over a decade, through rewrites, new titles and shifting directors, to receive its European premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory. The intimate fringe… Read More
Published: 6 July 2011
As he takes to the stage in the site-specific production of The Railway Children, Marcus Brigstocke talks to Caroline Bishop about reemploying the original string to his bow.“The plan,” says… Read More
The second annual Billy Youth Theatre West End Gala will take place at the Victoria Palace theatre on 17 July featuring performances from 13 school and youth theatre groups from… Read More
Published: 4 July 2011
Dancing On Ice champion Sam Attwater will prove that he doesn’t need to be on skates to strut his funky stuff when he joins the cast of Dreamboats And Petticoats… Read More
Natalie Abrahami talks exclusively to Official London Theatre about creating this year's annual child-friendly Shakespeare production for the Regent's Park Open Air theatre: I always like a challenge and so… Read More
Canadian stage star Alex Gaumond, who recently left the London production of Legally Blonde The Musical, is to return to the West End stage in hit Queen musical We Will… Read More
Anna Massey has died aged 73. The veteran stage and screen actress had been suffering from cancer and passed away on Sunday.Awarded a CBE for services to drama in 2005,… Read More
Penelope Skinner is the latest graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme to turn anthropologist, creating a witty insight into the lives of a newly married couple in the… Read More
Published: 1 July 2011
The 25th anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical The Phantom Of The Opera is to be celebrated with a two-date staging at the Royal Albert Hall on 1 and 2… Read More
Sheila Hancock and Anna Chancellor are to go head to head in Nicholas Wright’s drama The Last Of The Duchess, which plays at Hampstead theatre from 20 October. The drama… Read More
Tom Riley will star alongside the previously announced Tracey Ullman in Stephen Poliakoff’s My City at the Almeida theatre this September.David Troughton, Sorcha Cusack, Sîan Brooke and Hannah Arterton, who… Read More
Olivier Award-winning actress Julie Walters will return to the National Theatre next summer to star in The Last Of The Haussmans, a new comedy by writer and actor Stephen Beresford.… Read More
Published: 30 June 2011
Belarus Free Theatre, the Minsk-based company which resists the censorship of its home country, is to return to London with a new production at the Almeida theatre in July.The underground… Read More
Reuniting with Kevin Spacey for the first time since the film American Beauty, director Sam Mendes has created a stylish, engaging, film noir production of Richard III. This final instalment… Read More
Sleep and I have not always been good friends. While never a full-blown insomniac, long days have passed where fitful bursts of sleep have had to sustain me and the… Read More
Published: 29 June 2011
Adaptations of stories by Michael Morpurgo, EB White and Hans Christian Andersen feature in the new season at Polka theatre this autumn/winter. However it is an original story by Levi… Read More
As he appears in Simon Gray’s Butley in London, Paul McGann tells Caroline Bishop that while film is his first love, nothing beats the buzz of acting live on stage. … Read More
John Gay’s 1728 comedy about a womanising highwayman is a bawdy tale indeed, resurrected with suitable gusto by Lucy Bailey for the Regent’s Park Open Air theatre. Prostitutes and pickpockets,… Read More
Published: 28 June 2011
Peter Duncan, the actor and former Blue Peter presenter, has joined the cast of forthcoming offbeat musical Betwixt! at Trafalgar Studios 2. Duncan is still best-known for his daredevil antics… Read More
Christopher Haydon has been appointed Artistic Director of Notting Hill’s Gate theatre. The director will take over the running of the fringe venue from January 2012.Associate Director of experimental company… Read More
Margaret Tyzack, who won the Best Actress Olivier Award in 2009, has died at the age of 79. The actress, who passed away on Saturday following a short illness, had… Read More
Published: 27 June 2011
Charlotte Marshall joined a group of theatre enthusiasts on a Theatreland Walking Tour and discovered the bizarre and interesting facts behind the beautiful facades of some of the most iconic… Read More
Boundary-pushing director Rupert Goold is to explore the legacy of 9/11 in a new theatrical production staged at St Katharine Docks this September, 10 years after the tragedy. Decade, produced… Read More
Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones are to return to the London stage this autumn to reprise their roles in the recent Broadway production of Driving Miss Daisy. The pair… Read More
Published: 24 June 2011
As the night grew black last night, Shakespeare’s Globe grew blacker still with ghostly apparitions, black magic and devilish beasts taking over the stage for Matthew Dunster’s engrossingly gory Doctor… Read More
Home And Away’s Ray Meagher enjoyed playing mechanic Bob in Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical so much that he is returning to the West End show this autumn,… Read More
Lee Hall’s hit play about a group of artistic miners, The Pitmen Painters, is to receive a West End outing at the Duchess theatre from 5 October (press night 11… Read More
Published: 23 June 2011
Alistair McGowan is to replace Rupert Everett in Pygmalion for the final three weeks of the show’s run at the Garrick theatre. Everett, who has played phonetics professor Henry Higgins… Read More
Published: 22 June 2011
The National Theatre’s annual Watch This Space Festival is back for its 15th year this summer, jammed pack with family friendly events and performances, and all for free.Taking place in… Read More
The oversized grass covered armchairs and astroturfed lawns are back in the National Theatre’s Theatre Square marking the return of the annual Watch This Space Festival.Running from 1 July until… Read More
Matthew Amer catches up with former History Boy Jamie Parker, and, unexpectedly, his co-star Samuel Barnett, as he prepares to open Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead in London. You know… Read More
Fate, chance, probability, life and death; these are the themes explored by Tom Stoppard in his 1967 play which flips Shakespeare’s famous drama Hamlet like the toss of a coin.In… Read More
Published: 21 June 2011
Londoners can go to an extra Christmas bash this year as site-specific, interactive show Office Party comes to Islington in the autumn. Created by cabaret star Ursula Martinez and Radio… Read More
Olivier-winning theatrical experience Slava’s Snowshow is to enjoy a return visit to London this Christmas, playing at the Royal Festival Hall from 17 December to 8 January.Created by Russian clown… Read More
If you’re after something silly this summer then the Vaudeville theatre’s very own vaudeville show, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, might be right up your street. Just make sure to check… Read More
Published: 20 June 2011
Over the past two decades the Tricycle theatre has positioned itself at the vanguard of political theatre with its award-winning tribunal plays. Adapted from verbatim transcripts of trials and hearings,… Read More
Published: 17 June 2011
Love Never Dies, the follow up to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hugely successful Phantom Of The Opera, has announced it will close on 27 August.Nominated at this year’s Olivier Awards in… Read More
Kids Week, London’s most exciting family theatrical event, is back for its 14th year this summer, with a jam-packed line-up of shows, events and workshops taking part in the ticket… Read More
Antony Sher will reprise his performance in Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass this summer, when it is revived at the Tricycle theatre before transferring to the West End’s Vaudeville theatre.He will… Read More
Sean Palmer, Clare Foster, Kim Medcalf, Harriet Thorpe and David Burt will lead the cast of the Regent’s Park Open Air theatre production of Gershwin musical Crazy For You this… Read More
Tension is so often the name of the game when it comes to Pinter’s plays, but arguably never more so than in the love triangle drama of Betrayal.Though it may… Read More
Idina Menzel, the American actress who originated the role of Wicked’s green-skinned leading witch for both Broadway and the West End, is to return to London for a Royal Albert… Read More
Published: 16 June 2011
There is much of the classic musical about Lend Me A Tenor The Musical, which belies the fact that it was written just half a decade ago.As its overture plays,… Read More
Little Shop Of Horrors star and veteran stage actress Ellen Greene has joined the cast of Betwixt!, Trafalgar Studio 2’s forthcoming fantasy musical.Greene, who starred in Little Shop Of Horrors… Read More
London’s largest free entertainment festival West End LIVE was launched last night at an exclusive event featuring performers including the stars of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical.The evening… Read More
The National Theatre’s Emperor And Galilean is the high church of theatre; heady with incense and ceremony, and packed full of tradition and stories. At three and a half hours… Read More
Published: 15 June 2011
West End stars Oliver Tompsett, Simon Lipkin and Amy Pemberton are to join Shayne Ward and Justin Lee Collins in big-haired anthemic musical Rock Of Ages.The talented trio complete a… Read More
As she returns to the West End, Amanda Holden talks to Matthew Amer about Britain’s Got Talent controversy, stepping back into the media glare and being rollered.My goodness, Amanda Holden… Read More
The Royal Court has announced a double extension with current hit Chicken Soup With Barley and forthcoming black comedy The Village Bike adding dates to their runs at the Sloane… Read More
Once upon a time there was a book about an ogre. The book wanted to be a hit film, but most of all it dreamed of being a success in… Read More
Published: 14 June 2011
Kevin O’Hare is to become Director of the Royal Ballet when current incumbent Monica Mason retires in July 2012.O’Hare, the current Royal Ballet Administrative Director, trained at the Royal Ballet… Read More
Michael Grandage and Friedrich Schiller have history. In the past, the Donmar Warehouse’s Artistic Director has produced fantastic productions of both Don Carlos and Mary Stuart. Before he waves the… Read More