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Royal Opera announces Olympic season

Published: 14 April 2011

The Royal Opera’s 2011/12 season has been inspired by the image of the Olympic rings says the company’s Music Director Antonio Pappano, as it will feature a number of cycles.In… Read More

Betty Blue Eyes

Published: 14 April 2011

Austerity Britain, a royal wedding, the rich disgruntled over supporting the poor; producer Cameron Mackintosh could not have known how relevant his new musical would be when he first decided… Read More

David Thaxton

Published: 13 April 2011

Matthew Amer talks to this year’s winner of the Best Actor in a Musical Olivier Award about his incredible 2010 and an exciting 2011…It has been a remarkable year for… Read More

Potted Potter returns to West End

Published: 13 April 2011

Potty performers Dan and Jeff will return to the West End this summer as part of the fifth anniversary tour of their first show, Potted Potter. The comedy show, which… Read More

Moonlight

Published: 13 April 2011

Moonlight deals with that most fundamental of truths; that we all will one day die. However this is a Pinter piece, so while the play retains a razor sharp poignancy,… Read More

The Hurly Burly Show: “You see more on the beach”

Published: 11 April 2011

As their contemporary brand of burlesque takes the London stage by storm, Matthew Amer talks tassels, pasties and empowerment with Miss Polly Rae and two of her Hurly Burly Girlys.There… Read More

Tricycle stages Baha Mousa inquiry

Published: 11 April 2011

The Tricycle theatre is to return to verbatim political drama with a new production examining the British Army’s handling of detainees in Iraq. Tactical Questioning: Scenes From The Baha Mousa… Read More

Marcell and Hunter return to Globe

Published: 11 April 2011

Joseph Marcell and Paul Hunter are to return to Shakespeare’s Globe to star alongside Charles Edwards and Eve Best in Much Ado About Nothing from 21 May. The pair previously… Read More

Abrahami and Cracknell to leave Gate after nearly five years

Published: 11 April 2011

Natalie Abrahami and Carrie Cracknell are to step down from their positions as joint-Artistic Directors of the Gate theatre in January 2012. The two directors, who have led the Notting… Read More

Free theatre at the Scoop with Ravenhill

Published: 11 April 2011

The Scoop is back this summer for its ninth annual season of free theatre, with Around The World In Eighty Days and a new translation of The Mother by Mark… Read More

OperaShots

Published: 11 April 2011

Stewart Copeland, Anne Dudley and Terry Jones are better known for their work in pop and film than in opera, but for a short time the three come together for… Read More

Precious Little Talent

Published: 11 April 2011

With a title like that, it may seem that playwright Ella Hickson is asking for her new play to be put down, but in fact she proves she has more… Read More

Fox returns in Bart’s Fings

Published: 8 April 2011

Hannah-Jane Fox, the actress best known for creating the role of Scaramouche in We Will Rock You, is to return to the stage in May to lead the Union theatre… Read More

Cock Tavern announces closure and transfers

Published: 8 April 2011

The curtain has come down on the Cock Tavern theatre, as the award-winning venue has been forced to close due to non-regulation staircases.During negotiations to extend the venue’s entertainment licence… Read More

Young Vic holds back Wind

Published: 8 April 2011

The UK premiere of Jon Fosse’s tale of travelling companions, I Am The Wind, has altered its schedule due to cast illness.The production, which was due to begin previews at… Read More

Ullman returns to London for My City

Published: 8 April 2011

Actress and comedian Tracey Ullman will return to the London stage after more than two decades to appear in Stephen Poliakoff’s My City at the Almeida theatre.The British-born star, who… Read More

Nicola Stephenson

Published: 7 April 2011

Fittingly for the week following Mother’s Day, Matthew Amer talks to stage and real-life mother Nicola Stephenson about War Horse, hormones and wardrobe malfunctions... To misquote Aspects Of Love, “Motherhood… Read More

London theatres educate teachers

Published: 6 April 2011

Representatives from shows including Billy Elliot, Shrek, Jersey Boys and War Horse exhibited their education resources to the delegates of this year’s EducationLive at Bloomsbury Baptist Church yesterday.Around 120 teachers… Read More

ROH2’s OperaShots: “It’s not a mission to write a new Mozart”

Published: 6 April 2011

Opera, according to former drummer of The Police, Stewart Copeland, is “the apex of the composer’s world”.“Writing a pop song is great fun,” he explains as part of our transatlantic… Read More

Wastwater

Published: 6 April 2011

Prolific writer Simon Stephens and director Katie Mitchell’s first collaboration, Wastwater, is an emotionally charged triptych which blurs the lines between realism and surrealism as the pair delve into the… Read More

Ghost releases charity single

Published: 5 April 2011

One of the songs written by Dave Stewart for forthcoming West End show Ghost The Musical will be released as a single on 22 June to benefit the charity Stand… Read More

Blythe’s Edinburgh hit to play Riverside Studios

Published: 5 April 2011

After an award-winning run at the Edinburgh Fringe last year, Alecky Blythe’s verbatim play Do We Look Like Refugees?! opens in London next month as part of a UK tour.The… Read More

Scott Thomas in Betrayal

Published: 5 April 2011

Kristin Scott Thomas is to return to the stage in a new production of Harold Pinter’s three-hander Betrayal, which plays at the Comedy theatre from 27 May to 20 August… Read More

Karamazov Brothers fly into the West End

Published: 4 April 2011

The Vaudeville theatre is set for a high-energy summer with acrobatic comedians The Flying Karamazov Brothers moving in for a limited season this June. They are not Russian, they don’t… Read More

Scacchi and Dobson play Bette & Joan

Published: 4 April 2011

Greta Scacchi and Anita Dobson are to play Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in a new play about the rivalry between the two legendary actresses. Bette & Joan, which runs… Read More

Quartet extends London stay

Published: 4 April 2011

Million Dollar Quartet, the Broadway import which opened at London’s Noël Coward theatre in February, has extended its booking period a further six months, to 28 April 2012. The musical… Read More

Umbrellas Of Cherbourg announces early closure

Published: 4 April 2011

The producers of Gallic musical The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg have announced that the show will close on 21 May due to economic reasons. The production, which opened two weeks ago,… Read More

Grandage names full cast for Luise Miller

Published: 1 April 2011

Alex Kingston, David Dawson and Finty Williams are among those joining Felicity Jones in Michael Grandage’s production of Schiller’s Luise Miller at the Donmar Warehouse from 8 June. Kingston, who… Read More

History Boys Barnett and Parker reunite for Rosencrantz

Published: 1 April 2011

History Boys stars Samuel Barnett and Jamie Parker are to join Tim Curry in Trevor Nunn’s forthcoming production of Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead at the Theatre Royal Haymarket this… Read More

Goold directs Mamet’s Anarchist

Published: 1 April 2011

Rupert Goold is to direct the world premiere of a new David Mamet play in London this autumn.Entitled The Anarchist, the new work is the third of American playwright Mamet’s… Read More

Musical seeks wicked writers for a second year running

Published: 31 March 2011

Young aspiring writers can now enter 2011’s Wicked Young Writers’ Award which opened today for applications from anyone aged five to 25 years old with a passion for creative writing.Spearheaded… Read More

Rose plans for Snow this Christmas

Published: 31 March 2011

Following last year’s Christmas show The Three Musketeers, the Rose theatre Kingston is to create a new version of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen this festive season. The Snow… Read More

Trafalgar Studios hosts Union theatre transfer

Published: 31 March 2011

Darren Murphy’s play Irish Blood, English Heart, which ran at the Union theatre earlier this year, will transfer to the West End’s Trafalgar Studios 2 for a short run from… Read More

Matilda prepares to take on London

Published: 31 March 2011

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s musical production of Roald Dahl’s Matilda is to come to London this autumn.Though exact dates and venue are yet to be confirmed, the RSC and composer… Read More

Rocket To The Moon

Published: 31 March 2011

Dental surgeries: they are the ideal place for a drama to unfold. The innate sense of fear, foreboding, tension and pain combined with the humdrum dullness of it all. Why… Read More

Landor catches Moby Dick

Published: 30 March 2011

Cult musical Moby Dick is creating a splash once more, as it is to receive its first major London revival at the Landor theatre this April.The tuner with added tuna,… Read More

Mr Benn visits Artsdepot

Published: 30 March 2011

Finchley’s Artsdepot is to present a new stage adaptation of the classic children’s television series Mr Benn later this year. The show will have two preview performances at the North… Read More

Interview: David Bradley

Published: 30 March 2011

As he returns to the London stage in Moonlight, David Bradley talks to Caroline Bishop about a career of playing outsiders in Pinter, Shakespeare, Mike Leigh and Harry Potter. David… Read More

London theatres suffer funding cuts

Published: 30 March 2011

A host of London’s subsidised theatres are today coming to terms with reduced funding announced by Arts Council England (ACE) this morning.Hardest hit among the capital’s venues is Islington’s Almeida… Read More

Cause Célèbre

Published: 30 March 2011

Rattigan is back in fashion. In the 100th anniversary year of the playwright’s birth, the Old Vic is the latest theatre to revive one of his plays, in this case… Read More

Q&A: Meow Meow

Published: 28 March 2011

It is strange interviewing someone who is, in fact, two people. Where does one end and the other begin? In the case of cabaret artist Meow Meow, currently appearing in… Read More

Sunday Morning At The Centre Of The World

Published: 28 March 2011

It is not often that audiences are given the chance to create their own individual dreamscapes during a performance, but with the use of blindfolds and an array of sensory… Read More

The Kissing-Dance

Published: 28 March 2011

Though the West End stay of musical Love Story was sadly curtailed, Jermyn Street theatre offers another chance to catch the work of composer Howard Goodall with its production of… Read More

Rigg joins Pygmalion

Published: 25 March 2011

Dame Diana Rigg is to return to the stage alongside Rupert Everett and Kara Tointon in the forthcoming West End transfer of Chichester Festival Theatre’s Pygmalion from 12 May.Rigg will… Read More

Family feast at this summer’s Udderbelly

Published: 25 March 2011

The giant upturned purple cow otherwise known as the E4 Udderbelly returns to the South Bank this summer offering a range of delights for families. In line with the venue’s… Read More

Fiennes creates Tempest for Nunn

Published: 25 March 2011

British film star Ralph Fiennes is to return to the stage this summer when he plays Prospero in the Trevor Nunn-directed production of The Tempest.Fiennes will make his London stage… Read More

Tiger comes for tea in the West End

Published: 25 March 2011

David Wood’s adaptation of Judith Kerr’s much-loved The Tiger Who Came To Tea is to make its West End debut this summer at the Vaudeville theatre.The Tiger Who Came To… Read More

The Return Of Ulysses

Published: 25 March 2011

It is clear from the opening scene featuring a trio in flesh coloured gimp masks, that this is to be a bold, high-concept staging of Monteverdi’s opera. For this fourth… Read More

Lights dimmed for Taylor

Published: 24 March 2011

London’s Theatreland paid tribute to actress Elizabeth Taylor last night, dimming their lights at 20:00 yesterday (23 March).The performer, best known for her screen outings in films including National Velvet,… Read More

Drew partners West in Butley

Published: 24 March 2011

West End regular Amanda Drew is to join Dominic West in the forthcoming revival of Simon Gray’s comedy Butley, which plays at the Duchess theatre from 1 June to 27… Read More

Remembrance Day

Published: 24 March 2011

If the title of this play is conjuring images of poppies, silences and a general respect for lives laid down that we might be free, think again, for Aleksey Scherbak’s… Read More

OperaUpClose returns to Soho

Published: 23 March 2011

Soho theatre is to collaborate once again with the team behind the Olivier Award-winning hit La Bohème to produce a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The production, which plays… Read More

Ecstasy comes to Theatreland

Published: 23 March 2011

The Hampstead theatre revival of Mike Leigh’s Ecstasy, which sold out before opening at the off-West End venue, will play a limited season at the Duchess theatre.Directed by Leigh, with… Read More

The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg

Published: 23 March 2011

Mirror balls and glittery rain, electric colours and fluorescent street lights, bell bottom trouser-wearing sailors and red lipsticked French Madams, The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg has that certain magical Kneehigh Theatre… Read More

Take a stroll through Theatreland

Published: 23 March 2011

Fans of theatre and those who want to learn a little bit more should toss their programmes with delight as tickets for the 2011 Theatreland Walking Tours are now on… Read More

Bush test-drives new home

Published: 23 March 2011

The Bush theatre plans to ease the transition from its existing venue to its new home in Shepherd’s Bush Old Library with two productions based around the contrasting spaces. In… Read More

Casey has Blonde moment

Published: 22 March 2011

Natalie Casey is to join the cast of Legally Blonde The Musical on 26 April to play beautician Paulette, replacing Denise Van Outen. Casey is a former co-star of Sheridan… Read More

Bush takes stars back to the Beginning

Published: 22 March 2011

Acting luminaries including Christopher Eccleston, Tamsin Greig, Miranda Raison, Sharon Small, Michelle Terry and Ralf Little are turning tour guide as part of a new theatrical collaboration between the Bush… Read More

Captain Corelli novelist Bernières to premiere play

Published: 22 March 2011

Renowned British novelist Louis de Bernières is to make his unlikely stage debut at the Southwark Playhouse this week, narrating a unique sensory version of his only play Sunday Morning… Read More

Hall presents quartet of new plays

Published: 22 March 2011

Artistic Director Edward Hall is continuing his revitalisation of the Hampstead theatre with a forthcoming season that features new plays by Simon Stephens, Steve Thompson, Nicholas Wright and Richard Nelson.… Read More

Musical stars create YouTube hit

Published: 22 March 2011

A host of the West End’s most recognisable musical theatre faces are starring in an internet video that has already received thousands of hits. The five-minute Portrait Of A Princess… Read More

Profile: Stephen Sondheim

Published: 18 March 2011

For more than half a century composer Stephen Sondheim has influenced the nature of musical theatre on both sides of the Atlantic. Caroline Bishop looks at the work and legacy… Read More

Henry to make National debut in Shakespeare’s Comedy

Published: 18 March 2011

Lenny Henry is to make his National Theatre debut in Dominic Cooke’s production of The Comedy Of Errors, which will be staged at the Olivier theatre in November.Henry is best… Read More

Brigstocke finds Perks at Waterloo

Published: 18 March 2011

Comedian and actor Marcus Brigstocke is to play Station Master Perks when the Olivier Award-winning production of The Railway Children returns to London this summer. Since winning the BBC New… Read More

The Knot Of The Heart

Published: 18 March 2011

Too often in my job, I find myself quoting Philip Larkin’s This Be The Verse, but it is so often appropriate; dramatists love to delve into the darker side of… Read More

London return for Yes, Prime Minister

Published: 17 March 2011

Last year’s hit production of Yes, Prime Minister is to return to the West End this summer, playing at the Apollo theatre from 6 July to 17 September. The show… Read More

NT offers performance workshop

Published: 17 March 2011

Children aged 8-13 have the chance to learn from the best this Easter holidays with a unique performance workshop at the National Theatre. Play Makers is a week-long event in… Read More

Pleasance is Just So

Published: 17 March 2011

Five of Rudyard Kipling’s classic Just So Stories are to be staged at the Pleasance theatre, Islington, from 5 to 25 April.The production, designed for children aged four and older… Read More

The Holy Rosenbergs

Published: 17 March 2011

Ryan Craig’s new play examines the effect of an international crisis on a London family and the community they live in.The crisis is Gaza and the family are the Rosenbergs,… Read More

Omigod! Lee Mead joins Legally Blonde

Published: 17 March 2011

Lee Mead is to put the technicolor of Joseph and the emerald green of Wicked behind him to join the West End’s pinkest show, Legally Blonde The Musical, in June.The… Read More

Sheridan Smith

Published: 16 March 2011

A West End star with Trevor Nunn’s phone number in her mobile and now an Olivier Award on her mantelpiece, Sheridan Smith is riding high. But her feet aren’t likely… Read More

Ecstasy

Published: 16 March 2011

Mike Leigh is as well known for his hugely successful film career as he is for his unique devised process that sees actors thrown into improvisation and intense character studies… Read More

Schiff aims for a Smash! at Menier

Published: 15 March 2011

Richard Schiff is to return to the London stage in the Menier Chocolate Factory production of Jack Rosenthal’s Smash!Schiff replaces Kerry Shale, who has withdrawn from the show for personal… Read More

In A Forest, Dark And Deep

Published: 15 March 2011

Sibling relationships have never been as fraught as depicted in Neil LaBute’s new play, which premiered last night at the Vaudeville theatre. Or so you would hope...From the moment Matthew… Read More

The Hurly Burly Show

Published: 14 March 2011

When the pre-show warning about mobile phones and camera equipment includes fellatio among its list of banned actions, you know subtlety is not high on the show’s agenda.Such is the… Read More
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