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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

Olivier Awards: After The Dance… and the ceremony

Published: 14 March 2011

The National Theatre’s After The Dance and West End musical Legally Blonde were the big winners at this year’s Olivier Awards with MasterCard, revealed in a glitzy ceremony at the… Read More

Poliakoff and LaBute in Almeida autumn

Published: 14 March 2011

British writer Stephen Poliakoff will direct his first new play in 12 years at the Almeida theatre this autumn, where he will be followed by Neil LaBute, directing the UK… Read More

Flare Path

Published: 14 March 2011

After carving out a television career playing mouthy ladettes, Sheridan Smith seamlessly made the transformation to Laurence Olivier Award winning actress and won the hearts of chihuahua loving fans everywhere… Read More

Join us at the Olivier Awards with MasterCard this Sunday

Published: 11 March 2011

The wait is almost over for the most prestigious theatre awards of the year. The Olivier Awards with MasterCard take place this Sunday at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.Relaunched for… Read More

Shaftesbury rocks for Ages

Published: 11 March 2011

Broadway musical Rock Of Ages is heading to London. The jukebox musical which mixes 80s rock hits with a classic love story, will open at the Shaftesbury theatre on 27… Read More

Extreme show heads Udderbelly festival

Published: 11 March 2011

Free Run, a unique show blending free running, parkour, acrobatics and martial arts, is to headline the E4 Udderbelly at the Southbank Centre this summer.The show, which was created especially… Read More

Sign Of The Times

Published: 11 March 2011

This gentle comedy by Tim Firth has been 20 years in the making, the ideas for the first and second acts coming to him two decades apart. And it shows.Though… Read More

Josie Rourke replaces Grandage at Donmar Warehouse

Published: 10 March 2011

The Bush theatre’s Josie Rourke has been appointed the new Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse, succeeding Michael Grandage.  Rourke, who has been Artistic Director at West London’s Bush theatre… Read More

Blithe Spirit

Published: 10 March 2011

Is there a West End stage large enough to hold Alison Steadman’s Madame Arcati? The Apollo tries hard but Steadman’s striding, shouting, growling, prowling medium almost makes it burst at… Read More

Matthew Fox and Olivia Williams

Published: 9 March 2011

Co-stars Matthew Fox and Olivia Williams may live very different lives, but that only serves a new play which has them coming to blows in the rehearsal room, finds Caroline… Read More

Tointon dances Chichester Pygmalion to London

Published: 8 March 2011

Strictly Come Dancing winner Kara Tointon is to join Rupert Everett in the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Pygmalion when it transfers to London this summer.Former EastEnders star Tointon will… Read More

Mogadishu

Published: 8 March 2011

Schools seem to be having a theatrical moment this season and Vivienne Franzmann’s award-winning play Mogadishu will do nothing to diminish the idea of the playground as the most brutal… Read More

Bush theatre angles for local writers

Published: 7 March 2011

The Bush theatre has launched a campaign to find new writing talent in West London, with a view to staging selected plays in its autumn/winter season. The initiative, entitled Be… Read More

Profile: Terence Rattigan

Published: 7 March 2011

As two high profile new productions of his work open in London, Caroline Bishop takes a look at the life and work of British playwright Terence Rattigan.Had he lived, playwright… Read More

Honest

Published: 7 March 2011

If you have ever been drawn into listening to a stranger’s life story over a pint, then DC Moore’s Honest will ring true for you. Upstairs in The Queen’s Head,… Read More

Reiss returns to Royal Court

Published: 4 March 2011

Anya Reiss, named Most Promising Playwright by both the Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her debut play last year, is to return to the stage of her… Read More

ATG holds new performing arts course

Published: 3 March 2011

Budding young performers aged 11 to 18 can have the chance to learn from professionals by joining a new West End Performing Arts Course during the Easter school holidays. Created… Read More

Stephenson and Robinson join War Horse cast

Published: 3 March 2011

Nicola Stephenson and Patrick Robinson will join the cast of War Horse next week, transporting the pair best known for inhabiting the hallways of Holby General to Michael Morpurgo’s Second… Read More

The Sapphires

Published: 3 March 2011

The Barbican Theatre has become a haze of crystals, metallic gowns, hairspray, glitter and feather boas for the import of Tony Briggs’s soulful Australian hit The Sapphires.Based on the real… Read More

Alison Steadman

Published: 2 March 2011

Returning to the West End as Coward’s mad medium Madame Arcati, Alison Steadman tells Matthew Amer why she is so happy to be back in London.Alison Steadman is delighted to… Read More

West End stars rally for Great British Musical

Published: 2 March 2011

A plethora of the London stage’s premiere performers are coming together for a one night only concert to raise funds for musical theatre development initiative Perfect Pitch.The Great British Musical:… Read More

The Wizard Of Oz

Published: 2 March 2011

More than nine months since the BBC’s talent show Over The Rainbow finished, winner Danielle Hope finally gives us her Dorothy in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new staging of The Wizard… Read More

Return journey for Railway Children

Published: 1 March 2011

Following two nominations at this year’s Olivier Awards with MasterCard, The Railway Children will be pulling into London once again this summer when it returns to the former Eurostar terminal… Read More

Million Dollar Quartet

Published: 28 February 2011

A little piece of rock ‘n’ roll history inspired this new musical about a jam session between four great musicians. But really, it is just an excuse to play some… Read More

More Wax for Menier

Published: 28 February 2011

Comedienne Ruby Wax will get another chance to lose it on stage when her new show returns to the Menier Chocolate Factory – where it is currently running – for… Read More

Olivier Awards with MasterCard: The nominees speak

Published: 28 February 2011

Chatting over small sausages and mini meringues, the Olivier Award nominees tell Caroline Bishop about the shows that earned them a place in the 2011 nominations. She may have been… Read More
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