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Royal Mail gives London musicals stamp of approval

Published: 24 February 2011

A brand new set of special stamps were launched by the Royal Mail today paying tribute to London musicals and celebrating the glittering West End. Each of the eight stamps… Read More

Globe springs into action

Published: 24 February 2011

Shakespeare’s Globe’s regular Activity Weekend returns on 12 and 13 March offering families the chance to sample some action-packed activities in the venue’s permanent exhibition.Live demonstrations include sword-fighting, stage combat… Read More

Frankenstein

Published: 24 February 2011

Every so often a production is staged that captures the imagination far before the show’s first performance and sets tongues wagging with anticipation. Oscar-winner Danny Boyle’s return to stage direction… Read More

Priscilla and Shrek reveal casts

Published: 23 February 2011

Shrek The Musical, which opens at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 14 June, has announced its full cast, while former Holby City star Mark Moraghan is set to join… Read More

Ellen Burstyn

Published: 23 February 2011

Multi award-winning actress Ellen Burstyn talks to Matthew Amer about volleyball, curses and why The Children’s Hour is making her so happy.The West End debut, a landmark moment for every… Read More

Boe and Lucas get Misérables in June

Published: 23 February 2011

Dates have been confirmed for opera star Alfie Boe’s bow in the London production of Les Misérables. He will join the production along with Little Britain’s Matt Lucas and West… Read More

Bedella joins Chicago as new Billy Flynn

Published: 23 February 2011

Laurence Olivier Award-winning actor David Bedella is to join the cast of long-running musical Chicago as the unscrupulous lawyer Billy Flynn for a limited 10-week run. Bedella joins current cast… Read More

Love Never Dies for Thaxton

Published: 22 February 2011

David Thaxton and Celia Graham are to join the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies to play Raoul and Christine. The duo replaces Joseph Millson and Sierra Boggess… Read More

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Published: 22 February 2011

There are some shows that create an almost insatiable urge in you to run up on stage and join in the jazz handing fun. The Donmar Warehouse’s frivolous The 25th… Read More

Introducing… Lydia Wilson

Published: 21 February 2011

Lydia Wilson won a part at the National Theatre before she’d even graduated from drama school and already has projects with theatrical stars such as Katie Mitchell and her current… Read More

Our Private Life

Published: 21 February 2011

Truth is open to interpretation and the past becomes a mouldable state of mind in Pedro Miguel Rozo’s striking and disturbing Columbian set drama Our Private Life. Bipolar fantasist Carlos… Read More

West brings Butley to West End

Published: 21 February 2011

Dominic West is to return to the London stage in a revival of Simon Gray’s Butley at the Duchess theatre from 1 June (press night 6 June). West will star… Read More

Blonde evening for Whatsonstage Awards

Published: 18 February 2011

Legally Blonde The Musical has scooped four awards at the annual Whatsonstage Awards. The musical, which opened at the Savoy theatre in January 2010, was voted Best New Musical in… Read More

Stratford Eats Takeaway

Published: 18 February 2011

A brand new British-Chinese musical, a hip hop version of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and the return of Olivier winner Blue Boy Entertainment are among the delights in the… Read More

Royal Court’s Remembrance Day casting announced

Published: 18 February 2011

Casting has been announced for the Royal Court theatre’s forthcoming production Remembrance Day, with Lark Rise To Candleford’s Ruby Bentall starring in Aleksey Scherbak’s political drama.Joining the young actress are… Read More

Hamlet returns to NT

Published: 18 February 2011

Those who missed Rory Kinnear’s performance as the troubled Danish prince in Shakespeare’s Hamlet will have another chance to see it when the production returns to the venue this spring… Read More

Pigott-Smith balances Wilton at Almeida

Published: 18 February 2011

Tim Pigott-Smith is to join Penelope Wilton, Imelda Staunton and Lucy Cohu in Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance, which plays at the Almeida theatre from 5 May to 2 July… Read More

Penelope

Published: 17 February 2011

In a drained swimming pool – which must surely just be a posh hole – four men wait. They have been waiting for years, trying to win the love of… Read More

Enda Walsh

Published: 16 February 2011

He is a successful playwright and screenwriter with a new play opening in London so, as Enda Walsh himself admits, maybe it is about time he started lightening up, finds… Read More

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

Published: 16 February 2011

I have never seen such an un-British display of enthusiasm for public participation in a musical. Frankly, it was hard to get last night’s audience for Showstopper! to be quiet.The… Read More

Smash! for Conti at Menier

Published: 15 February 2011

Tom Conti is to return to the stage in Smash!, Jack Rosenthal’s 1981 play about the journey of a musical from page to stage, which plays at the Menier Chocolate… Read More

Summer marks end of West End’s Dirty Dancing

Published: 15 February 2011

After more than four years in the West End, Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage is to end its run at the Aldwych theatre on 9 July before… Read More

Children’s Hour announces final extension

Published: 14 February 2011

Keira Knightley fans who have yet to book tickets for The Children’s Hour, should rush to their phones or PCs as the drama at the Comedy theatre has released tickets… Read More

The Heretic

Published: 11 February 2011

Theatre fans hoping for Richard Bean to rattle the cage of eco-warriors with his new climate change play might be in for a shock.The Heretic is not a full-scale broadside… Read More

Eat With Your Seat: Lyric Hammersmith

Published: 10 February 2011

Caroline Bishop finds European flair combined with a family atmosphere at West London’s Lyric Hammersmith and its Italian pizzeria, Café Brera. Café Brera Lyric Hammersmith, Lyric SquareNow playing: Twisted Tales… Read More

Globe plans Best Much Ado

Published: 10 February 2011

Eve Best and Charles Edwards are to play sparring couple Beatrice and Benedick in Shakespeare’s Globe’s production of Much Ado About Nothing this May.In taking on the coveted roles in… Read More

Brown returns to West End for a Svengali summer

Published: 10 February 2011

Derren Brown, master of psychological illusion and Laurence Olivier Award-winning showman, is set to return to the West End this summer with his brand new show Derren Brown: Svengali.Following a… Read More

The Children’s Hour

Published: 10 February 2011

Shall we cut straight to the crux of it? This Crucible-esque play – though it pre-dates Arthur Miller’s classic by two decades – marks the second stage outing of Hollywood… Read More

Naomie Harris

Published: 9 February 2011

As the British screen star prepares to make her National Theatre debut in Frankenstein, she talks to Matthew Amer about Danny Boyle, LA and why she doesn’t play girlfriends.From the… Read More

Bassett returns to Royal Court for Wastwater

Published: 9 February 2011

Larkrise To Candleford actress Linda Bassett will star in Simon Stephens and Katie Mitchell’s first collaboration Wastwater at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs this Spring.Joining Bassett is a cast… Read More

By Jeeves

Published: 9 February 2011

The tiny Landor pub theatre in Clapham seems an unusual location for the revival of a piece by theatrical heavyweights Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn.But then, By Jeeves doesn’t… Read More

EducationLive returns for 2011

Published: 9 February 2011

The Society of London Theatre and Mousetrap Theatre Projects are offering teachers the chance to find out about the educational opportunities London theatre provides at EducationLive, a fun and informal… Read More

Fielder leads Little Angel’s Tempest

Published: 8 February 2011

David Fielder will lead the cast of The Tempest, the Little Angel theatre’s forthcoming collaboration with Royal Shakespeare Company. The Tempest, which premieres in Stratford before playing at Little Angel… Read More

Polka celebrates Quentin Blake in new season

Published: 8 February 2011

Polka theatre is to celebrate the work of former Children’s Laureate Quentin Blake this summer with a new show entitled All Join In And Other Stories, which runs from 13… Read More

RAD dances with Glee

Published: 8 February 2011

Fans of hit TV show Glee can indulge their inner Gleek at a special workshop at the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) on Sunday 27 February.The Glee Musical Theatre Workshop,… Read More

Vernon God Little at the Young Vic

Published: 8 February 2011

Tanya Ronder’s adaptation of DBC Pierre’s Booker Prize-winning novel played at the Young Vic in 2007. Now it is back in a revised production which exploits Pierre’s black humour to… Read More

Roundhouse hosts a festive La Soirée

Published: 7 February 2011

La Soirée has announced it will return this Christmas to the Roundhouse theatre in all its wacky glory for a limited festive season. The variety show’s current run at the… Read More

Q&A: Richard Thomas

Published: 7 February 2011

Best known for creating an opera for the National Theatre out of controversial American chat show Jerry Springer, composer and lyricist Richard Thomas’s distinctive writing style is once more entertaining… Read More

Grieve drags himself into Priscilla

Published: 4 February 2011

Australian TV star Richard Grieve is to join the cast of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical at the Palace theatre from 7 March. Grieve, who replaces Ben Richards… Read More

Kelly to star in Firth’s Sign Of The Times

Published: 4 February 2011

Laurence Olivier Award-winning actor Matthew Kelly will star in Tim Firth’s Sign Of The Times at the Duchess theatre next month, alongside Shameless star Gerard Kearns.Directed by Peter Wilson (Charley’s… Read More

Hall brings Shakespeare to Hampstead

Published: 4 February 2011

Edward Hall, Artistic Director of the Hampstead theatre, is to bring his own company Propeller to the North London venue in June with a double bill of The Comedy Of… Read More

Steve Pemberton

Published: 2 February 2011

With his return to the stage in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Steve Pemberton proves he is up for anything, as he tells Caroline Bishop.It must be a… Read More

Greenland

Published: 2 February 2011

Never one to shy away from a challenge, the National Theatre’s newest creation is a collaborative project by four playwrights about one of the most debated issues of our time.… Read More

Dreamboats launches talent search for new song

Published: 1 February 2011

Dreamboats And Petticoats has launched a competition offering budding songwriters the chance to write a new song to be featured in the rock ‘n’ roll musical.Taking inspiration from the show’s… Read More

Introducing… Thomas Forster

Published: 31 January 2011

Performing for a week in February at Sadler’s Wells, the American Ballet Theatre is on its way to London with English ballet dancer Thomas Forster in tow. Charlotte Marshall chats… Read More

Sheen and Stewart bring Shakespeare to Young Vic

Published: 31 January 2011

Michael Sheen as Hamlet and Patrick Stewart as Shakespeare himself are among the highlights of the 2011/12 season at the Young Vic.Sheen, who will play the tormented Prince of Denmark… Read More

Spiro and Cooke bring Chicken Soup to Royal Court

Published: 31 January 2011

Samantha Spiro will star in Arnold Wesker’s Chicken Soup With Barley at the Royal Court this summer, directed by the much acclaimed venue’s Artistic Director Dominic Cooke.The play, which follows… Read More

Umbrellas Of Cherbourg launches with Gallic flair

Published: 31 January 2011

Theatre impresario Daniel Sparrow declared himself and fellow The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg producers to be “the luckiest West End producers in town” at the glamorous launch for Kneehigh Theatre’s new… Read More

Smith joins Miller in Flare Path

Published: 27 January 2011

Legally Blonde’s Sheridan Smith is to flex her dramatic muscles when she joins Sienna Miller in Terence Rattigan’s Flare Path at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 10 March. Smith, who… Read More

London theatre buoyant in 2010

Published: 27 January 2011

Despite hard economic times in the UK, 2010 proved to be another successful year for London theatre, according to figures released today by the Society of London Theatre (SOLT).More than… Read More

Richmond welcomes Night Garden this summer

Published: 26 January 2011

The live stage adaptation of popular children’s television show In The Night Garden is to set up its inflatable show dome in Richmond’s Old Deer Park this summer.In The Night… Read More

Hytner bags Amos, Leigh and Cooke for new season

Published: 26 January 2011

Cornflake Girl Tori Amos is writing a new musical for the National Theatre, it was announced today. The American singer-songwriter, who had several hits in the 1990s, is teaming up… Read More

The RSC’s King Lear

Published: 26 January 2011

Running at over three hours and with a cast of more than 20, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s King Lear is a fittingly epic production. Laced with a dark, sinister atmosphere,… Read More

Tompsett, Janson and Barker join Horne concert

Published: 25 January 2011

West End stars Oliver Tompsett, Cassidy Janson and Lucy May Barker have joined Hollywood’s Alan Cumming and cabaret diva Meow Meow in the cast of Lance Horne: First Things Last.Tompsett,… Read More

Clybourne Park scores awards hat-trick

Published: 25 January 2011

Bruce Norris’s biting satire Clybourne Park, which ran at the Royal Court last year and is about to begin a West End run, has added the South Bank Sky Arts… Read More

Suchet and Jules honoured by Critics’ Circle

Published: 25 January 2011

David Suchet has won Best Actor at this year’s Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, held today at the Prince of Wales theatre. Suchet’s win, for his performance in Arthur Miller’s All… Read More

Twisted Tales

Published: 25 January 2011

After his success with Ghost Stories, Jeremy Dyson returns to the Lyric Hammersmith to tell some more dark and ominous tales, this time from the pen of Roald Dahl. Dahl… Read More

Little Platoons

Published: 25 January 2011

Political ideology and educational policy combine with family dramas in Steve Waters’s Little Platoons, a satirical look at the coalition government’s Big Society. Staged in West London’s Bush theatre, Waters… Read More

West End LIVE moves to Trafalgar Square

Published: 24 January 2011

Free theatre festival West End LIVE returns to the capital this year on 18 and 19 June offering another feast of theatrical entertainment. Due to the current renovation of Leicester… Read More

The Schools Season at the Bush theatre

Published: 24 January 2011

Charlotte Marshall talks to John Donnelly and Steve Waters about their plays for the Bush theatre which examine one of the most pertinent topics of the day.No one could ever… Read More

Air stars in Waterloo East’s new season

Published: 24 January 2011

Actress and presenter Donna Air is to appear in psychological drama The Watcher at Waterloo East theatre from 8 March to 2 April.Jeremy Paul’s drama centres on a woman sunbathing… Read More

Hunter leaves RSC ensemble

Published: 21 January 2011

Actress Kathryn Hunter has resigned from the Royal Shakespeare Company long ensemble currently presenting a season of work at London’s Roundhouse.The acclaimed actress had been playing the Fool opposite Greg… Read More

Miller to star in Nunn’s debut as Haymarket Artistic Director

Published: 21 January 2011

Trevor Nunn is set to direct Sienna Miller in Terence Rattigan’s World War II drama Flare Path, the first production in his debut season as the new Artistic Director of… Read More

Becky Shaw

Published: 21 January 2011

As Philip Larkin wrote, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad / They may not mean to, but they do”. In the case of almost all the characters in… Read More

Globe tells winter tales with new indoor theatre

Published: 20 January 2011

Shakespeare’s Globe is to become a year-round operation by 2013, it was announced today, as plans were revealed to complete an indoor Jacobean theatre next to the existing outdoor space.… Read More

Globe becomes international for Cultural Olympiad

Published: 20 January 2011

An Urdu production of The Taming Of The Shrew and an Arabic musical version of The Tempest are among the multi-lingual productions to be staged at Shakespeare’s Globe next year… Read More

Sadler’s Wells welcomes Fela!

Published: 20 January 2011

Fela!, the hit Broadway musical which is currently playing at the National Theatre, is to transfer to Sadler’s Wells this summer for a six-week run from 20 July. Directed and… Read More

Tiger Country

Published: 20 January 2011

It has become a British habit to criticise the NHS. But it can’t be that bad, can it? In its unflinching examination of the pressures faced by doctors in NHS… Read More

Olivier Awards to be relaunched on 7 February

Published: 20 January 2011

Nominees for the 35th Laurence Olivier Awards, the most prestigious accolade in London theatre, will be announced early next month.Both theatre fans and industry professionals will have their eyes peeled… Read More

Lyndsey Marshal

Published: 19 January 2011

The British actress and star of Garrow’s Law tells Matthew Amer how appearing in new play Greenland has been a life-changing event.“I can’t think of anything worse after work than… Read More

Chickenshed stages new King’s Web

Published: 19 January 2011

Pioneering inclusive theatre company Chickenshed is to stage a new version of its 1997 story The King’s Web from 4 to 17 March. Originally produced as a 40-minute ballet, this… Read More

Twelfth Night at the National Theatre Cottesloe

Published: 19 January 2011

I have issues with Twelfth Night. Every time I see a production I remember why. Among the twists and turns of confused love, Malvolio receives a comeuppance he never seems… Read More

Explore Brazil with Polka theatre

Published: 18 January 2011

Primary school children are invited to write a short story inspired by Brazil for Polka theatre’s fourth annual story-writing competition. Writing The World launched in 2008 with the aim of… Read More

The Knowledge

Published: 18 January 2011

A new teacher in her NQT year thrown to the most challenging class in the school, stranded far from home, given no support from her mentor or the senior staff… Read More

Dennis drowns in Ayckbourn

Published: 17 January 2011

Les Dennis is to appear in the London premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy about the fame game, Drowning On Dry Land, which plays at the Jermyn Street theatre from 22… Read More
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