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Published: 1 December 2010
The Angina Monologues, a one-off night of comedy in aid of the British Heart Foundation led by Victoria Wood, has released the 100 best seats in the house four days… Read More
As his worldwide hit returns to London, playwright David Greig talks to Matthew Amer about dancing lobsters and why Midsummer is not a musical.There is an odd thing about Edinburgh… Read More
Published: 30 November 2010
Bourgeois Paris has never looked so terrifying than in Jean Cocteau’s tragicomedy Les Parents Terribles. One minute a farce, the next a frightening glimpse into the mentally unhinged, former Donmar… Read More
Published: 29 November 2010
Royal Ballet dancer Romany Pajdak describes a typical day in the life of a ballerina at one of the world's most respected dance companies. Romany Pajdak, 25First Artist, The Royal… Read More
Rory Kinnear and Nancy Carroll have won Best Actor and Actress at this year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards, which were presented last night in a ceremony at the Savoy Hotel.Kinnear… Read More
Published: 26 November 2010
Leading men Alfie Boe and Mark Evans will be back on the West End stage in 2011, when they take over as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables and Fiyero in… Read More
Published: 25 November 2010
Funny men and QI colleagues Alan Davies and Stephen Fry are lending their voices to this year’s Lyric Hammersmith pantomime Dick Whittington And His Cat, which plays from 27 November.… Read More
Unlike Enid Blyton’s Mallory Towers or the jolly-hockey-sticks hi-jinks of St Trinians, EV Crowe’s Kin paints a bleaker and more sinister picture of life inside a private girls’ boarding school.… Read More
Hannah Waddingham, who played the Witch in the Open Air theatre’s production of Into The Woods this summer, will take on witching duties once again next year to play the… Read More
The Menier Chocolate Factory has come up with the perfect foil to cold, dark winter nights: an evening of supreme silliness, with some surprisingly sophisticated illusions thrown in. I say… Read More
Published: 24 November 2010
The Vaudeville theatre’s An Ideal Husband and The Glass Menagerie at the Young Vic theatre have both added extensions to their runs. West End comedy An Ideal Husband will now… Read More
Eagle-eyed theatre fans will start to notice festive Theatre Tokens imagery as they make their way to work or flick through their favourite magazines in the coming weeks.The sensational snowy… Read More
All’s well that ends well in Sheridan’s comedic romp where, as always, the course of love never does run smooth. But for those that think playing games with the opposite… Read More
Published: 23 November 2010
Actor, recording artist, radio presenter… and now producer. Michael Ball finds time in his busy life to have a quick chat with Caroline Bishop. “I’m a bit frazzled,” says Michael… Read More
Shakespeare’s Globe is gearing up for the Christmas season with a range of seasonal additions to its exhibition.As well as its monthly Activity Weekends for families – the next one… Read More
Former soap star turned West End leading man Richard Fleeshman is over the moon at the chance to take the Patrick Swayze role in Ghost The Musical, describing the chance… Read More
Flashdance The Musical has announced it will close on 15 January, just three months after opening at the Shaftesbury theatre. The production had been booking to the end of February.Starring… Read More
Exasperating, beguiling, vulnerable, terrifying, Tracie Bennett runs the gamut of emotions in a star turn as Judy Garland in End Of The Rainbow. Peter Quilter’s drama, which has been brewing… Read More
Published: 22 November 2010
A stage adaptation of classic novel Lord Of The Flies and musical offerings The Beggar’s Opera and Crazy For You will feature in the 2011 season at the Regent’s Park… Read More
High-class food and views to match make The Swan at Shakespeare’s Globe a restaurant to flock to, with or without a theatre ticket, finds Caroline Bishop. The Swan Shakespeare’s Globe,… Read More
Matthew Fox and Olivia Williams are to be directed by Neil LaBute in his new play In A Forest, Dark And Deep at the Vaudeville theatre from 3 March (press… Read More
The Evening Standard Awards shortlist has been announced today, with the Royal Court and National Theatre dominating the awards across the majority of categories.The already highly decorated Royal Court will… Read More
Stage One, the charity dedicated to developing and supporting producers for the commercial theatre industry, has increased the capacity of its bursary and apprentice schemes by 50% in the last… Read More
Published: 19 November 2010
The Tony Award-winning Million Dollar Quartet will make its West End debut at the Noël Coward theatre in February 2011. Currently playing on Broadway and in Chicago, the musical tells… Read More
Multi-Oscar-nominee Ellen Burstyn will make her London stage debut by joining Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss in The Children’s Hour at the Comedy theatre in January. American actress Burstyn is… Read More
Sarah Lancashire and Reece Shearsmith will star in theatre impresario Cameron Mackintosh’s new musical comedy Betty Blue Eyes, which will open at the Novello theatre in March 2011.Betty Blue Eyes… Read More
Can it really be nearly Christmas again? As more than a few mince pieces have already been munched in the Official London Theatre office and the West End has been… Read More
The Donmar Warehouse has announced casting for the opening two productions of its 2011 season, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Moonlight.League Of Gentlemen and Psychoville star Steve… Read More
This modern dress, Spartan production of Ibsen’s 1892 play is a haunting oddity, a dream-like, trippy, chilling tale about the power of the mind and the cost of ambition. Halvard… Read More
Published: 18 November 2010
Quirky cabaret show La Soirée has announced its shoulder-dislocating, table-leg-swallowing, hula-hooping style of entertainment is to remain in London for an extra month. The show, playing in a specially constructed… Read More
In a letter written to his grandfather, reprinted by the Young Vic in its programme for The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams writes that his mother attended the opening night when… Read More
Published: 17 November 2010
As she prepares to play the late great Judy Garland in a new play in the West End, chip-loving Northern lass Tracie Bennett tells Caroline Bishop why she is no… Read More
It is the 1970s and we are invited to Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s legendary club The Shrine. To get to it you have to cross through the most dangerous parts of the… Read More
The National Theatre has commissioned a piece of documentary theatre about our changing relationship with the planet. Greenland will open in the Lyttelton theatre in a spring season that also… Read More
Published: 16 November 2010
Stephen Fry will lead a cast of well-known faces in a one-off charity performance of an alternative nativity by Patrick Barlow on 5 December. Star Child, which is being staged… Read More
Richard Bean and Simon Stephens will debut new work at the Royal Court theatre this spring, with Stephens joining forces with acclaimed director Katie Mitchell for the first time.The playwrights,… Read More
Wilton’s Music Hall will be decked with boughs of holly this Christmas as it presents a Victorian-themed festive show from 6 to 18 December.Wilton’s Vintage Christmas is a variety hall… Read More
Published: 15 November 2010
It’s not often that a theatre company can claim a history as worthy of telling as any of the fiction they create, but Clean Break’s beginnings are as inspiring as… Read More
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has sent a strong message of support to the arts today with the unveiling of a cultural strategy calling for continued investment in culture by… Read More
Stuart McQuarrie and Jason Watkins have joined the cast of Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park, which transfers to the West End early next year after a successful run at the Royal… Read More
Published: 12 November 2010
Diminutive American actor Leslie Jordan, best known for his Emmy Award-winning role in sitcom Will And Grace, is to bring his autobiographical one-man show My Trip Down The Pink Carpet… Read More
The Bush theatre is to leave its current home above a pub on Shepherd’s Bush Green to move into a new permanent home in the old library building on Uxbridge… Read More
Award-winning actress Anne-Marie Duff is to make her first stage appearance since the birth of her first child when she opens in the Old Vic production of Rattigan’s Cause Célèbre… Read More
Just three years after its inception, the Apprentice Scheme for New Producers run by theatrical charity Stage One is going from strength to strength, with its apprentices learning their craft… Read More
Young musical theatre stars Richard Fleeshman and Caissie Levy will appear as Ghost The Musical’s fated lovers in the forthcoming Piccadilly theatre production. Joining the pair on stage are Andrew… Read More
Published: 11 November 2010
A neat, well-structured play which ties up its loose ends, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband is a study of human frailty against the pressures of Victorian society.There is a sense,… Read More
Published: 10 November 2010
After a succession of big budget films have made her one of Britain’s most recognisable young actresses, Gemma Arterton is heading to the off-West End Almeida theatre, where she can… Read More
The American creators of Afrobeat musical Fela!, which is due to open at the National Theatre next week, are at the centre of a multi-million pound copyright claim, though the… Read More
Joe Wright, the award-winning British director of films Atonement and Pride And Prejudice, is to return to the theatre his parents founded to direct a puppet show next year.Wright, whose… Read More
To accompany its Christmas stay at London’s Roundhouse, the Royal Shakespeare Company is offering theatregoers the chance to see how the company creates its productions through two workshops entitled Shakespeare… Read More
On Charing Cross Road, something is up with West End theatre. Enter the Wyndham’s theatre over the next six weeks and you will be met by a blasted greeting of… Read More
Published: 8 November 2010
In this week’s visit to an in-theatre restaurant, Caroline Bishop finds a chef going to great lengths to match his food to the show at the Young Vic’s Cut Bar.… Read More
Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle will direct a star-studded line-up of actors on stage at the Old Vic this Sunday 14 November for a one-off charity performance to raise funds… Read More
Published: 5 November 2010
Spur Of The Moment, the debut play by young playwright Anya Reiss, has won the Theatrical Management Association (TMA) Theatre Award for Best New Play. Spur Of The Moment, written… Read More
The Barbican has announced a spring/summer 2011 season packed with theatrical luminaries and boundary-pushing performance.Artistic associate Deborah Warner returns to the venue for the first time since her 2005 large-scale… Read More
Shakespeare’s Globe will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible next year with a season entitled The Word Is God that includes its own take on The Mystery… Read More
Former Atomic Kitten singer Natasha Hamilton is to make her West End stage debut in 2011, when she joins the cast of long-running musical Blood Brothers to play the leading… Read More
Dates and venue have been confirmed for Ian Rickson’s forthcoming production of The Children’s Hour, starring Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss. The duo’s performances will be seen at the Comedy… Read More
Published: 4 November 2010
Arts Council England (ACE), the national development agency for the arts, today announced the “biggest change to arts funding in a generation”.The overhaul of the system by which organisations receive… Read More
Fans of Christmas with a hint of classic Las Vegas cool are in for a treat in December as Christmas With The Rat Pack – Live From Las Vegas comes… Read More
Published: 3 November 2010
As she prepares to take on her first role in a Tennessee Williams play, experienced actress Deborah Findlay tells Caroline Bishop why she loves learning on the job.Deborah Findlay has… Read More
Ollie Barbieri, star of hit teen drama Skins, is among seven actors making their professional stage debuts in the new Royal Court production, Kin.Barbieri, who plays JJ Jones in the… Read More
Waterloo East theatre will be pretty in pink this Christmas as it presents the UK premiere of American children’s show Pinkalicious The Musical from 11 December to 2 January (press… Read More
Two very different musicals will receive their UK premieres at the new Waterloo East theatre this Christmas season. Striking 12, which runs from 7 December to 2 January (press night… Read More
Published: 2 November 2010
Acclaimed visual theatre company Gomito Productions will be Catching Father Christmas at artsdepot this festive season. Catching Father Christmas, which plays at the North Finchley venue from 3 December to… Read More
It is obvious that Italian writer Alessandro Baricco is a novelist. His play Novecento is a narrated story rich in imagery that could just as easily be read on the… Read More
Published: 1 November 2010
One of numerous eateries in trendy Islington, the small but perfectly formed Almeida Café & Bar nevertheless occupies its own niche, finds Caroline Bishop. The Almeida Café & Bar Almeida… Read More
Published: 29 October 2010
Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller will star in Danny Boyle’s forthcoming National Theatre debut, Frankenstein. In an ambitious twist, Lee Miller and Cumberbatch will share the roles of Dr… Read More
Playwright Sarah Kane committed suicide in 1999. After watching her seminal play, Blasted, I can better understand the sort of troubled mind she must have had to drive her to… Read More
Published: 28 October 2010
Griff Rhys Jones will return to Oliver! this December for a five week run, while Jodie Prenger will play Nancy for one last time on 13 November.Rhys Jones will replace… Read More
Written in 1938, 30 years after the time it is set, there is a knowingness about JB Priestley’s When We Are Married that makes it seem ahead of its time.… Read More
The National Theatre’s Cottesloe space is to be renamed the Dorfman theatre after a £10 million personal philanthropic gift from Lloyd Dorfman, founder and chairman of Travelex and a member… Read More
Published: 27 October 2010
After playing Summer Bay’s most short-tempered resident for more than two decades, Ray Meagher has built up a sizeable fan base in the UK. But this unassuming actor isn’t one… Read More
Wandsworth’s BAC is pulling out all the stops for families this Christmas with a brand new interactive show for children aged 6-11 and an indoor ‘social space’ for younger kids.… Read More
Voted in a National Theatre poll as one of the top 100 plays of the last century, Men Should Weep is presented by the Bush theatre’s Artistic Director Josie Rourke,… Read More