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Hoff swaps lifeguard for panto pirate

Published: 26 October 2010

David Hasselhoff, cult figure and star of hit TV series Baywatch and Knightrider, will be strutting his stuff on the stage of the New Wimbledon theatre this winter, as he… Read More

Conti tells Soho theatre to Talk To The Hand

Published: 26 October 2010

Nina Conti and her award-winning puppets will return to the Soho theatre this winter with a new full-length show Talk To The Hand.The unique comedian, whose Edinburgh Festival run of… Read More

My Romantic History

Published: 26 October 2010

Lyndsey Turner, fresh from her success at the Royal Court, directs DC Jackson’s Edinburgh Festival hit My Romantic History. Already boasting a Fringe First award, the uncomfortably awkward comedy makes… Read More

ACE sets out funding cut plan

Published: 26 October 2010

Following the near 30% cut to its budget, Arts Council England (ACE) has announced it will meet the government’s request to limit the cuts to its regularly funded organisations by… Read More

Red Bud

Published: 26 October 2010

“Reeeeeeeddddd Buuuuuuuddddd!” rings out through the Royal Court’s Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, like the mating call of the disaffected, dysfunctional middle-aged male in Brett Neveu’s new play.The over-enthusiastic cry is the… Read More

Q & A: Iain Robertson

Published: 25 October 2010

BAFTA winning actor Iain Robertson discusses what it is like to stand behind Tom Hanks in a dinner queue, how Shepherd’s Bush is superior to Hollywood and why you may… Read More

Evening Standard announces awards long list

Published: 25 October 2010

A plethora of London’s theatre stars will be celebrating today as awards season gets underway with the announcement of the Evening Standard Theatre Awards nominations long list.Among those to have… Read More

Book review: Putting It On

Published: 22 October 2010

Putting It On - The West End Theatre of Michael Codron  By Michael Codron and Alan Strachan  (Duckworth, 383p.p. £25)Still going strong at 80, producer Michael Codron has been a… Read More

Knightley returns in Children’s Hour

Published: 22 October 2010

Keira Knightley and Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss will star in Lillian Hellman’s drama The Children’s Hour when it opens in the West End early in 2011.The A-list cast will be… Read More

Love Never Dies takes break for changes

Published: 22 October 2010

Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest musical hit that follows the ongoing story of The Phantom Of The Opera, is to take a performance hiatus from 22 to 25… Read More

La Soirée

Published: 22 October 2010

Who else could swallow a chair leg, put their body through a tennis racket and stand on another’s head wearing only pants and a bowler hat? Why, it must be… Read More

Webb and Medford join pantomime

Published: 21 October 2010

Steven Webb, currently seen in Waterloo East theatre’s musical Departure Lounge, is to play Dick Whittington in the Lyric Hammersmith’s forthcoming pantomime, with West End regular Paul J Medford as… Read More

Tribes

Published: 21 October 2010

It is the most exclusive club you will ever belong to, one with complicated politics, history and traditions, its own unspoken rules and in-jokes. But this isn’t a club you… Read More

Rowe returns to his regular panto Empire

Published: 20 October 2010

Clive Rowe will open his sparkling wardrobe of glittery dresses and gravity-defying wigs once again at the Hackney Empire this Christmas, when he stars in Susie McKenna’s Jack And The… Read More

Ruth Negga

Published: 20 October 2010

Ruth Negga, currently starring as Ophelia in the National Theatre’s Hamlet, shares the trick of making everything look easy with Matthew Amer.There cannot be many actors who are offered a… Read More

Spending review cuts DCMS funding by 15%

Published: 20 October 2010

The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which provides essential funding for many of the UK’s arts organisations, is to have its budget slashed by 15% between 2011 and… Read More

Horla tells A Christmas Carol

Published: 20 October 2010

Theatre company Horla is to bring its stage version of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol to Trafalgar Studio 2 this festive season, running from 21 December to 8 January. Suitable… Read More

Bradley in Moonlight at Donmar

Published: 20 October 2010

David Bradley is to play the principal role of Andy in Bijan Sheibani’s production of Harold Pinter’s Moonlight at the Donmar Warehouse from 7 April. Bradley is no stranger to… Read More

Teachers experience EducationLive

Published: 19 October 2010

Some 60 secondary and further education teachers met representatives from theatres all over London yesterday at EducationLive.An annual event organised by the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) and Mousetrap Theatre… Read More

Kingston and Court cast Christmas capers

Published: 19 October 2010

West End regulars Matt Rawle, Kaisa Hammerlund and Hal Fowler are to head south to join the cast of the Rose theatre Kingston’s forthcoming Christmas show The Three Musketeers. Rawle,… Read More

Bear hunted at Cadogan Hall

Published: 19 October 2010

We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, the stage adaptation of Michael Rosen’s picture book of the same name, is returning to London this autumn for a pre-Christmas season at Cadogan… Read More

Hampstead invites playwrights Downstairs

Published: 18 October 2010

Hampstead theatre is to turn a downstairs studio space into a laboratory for new writing with a season featuring work by Gary Lennon, Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime. Hampstead Downstairs,… Read More

Eat with your seat: The Menier Chocolate Factory

Published: 18 October 2010

Much like a mobile phone going off, no one wants a particularly tense dramatic moment to be spoiled by a rumbling stomach.  In a new series of features, Caroline Bishop… Read More

Shraddha wins Meyer-Whitworth

Published: 18 October 2010

Playwright Natasha Langridge has won the 2010 Meyer-Whitworth Award for her play Shraddha, which played at Soho theatre last year. Set in a Romany community in East London, Shraddha told… Read More

Sound Of Music actor MacCorkindale dies

Published: 18 October 2010

The actor Simon MacCorkindale died last Thursday, aged 58, after a long battle with cancer. Though best known for his screen work, MacCorkindale, whose career began on the stage, returned… Read More

Panto cancels Arts season

Published: 15 October 2010

Puss In Boots, which was due to play at London’s Arts theatre this festive season, has been forced to cancel its run due to the ongoing dispute between the venue’s… Read More

Wilton, Dillon and Gwynne lead Almeida 2011

Published: 15 October 2010

Islington’s Almeida theatre is to launch into the new year with the British premiere of Becky Shaw, the world premiere of David Eldridge’s The Knot Of The Heart and a… Read More

Flashdance The Musical

Published: 15 October 2010

Leg warmers, ripped fishnets and bleached denim are back on stage in the iconic 80s story Flashdance. But in a surprising, but welcome, twist, the creative team behind the musical… Read More

Full cast for Feydeau’s Flea

Published: 14 October 2010

London stage regulars Jonathan Cake, Tim McMullan, Lloyd Hutchinson and Fiona Glascott are to join Lisa Dillon and Tom Hollander in A Flea In Her Ear, which plays at the… Read More

Sharon Small

Published: 13 October 2010

Best known for her television work, Glaswegian actress Sharon Small is returning to the stage – and recalling her childhood – to lead the National Theatre’s Men Should Weep, finds… Read More

National Theatre offers beastly workshops

Published: 13 October 2010

The National Theatre is giving children and their families the chance to make like a beast and fight like a swordsman in a series of workshops about theatre-making this half… Read More

Onassis

Published: 13 October 2010

Power, sex, greed and Greek mythology meet in Martin Sherman’s decadent Onassis, with Robert Lindsay commanding the stage as the title character in a role that requires, above all else,… Read More

New acts join London Soirée

Published: 13 October 2010

A Lycra-clad opera-singer, a hula-hoop expert and a Canadian clown are among the additions to the line-up of cabaret show La Soirée this autumn. La Soirée, which opens at a… Read More

Friedman joins Menier’s Invisible Man

Published: 11 October 2010

Maria Friedman is to return to the Menier Chocolate Factory to appear in The Invisible Man, Ian Talbot’s music hall-style production of HG Wells’s classic tale of mysterious happenings in… Read More

Introducing… Lydia Leonard

Published: 11 October 2010

Playing Jackie Onassis could be a daunting task, but, as actress Lydia Leonard explains to Matthew Amer, the iconic figure “is a human being just like any other”. CV in… Read More

Pudsey teams up with Jersey Boys for Children In Need

Published: 11 October 2010

Jersey Boys has joined forces with radio station BBC London to hold a special gala performance on 17 November to raise money for BBC Children In Need 2010. BBC London… Read More

SOLT supports Save The Arts

Published: 8 October 2010

Nica Burns, President of the Society of London Theatre (SOLT), is urging the theatre industry and theatregoers to join the Save The Arts campaign which aims to encourage people to… Read More

Williams and Xavier share a Love Story

Published: 8 October 2010

Emma Williams, Michael Xavier and Peter Polycarpou will star in Love Story at the Duchess theatre when the musical opens later this year. The show won a West End transfer… Read More

Barber and Bonnar in Donmar Trafalgar

Published: 8 October 2010

Frances Barber and Mark Bonnar will star in the next two productions in the Donmar Trafalgar season at Trafalgar Studio 2. The season, which launched earlier this week with Lower… Read More

First Night: Hamlet

Published: 8 October 2010

Director Nicholas Hytner brings us a thoroughly contemporary Hamlet, with Rory Kinnear's Danish Prince using his antic disposition as a defence against the spin and security of a modern palace.… Read More

Enlightenment

Published: 7 October 2010

Hampstead theatre’s new Artistic Director Edward Hall opened his first season at the North London venue last night with the premiere of Shelagh Stephenson’s dark and philosophical thriller Enlightenment. The… Read More

Broken Glass

Published: 7 October 2010

After Eddie Carbone, Willy Loman and Joe Keller, Arthur Miller gives us another classic flawed hero in this 1994 Laurence Olivier Award-winning play Broken Glass. Antony Sher takes on Phillip… Read More

Go!Go!Go! Show goes, goes, goes back to Leicester Square

Published: 6 October 2010

The Go!Go!Go! Show is back at the Leicester Square Theatre this autumn and runs over the Christmas period for any families looking for a poptastic festive treat.The kids’ musical began… Read More

National plans to thrive with new season

Published: 6 October 2010

Zoë Wanamaker is to star in a new production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at the National Theatre next year, directed by Howard Davies. The actress, who has previously appeared… Read More

London venues make TMA mark

Published: 6 October 2010

Anya Reiss’s Spur Of The Moment and Simon Stephens’s Punk Rock have both been nominated for Best New Play at the 2010 Theatrical Management Association (TMA) Theatre Awards, which honour… Read More

Globe presents New Year celebration

Published: 6 October 2010

Following Footsbarn’s Christmas Cracker last festive season, Shakespeare’s Globe will return to winter programming early next year by inviting musical group Gabrieli Consort & Players to perform at the open… Read More

Julie Graham

Published: 6 October 2010

As she returns to the theatre after a period in which she was rarely off British television screens, Enlightenment’s Julie Graham talks to Matthew Amer about fear, children and her… Read More

Or You Could Kiss Me

Published: 6 October 2010

In the National Theatre’s intimate Cottesloe space, South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company and British playwright Neil Bartlett have collaborated to produce a moving new play that is as far from… Read More

Dramatic delights

Published: 5 October 2010

The stars are out in force this autumn. From young name-makers Gemma Arterton and Rory Kinnear to old hands Michael Gambon and Derek Jacobi, London’s theatres are awash with talents… Read More

London Palladium honours Wisdom

Published: 5 October 2010

The lights will be dimmed for 10 minutes at the London Palladium this evening in honour of entertainer Sir Norman Wisdom, who died yesterday. Wisdom, who died aged 95 at… Read More

Lower Ninth

Published: 5 October 2010

The Donmar Warehouse has ventured out of its renowned Covent Garden lair for Donmar Trafalgar, a three year initiative promoting the work of the venue’s young directors. This year’s 12… Read More

A Number at the Menier Chocolate Factory

Published: 5 October 2010

“If that’s me over there, who am I?” asks a character in Caryl Churchill’s A Number. In this short play about cloning, it is a pertinent question. Jonathan Munby’s revival… Read More

Faust

Published: 4 October 2010

Icelandic company Vesturport created a depth-defying Metamorphosis at the Lyric Hammersmith, turned Romeo And Juliet into a Moulin Rouge-inspired circus in the West End and transformed Woyzeck into a nightmarish… Read More

Globe Exhibition takes families back in time

Published: 4 October 2010

Families paying a visit to Shakespeare’s Globe on 9 and 10 October will get the chance to take part in some special activities in the Globe Exhibition. The Globe’s Activity… Read More

Direct to the West End

Published: 4 October 2010

The Donmar Warehouse is one of London’s most celebrated theatres, and under Artistic Director Michael Grandage it has become a champion of new directing talent. So it must be every… Read More

Donmar cancels Passion performances

Published: 4 October 2010

Performances of Passion at the Donmar Warehouse have been cancelled until Thursday evening after actor David Birrell sustained an injury during Saturday’s matinee show.Birrell, who plays Colonel Ricci in the… Read More

Bennett takes End Of The Rainbow to the West End

Published: 1 October 2010

Tracie Bennett will star in the West End premiere of Judy Garland biographical play End Of The Rainbow this November, directed by Laurence Olivier Award-winner Terry Johnson at the Trafalgar… Read More

Shearsmith tells Ghost Stories

Published: 1 October 2010

Reece Shearsmith, best known for dark comedy show The League Of Gentlemen, is to replace Andy Nyman in West End thriller Ghost Stories at the Duke of York’s theatre from… Read More

Michael Grandage to leave Donmar Warehouse

Published: 30 September 2010

Michael Grandage, the multi-award-winning Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse, will step down from his post in late 2011 after nine years in the job.Grandage said today: “With the Donmar’s… Read More

Findlay in Young Vic’s Glass Menagerie

Published: 30 September 2010

Deborah Findlay will lead the cast of The Glass Menagerie at the Young Vic this November.Findlay will play the role of Amanda Wingfield in a cast that also includes Sinead… Read More

On Ageing

Published: 30 September 2010

2010 marks the 40th anniversary of the Young Vic theatre, a landmark that in human terms might provoke a healthy dose of nostalgia, reflection on the last four decades and… Read More

Jonathan Slinger

Published: 29 September 2010

After years playing baddies, Jonathan Slinger has had to find his moral core for his role in new comedy Yes, Prime Minister, finds Caroline Bishop.Last time we saw Jonathan Slinger… Read More

Clybourne Park moves into West End

Published: 29 September 2010

Bruce Norris’s satire Clybourne Park, which is currently playing at the Royal Court until 2 October, is to transfer to the Wyndham’s theatre from 28 January (press night 8 February). … Read More

Dan and Jeff go potty for panto

Published: 29 September 2010

The masters of reduced silliness, Dan and Jeff, return to the West End this Christmas with their new show Potted Panto, which plays at the Vaudeville theatre from 10 December… Read More

Birdsong

Published: 29 September 2010

It was always going to be a mammoth task to bring Sebastian Faulks’s epic 1993 novel Birdsong to the stage. Playwright Rachel Wagstaff and director Trevor Nunn have created a… Read More

Yes, Prime Minister

Published: 28 September 2010

You may have thought you had seen the last of Prime Minister Jim Hacker. But, like many politicians, he has bounced back for a second bite of the cherry, with… Read More

Q & A: Caroline O’Connor

Published: 27 September 2010

Globetrotting musical theatre star Caroline O’Connor has starred in shows in the West End, on Broadway and across the world. Now she is back in London with a special show… Read More

The Big Fellah

Published: 27 September 2010

Playwright Richard Bean describes his new piece, The Big Fellah, as his 9/11 play, yet all the action takes place before the tragic date and focuses on a different terrorist… Read More

Michael Crawford is West End Wizard

Published: 24 September 2010

The original Phantom Of The Opera, Michael Crawford, is to be the new Wizard Of Oz as he once again teams up with Andrew Lloyd Webber for his new production… Read More

Manor-born duo become Rivals in West End

Published: 24 September 2010

Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles are to bring their performances in the Theatre Royal Bath production of The Rivals to the West End. The Peter Hall-directed production plays at the… Read More

Les Misérables

Published: 24 September 2010

When it premiered at the Barbican, way back in 1985, to decidedly mixed reviews, not even uber-producer Cameron Mackintosh could have predicted that a quarter of a century later, his… Read More

Sweet Charity announces West End closure

Published: 23 September 2010

The Menier Chocolate Factory production of Sweet Charity, which stars Tamzin Outhwaite in the title role, is to close at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 6 November, following a six-month… Read More

Theatregoing tourists spend £2.8 billion

Published: 23 September 2010

In 2009, more than three million theatre-loving foreign tourists spent £2.8 billion on visits to the UK that included a trip to the theatre, states a new report published by… Read More

Krapp’s Last Tape

Published: 23 September 2010

Michael Gambon starring in a play by Beckett on the West End stage; Krapp’s Last Tape is one of the most anticipated productions of the autumn.The slowly built anticipation continues… Read More

Mitchell stages Beauty And The Beast

Published: 23 September 2010

A new production of classic fairytale Beauty And The Beast will be staged by the National Theatre this Christmas, suitable for children aged eight and older. Beauty And The Beast,… Read More
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