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Ralf Little

Published: 22 September 2010

Unlike his character in new play The Aliens, actor Ralf Little knows what he wants out of life, finds Caroline Bishop.It wasn’t a hard choice for Ralf Little to decide… Read More

Arts Theatre tenants served notice

Published: 22 September 2010

Future productions at London’s Arts theatre have been placed in jeopardy after the venue’s tenants Brasrat Ltd were served notice by landlords Consolidated St Giles LLP.Christmas family production Puss In… Read More

Passion

Published: 22 September 2010

Elena Roger is making a habit of playing doomed heroines. After Evita and Edith Piaf, the Argentinean actress plays Fosca, another character – albeit it a fictional one this time… Read More

The Aliens

Published: 21 September 2010

Rarely does the crunch of gravel under foot greet the audience as they enter an auditorium. But at the Bush theatre you are never sure exactly which auditorium you will… Read More

St Pancras gears up for Wicked time

Published: 20 September 2010

A search for the UK’s best Glee club will be just one of the activities in the fifth annual Wicked Day, to be held at St Pancras International on 31… Read More

Accomplice

Published: 20 September 2010

I am tempted to write nothing about the Menier Chocolate Factory’s latest venture. I went along knowing next to nothing and came away thoroughly delighted that I didn’t, and that,… Read More

Introducing… Victoria Hamilton-Barritt

Published: 20 September 2010

Welder by day, dancer by night, the character of Alex in 1983 film Flashdance leads something of a double life. It is appropriate then, that the actress who is playing… Read More

Bierman leaves Donmar for Almeida

Published: 20 September 2010

Donmar Warehouse Executive Producer James Bierman is to leave the Covent Garden venue to become Executive Director at Islington’s Almeida theatre. He will take up the position in early 2011.Speaking… Read More

King’s Head reinvented as opera house

Published: 20 September 2010

London’s King’s Head theatre is to re-launch as London’s Little Opera House later this autumn, under the Artistic Directorship of Adam Spreadbury-Maher.Playwright Mark Ravenhill has been appointed Associate Director and… Read More

Bailey gives Wyndham’s a piece of his Dandelion Mind

Published: 17 September 2010

Musical comedian Bill Bailey is to return to the West End this autumn to present his latest stand-up show Dandelion Mind at the Wyndham’s theatre.The new show, which has already… Read More

Kneehigh brings tempting seasonal treat to Southbank

Published: 17 September 2010

Fairytales are in high demand on London’s South Bank. While summer saw Into The Hoods staged at the Southbank Centre, this winter Kneehigh’s Hansel And Gretel will bring a touch… Read More

Billy Youth Theatre creates West End star

Published: 17 September 2010

A schoolboy who appeared in an amateur production of Billy Elliot The Musical has landed a role in the West End production of the show. Shotton Hall Theatre School’s Connor… Read More

Birdman attracts Pet Shop Boys

Published: 17 September 2010

Multi-award-winning pop duo the Pet Shop Boys are to compose an original score for David Almond’s children’s show My Dad’s A Birdman, which plays at the Young Vic this Christmas.… Read More

House Of Games

Published: 17 September 2010

Here is the scam: there is a psychiatrist. Her patient owes a life-threatening amount of money to a card player, so she pays a visit to the House Of Games… Read More

Clarke sees Ghost next June

Published: 17 September 2010

West End regular Sharon D Clarke will star as a phoney psychic in the new stage musical adaptation of the 1990 blockbuster film Ghost, which has confirmed it will open… Read More

Goodgame leads T-Birds as Grease leaves West End

Published: 16 September 2010

Matthew Goodgame is to replace Noel Sullivan as iconic high school stud Danny Zuko for the final six months of Grease’s run at London’s Piccadilly theatre. The former Musicality contestant… Read More

Design For Living

Published: 16 September 2010

Actress Lisa Dillon has a natural innocence that suggests you could leave her alone with an open box of the most tempting chocolates and return later to find that not… Read More

Thomas replaces Fleeshman in Legally Blonde

Published: 16 September 2010

Simon Thomas, who spent his summer strutting around Regents Park Open Air theatre as Rapunzel’s Prince in Into The Woods, will move to a theatre with a roof this autumn… Read More

Light, Hille and Shepherd join Master Builder

Published: 16 September 2010

Full casting has been announced for the Gemma Arterton and Stephen Dillane led production of Ibsen’s The Master Builder, which opens at the Almeida theatre in November.Joining the Tamara Drewe… Read More

Interview: Richard Bean

Published: 15 September 2010

He has two shows opening in London this month, has been commissioned by West End producer Sonia Friedman, has had his worked performed in the National’s Olivier theatre, yet is… Read More

Soho welcomes Bagpuss to the stage

Published: 15 September 2010

A whole new generation of children will come to love the sleepy pink-and-white cat Bagpuss this Christmas as Soho theatre and Birmingham Stage Company team up for a stage production… Read More

Blood And Gifts

Published: 15 September 2010

JT Rogers has expanded the short play first seen in the Tricycle theatre’s Afghanistan season into this full length drama which explores the power struggle between two superpowers using the… Read More

The Human Comedy

Published: 14 September 2010

The Young Vic has a history of staging productions with the help of the local community. The Human Comedy continues that tradition by employing the singing talents of around 100… Read More

Peacock puts on Mear’s Shoes

Published: 13 September 2010

Shoes, choreographer Stephen Mear’s colourful homage to footwear, will be moving to the West End in February next year after the success of its short run at Sadler’s Wells this… Read More

Ghost Stories scares Londoners longer

Published: 13 September 2010

Ghost Stories, the West End’s latest evening of frightening fun, has proved such a hit with fans of things that go bump in the night that it has extended its… Read More

Young Vic comes of age

Published: 13 September 2010

As the Young Vic prepares to open its 40th birthday season, Charlotte Marshall looks back at the history of this radical venue south of the river.In 1970, a butcher’s shop… Read More

Bedlam

Published: 10 September 2010

Nell Leyshon, the first woman playwright to have a play staged at Shakespeare’s Globe, takes as her subject matter the Bethleham hospital, otherwise known as Bedlam, in the mid-18th century.… Read More

Judge the Oliviers and enjoy a year’s free theatre!

Published: 10 September 2010

Are you a theatre-lover? Do you know your Shakespeare from your Stoppard? Are you on first name terms with the capital’s ushers? If so, you could see an entire year… Read More

Gatiss joins Tate for Christmas at the National

Published: 9 September 2010

League Of Gentlemen star and Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss will be wintering at the National Theatre, where he joins the previously announced Catherine Tate and a stellar cast in a… Read More

Kids Week 2010 breaks all records

Published: 9 September 2010

Kids Week in the West End proved more popular in 2010 than ever before, selling more tickets, running longer and offering more children a chance to experience London theatre.The annual… Read More

Million Dollar performers sought for West End Quartet

Published: 9 September 2010

Talented performers who think they can emulate some of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll stars of the 20th century are being asked to audition for a new West End production… Read More

Goldberg returns for Superior performances

Published: 8 September 2010

Whoopi Goldberg, who was forced to curtail her run in musical Sister Act at the London Palladium due to family illness, will return to the show for five performances only… Read More

Jamie Lloyd

Published: 8 September 2010

Jamie Lloyd, currently directing the Donmar Warehouse’s revival of Sondheim’s Passion, tells Caroline Bishop why he is an actor’s director. Some people just make you wonder what you have done… Read More

Deathtrap

Published: 8 September 2010

There is something that just feels right about indulging in a thriller at the start of autumn. The encroaching darkness, the gathering storms and the chill creeping into the air… Read More

Shoes

Published: 8 September 2010

Who knew you could tap dance in platform shoes? Apparently you can. This rather impressive sight is just one of many scenes in dance revue Shoes which pay loving homage… Read More

Swede is big at Roundhouse

Published: 7 September 2010

Following yesterday’s announcement of cabaret show La Soirée, another star of La Clique will return to London this Christmas. Magician Carl-Einar Häckner will stage his show Big In Sweden at… Read More

Clique stars return for new Soirée

Published: 6 September 2010

Some of the stars of the Laurence Olivier Award-winning cabaret show La Clique will return to London this Christmas to present La Soirée, a new show held in a specially… Read More

National Geographic shows off Lion King

Published: 6 September 2010

Fans of hit West End show The Lion King can see exactly how the characters from the Disney story were created on stage thanks to a new exhibition at the… Read More

Aspects of autumn

Published: 6 September 2010

With Simon Russell Beale in Deathtrap, Rory Kinnear taking on Hamlet and Derek Jacobi’s King Lear, not to mention Matt Willis in Flashdance, this autumn is shaping up to be… Read More

Wicked soars into its fifth year

Published: 3 September 2010

The witches of Wicked will defy gravity to soar into their fifth year in the West End; the Laurence Olivier Award-winning musical extends its booking period today to 29 October… Read More

Donmar debuts Spelling Bee in 2011

Published: 3 September 2010

The Tony Award-winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will receive its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse next spring as part of a season that also includes… Read More

Clybourne Park

Published: 3 September 2010

Following his dissection of middle class guilt in The Pain And The Itch, American playwright Bruce Norris turns his biting wit onto the subject of prejudice across a period of… Read More

Autumn 2010 Access London Theatre brochure out now

Published: 3 September 2010

The new Access London Theatre brochure is now available and contains details of over 120 assisted performances taking place across London’s Theatreland this autumn. The brochure, which is published three… Read More

Clean Break is Charged at Soho

Published: 3 September 2010

Women’s theatre company Clean Break will bring together six of Britain’s finest contemporary female playwrights at the Soho theatre this autumn for a cycle of shows entitled Charged.EV Crowe, Sam… Read More

Nigel Lindsay is Shrek

Published: 3 September 2010

Nigel Lindsay will have to get used to feeling a little green at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane next year as he takes on the role of Shrek in the… Read More

Graham and Beaumont find Enlightenment in Hampstead

Published: 1 September 2010

Julie Graham and Daisy Beaumont will star in Shelagh Stephenson’s Enlightenment at the Hampstead theatre from 30 September to 30 October (press night 6 October). A psychological thriller, Enlightenment focuses… Read More

Sophie Thompson

Published: 1 September 2010

As Sophie Thompson prepares to return to the London stage, she chats to Matthew Amer not about her famous family, but about being voted a bitch, Fruit Pastilles and unemployment.Actress… Read More

Hampstead welcomes RSC long ensemble

Published: 1 September 2010

The Royal Shakespeare Company is to premiere three new plays at Hampstead theatre from April to June 2011 as the final chapter in the work of the company’s current long… Read More

Puss In Boots walks into Arts

Published: 31 August 2010

Kacey Ainsworth and Ben James-Ellis are to star in a new production of Puss In Boots at the Arts theatre this Christmas from 18 November to 9 January (press night… Read More

Henshall makes spirited appearance at Apollo

Published: 31 August 2010

Laurence Olivier Award-winning stage star Ruthie Henshall is to join the cast of Thea Sharrock’s production of Blithe Spirit at the Apollo theatre next spring. Henshall will play ghostly apparition… Read More

Backstage: David Stringer, Wardrobe Master

Published: 31 August 2010

Whether it be dealing with an enthusiastic opera singer, learning the Spanish words for body armour or finding the nearest dry cleaner to any given theatre, the life of a… Read More

Van Outen, Stenson and Dillon go Blonde

Published: 27 August 2010

TV judge, West End star and new mum Denise Van Outen is to return to the London stage on 25 October, when she joins Sheridan Smith in the cast of… Read More

Goldberg withdraws from Sister Act

Published: 27 August 2010

Whoopi Goldberg, who is currently playing the role of Mother Superior in Sister Act, has had to withdraw from the rest of her run due to family illness. A statement… Read More

History repeats as Corden returns to National Theatre

Published: 27 August 2010

James Corden, best known as the star of Gavin And Stacey, will return to the National Theatre next year to lead the cast of The Servant To Two Masters in… Read More

Fearon in Westenra’s Lower Ninth

Published: 27 August 2010

Ray Fearon, Richie Campbell and Anthony Welsh are to star in Beau Willimon’s Lower Ninth at the Trafalgar Studios next month, directed by Charlotte Westenra as part of the new… Read More

Chickenshed lines up entertaining autumn

Published: 26 August 2010

Inclusive theatre company Chickenshed continues to encourage youngsters to get performing this autumn with a series of Saturday morning workshops, its regular Tales From The Shed and a brand new… Read More

Ruffelle shows London Beneath The Dress

Published: 26 August 2010

Beneath The Dress, the hit Edinburgh Festival show of musical theatre star Frances Ruffelle, will transfer to London’s Garrick theatre for one night only on Sunday 12 September.The one-woman show… Read More

Richard III reunites Spacey and Mendes

Published: 26 August 2010

Kevin Spacey, the award-winning actor and Artistic Director of the Old Vic theatre, is to reunite with American Beauty director Sam Mendes to play the title role in Shakespeare’s Richard… Read More

Sher shares Broken Glass with Lindsay and Cohu

Published: 26 August 2010

Sir Antony Sher is to be joined in the upcoming Tricycle theatre production of Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass by a cast including Nigel Lindsay, Lucy Cohu, Emily Bruni, Madeleine Potter… Read More

NT holds Alternative Village Fete

Published: 25 August 2010

The National Theatre is providing a less raucous alternative to the Notting Hill Festival this bank holiday weekend with a quirky, urban reinterpretation of that most English of traditions, the… Read More

New Nutcracker sparkles at Coliseum

Published: 25 August 2010

English National Ballet is to create a brand new production of family favourite The Nutcracker this Christmas, staged at the London Coliseum from 10 to 23 December. ENB Artistic Director… Read More

Tim Pigott-Smith

Published: 25 August 2010

Times have changed since Tim Pigott-Smith, currently playing an alcoholic university professor in Willy Russell’s Educating Rita, was a student himself, he tells Caroline Bishop.It is appropriate that, shortly before… Read More

Join ENO for a family opera festival

Published: 24 August 2010

English National Opera is holding a two-day festival of fun at Cecil Sharp House in Camden this weekend. The festival, on 26 and 27 August from 10:00 to 16:15, comprises… Read More

Treadaway, Terry and Markham lead Tribes

Published: 23 August 2010

Rising star Harry Treadaway will make a return to the Royal Court this autumn to star in Nina Raine’s second play Tribes.He is joined in the cast by London theatre… Read More

Getting down with the kids

Published: 23 August 2010

Charlotte Marshall gets involved with Kids Week activities to discover just what is on offer in London theatre’s festival of family fun.You know you are getting older when someone compares… Read More

Imrie shares Hay Fever with McAuliffe

Published: 23 August 2010

Actress Celia Imrie, who will star in the forthcoming revival of Hay Fever at the Rose theatre, Kingston, has had to shorten her run in Noël Coward’s comedy, with Nichola… Read More

ENO stages operatic babysitting

Published: 20 August 2010

English National Opera is offering parents of young children the chance to enjoy an afternoon at the opera free of childcare worries thanks to a new crèche scheme. Opera Tots,… Read More

Dexter picks up Whoopi’s habit

Published: 19 August 2010

London stage regular Sally Dexter will become the West End’s latest nun when she takes over Sister Act’s Mother Superior duties from Whoopi Goldberg at the beginning of September.Goldberg, who… Read More

West End debut for Disney princess

Published: 19 August 2010

Anika Noni Rose, the Tony Award-winning actress who most recently leant her voice to hit Disney film The Princess And The Frog, will make her West End debut alongside fellow… Read More

Hannah Waddingham

Published: 18 August 2010

The West End leading lady talks to Matthew Amer about the physical strains of witch-ing it up in Into The Woods, her love for Sondheim and why she might don… Read More

Fountain in Waterloo East theatre’s Departure Lounge

Published: 18 August 2010

Hollyoaks star Chris Fountain and Hairspray duo Verity Rushworth and Liam Tamne are to appear in the new musical Departure Lounge at the brand new Waterloo East theatre from 28… Read More

Into The Woods

Published: 17 August 2010

Into The Woods – a fairytale musical in which the action takes place amid woodland – staged among the trees of Regent’s Park; it couldn’t fail to be a magical… Read More

The reality of TV casting

Published: 17 August 2010

In July 2006, 200 young women, all determined to don a habit and declare The Hills Are Alive at the top of their voices eight times a week, were introduced… Read More

Kennedy increases Rock You’s Watt-age

Published: 17 August 2010

Kevin Kennedy, best known for playing Coronation Street’s Curly Watts, is to lead the cast of West End rockathon We Will Rock You from 6 September.Kennedy, who will play Pop… Read More

Crook, Little and Alexander lead Aliens

Published: 13 August 2010

Mackenzie Crook, Ralf Little and Olly Alexander will open the Bush theatre’s autumn season, starring in the UK premier of Annie Baker’s The Aliens. The production, directed by Peter Gill,… Read More
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