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Published: 13 August 2010
London theatres will be filled with thousands of excited children in the next three weeks as Kids Week 2010 gives young theatre fans a chance to immerse themselves in Theatreland.The… Read More
Busted star Matt Willis and West End regular Victoria Hamilton-Barritt will pick up their welders and pull up their legwarmers this autumn as they take on the starring roles in… Read More
Published: 12 August 2010
The Apollo Victoria theatre will celebrate its 80th birthday later this year with a gala performance featuring West End stars past and present.The special anniversary event will take place on… Read More
Published: 11 August 2010
Currently singing Marina And The Diamonds at the National Theatre in Mike Bartlett’s new play Earthquakes In London, Lucy May Barker has come a long way from playing Annie and… Read More
It is quite a leap from 21st century spy to 16th century queen, but it is a leap that Miranda Raison is taking – finds Matthew Amer – with the… Read More
Pineapple Dance Studios’s inimitable Artistic Director Louie Spence will swap leg-warmers for a peg leg – maybe – this Christmas, when he joins Captain Hook’s pirates in the New Wimbledon… Read More
One wannabee Dorothy is being replaced by another in the Landor theatre’s production of Smokey Joe’s Café. Jessica Robinson will perform Stephanie Fearon’s role from 20 to 22 August, while… Read More
Published: 10 August 2010
Stars of the West End stage joined queuing theatre fans in Leicester Square today to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the opening of London’s iconic tkts ticket booth.Tanguera’s gangster-like dancers,… Read More
Published: 9 August 2010
Nicholas Farrell, Iain Mitchell, Genevieve O’Reilly and Lee Ross have joined the previously announced Ben Barnes in the forthcoming stage adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s novel Birdsong, which opens at the… Read More
Published: 6 August 2010
London regulars Siân Brooke, Charles Edwards, Pippa Haywood, Stuart McQuarrie and Howard Ward are joined by Isabella Laughland and James Musgrave in Nick Payne’s new play about sex and intimacy.Wanderlust,… Read More
Shakespeare’s Globe will stage an extra eight performances of Henry IV Part 1 and Part 2 due to popular demand, as well as filming the plays along with others in… Read More
Published: 5 August 2010
I will be very honest; I have been looking forward to Earthquakes In London since it was first announced. The combination of rising playwright Mike Bartlett, the ever talent-nurturing National… Read More
Published: 4 August 2010
Father and son Timothy and Samuel West will star in Caryl Churchill’s A Number at the Menier Chocolate Factory this autumn, returning to roles they previous played in Sheffield four… Read More
Simon Webbe never even dreamed he would one day be performing in a West End musical. But being prepared and seizing the day are mottos that have helped Webbe come… Read More
Published: 3 August 2010
The Bush theatre has revealed a 2010/11 season featuring work by playwrights Annie Baker, DC Jackson, John Donnelly, Steve Waters and Deirdre Kinehan, which explores everything from education to office… Read More
Last night’s press night at the Soho theatre ended with a rousing ovation and the unfamiliar sound of men in the first two rows boasting that they had sobbed their… Read More
Published: 2 August 2010
Joe Penhall’s multi-award-winning Blue/Orange is to be revived at the Arcola theatre with a twist; the previous all-male cast will be replaced with an all-female ensemble.The witty tale of institutional… Read More
The new Artistic Director of Hampstead theatre, Edward Hall, will kick off his first season at the venue with a visit from his own theatre company, Propeller, which presents a… Read More
Toddlers can get dancing this autumn thanks to a new Family Dance Movement class for youngsters and their parents/carers at the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD).Taught by a RAD teacher… Read More
Tourists, theatregoers, London regulars and daytrippers are being encouraged to get lost at Trafalgar Square this week in a newly erected pop-up West End maze.The temporary topiary, which will be… Read More
The actor playing the lovestruck young Englishman Alex Dillingham in Aspects Of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory is actually an American. Michael Arden talks to Caroline Bishop about working… Read More
Published: 30 July 2010
The Old Vic’s programming of its new theatre space under Waterloo Station continues this autumn with Scorched, a new play by Wajdi Mouawad, which plays in the Old Vic Tunnels… Read More
The forthcoming Donmar Warehouse production of King Lear, which stars Derek Jacobi as the foolish sovereign, will be seen by many more people than previously expected as it will be… Read More
TV reality show judge Amanda Holden will prove she has talent next year when she takes to the London stage as Princess Fiona in the musical adaptation of the hit… Read More
It is clear from the moment the curtain rises at the London Coliseum that the great Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta has created a starkly contemporary, surreal show that leans as… Read More
Published: 29 July 2010
Michael Gambon is to return to the London stage this autumn when he stars in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape at the Duchess theatre from 15 September to 20 November.The… Read More
Fans of the perky pink show Legally Blonde The Musical will be bending and snapping with delight at the news that the London production will release a cast recording this… Read More
Published: 28 July 2010
A new show based on the novel The Garbage King and another in-house Christmas show top and tail the autumn season at the Unicorn children’s theatre this year. The season… Read More
It is a somewhat depressing subject for a summer’s day but given Toby Stephens is starring in a play called Danton’s Death it is inevitable that mortality comes up more… Read More
Leicester Square’s official and most famous ticket booth, tkts, has reached an important milestone this year. The half price ticket outlet will celebrate its 30th birthday on 10 August with… Read More
Jonathan Munby, who directed Dominic West in Life Is A Dream, returns to the Donmar Warehouse with a play that conjures a similar dream-like atmosphere, Heinrich Von Kleist’s The Prince… Read More
Published: 27 July 2010
West End regular Melanie La Barrie has joined the cast of Smokey Joe’s Café, which has extended its run at the Landor theatre to 12 September. It had been due… Read More
Jeremy Dyson, co-writer of TV’s The League Of Gentlemen and the Lyric Hammersmith’s hit show Ghost Stories, will return to the West London venue next year to present his new… Read More
Theatre company Tamasha marks its 21st birthday with a powerful drama where class, complicated matters of the heart and the role of women take centre stage as Hampstead theatre is… Read More
From its opening, featuring a stage flooded with dry ice, a mirror ball and neon-coloured lights filtering through the haze, you know where you stand with ballroom show Burn The… Read More
Published: 26 July 2010
Complicite’s Laurence Olivier Award-winning play A Disappearing Number is to play a strictly limited season at London’s Novello theatre from 10 to 25 September.The production’s original cast – David Annen,… Read More
Kids Week in the West End, the annual festival of theatrical family fun, has proved so popular in 2010 that, for the first time ever, it will extend its spectacular… Read More
Lauded actress Ella Smith, who won a brace of awards for her 2008 breakthrough performance in Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig, is to appear at Shakespeare’s Globe later this summer in… Read More
As Lyric Hammersmith hit Ghost Stories brings frights, scares and nervous laughter to the West End, The League Of Gentlemen’s Jeremy Dyson, who created the play with performer Andy Nyman,… Read More
Multi-award-winning performer Caroline O’Connor is to dazzle London audiences this autumn with a limited run of her one-woman show Caroline O’Connor: The Showgirl Within.Playing at the Garrick theatre from 27… Read More
Published: 23 July 2010
Gina McKee will join Derek Jacobi in Michael Grandage’s production of King Lear at the Donmar Warehouse this December. Also joining the cast are Pippa Bennett-Warner and Justine Mitchell as… Read More
Simon Callow is to play Sir Toby Belch in Peter Hall’s new production of Twelfth Night at the National Theatre early next year, staged in celebration of the esteemed director’s… Read More
Nancy Carroll is to star in the psychological thriller House Of Games at the Almeida theatre in September. She will be joined by Trevor Cooper, Dermot Crowley, Amanda Drew, Peter… Read More
Husband and wife Alexander Hanson and Samantha Bond will star together in a new production of Oscar Wilde’s play An Ideal Husband at the Vaudeville theatre from 4 November (press… Read More
Michael Grandage, the director who has spent the last two years turning all he touches to gold at the Donmar Warehouse, has crossed the river to the National Theatre to… Read More
A theatrical Love Story will be played out at the Duchess theatre from 27 November when Chichester Festival Theatre’s musical adaptation of the best-selling romantic novel transfers to London. American… Read More
A new musical and three one-person shows will feature in the very first season at Waterloo East theatre, a new venue under a railway arch south of the river. The… Read More
Published: 22 July 2010
Over The Rainbow runner-up Sophie Evans will make her dream of playing Dorothy in the West End production of The Wizard Of Oz a reality when she takes on the… Read More
Set in a small town in County Galway, Martin McDonagh’s play is dark, beautiful and dangerous, like a starlit whirlpool. I say starlit whirlpool… it takes place in a chilly… Read More
Published: 21 July 2010
Comedy air hostess Pam Ann, the creation of Australian comedian Caroline Reid, will bring her stand-up show Flying High to the Vaudeville theatre this autumn.The A-list air hostess to the… Read More
The former Frasier star talks to Matthew Amer about the bravery of producers, performing with Mark Rylance and what La Bête has in common with Big Brother.It can’t be easy… Read More
The award-winning production Black Watch, which collected the Best New Play accolade at the 2009 Laurence Olivier Awards, is to be revived at the Barbican this autumn.Black Watch joins an… Read More
Anya Reiss was just 17 when she wrote Spur Of The Moment, and you wonder exactly what personal experience she brought to it. Delilah is a 12-year-old girl whose main… Read More
What mystery awaits the great Sherlock Holmes in his return to the West End? Not an unsolvable crime, but an exploration into one of the most enduring friendships in literature.… Read More
Published: 20 July 2010
Jeff Merrifield’s play Hit Me! The Life And Rhymes Of Ian Dury will return to London in September to play three dates at the Garrick theatre in the West End.A… Read More
Swashbuckling pirates, medical experiments and puppet adventures feature in the line-up of family shows in this year’s Camden Fringe, which runs from 2 to 29 August. Showcasing the talents of… Read More
Young people from 14 school and youth theatre groups got a taste of West End fame on Sunday as they took to the stage at the Victoria Palace as part… Read More
Published: 19 July 2010
As Waterloo East theatre prepares to announce its very first season, Caroline Bishop talks to its director Gerald Armin about the process of creating a brand new theatre.As commuters pack… Read More
Published: 16 July 2010
Robert Bathurst and Hermione Norris will play husband and wife once more when the Cold Feet duo reunite for Thea Sharrock’s production of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit at the Apollo… Read More
Like so many commuters, the stars of The Railway Children will be spending more time on train platforms than they expected, but these actors will be delighted about it. The… Read More
Following his chamber production of A Little Night Music, Trevor Nunn revisits Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1989 musical Aspects Of Love in a downsized version at the Menier Chocolate Factory.The production… Read More
Published: 15 July 2010
It might not be the entirety of the Histories, but six hours of Henry IV Part I and Part II at Shakespeare’s Globe is a Bard-athon full of battles, bravado… Read More
The residents of Theatreland’s favourite neighbourhood, Avenue Q, will be packing their bags on 30 October as they perform for the last time at the Wyndham’s theatre.Broadway import Avenue Q… Read More
Published: 14 July 2010
Kids Week in the West End 2010 is celebrating another record-breaking year, selling over 25,000 tickets in its first day of sales, six thousand more than the previous record set… Read More
Desmond Barrit is no veteran actor. But he certainly is an actor, though he nearly wasn’t. He talks it through with Caroline Bishop.Desmond Barrit is about to replace Richard Griffiths… Read More
With two high profile Shakespearean plays currently running at the Old Vic, Kevin Spacey decided to cross the river and place two of America’s most respected actors on stage in… Read More
Published: 13 July 2010
Martin Freeman, Lucian Msamati and Sophie Thompson will star in Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park at the Royal Court from 26 August. The cast of this satirical comedy about the fault… Read More
Theatre company Punchdrunk and English National Opera are offering the unusual opportunity to help create a movie soundtrack. Anyone aged seven and over who can play an instrument or sing… Read More
There is more than a touch of time travel about a trip to see The Railway Children. Audiences pass through the shiny, silver, 21st century Eurostar terminal at Waterloo station… Read More
Published: 12 July 2010
Sarah Quintrell talks to Charlotte Marshall about playing Roberta in The Railway Children, why Harry Potter fans should come and see it and how she feels having to stop a… Read More
Tickets are now available for the Society of London Theatre’s annual extravaganza of family-friendly fun, Kids Week in the West End. Excited parents with even more excited children can get… Read More
Published: 9 July 2010
Daniel Evans, Samantha Spiro, Adrian Lester and Clive Rowe are among the stars returning to work with the Donmar Warehouse as they join the festival celebrating the 80th birthday of… Read More
If classic TV shows This Is Your Life and Whose Line Is It Anyway? had a lovechild, it would be Lifegame. Surprising, intimate, hilarious, poignant, it makes for a piece… Read More
In a psychiatric ward, two troubled boys lie a wall apart from one another. A nurse struggles to find salvation working in such a harrowing setting, while a handsome brother… Read More
Ray Meagher, the Australian actor best known for playing Alf Stewart in long-running soap opera Home And Away, is swapping Summer Bay for the West End this autumn as he… Read More