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Young Vic takes a family flight this winter

Published: 8 July 2010

Children’s author David Almond and family theatre company Fevered Sleep will both play a part in the Young Vic’s 40th anniversary season with two children’s shows playing at the theatre… Read More

Young Vic celebrates 40th with premieres and collaborations

Published: 8 July 2010

London’s Young Vic has unveiled an eclectic season to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Opera, musical theatre, classic drama, a hit revival, European associates and productions for every age range feature… Read More

Lipman brings Priestley to Garrick

Published: 8 July 2010

Maureen Lipman is to star in J B Priestley’s comedy When We Are Married at the Garrick theatre from 19 October (press night 27 October). A comedy about class and… Read More

La Bête

Published: 8 July 2010

It is testament to Mark Rylance’s extraordinary ability that he makes every role seem as though it was written for him. The role of Johnny Byron in Jerusalem, the hit… Read More

Ian McDiarmid

Published: 7 July 2010

Actor, director, writer, Dark Lord of the Sith; Ian McDiarmid is a man of many talents. As he prepares to return to the London stage in the Donmar Warehouse production… Read More

Whoopi! Goldberg joins Sister Act

Published: 7 July 2010

The cast of West End musical Sister Act are raising their voices today in celebration of the news that the production’s producer and star of the film on which it… Read More

Report puts West End stats in the spotlight

Published: 7 July 2010

The Society Of London Theatre (SOLT) has today published the 2009 Box Office Data Report, which highlights and analyses the record-setting 2009 enjoyed by London’s Theatreland.The encouraging figures achieved against… Read More

Karimloo joins O2’s Les Misérables

Published: 6 July 2010

Ramin Karimloo and Samantha Barks have joined the cast of the 25th anniversary concert performance of Les Misérables at the O2 on 3 October. The duo, who join the already… Read More

Hall lines up Leigh and Fugard for Hampstead

Published: 6 July 2010

Theatrical heavyweights Mike Leigh and Athol Fugard will direct their own plays as part of the forthcoming season at Hampstead theatre, the first under new Artistic Director Edward Hall. The… Read More

You Me Bum Bum Train

Published: 6 July 2010

Exhilarating, pulse racing, uncomfortable, hilarious, stressful and life-affirming, You Me Bum Bum Train is truly a performance unlike any other.Tucked away on the unassuming Cambridge Heath Road is an experience… Read More

Backstage: West End Dance Captains

Published: 5 July 2010

The unsung hero of the West End, the Dance Captain helps keep a musical in tip-top condition throughout its run. As Big Dance attempts to send us all dance-crazy, Official… Read More

Actor Hutchings dies, aged 71

Published: 5 July 2010

Geoffrey Hutchings, whose acting career spanned both stage and screen, has died at the age of 71 from a suspected viral infection.The Dorset-born performer was last seen in the West… Read More

Wonder Woman’s one-woman West End weekend

Published: 2 July 2010

Lynda Carter, best known for her spandex-clad exploits as cult superhero Wonder Woman, will perform a one-woman show for two nights in London this September.Carter’s show, which is to be… Read More

Blood, Men and Puppets in National Theatre autumn

Published: 2 July 2010

JT Rogers’s Blood And Gifts, Ena Lamont Stewart’s Men Should Weep and Neil Bartlett’s collaboration with Handspring Puppet Company, Or You Could Kiss Me, have joined the National Theatre’s autumn… Read More

Shrek moves into Drury Lane

Published: 2 July 2010

The familiar green ogre Shrek will make his London stage debut next year when Shrek The Musical opens at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 7 June 2011, following previews… Read More

2010 Olivier bursaries announced

Published: 2 July 2010

The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) has presented 15 second year drama students with bursaries to help them continue their final year of study.After being nominated by staff at drama… Read More

Boris Johnson launches Big Dance 2010

Published: 1 July 2010

Mayor of London Boris Johnson encouraged Londoners to “Get down on it and strut your funky stuff” at the launch of T-Mobile Big Dance this morning. The Mayor, speaking at… Read More

Paco Peña: Flamenco Sin Fronteras

Published: 1 July 2010

There is a dance-off going on at Sadler’s Wells, not to mention a sing-off and a strum-off. It is Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco Peña who has created this vibrant competition,… Read More

Nikki Amuka-Bird

Published: 30 June 2010

It is not the first time Nikki Amuka-Bird has played a character caught in a crisis. The Survivors actress tells Caroline Bishop why she was attracted to Welcome To Thebes,… Read More

Steadman is Coward’s Blithe Spirit

Published: 30 June 2010

Alison Steadman will return to the London stage in Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit at the Apollo theatre from 2 March to 18 June 2011.Thea Sharrock’s production for Theatre Royal Bath… Read More

The Comedy Of Errors at the Open Air Theatre

Published: 30 June 2010

As the denouement to Shakespeare’s The Comedy Of Errors draws closer in the dusky evening of Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, two of the lead characters feign possession to scare… Read More

Dance Captains set sail for Big Dance launch

Published: 29 June 2010

In a hot, sweaty room, high above Covent Garden, a collection of unsung West End heroes – the Dance Captains – came together today to create a very special performance.… Read More

Duchess reveals Secret Of Sherlock Holmes

Published: 29 June 2010

Peter Egan and Robert Daws will recreate the partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson on stage when The Secret Of Sherlock Holmes comes to the Duchess theatre from 20… Read More

Rainbow finalist heads for Grease

Published: 29 June 2010

Lauren Samuels, who came third in BBC casting competition Over The Rainbow, may not be making her way down the yellow brick road but she will be heading to the… Read More

Christmas comes to the Ambassadors

Published: 29 June 2010

Festive family treat The Night Before Christmas will bring a dash of North Pole magic to the Ambassadors theatre this winter. The seasonal children’s production will give performances during the… Read More

Backstage: Stephen Mear, choreographer

Published: 28 June 2010

Laurence Olivier Award-winning choreographer Stephen Mear, whose work includes recent productions of Hello, Dolly! at the Open Air theatre and Sweet Charity at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, loves his job.… Read More

Kneehigh opens Umbrellas

Published: 28 June 2010

Cornish theatre company Kneehigh is to return to the West End next spring with a new stage production of Michel Legrand’s 1964 musical film The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg. Though dates… Read More

Dreamboat Christie makes West End debut

Published: 25 June 2010

Is This The Way To Amarillo singer Tony Christie is to make his West End debut this summer, when he joins the all-hopping, all-bopping cast of hit musical Dreamboats And… Read More

Alan Plater dies, aged 75

Published: 25 June 2010

Playwright Alan Plater, whose stage work includes Blonde Bombshells Of 1943 and the Laurence Olivier Award-nominated Peggy For You, has died from cancer at the age of 75.Raised in Hull… Read More

Salome

Published: 25 June 2010

Mad Max meets Batman in Headlong’s dark, punchy, no-holds-barred production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome. Grey gravel covers the square stage of Hampstead theatre, in one corner dissolving into swampy mulch.… Read More

Seagrove and Shaw bring Country to London

Published: 25 June 2010

Judge John Deed co-stars Jenny Seagrove and Martin Shaw will reunite on the West End stage this autumn when they star in Clifford Odets’s The Country Girl at the Apollo… Read More

Little Angel invites Mr Fox

Published: 25 June 2010

Little Angel theatre will apply its puppetry magic to Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox this autumn from 11 September to 7 November. The show, which is suitable for ages four… Read More

Young People’s Shakespeare at Roundhouse

Published: 24 June 2010

The Royal Shakespeare Company is to bring two productions specially created for children and families to London’s Roundhouse later this year. Hamlet and The Comedy Of Errors, created as part… Read More

Autumn adventures at Polka theatre

Published: 24 June 2010

Polka theatre invites audiences to journey into space, to the South Pole and to a Snow Queen’s palace in its new season of shows. The autumn line-up at the Wimbledon… Read More

Five Guys Mo-ve back to Stratford after 20 years

Published: 24 June 2010

Laurence Olivier Award-winning jazz musical Five Guys Named Moe will return to its original home later this year, when it opens at the Theatre Royal Stratford East on 7 September.The… Read More

Delroy Lindo

Published: 23 June 2010

Hollywood star Delroy Lindo, currently appearing in Joe Turner’s Come And Gone at the Young Vic, reveals his long-time love of August Wilson’s play and his lack of affection for… Read More

Oliver! fans to be left wanting more

Published: 23 June 2010

Oliver!, the hit musical based on Charles Dickens’s novel Oliver Twist, will only consider itself at home at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane until early 2011.The show, which currently stars… Read More

Leicester Square Theatre gives summer the go with its new show

Published: 23 June 2010

The Leicester Square theatre will be entertaining families this summer with The Go!Go!Go! Show, a pop musical written especially for kids.The Go!Go!Go! Show is an energetic show and dance production,… Read More

Welcome To Thebes

Published: 23 June 2010

Moira Buffini is a writer whose star is rising faster than the tension in a room packed with expectant England fans. Her short play Handbagged is one of the highlights… Read More

RSC to stage eight plays in 10 weeks at Roundhouse

Published: 22 June 2010

The Royal Shakespeare Company is to return to Camden’s Roundhouse in November to present a repertoire of plays including Romeo And Juliet, Antony And Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale, Julius Caesar,… Read More

West End LIVE lures 250,000 to Leicester Square

Published: 21 June 2010

Free theatre festival West End LIVE, which was staged in London’s Leicester Square last weekend, was an audience-pleasing hit, with around 250,000 theatre fans flocking to London to get a… Read More

Julian Bird named new SOLT/TMA Chief Executive

Published: 21 June 2010

Tate’s Chief Operating Officer has today been revealed as the successor to Richard Pulford as the Chief Executive of the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) and Theatrical Management Association (TMA).Bird,… Read More

Thriller Live marks Jackson death with memorial and single

Published: 21 June 2010

Thriller Live, the West End show inspired by the work of Michael Jackson, is to mark the first anniversary of his death with a memorial at the Lyric theatre and… Read More

All My Sons announces October extension

Published: 18 June 2010

The acclaimed production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, which stars Zoë Wanamaker and David Suchet, has proved such a hit that its run at the Apollo theatre has been… Read More

Barnes brings Birdsong to the stage this autumn

Published: 18 June 2010

British film star Ben Barnes will appear in the forthcoming stage adaptation of Sebastian Faulk’s best-selling novel Birdsong.Set to open on 28 September, after previews from 18 September, the First… Read More

Dench is a Giant at Regent’s Park

Published: 18 June 2010

Dame Judi Dench, the diminutive doyen of the British stage, will be taking on one of the biggest roles of her extraordinary career when she lends her voice to the… Read More

Arterton is Master Builder with Dillane

Published: 18 June 2010

Gemma Arterton will star in the forthcoming Almeida theatre production The Master Builder. Arterton joins the previously announced Stephen Dillane in Kenneth McLeish’s translation of the Henrik Ibsen classic.Arterton will… Read More

Soho Dandy Horsley found dead

Published: 17 June 2010

Artist, writer and Soho resident Sebastian Horsely has been found dead in his Soho flat just days after Dandy In The Underworld, a new play based on Horsley’s autobiography, premiered… Read More

Boyle and Daldry lead Olympic team

Published: 17 June 2010

Theatre and film directors Danny Boyle and Stephen Daldry have been named as part of the team tasked with making the opening of the London 2012 Olympic Games a spectacular,… Read More

Leicester Square livened by free festival this weekend

Published: 17 June 2010

West End LIVE, the annual free entertainment festival, will bring the very best that London theatre has to offer to Leicester Square this weekend, and is absolutely free to attend.The… Read More

Through A Glass Darkly

Published: 17 June 2010

Family holidays can be a tense affair at the best of times, but when the sole woman is suffering from chronic mental illness, her husband just wants to father her,… Read More

Benedict Cumberbatch

Published: 16 June 2010

Benedict Cumberbatch, star of After The Dance, talks to Matthew Amer about a “nutso” last few years and his long connection with Rattigan while trying not to let too many… Read More

The Fantasticks leaves the Duchess theatre

Published: 16 June 2010

Musical comedy The Fantasticks has announced it will close on 26 June. The production, which is running at the Duchess theatre, had been booking to 5 September.Starring Clive Rowe, David… Read More

Tap Dogs

Published: 16 June 2010

Imagine a world where men have dance-offs instead of fisticuffs. Instead of going out on the lash, they tap dance. Rather than sit on the sidelines watching women dance around… Read More

Dandy In The Underworld

Published: 16 June 2010

I had never heard of Sebastian Horsley before the press night of Dandy In The Underworld, the work of the controversial artist, writer and dandy must have passed me by.I… Read More

Edwards’s Killer Queen set to Rock West End

Published: 15 June 2010

Former X-Factor finalist Brenda Edwards is to return to the West End stage next Monday when she joins the cast of We Will Rock You to play Killer Queen.Edwards, who… Read More

Exclusive: Director Indhu Rubasingham on programming the Women Power And Politics season

Published: 15 June 2010

In the recent General Election, the number of female MPs rose from 128 to 142, yet this number still only represents 22% of the Members of Parliament in the House… Read More

Like A Fishbone

Published: 15 June 2010

The Bush theatre is known for its often-fearless new writing, tackling political, humanitarian or just plain awkward truths of the world we live in. With Anthony Weigh’s latest offering, Like… Read More

Women, Power And Politics

Published: 14 June 2010

The Tricycle theatre is exceptional at event programming. Last year’s Olivier-nominated The Great Game: Afghanistan season, which is revived later this summer, was the must have ticket of the summer… Read More

Harwood leads Queen’s theatrical birthday honours

Published: 14 June 2010

Playwright Ronald Harwood, whose double bill of Collaboration and Taking Sides played at the Duchess theatre last summer, has received a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Catherine Zeta-Jones,… Read More

Parsons and Skinner join Beale in Deathtrap

Published: 14 June 2010

Oscar-winning actress Estelle Parsons will make her West End stage debut in forthcoming thriller Deathtrap. Parsons, who is joined in the cast by Claire Skinner, will replace Anna Massey who… Read More

Donmar dominates Tony Awards

Published: 14 June 2010

The Donmar Warehouse production of John Logan’s Red collected more trophies than any other production at yesterday’s Tony Awards, Broadway’s equivalent of London’s Laurence Olivier Awards, with a haul of… Read More

Summer school at Fairfield Halls

Published: 11 June 2010

Young people interested in musical theatre can have the chance to show off their skills by joining an EduStage summer school at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, this August. Since 2006 EduStage… Read More

Redmond joins complete Prince Of Homburg cast

Published: 11 June 2010

Actress Siobhan Redmond is to join the previously announced Ian McDiarmid and Charlie Cox in the Donmar Warehouse’s summer production of Heinrich von Kleist’s The Prince Of Homburg.The 19th century… Read More

Sher leads Broken Glass at Tricycle

Published: 11 June 2010

Sir Antony Sher will return to the stage in Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass at Kilburn’s Tricycle theatre from 30 September to 27 November (press night 6 October).One of Miller’s later… Read More

Gielgud says yes to Prime Minister this September

Published: 11 June 2010

Chichester Festival Theatre’s production Yes, Prime Minister is to transfer to London later this year, with original cast members Henry Goodman and David Haig reprising their roles.Written by the original… Read More

Lion King pride at V&A exhibition

Published: 11 June 2010

Stars of hit musical The Lion King stampeded to the Victoria And Albert Museum today for the opening of the latest exhibit in the theatre and performance galleries: two Laurence… Read More

Onassis comes to Novello

Published: 10 June 2010

Robert Lindsay will reprise his performance as Aristotle Onassis when the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Martin Sherman’s new play transfers to the Novello theatre from 30 September to 5… Read More

Three Musketeers spend Christmas in Kingston

Published: 10 June 2010

A new musical adaptation of The Three Musketeers will be the Rose theatre Kingston’s Christmas production this year, playing from 27 November to 2 January. The Three Musketeers, which is… Read More

The Fantasticks

Published: 10 June 2010

How is your imagination? From the moment Hadley Fraser’s narrator asks the audience to “try to remember”, imagination becomes paramount, as with little in the way of props and set… Read More

Globe celebrates Sam’s Day

Published: 9 June 2010

Shakespeare’s Globe will celebrate the birthday of its founder, Sam Wanamaker, with a day of workshops and activities on Saturday 12 June. Sam’s Day, which is free to attend, includes… Read More

David Burt

Published: 9 June 2010

Who best to star in a new London production of the world’s longest-running musical, The Fantasticks? Why, original Les Misérables cast member David Burt of course. Caroline Bishop talks to… Read More

Royal Court announces autumn season

Published: 9 June 2010

Dominic Cooke, Artistic Director of the Royal Court theatre, will reunite with playwright Bruce Norris to direct new play Clybourne Park as part of the Sloane Square venue’s autumn season… Read More

Rose theatre to premiere Musketeer musical

Published: 9 June 2010

Kingston’s Rose theatre is to collaborate with Broadway producer Bud Martin to bring a new tuneful adaptation of swashbuckling tale The Three Musketeers to the stage this Christmas.Featuring music by… Read More

After The Dance

Published: 9 June 2010

The National Theatre’s After The Dance offers audiences a stylish and captivating glimpse into the glittering world of bright young things. However, Terence Rattigan shows that his characters are no… Read More
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