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Aspects Of Love for Willetts

Published: 9 June 2010

Dave Willetts will join Katherine Kingsley and Michael Arden in Trevor Nunn’s new production of Aspects Of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory from 7 July (press night 15 July).… Read More

Peppa Pig comes to the West End

Published: 8 June 2010

Peppa Pig, the popular porcine pre-school animated character, will make her West End debut when a stage adaptation comes to the Criterion theatre in November. Peppa Pig’s Party, which is… Read More

Dorothy wannabe Fearon lands Landor lead

Published: 8 June 2010

Over The Rainbow semi-finalist Steph Fearon has bounced back from defeat in the BBC talent search by claiming a role in the Landor theatre’s summer revival of Smokey Joe’s Café.Fearon… Read More

Electric Hotel

Published: 8 June 2010

It is an unusual thing to be doing on a rainy Monday night: covered in a plastic poncho sitting on a wet chair spying on guests in a hotel on… Read More

Theatremakers: HighTide

Published: 7 June 2010

For a young company led by artists at the very beginning of their careers, HighTide has become a force to be reckoned with in little more time than it would… Read More

Season’s Greetings for Tate at National

Published: 4 June 2010

Catherine Tate will return to the stage to star in a revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings at the National Theatre this Christmas. Marianne Elliott is to direct Tate in… Read More

Joe Turner’s Come And Gone

Published: 4 June 2010

Chronicling the heritage and experience of African-Americans in the 20th century one decade at a time, August Wilson’s bibliography is rich in political and emotional substance. Joe Turner’s Come And… Read More

Train pulls into Waterloo Station for Railway Children

Published: 3 June 2010

Bernard Cribbins, who originated the role of Mr Perks in the 1970 film The Railway Children, boarded an original steam train from the film today to hand over his station… Read More

The Crucible

Published: 3 June 2010

There seems no more appropriate setting for The Crucible than among the trees of Regent’s Park. The leafy surroundings, the encroaching darkness and even the blossom showering the stage help… Read More

Robert Glenister

Published: 2 June 2010

The Hustle star talks to Matthew Amer about distracting audience members, avoiding typecasting and his latest London appearance as a troubled piano teacher in The Late Middle Classes.What a peaceful… Read More

The Late Middle Classes

Published: 2 June 2010

With the Second World War over and women back to making house, playing tennis and looking after their children and husbands once more, boredom sets in and the days of… Read More

Third Les Mis for 25th birthday celebrations

Published: 2 June 2010

Alfie Boe, Nick Jonas and Matt Lucas will star in a one-off concert production of Les Misérables at the O2 on 3 October, the culmination of the musical’s 25th birthday… Read More

Bean’s Big Fellah comes to London

Published: 1 June 2010

The Lyric Hammersmith will host Richard Bean’s new play The Big Fellah from 21 September to 16 October as part of a UK tour. The Big Fellah is set among… Read More

Introducing… Emily Taaffe

Published: 1 June 2010

Emily Taaffe started her acting career just three years ago yet she has already played her first lead at the National Theatre. As she prepares to play Abigail in Arthur… Read More

Room On The Broom in the West End

Published: 28 May 2010

The creators of the stage show The Gruffalo are bringing another treat for children to the West End this summer as Room On The Broom comes to the Garrick theatre… Read More

Boys and Rigby join Wolfboy cast

Published: 28 May 2010

Daniel Boys and Emma Rigby will appear in psycho-sexual musical Wolfboy this summer at the Trafalgar Studios.Avenue Q star Boys and Hollyoaks actress Rigby join the previously announced Paul Holowaty… Read More

OFT launches Just Tick It

Published: 28 May 2010

The Office of Fair Trading and Consumer Direct have launched a new campaign to help combat fake ticketing websites. Just Tick It aims to increase customer awareness of fake ticketing… Read More

Hair removed from Gielgud this autumn

Published: 28 May 2010

The revival of 1960s hippie musical Hair is to close at the Gielgud theatre in September. It had been booking to January 2011.A statement from the show said: “Cameron Mackintosh… Read More

All My Sons

Published: 28 May 2010

Every ounce of heartbreaking poignancy is squeezed out of Arthur Miller’s tale of family tragedy in Howard Davies’s revival at the Apollo theatre. It begins on a windy night when… Read More

Ingredient X

Published: 27 May 2010

Imagine taking many different viewpoints on addiction – recovering addicts, those hurt by addicts, an addict in denial – popping them all in a jam jar together and giving that… Read More

Paradise Found

Published: 27 May 2010

The Menier Chocolate Factory’s recent success with musicals has resulted in West End transfers and a resulting healthy scattering of Laurence Olivier Awards. The latest musical to try its luck… Read More

Stephen Campbell Moore

Published: 26 May 2010

Stephen Campbell Moore is back on the London stage for the first time since The History Boys. Caroline Bishop grabs a chat with the actor as he prepares for the… Read More

Ruehl joins Goldblum on Second Avenue

Published: 25 May 2010

Oscar-winning American actress Mercedes Ruehl is to join Jeff Goldblum in the upcoming London production of Neil Simon’s comedy The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, which opens at the Vaudeville theatre… Read More

Abbot returns to Fagin

Published: 25 May 2010

Russ Abbot will be back picking pockets at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane when he takes over the role of Fagin in Oliver! on 14 June. Abbot, who replaces Griff… Read More

Henry VIII

Published: 25 May 2010

With an abundance of Hamlets, Macbeths and Romeo And Juliets staged year round, it is a welcome treat to see a Shakespeare play unfold before your eyes without knowing the… Read More

Canary

Published: 25 May 2010

It is always refreshing and encouraging to record a career first, which is precisely what happened during Jonathan Harvey’s new play Canary last night. I had never before been part… Read More

Bourne stages seasonal Cinders at Sadler’s Wells

Published: 24 May 2010

New Adventures will stage its 9th annual Christmas season at Sadler’s Wells this winter with a new production of Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella. Set in London during World War II, Bourne’s… Read More

Introducing… Harry McEntire

Published: 24 May 2010

For a young actor who has graced the Lyric Hammersmith three times in just over a year, Harry McEntire is surprisingly modest. Talking to Charlotte Marshall about learning the craft… Read More

Faulks’s Birdsong receives stage premiere

Published: 24 May 2010

Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks’s best-selling First World War-set novel, is to be brought to the stage at London’s Comedy theatre this autumn.The new stage adaptation by Rachel Wagstaff, directed by Sir… Read More

Danielle Hope crowned nation’s Dorothy

Published: 24 May 2010

Manchester-born Danielle Hope is the latest West End star to be created by a BBC talent search, having won the final of Over The Rainbow.The 18-year-old will now play Dorothy… Read More

Football musical matched with world cup

Published: 21 May 2010

A new soccer-based show, Who Ate All The Pies?, is to be staged at the Tristan Bates theatre from 9 to 26 June to coincide with the upcoming global tournament.Who… Read More

Goldblum joins Old Vic in the West End

Published: 20 May 2010

Jeff Goldblum is to star in the Old Vic Theatre Company’s first ever West End production The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, which will be staged at the Vaudeville theatre this… Read More

The Merchants Of Bollywood

Published: 20 May 2010

Outside the Peacock theatre some enterprising person has seized the opportunity to give out flyers for Bollywood dance lessons. Such classes are on the rise; Bollywood dance is becoming as… Read More

Ditch

Published: 20 May 2010

With cryptic directions written on a post-it note to guide audiences to the elusive sounding tunnel 228, and a series of sinister installations lining the cold, damp walls, the experience… Read More

Lesley Sharp

Published: 19 May 2010

Ingredient X star Lesley Sharp talks to Matthew Amer about a whirlwind couple of years on the stage and the importance of good new writing. Rehearsals, like a sprinter with… Read More

Door Never Closes for young people at Almeida

Published: 19 May 2010

The Almeida theatre’s Education department premieres a new play for young people this month. Rex Obano’s The Door Never Closes plays from 25 to 28 May and is accompanied by… Read More

Becky Barber receives first Start Up Fund award

Published: 19 May 2010

Young producer Becky Barber today became the first recipient of the Start Up Fund for New Producers, receiving a £25,000 grant for her first major West End production. The Start… Read More

Tosca

Published: 19 May 2010

Death haunts Catherine Malfitano’s production of Puccini’s tragic opera from the show’s dramatic opening, when the escaped prisoner Angelotti enters before a towering fresco of the crucifixion. Looming in the… Read More

Pigott-Smith joins Willy Russell transfer

Published: 18 May 2010

The Menier Chocolate Factory’s revivals of Willy Russell’s Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine will become the latest shows to transfer from the intimate London Bridge venue into the West End… Read More

Backstage: Naomi Donne, make-up designer

Published: 17 May 2010

She has made up Mary Poppins, Michelle Pfeiffer, Shrek and several Bond girls. Now, having just created the weird and wonderful faces in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies, Naomi… Read More

Deafblind theatre company to make UK premiere at LIFT

Published: 17 May 2010

As part of this year’s annual London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) artsdepot will premiere deafblind theatre company Nalaga’at’s production Not By Bread Alone, while offering workshops and pop-up venues… Read More

Hunt and Vaizey lead new-look DCMS

Published: 17 May 2010

The new ministers in the recently formed government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have been appointed, with Jeremy Hunt named Culture Secretary and Ed Vaizey joining him in… Read More

Arden and Kingsley lead Aspects Of Love

Published: 17 May 2010

The upcoming revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects Of Love, which will be directed by Trevor Nunn at the Menier Chocolate Factory, will feature a cast led by Michael Arden… Read More

South Bank prepares to Watch This Space

Published: 14 May 2010

The National Theatre’s Watch This Space festival returns this summer from 23 June to 26 September offering a packed programme of free international theatre, dance, circus and music in Theatre… Read More

National Theatre of Scotland’s Peter Pan

Published: 14 May 2010

Forget the camp, red-jacketed Captain Hook, his bumbling assistant Smee and the green-tighted boy who wouldn’t grow up of panto and Disney. National Theatre of Scotland’s Peter Pan is a… Read More

A Thousand Stars Explode In The Sky

Published: 13 May 2010

Walking off alone into the unknown, embracing gluttony and sex, spending time with loved ones, holing up in a place of worship memorising scriptures and chanting prayers; how would you… Read More

Harker and Lancaster lead Railway Children

Published: 13 May 2010

Caroline Harker and Marshall Lancaster will lead the cast of The Railway Children when the site-specific production takes over the former Eurostar terminal at Waterloo this summer. Both leads are… Read More

Jane Turner

Published: 12 May 2010

The star of hit Australian comedy Kath And Kim talks to Matthew Amer about returning to the stage after a decade away with her West End debut in Holding The… Read More

Mamet and Ibsen in Almeida new season

Published: 12 May 2010

Stephen Dillane in Ibsen’s The Master Builder and a new stage version of David Mamet’s House Of Games will continue the 2010 autumn season at Islington’s Almeida theatre. Playwright Richard… Read More

Royal Court gets Santa this Christmas

Published: 12 May 2010

The Royal Court theatre has announced it will stage its first ever family Christmas show later this year, with Get Santa! premiering at the Sloane Square venue in December. While… Read More

Omigod! Fleeshman joins Legally Blonde

Published: 12 May 2010

Former Coronation Street star and winner of ITV’s celebrity singing contest Soapstar Superstar, Richard Fleeshman will join the cast of hit London show Legally Blonde The Musical next month.Fleeshman will… Read More

Love The Sinner

Published: 12 May 2010

IVF, asylum-seekers, sexual orientation and even squirrels all pose moral and ethical questions in Drew Pautz’s ambiguous new play. It opens in a hotel somewhere in Africa where a group… Read More

Campion and Matthews lead Lulu

Published: 11 May 2010

Sean Campion will join Sinead Matthews in the cast of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu, staged at the Gate theatre from 10 June as part of its New Directions programme. Campion is… Read More

Hit musicals and top stars confirmed for West End LIVE

Published: 10 May 2010

A record-breaking 23 of London’s most exciting musical productions will wow Leicester Square crowds this year as part of the annual free entertainment festival West End LIVE.Staged in the world… Read More

Royal Court confirms Sucker Punch cast

Published: 10 May 2010

The full cast has been confirmed for Roy Williams’s new play Sucker Punch, which will turn the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs into a boxing arena when it opens there… Read More

Marmion leads Soho theatre

Published: 10 May 2010

Steve Marmion has been appointed Artistic Director of Soho theatre, replacing Lisa Goldman, who leaves her post at the end of June. Marmion is not a new face at Soho… Read More

Sisters plan international Act

Published: 10 May 2010

The stage musical adaptation of Sister Act has confirmed it will close at the London Palladium on 30 October to make way for the new production of The Wizard Of… Read More

Sadler’s Wells welcomes us to Electric Hotel

Published: 7 May 2010

The Electric Hotel, a new moveable, multi-storey performance space, promises to unleash the voyeur in all of us when it presents an unusual piece of theatre in King’s Cross next… Read More

Yellow brick road leads to London Palladium

Published: 7 May 2010

People waiting in anticipation to watch Dorothy click her heels three times and dance down the yellow brick road will be able to book tickets for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s forthcoming… Read More

New cast for London Enron

Published: 6 May 2010

Corey Johnson, Paul Chahidi, Sara Stewart and Clive Francis are to lead the new cast of Enron from 10 May as the production extends its run at the Noël Coward… Read More

National secrets uncovered in Theatrecraft

Published: 5 May 2010

The National Theatre will be revealing some trade secrets during a week of hands-on activities for children aged eight and older and their families. Theatrecraft For Families, held from 31… Read More

Mark Umbers

Published: 5 May 2010

Why take on one role when you can play four? Sweet Charity actor Mark Umbers likes to have something to get stuck into, finds Caroline Bishop.Such is Mark Umbers’s dedication… Read More

Sweet success for Menier’s Charity

Published: 5 May 2010

Such is the pulling power of the tiny London Bridge theatre the Menier Chocolate Factory that members of London’s acting fraternity are clamouring to work there and others will cross… Read More

Trafalgar Studios plans musical summer

Published: 5 May 2010

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s State Fair, theatrical cabaret Confessions Of A Dancewhore, and the London premiere of lycanthropic musical Wolfboy will bring a tuneful feel to summer 2010 in the intimate… Read More

Holding The Man

Published: 5 May 2010

In Australian Rules Football, the term ‘holding the man’ signals an offence that results in a penalty. As playwright Tommy Murphy explains in his introduction to this play, in the… Read More

London transfers receive 28 Tony nominations

Published: 4 May 2010

London’s Menier Chocolate Factory and Donmar Warehouse are among the leading contenders in this year’s Tony Awards, collecting 15 and nine nominations respectively.The Menier’s musicals A Little Night Music and… Read More

Introducing… Oliver Farnworth

Published: 4 May 2010

Charlotte Marshall talks to Holding The Man’s Oliver Farnworth about gender swapping mid-performance, the joys of kiwi fruits, playing a psycho on one of Britain’s most popular soaps and the… Read More

Lynn Redgrave dies aged 67

Published: 4 May 2010

Actress Lynn Redgrave died on 2 May at the age of 67, with her family around her. Her death follows a seven year battle with breast cancer.The younger sister of… Read More

Explore theatrical secrets with Sounding Out

Published: 30 April 2010

The Royal Opera House’s week-long family event Sounding Out returns this year from 1 to 4 June offering a free open day, a range of workshops and a family performance.… Read More

Macbeth

Published: 30 April 2010

From its blood-soaked beginnings it is obvious that this Macbeth, the first production of Shakespeare’s Globe’s 2010 season, will not shy away from the gory realities of the Bard’s murderous… Read More

Families entertained in giant purple cow

Published: 29 April 2010

Penguins, pirates and stick men will be entertaining families in a giant upside down purple cow this summer as part of the E4 Udderbelly season on the South Bank.  Following… Read More

All The Fun Of The Fair

Published: 29 April 2010

David Essex, musical theatre star turned cockney heartthrob for a generation of mums and grandmothers, is back on the West End stage leading a musical featuring a host of his… Read More

Lucian Msamati

Published: 28 April 2010

How do you go from having £100 cash to your name and working as a cleaner to leading productions in the most distinguished British theatre companies in less than a… Read More

Full cast confirmed for Women, Power And Politics

Published: 28 April 2010

Niamh Cusack, Kika Markham and Stella Gonet have been cast in the ensemble for the Tricycle theatre’s Women, Power And Politics season which runs from 4 June to 17 July… Read More

Women Beware Women

Published: 28 April 2010

Thomas Middleton was no romantic idealist. Rape, incest and sexual politics are all themes of his dark, disturbing play Women Beware Women.It seems an unusual choice for a female director,… Read More
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