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SOLT and TMA seek new Joint Chief Executive

Published: 23 March 2010

The Society of London Theatre and the Theatrical Management Association are currently seeking a new Chief Executive as current incumbent Richard Pulford has announced his intention to retire from the… Read More

Garcia leads Tap Dogs into Novello

Published: 19 March 2010

Australian dance show Tap Dogs is to return to London this summer, opening at the Novello theatre on 15 June with Adam Garcia leading the cast. Tap Dogs is a… Read More

Flashdance opens in West End

Published: 19 March 2010

Following the departure of Hairspray at the end of this month, the Shaftesbury theatre is to play host to another dance-inspired show, Flashdance The Musical, which arrives in the West… Read More

Globe makes Shakespeare Childsplay

Published: 18 March 2010

Shakespeare’s Globe is offering children aged 8-11 the chance to explore its productions through special Childsplay workshops this summer. The workshops, which run in conjunction with the Globe’s productions of… Read More

The Gods Weep

Published: 18 March 2010

Dennis Kelly has created a dark, brooding play which explores the consequences of power and greed on loyalty, friendship and love. Inspired by Shakespeare’s King Lear, The Gods Weep centres… Read More

Conleth Hill

Published: 17 March 2010

Northern Irish actor Conleth Hill, one of our most dependable performers, has found his second home at the National Theatre, he tells Caroline Bishop.“I should have shares in the National,”… Read More

Ghosts leaves Duchess early

Published: 17 March 2010

Iain Glen’s production of Ibsen’s Ghosts is to close at the Duchess theatre on 27 March. It had been booking until 15 May. Ghosts stars Lesley Sharp as Mrs Alving,… Read More

Tricycle theatre examines women in politics

Published: 17 March 2010

The Tricycle theatre is to present a season of work focusing on the history and current role of women in British politics, programmed to run shortly after this summer’s general… Read More

Chronicles Of Long Kesh

Published: 17 March 2010

It may be a fault of my own preconceptions, but when I think of the IRA, sectarian killings or the Troubles, men performing Smokey Robinson routines is not the first… Read More

Eclair enjoys second Grumpy West End residency

Published: 16 March 2010

Susie Blake, Wendi Peters and Jenny Eclair are to appear in Grumpy Old Women Live 2: Chin Up Britain when it comes to London’s Novello theatre from 14 April to… Read More

Prenger joins Spamalot on tour

Published: 16 March 2010

Monty Python’s Spamalot is to return to London in May when new Lady Of The Lake Jodie Prenger opens the musical’s UK tour at the New Wimbledon theatre. Original Python… Read More

Cotton’s Wet Weather comes to Arts

Published: 16 March 2010

Oliver Cotton’s Wet Weather Cover, which played at the King’s Head theatre in January, is to transfer to the Arts theatre from 6 April to 5 June.Cotton’s comedy centres on… Read More

Ghost Stories haunt Lyric for longer

Published: 16 March 2010

Ghost Stories, the spooky production that has been breaking box office records at the Lyric Hammersmith, has added an extra two weeks to its scheduled run.The show, which comes with… Read More

Eigengrau

Published: 16 March 2010

The Bush theatre’s latest offering Eigengrau is a dark comedy that looks at the somewhat unnatural living situations twentysomethings all over the country find themselves in, with mismatched housemates and… Read More

Katya Kabanova

Published: 16 March 2010

Following his Laurence Olivier Award-winning production of Jenůfa, David Alden returns to English National Opera with arguably Janáček’s most lyrical opera, Katya Kabanova.Amid Charles Edwards’s sparse set – barely more… Read More

Les Mis celebrates 25 years with Barbican homecoming

Published: 15 March 2010

Fans of hit musical Les Misérables will be doubly excited this autumn when the touring production of the West End long-runner comes to London’s Barbican theatre to celebrate the show’s… Read More

Exclusive: Playwright Martin Lynch on the making of Chronicles Of Long Kesh

Published: 15 March 2010

The play Chronicles Of Long Kesh started as a miniscule thought as I sat at home watching the last political prisoners being released from Long Kesh/The Maze* way back in… Read More

Malkovich to play serial killer in London

Published: 12 March 2010

Hollywood actor John Malkovich is to play an Austrian serial killer at the Barbican in June 2011. The Infernal Comedy – Confessions Of A Serial Killer is a “dramatised concert”… Read More

Soap

Published: 12 March 2010

Bathtime will never be the same after attending Soap, the often silly and often downright sexy aerial acrobatic show at the Riverside Studios, which proves there is more than one… Read More

Family ballets return to Royal Opera House this Christmas

Published: 11 March 2010

Popular family ballets Peter And The Wolf, Tales Of Beatrix Potter and Faeries are among the delights returning to the Royal Opera House stage over the Christmas 2010 season. Set… Read More

Ex-prisoners perform prison drama at Trafalgar Studios

Published: 11 March 2010

A new production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Jesus Hopped The A Train will be performed by a cast of ex-prisoners and professional actors at Trafalgar Studio 2 from 6 to… Read More

Alice falls down the rabbit hole at the Royal Opera House

Published: 11 March 2010

The Royal Ballet has commissioned its first full length ballet in 15 years with Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland set to receive its world premiere at the Royal Opera House in… Read More

London Assurance

Published: 11 March 2010

Everyone is having a lot of fun in the National’s Olivier theatre at the moment. Silly walks, even sillier disguises, a remote control rat and a farcical plotline are providing… Read More

Royal Opera House stages Anna Nicole opera

Published: 10 March 2010

The co-creator of Jerry Springer The Opera is to write a new opera based on the controversial life of American glamour model Anna Nicole Smith, who died in 2007 aged… Read More

Billys get down with Gordon Brown

Published: 10 March 2010

As they prepare to celebrate the fifth birthday of hit London show Billy Elliot The Musical, the four boys who play the title character got a taste of what it… Read More

Iain Glen

Published: 10 March 2010

As Iain Glen returns to the London stage in Henrik Ibsens’s Ghosts, he talks to Matthew Amer about taking the leap into directing and the effect of children on his… Read More

Hall brings Bedroom Farce to West End

Published: 10 March 2010

Peter Hall’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Farce, which played last year at the Rose theatre, Kingston, will come to the Duke of York’s theatre on 24 March (press night… Read More

Salome goes Headlong into Hampstead

Published: 10 March 2010

Con O’Neill, Zawe Ashton and Jaye Griffiths are to star in Headlong Theatre’s new production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome at Hampstead theatre from 22 June to 17 July (press night… Read More

Love Never Dies

Published: 10 March 2010

After years of rumours and rewrites, and months of anticipation, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new tale about the Phantom has finally opened in the West End.Before attending one of the most… Read More

Stage return for Campbell Moore

Published: 9 March 2010

Stephen Campbell Moore and Jemima Rooper are to join David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, which plays at the Apollo theatre from 19 May. Moore… Read More

Random

Published: 9 March 2010

Theatres don’t usually look like furniture shops. But arriving at the venue for the Royal Court’s new venture, that is exactly what it looks like. In fact, the venue is… Read More

Allam to play Falstaff in Globe season

Published: 8 March 2010

Roger Allam is to make his debut on the stage of Shakespeare’s Globe this summer, when he takes on the role of Falstaff in the Dominic Dromgoole-directed productions, Henry IV… Read More

Backstage: Alison Chitty

Published: 8 March 2010

Designer Alison Chitty was resident designer at the National Theatre for eight years and has more than four decades of experience designing operas and plays all over the world. As… Read More

London premiere for Fishburne’s first play

Published: 8 March 2010

Riff Raff, the debut play by Hollywood actor Laurence Fishburne, will receive its UK premiere at London’s Arcola theatre next month.The drama, which runs from 6-24 April at the Dalston… Read More

Sweet Nothings

Published: 5 March 2010

Little known in Britain, but legendary in his native Switzerland, director Luc Bondy brings Arthur Schnitzler’s erotic, tragic romance to the cold, grey streets of Waterloo, filling the Young Vic… Read More

Pilkington joins 39 Steps

Published: 4 March 2010

Dianne Pilkington, currently appearing as the good witch Glinda in the musical Wicked until the end of March, is to join the cast of The 39 Steps from 26 April.… Read More

Private Lives starring Kim Cattrall

Published: 4 March 2010

Amanda and Elyot are made for each other. It is obvious from the start of Noël Coward’s comedy about relationships that the divorced pair should never have married their tiresome… Read More

Matthew Macfadyen

Published: 3 March 2010

He has worked with Ridley Scott and starred opposite Keira Knightley, but Matthew Macfadyen doesn’t lead a life of celebrity, he tells Caroline Bishop.Matthew Macfadyen’s idea of a good day… Read More

Court announces Posh cast

Published: 2 March 2010

Laura Wade’s new drama Posh, about an elite Oxford University dining society, boasts a cast of 14, including Leo Bill, Fiona Button, David Dawson, Kit Harington and Henry Lloyd-Hughes.Jolyon Coy,… Read More

Christopher Timothy cast in All The Fun Of The Fair

Published: 2 March 2010

Christopher Timothy will join David Essex in the cast of his new musical All The Fun Of The Fair at the Garrick theatre from 20 April. Timothy came to prominence… Read More

Ghost Stories

Published: 2 March 2010

It was a dark, moonlit night. The cold air chilled my very bones. A light breeze stalked me, breathing insistently on the back of my neck. And that was just… Read More

Introducing… Carrie Crowley

Published: 1 March 2010

Carrie Crowley, star of the Tricycle theatre’s current production The Dead School, talks to Charlotte Marshall about growing up in Ireland where the boys still took to the stage in… Read More

Olivier nominees prepare to party

Published: 1 March 2010

Today, 2 March, will see the performers, creatives and producers nominated for this year’s Laurence Olivier Awards come together to celebrate in style at a lunchtime event at the Haymarket… Read More

Rowe and Burt are Fantasticks

Published: 1 March 2010

London stage regulars Clive Rowe, David Burt, Hadley Fraser, Edward Petherbridge and Paul Hunter will lead the cast of new musical The Fantasticks when it opens at the Duchess theatre… Read More

Morahan and Kay in The Real Thing

Published: 26 February 2010

The full cast has been announced to join Toby Stephens in the Old Vic’s revival of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing from 10 April. Hattie Morahan, Barnaby Kay and Fenella… Read More

The Dead School

Published: 25 February 2010

A decrepit schoolroom currently fills the stage of the Tricycle theatre. Paper litters the floor, wallpaper clings desperately to the walls and windows are covered with bin liners. The classroom… Read More

Mark Rylance

Published: 24 February 2010

Awards and critical acclaim don’t mean half as much to Mark Rylance as being able to look his audience in the eye, finds Caroline Bishop.Mark Rylance pulls a blue metal… Read More

Eilenberg’s Shrunk marks Olivier winner’s return

Published: 24 February 2010

Playwright Charlotte Eilenberg, who won the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2003, is to premiere her new piece Shrunk at the Cock Tavern theatre.A comic two-hander about… Read More

Ghosts

Published: 24 February 2010

In this new production of Ibsen’s Ghosts, Iain Glen directs himself as Pastor Manders, a man who thinks duty should always be put before happiness. But, as current news stories… Read More

Cousins triple salchows into Grease

Published: 23 February 2010

Olympic gold medal-winning ice-dancer and Dancing On Ice head judge Robin Cousins is bring his toe loops and double axels to the Piccadilly theatre stage to play Teen Angel in… Read More

Domingo withdraws from Royal Opera Tamerlano

Published: 23 February 2010

Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo has been forced to withdraw from the upcoming Royal Opera production of Tamerlano as he will be recovering from surgery. He had been due to play… Read More

Disconnect

Published: 23 February 2010

John Napier’s stark, windowless set is the sterile working environment of three call centre workers in India who spend their nights collecting debts from American credit card holders. Roshan, Vidya… Read More

Introducing… Harry Treadaway

Published: 22 February 2010

After making his stage debut in Over There at the Royal Court theatre last year alongside his twin brother, Harry Treadaway talks to Charlotte Marshall about his reluctance to work… Read More

McCoy and Boydon give Jersey Boys birthday gift

Published: 22 February 2010

Hit musical Jersey Boys will celebrate its second London birthday by unveiling two new cast members. From 18 March, John Boydon and Eugene McCoy will replace Glenn Carter and Philip… Read More

Henshall extends Chicago stay

Published: 22 February 2010

Laurence Olivier Award-winning actress Ruthie Henshall has extended her run as Chicago’s murderous showgirl Roxie Hart by two months. She will now continue in the long-running show until 18 April.Henshall,… Read More

Show seeks Wicked writers

Published: 22 February 2010

The West End musical Wicked has launched a brand new writing competition for young people. Wicked author Gregory Maguire and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo will judge the entries in… Read More

First Night: Measure For Measure

Published: 19 February 2010

Beginning with two scantily-clad prostitutes dancing in cubicles to a thumping heartbeat, bathed in red light and set among leering frescoes, Michael Attenborough’s modern dress production of Measure For Measure… Read More

Jacobi plays Lear in Donmar new season

Published: 19 February 2010

Derek Jacobi is to play King Lear at the Donmar Warehouse in December this year.Jacobi, who last year won a Laurence Olivier Award for playing Malvolio in the Donmar’s production… Read More

Sweet Charity finds West End home

Published: 19 February 2010

Following yesterday’s announcement of the new season at the Menier Chocolate Factory, the intimate London Bridge venue has announced that its current production of Sweet Charity will transfer to the… Read More

Hancock and Church to judge Dorothy wannabes

Published: 18 February 2010

Sheila Hancock, Charlotte Church and John Partridge will help Andrew Lloyd Webber to pick a Dorothy on BBC television this spring.The trio will join the composer on the judging panel… Read More

Enron extends London engagement

Published: 18 February 2010

Enron, Lucy Prebble’s widely acclaimed tale of one of the financial world’s most infamous scandals, is extending its London run into the summer.The show, which has received six nominations for… Read More

Menier finds Nunn and Prince in Paradise

Published: 18 February 2010

The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced an ambitious new season that will see Trevor Nunn returning to the venue to direct Aspects Of Love, Broadway directors Hal Prince and Susan… Read More

Megan Mullally And Supreme Music Program

Published: 18 February 2010

Producers Neil Eckersley and Paul Spicer are making a habit of staging chat-and-tune evenings at the Vaudeville. Following Alan Cumming’s one-man show last year, it is the turn of American… Read More

Dunsinane

Published: 18 February 2010

What begins with a group of soldiers being given a Python-esque drama lesson in how to convincingly portray a forest, quickly turns into a thoughtful and evocative exploration of war… Read More

Rory Kinnear

Published: 17 February 2010

There are moments in an actor’s career that can change everything. The winning of a prestigious award. The playing of a high-profile role. Almost always those life-changing moments are played… Read More

New Donmar scheme showcases directing graduates

Published: 17 February 2010

The Donmar Warehouse has today launched Donmar Trafalgar, a new three-year scheme to showcase the graduates of its Resident Assistant Director (RAD) programme. Under the scheme, to be sponsored by… Read More

Rylance, Lumley and Hyde Pierce bring La Bête to West End

Published: 17 February 2010

Mark Rylance, Joanna Lumley and David Hyde Pierce are to star in Matthew Warchus’s new production of La Bête, which will play at the Comedy theatre from 26 June to… Read More

Serenading Louie

Published: 17 February 2010

Hot on the heels of its successful production of Red, the tale of a painter struggling to deal with his own success and a new generation of groundbreaking artists, comes… Read More

Wood stages McBratney’s Guess

Published: 16 February 2010

Children’s writer and director David Wood is to bring Sam McBratney’s book Guess How Much I Love You to the stage this summer in a national tour which takes in… Read More

Lan to direct Joe Turner at Young Vic

Published: 16 February 2010

August Wilson’s award-winning drama about the deep effects of slavery, Joe Turner’s Come And Gone, is to be staged at the Young Vic this summer, directed by the theatre’s Artistic… Read More

Exclusive: Roxana Silbert on the RSC’s commitment to new writing

Published: 15 February 2010

Roxana Silbert, Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and director of David Greig’s play Dunsinane at the Hampstead theatre, explains the evolution and importance of the RSC’s commitment to… Read More

Rowan plays Tudor king at Globe

Published: 15 February 2010

Dominic Rowan, Elliot Cowan, Jamie Parker and William Gaunt are to lead the company at Shakespeare’s Globe this summer. The quartet will star in the Globe’s Kings And Rogues season,… Read More

Priscilla and Oliver! named Theatregoers’ Choice

Published: 15 February 2010

Musicals Priscilla Queen Of The Desert and Oliver! proved the big winners of the night at the 2010 Theatregoers’ Choice Awards, the only major UK theatre awards voted for by… Read More

Wilson goes Through A Glass Darkly

Published: 12 February 2010

Laurence Olivier Award-nominee Ruth Wilson is to lead the cast of Through A Glass Darkly at the Almeida theatre this June. Adapted by Andrew Upton from Ingmar Bergman’s 1962 Oscar-winning… Read More

Shakespeare’s Women fundraise for Almeida

Published: 12 February 2010

Laurence Olivier Award nominee Juliet Stevenson is among the list of star performers coming together on Sunday 14 March to raise funds for the Almeida theatre with a special performance… Read More
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