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11 And 12

Published: 11 February 2010

The influential British director Peter Brook returns to London with 11 And 12, a work five years in the making, that brings together a multinational cast in a meditation on… Read More

Waddingham brings her own night music to Menier

Published: 10 February 2010

Laurence Olivier Award nominee Hannah Waddingham is to return to the Menier Chocolate Factory, to present one week of cabaret at the intimate London Bridge venue from 16 to 20… Read More

Anthony Head

Published: 10 February 2010

His character in Six Degrees Of Separation may have shut the door in the face of change but actor Anthony Head is open to all manner of new ideas, finds… Read More

See Macbeth for free this March

Published: 10 February 2010

Shakespeare’s Globe’s Education department is offering free tickets to two performances of a special production of Macbeth on 5 and 6 March.This production of the Bard’s macabre thriller has been… Read More

A Life In Three Acts

Published: 10 February 2010

With no real set to speak of, no costumes other than the gloriously glitzy sequinned coat already owned by the remarkable man on stage, and a playwright onstage in place… Read More

RAD gets in on the Act

Published: 9 February 2010

Budding young dancers can take part in a workshop inspired by a top West End show at the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) this month.The Musical Theatre Workshop, held on… Read More

Backstage: Clare Whitfield

Published: 8 February 2010

Clare Whitfield worked on West End shows including Aspects Of Love and Grease before stage managing the premiere production of Mamma Mia! more than 10 years ago. She tells OLT… Read More

Quast and Ellis among 1000 Voices

Published: 5 February 2010

West End regulars Philip Quast and Kerry Ellis are on the bill for the 10th anniversary performance of The Night Of 1000 Voices at the Royal Albert Hall on 2… Read More

Fox to lead cast of Bush’s Eigengrau

Published: 5 February 2010

Actor Laurence Fox is to return to the stage in March, when he leads the cast of black comedy Eigengrau at the Bush theatre. Fox is joined in the cast… Read More

Pirates and puppets come to Polka theatre this summer

Published: 4 February 2010

Polka theatre has announced its summer season with pirates and operatic puppets joining famous siblings Charlie and Lola at the Wimbledon children’s venue.After the previously announced Charlie And Lola’s Best… Read More

Really Old, Like Forty Five

Published: 4 February 2010

Tamsin Oglesby’s new comedy can be tough viewing. Watching Judy Parfitt’s Lyn slide into the grip of dementia is sickeningly painful. But amid the anguish there is a lot to… Read More

Micky Dolenz

Published: 3 February 2010

Hairspray’s newest cast member Micky Dolenz has been a child star, actor, producer, writer and director. Oh, and he was in The Monkees too. He talks to Caroline Bishop about… Read More

Royal Court comes to a community near you

Published: 2 February 2010

The Royal Court is to present theatre in a disused shop in the Elephant and Castle shopping centre under a new project entitled Theatre Local. The new scheme follows a… Read More

Thriller Live remixed for second year

Published: 2 February 2010

Thriller Live, the crowd-pleasing high-energy tribute concert to Michael Jackson, has celebrated moving into its second West End year by revitalising the show.The updated version of the hit show, which… Read More

Donmar paints Broadway Red

Published: 1 February 2010

The Donmar Warehouse’s current hit drama Red, which stars Alfred Molina as artist Mark Rothko, is to transfer to Broadway next month.John Logan’s play, which also stars Eddie Redmayne, closes… Read More

Introducing… Siobhan Dillon

Published: 1 February 2010

After playing cheerleader Patty in the musical Grease a couple of years ago, Siobhan Dillon finally gets to take on the lead role of Sandy, which, she tells Caroline Bishop,… Read More

Full cast revealed for Pulitzer winner Ruined

Published: 29 January 2010

A cast of London theatre regulars will join the previously announced Jenny Jules and Lucian Msamati in the European premiere of Lynn Nottage’s multi-award-winning drama Ruined.David Ajala, who is currently… Read More

Fool For Love at Riverside Studios

Published: 29 January 2010

Carl Barat and Sadie Frost shacked up in a motel may sound more like something you would be likely to read on the gossip pages of a newspaper than in… Read More

Extensions announced for new musical hits

Published: 28 January 2010

Two of the West End’s hit new shows, Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical and Legally Blonde The Musical, have extended their London runs. Priscilla Queen Of The Desert… Read More

Kath And Kim’s Turner takes West End bow

Published: 28 January 2010

Jane Turner, the Australian writer and star of cult comedy hit Kath And Kim, will make her West End debut this May in the UK premiere of hit Aussie play… Read More

Hairspray stops the beat in March

Published: 28 January 2010

Laurence Olivier Award-winning musical Hairspray will close at the Shaftesbury theatre on 28 March 2010, following two and a half years of big-haired, big-hearted success.The feel-good musical about a plus-sized… Read More

Mead gets Wicked

Published: 28 January 2010

Former Joseph star Lee Mead is to join the cast of Wicked from 10 May, playing the princely Fiyero in the musical about the two witches from L Frank Baum’s… Read More

Harry Lloyd

Published: 27 January 2010

In recent years, Harry Lloyd has played a merry man, a Sicilian immigrant and a Norwegian painter. As he returns to the West End to play a Manhattan rent boy,… Read More

Award-winning Enron enjoys third opening night

Published: 27 January 2010

Stars including Dominic West, Micky Dolenz and Frank Skinner attended the first night of Enron at the Noël Coward theatre last night, a play by 29-year-old Lucy Prebble which achieves… Read More

Another record year for London’s Theatreland

Published: 27 January 2010

London’s Theatreland reached a new high last year, with more than 14 million visits to the capital’s 52 major theatres recorded in 2009, generating over half a billion pounds in… Read More

The Whiskey Taster

Published: 27 January 2010

Imagine tasting red or smelling a season. Imagine having all five senses firing off at everything that just one of them experiences. This is the world synaesthete advertising wonder kid… Read More

Simon Curtis

Published: 26 January 2010

Caroline Bishop talks to director Simon Curtis about his new production of Serenading Louie at the Donmar Warehouse.Director Simon Curtis hasn’t worked in theatre for nearly five years, since his… Read More

Donmar’s Streetcar wins final South Bank Show Award

Published: 26 January 2010

The Donmar Warehouse has been honoured by a second awards ceremony today, with its production of A Streetcar Named Desire picking up the Theatre Award at the last ever South… Read More

Royal Court triumphs in Critics’ Circle Awards

Published: 26 January 2010

Jude Law, Mark Rylance and Rachel Weisz were honoured at the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards 2010, which were announced today at a ceremony at the Prince of Wales theatre. The… Read More

Hampstead hosts Haiti benefit

Published: 26 January 2010

Hampstead Theatre and Talawa Theatre Company have swiftly come together in the wake of the Haiti earthquake to create an evening of poems, readings and short plays written in response… Read More

Theatremakers: Filter

Published: 26 January 2010

When Lyric Hammersmith Artistic Director Sean Holmes describes Filter – the company that all too often is preceded by the laudatory title of ‘groundbreaking theatre company’ – as “a sort… Read More

Families unwrap RSC’s Twelfth Night

Published: 26 January 2010

The Royal Shakespeare Company is offering children and their parents the chance to explore the creative process of its production of Twelfth Night, currently playing at the Duke of York’s… Read More

Three Sisters

Published: 26 January 2010

Filter’s last take on a classic text involved turning Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night into a 90-minute chaotic, drunken party with audience participation and on stage jam sessions. So audiences at their… Read More

Do Something Different at the Barbican this spring

Published: 25 January 2010

The Barbican’s annual Do Something Different Weekend returns this year from 6 to 7 March offering two days of fun activities and performances for all the family. The interactive weekend,… Read More

Spend Chinese New Year at Lauderdale House

Published: 25 January 2010

Lauderdale House is celebrating Chinese New Year with a special show and accompanying workshop on Sunday 7 February.Dragons & Monsters: The Stories Of Chinese New Year is a storytelling performance… Read More

Benny and Bjorn premiere Kristina in London

Published: 22 January 2010

Russell Watson is to appear in a one-off concert version of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’s popular Swedish musical Kristina at the Royal Albert Hall on 14 April.Kristina, by the… Read More

Avenue Q finds third London home

Published: 22 January 2010

Avenue Q has announced it will transfer to the Wyndham’s theatre when it finishes its run at the Gielgud theatre in March. The move also marks major cast changes with… Read More

I Am Yusuf And This Is My Brother

Published: 22 January 2010

Love and loyalty go hand in hand in Amir Nizar Zuabi’s drama I Am Yusuf And This Is My Brother, the destructive effect of war making both shine brightly in… Read More

Daisy Pulls It Off

Published: 22 January 2010

Denise Deegan’s jolly 1983 comedy tells the story of plucky schoolgirl Daisy and her battle with the beastly bullies of Grangewood School for Girls in 1927.Daisy, you see, is a… Read More

Boyle, Grandage and Hall line-up for new National season

Published: 21 January 2010

Oscar-winning film director Danny Boyle is to return to his theatrical roots when he directs a new play based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein at the National Theatre next winter.National Theatre… Read More

Dead School joins Tricycle’s Irish spring

Published: 21 January 2010

Irish Times Theatre Awards nominee The Dead School is to join Greta Garbo Came To Donegal and Chronicles Of Long Kesh in a season of Irish drama that runs at… Read More

The Little Dog Laughed

Published: 21 January 2010

Taking the famous nursery rhyme as inspiration for tying up a messy story in a neat knot, the very dishy dish in Douglas Carter Beane’s comedy The Little Dog Laughed… Read More

Brandon takes Wet Weather Cover in London

Published: 20 January 2010

Six years after he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award, American actor Michael Brandon returns to the London stage tonight, in Wet Weather Cover at Islington’s King’s Head theatre.Oliver… Read More

Sam Barnett & John Stahl

Published: 20 January 2010

Colleagues on new play The Whiskey Taster, Sam Barnett and John Stahl talk to Matthew Amer about the lure of the Bush theatre, constantly learning and smelling words.John Stahl doesn’t… Read More

Six Degrees Of Separation

Published: 20 January 2010

Are we all linked together by only six other people? Is con artist Paul actually only six degrees of separation away from Sidney Poitier and another six away from the… Read More

First Night: The Caretaker

Published: 19 January 2010

Jonathan Pryce does not stink. On this point, as Pinter’s most famous interloper in The Caretaker, he is most assured, despite others’ protestations.He is right. He doesn’t. He may be… Read More

Introducing… Matthew Pidgeon

Published: 19 January 2010

Matthew Pidgeon, star of Edinburgh Festival hit romantic comedy Midsummer, talks to Charlotte Marshall about the show’s London transfer, his attraction to plays that reveal his odd side and having… Read More

Tucker swaps Queen for Wicked witch

Published: 15 January 2010

I’d Do Anything contestant and former We Will Rock You star Rachel Tucker will be turning a delightful shade of green this spring when she takes over in the role… Read More

Official London Theatre launches Laurence Olivier Audience Award

Published: 14 January 2010

London’s theatregoers are being given the chance to have their voices heard at the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards by selecting both the shortlist and the winner of the new Laurence… Read More

Midsummer

Published: 14 January 2010

Amongst the Edinburgh summer revellers, Goth teenagers drinking underneath bridges, expensive suited lawyers schmoozing in overpriced, generic bars and backstreet thugs doing dodgy deals blossoms a very unlikely modern romance… Read More

Legally Blonde The Musical

Published: 14 January 2010

Pink is in abundance at the Savoy theatre as Sheridan Smith steps into the Jimmy Choos of Californian sorority girl turned lawyer Elle Woods. Designer David Rockwell starts the musical… Read More

Frank McGuinness

Published: 13 January 2010

As his latest play premieres at the Tricycle theatre, the Irish dramatist talks to Matthew Amer about inspiration, childhood and constant learning.“I was in a small house in Donegal where… Read More

Edward Hall to run Hampstead theatre

Published: 13 January 2010

Edward Hall has been named the new Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Hampstead theatre. He will replace current Artistic Director Anthony Clark at the end of January.The son of… Read More

Clown around at Polka this half term

Published: 13 January 2010

Polka theatre’s popular drama workshops return this February half term, offering children the chance to try their hand at playwriting, clowning and other fun activities at the Wimbledon-based children’s theatre.… Read More

MR James provides church ghosts

Published: 12 January 2010

Church crypts are spooky at the best of times, but when you add the ghoulish stories of MR James, as is happening at St Pancras Church crypt, the cold, lifeless… Read More

Greta Garbo Came To Donegal

Published: 12 January 2010

One of the most enigmatic figures of cinema, Greta Garbo was known for her desire to be left alone. But in Frank McGuinness’s play she arrives at a rustic old… Read More

Stephens extends Lyric spring season

Published: 11 January 2010

Playwrights Simon Stephens, David Eldridge and Robert Holman will collaborate on a new piece entitled A Thousand Stars Explode In The Sky, to premiere at West London’s Lyric Hammersmith on… Read More

Kursk and Sus make Young Vic returns

Published: 11 January 2010

The Young Vic has expanded its already announced spring season with revivals of previous productions Kursk and Sus, and new piece Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl.Kursk, in which theatre company Sound&Fury… Read More

Introducing… Alex Gaumond

Published: 11 January 2010

2010 has started well for French-Canadian actor Alex Gaumond, currently playing Emmett in Legally Blonde The Musical, which opens this week. He talks to Caroline Bishop about his first lead… Read More

Cannibal! spends summer at Leicester Square theatre

Published: 11 January 2010

Cannibal! The Musical, adapted form the film by Trey Parker, the co-creator of cult cartoon South Park, will bring its unique blend of comedy, tunes and questionable eating habits to… Read More

Basden holds Party at the Arts theatre

Published: 8 January 2010

Party, the Fringe First-winning satire from if.comedy Best Newcomer Tom Basden, will bring political comedy to the Arts theatre this spring.Running for a limited season from 1 to 13 March,… Read More

New plays compete with classic in final South Bank Show Awards

Published: 8 January 2010

Jerusalem, The Habit Of Art and the Donmar Warehouse production of A Streetcar Named Desire will contest the theatre category in the final South Bank Show Awards. The two new… Read More

Irons and Redmond make RSC returns

Published: 7 January 2010

Actors Jeremy Irons and Siobhan Redmond will both return to the Royal Shakespeare Company this spring to lead the cast of new plays The Gods Weep and Dunsinane.The world premieres,… Read More

Anstis is new Teen Angel

Published: 7 January 2010

Heart DJ and former CBBC presenter Toby Anstis is to join the cast of Grease in the role of Teen Angel from 25 January. Anstis, who makes his West End… Read More

Roger Rees

Published: 6 January 2010

Roger Rees is back on the London stage. But who exactly is this Laurence Olivier Award-winning actor? Caroline Bishop finds out.Roger Rees is theatre personified. The Welsh-born 65-year-old wrote a… Read More

Unicorn heads into spring

Published: 5 January 2010

An adventure story, a dark operetta and a seasonal dance show form the spring line-up at the Unicorn theatre this year. Theatre Centre returns to the Unicorn from 10 to… Read More

Stewart and Hytner top New Years Honours

Published: 31 December 2009

Actor Patrick Stewart and National Theatre Director Nicholas Hytner have both received knighthoods in the Queen’s New Years Honours List, which sees a host of arts professionals recognised for their… Read More

Daisy Pulls It Off at Arts theatre

Published: 30 December 2009

As St Trinian’s 2: The Legend Of Fritton’s Gold brings schoolgirl capers to the big screen, the plight of pigtailed, hockey-playing young ladies is also coming to the West End… Read More

Squire and Panter named most powerful couple in theatre

Published: 29 December 2009

Rosemary Squire, the Society of London Theatre’s former president, has been named alongside her husband Howard Panter as this year’s most influential people in 2009’s The Stage 100, the annual… Read More

Twelfth Night at the Duke of York’s Theatre

Published: 23 December 2009

Richard Wilson’s Shakespearean debut comes in the form of Gregory Doran’s opulent Twelfth Night, set against a background of decaying antiquities, burnt orange and purple hues, Middle Eastern music and… Read More

Kafka’s Monkey joins downloadable shows

Published: 23 December 2009

The Young Vic production of Kafka’s Monkey is the latest stage show to be made available for download by Digital Theatre.  Kafka’s tale of forced assimilation into an alien culture,… Read More

Tom Goodman-Hill

Published: 21 December 2009

Christmas is a time that brings old friends together. Colleagues meet for a drink and childhood mates catch up over a meal. Yet few seasonal university reunions are as unusual… Read More

Blake Ritson

Published: 21 December 2009

Autumn saw Blake Ritson playing the infatuated pastor Mr Elton in the BBC adaptation of Emma, but now he is swapping his dog-collar for a rather less holy Rope at… Read More

Introducing… Lily Bevan

Published: 21 December 2009

CV in brief: 2006 Acts alongside Derek Jacobi in A Voyage Round My Father at the Donmar Warehouse2008 Co-writes and stars in Stephen And The Sexy Partridge at the Old… Read More

Kendal reveals Mrs Warren’s Profession in West End

Published: 21 December 2009

The Theatre Royal Bath production of Mrs Warren’s Profession, starring Felicity Kendal, is to transfer to the West End’s Comedy theatre from 16 March (press night 25 March). George Bernard… Read More
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