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Quartet Serenading Donmar Warehouse

Published: 18 December 2009

American actor Jason Butler Harner and US TV regular Jason O’Mara are to lead the cast of Lanford Wilson’s Serenading Louie at the Donmar Warehouse from 11 February. They are… Read More

The Misanthrope

Published: 18 December 2009

Hildegard Bechtler’s faux-Versailles hotel suite is an apt setting for Martin Crimp’s updated version of Molière’s 17th century comedy. This is the temporary residence of Jennifer (Keira Knightley), an American… Read More

Love Never Dies for Perry

Published: 17 December 2009

Former I’d Do Anything contestant Niamh Perry is to join the previously announced Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess, Joseph Millson, Liz Robertson and Summer Strallen in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical… Read More

Rope

Published: 17 December 2009

Chests are handy items of furniture. You can keep anything in them; books, old clothes, or, in the case of Patrick Hamilton’s thriller Rope, a newly strangled murder victim. But… Read More

James Fleet

Published: 16 December 2009

A worldwide hit film, a hugely popular long-running sitcom and many a sold out stage show make a successful career indeed. But James Fleet hardly credits himself, finds Caroline Bishop.James… Read More

Sandi Toksvig’s Christmas Cracker

Published: 16 December 2009

It is difficult to describe Sandi Toksvig’s recipe for her first Christmas show at the Royal Festival Hall.The diminutive comedienne has concocted a variety-hall style entertainment show featuring an eclectic… Read More

Dillon joins Sullivan in Grease

Published: 15 December 2009

Former Maria hopeful Siobhan Dillon is to take on the lead role of Sandy in Grease at the Piccadilly theatre from 25 January. Dillon, who came into the public eye… Read More

Hampstead collaborations complete new season

Published: 15 December 2009

New plays by Sebastian Barry and Jonathan Harvey are to join the previously announced Chekhov Jubilee and Royal Shakespeare Company work in the spring season at Hampstead theatre.Renowned theatre company… Read More

May and Coyle in Donmar’s Polar Bears

Published: 11 December 2009

Jodhi May and Richard Coyle have been cast in the premiere production of novelist Mark Haddon’s play Polar Bears, which runs at the Donmar Warehouse from 1 April (press night… Read More

Raine and Storry join Ghosts at Duchess

Published: 11 December 2009

Jessica Raine, Harry Treadaway and Malcolm Storry are to join Iain Glen’s new production of Ibsen’s Ghosts at the Duchess theatre in February. The trio will appear alongside Lesley Sharp… Read More

Morecambe

Published: 11 December 2009

From the moment Bob Golding, as Eric Morecambe, whips a dust sheet off a chaise-longue and declares “sofa, so good,” he has started as he means to go on. So… Read More

Mullally to grace West End stage

Published: 10 December 2009

Broadway leading lady and two-time Emmy Award-winning actress Megan Mullally is to make her West End debut in 2010, when she plays a limited season at the Vaudeville theatre in… Read More

Backstage at The Sunday Times photo shoot

Published: 10 December 2009

“It’s hilarious. It’s brilliant. It’s like Team Theatre.” So said award-winning young playwright Polly Stenham in response to The Sunday Times Celebrate the Play photo shoot that brought the entirety… Read More

Sunday Times Celebrates the Play

Published: 10 December 2009

A special edition of The Sunday Times’s Spectrum supplement, available this weekend, brings together more than 80 of London theatre’s most lauded and acclaimed actors, directors, writers and producers of… Read More

The Dark Angel

Published: 10 December 2009

If pantomimes, lavish ballets and big West End musicals are not your idea of Christmas fun, the Apollo theatre has something very different to offer in the form of Camille… Read More

Winter 2010 Access London Theatre brochure now available

Published: 10 December 2009

Hot off the press, the winter 2010 Access London Theatre brochure is now available. An invaluable source for any theatregoers who find it difficult to see or hear what is… Read More

Phylicia Rashad

Published: 9 December 2009

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof’s Phylicia Rashad talks about her many mothers with Matthew Amer. My first introduction to actress Phylicia Rashad came two decades ago as a young… Read More

Red

Published: 9 December 2009

There is something fascinating about seeing a canvas being primed with paint live on stage. The canvas is vast, the paint dark red and the two men who are painting… Read More

Essex brings fairground musical to West End

Published: 8 December 2009

David Essex musical All The Fun Of The Fair is to come to London’s Garrick theatre next year, where it plays from 17 April (press night 28 April) to 5… Read More

Theatremakers: Told By An Idiot

Published: 8 December 2009

Type ‘Told By An Idiot’ into Google and two quotes will appear at the top of the page; “Theatre about as inventive, imaginative, and fantastical as it gets” and “a… Read More

Garai joins Filter’s Three Sisters

Published: 8 December 2009

Rising star Romola Garai is to play Masha in Sean Holmes and Filter’s new production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters at the Lyric Hammersmith from 15 January. The production, which has… Read More

Darker Shores

Published: 8 December 2009

There is something of the fireside tale about Michael Punter’s Darker Shores, which can only be a good thing for a Christmas ghost story.You can almost hear the crackle of… Read More

Walters and Burroughs go Off The Endz

Published: 7 December 2009

Ashley Walters, Lorraine Burroughs and Daniel Francis have been cast in Bola Agbaje’s new play Off The Endz, which opens at the Royal Court in February 2010.Walters, who can currently… Read More

Get Into London Theatre opens for booking 8 December!

Published: 7 December 2009

Get Into London Theatre, the annual promotion which offers tickets to top London shows at fantastic discounts, opens for booking at 10:00 tomorrow, Tuesday 8 December. Over 55 London shows… Read More

Stephens discovers The Real Thing at Old Vic

Published: 7 December 2009

Toby Stephens is to star in a new production of Tom Stoppard’s 1982 play The Real Thing at the Old Vic from 10 April (press night 21 April). Stoppard’s comedy… Read More

McGuinness and Lynch bring Ireland to Tricycle

Published: 7 December 2009

Two plays about Ireland’s past are to be staged at the Tricycle theatre in 2010.Opening the 2010 season, Tricycle Artistic Director Nicolas Kent directs the premiere of Frank McGuinness’s new… Read More

Hateley is West End’s Mamma Mia! once more

Published: 7 December 2009

Linzi Hateley is to rejoin the cast of hit musical Mamma Mia! at the Prince of Wales theatre on 14 December along with newcomer Jessie May. The duo replaces Sally… Read More

Theatregoers choose 2009 nominees

Published: 4 December 2009

The nominations for the 10th annual Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’ Choice Awards were announced today, with shows including Enron, Jerusalem, Sister Act and A Little Night Music leading the pack.The awards, which… Read More

Aladdin

Published: 4 December 2009

Familiar faces and suitably over the top costumes are back at the Hackney Empire this Christmas for its annual pantomime, this time heading to the Far East for a comical,… Read More

Hairspray handset translates show’s appeal

Published: 3 December 2009

A new subtitling handset being offered to audience members of the hit musical Hairspray is bringing the show’s catchy lyrics to theatregoers in their native language.The AirScript, which was launched… Read More

Sweet Charity

Published: 3 December 2009

Those used to seeing Tamzin Outhwaite on television or in non-musical stage roles will be in for something of a surprise at the Menier Chocolate Factory. The actress proves her… Read More

Henshall returns for winter in Chicago

Published: 2 December 2009

Ruthie Henshall is to return to Chicago this for a nine week season between 14 December and 28 February, to play Roxie Hart, the role she originated when the musical… Read More

Eddie Redmayne

Published: 2 December 2009

Playing an artist’s assistant in new play Red seems the perfect fit for young actor Eddie Redmayne. The rising star tells Caroline Bishop about his own apprenticeship in the acting… Read More

Goodman-Hill replaces Gatiss in Darker Shores

Published: 2 December 2009

Days before Hampstead theatre’s Christmas ghost story Darker Shores begins previewing, actor Mark Gatiss has left the production due to the serious illness of a close family member.The former League… Read More

Guest stars confirmed for Christmas Cracker

Published: 2 December 2009

Stars including Maria Friedman, Denise Van Outen, Clive Rowe, Fiona Shaw and Stephen Mangan are to guest appear in Sandi Toksvig’s Christmas Cracker at the Royal Festival Hall this month.… Read More

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Published: 2 December 2009

There is so much bitterness, resentment, anger, rage and manipulation in Tennessee Williams’s classic tale of a turbulent family birthday that it makes November’s bleak, rainy climate feel like a… Read More

Hampstead hosts Chekhov celebration

Published: 1 December 2009

Michael Pennington, Simon Russell Beale, Eileen Atkins, Rosamund Pike and Penelope Wilton are among the performers who will help Hampstead theatre mark Anton Chekhov’s 150th birthday in January.As part of… Read More

Festive fun with Christmas In New York

Published: 1 December 2009

So, it is December, advent calendars around the country are starting to be opened and the panic about shopping is setting in. Christmas in the West End gets into full… Read More

Detaining Justice

Published: 1 December 2009

The final play to join the Tricycle theatre’s Not Black And White season explores immigration from every angle.Playwright Bola Agbaje has a lot to live up to. Her first play,… Read More

Ellis considers herself the new Nancy

Published: 30 November 2009

West End leading lady Kerry Ellis is to replace Jodie Prenger as Nancy when the I’d Do Anything victor leaves the cast of Oliver! on 29 March 2010.Ellis, who received… Read More

Goldman to leave Soho theatre

Published: 30 November 2009

Lisa Goldman, the Artistic Director and joint Chief Executive of Soho theatre, is to leave her post in June 2010 to “pursue other opportunities”.Goldman, who was previously co-founder and Artistic… Read More

Kings and Rogues in Globe’s 2010 season

Published: 30 November 2009

Shakespeare’s Globe’s 2010 season promises a summer of royalty and rapscallions as it brings together Henry VIII, Henry IV Part I and Part II, Macbeth and The Merry Wives Of… Read More

West End waits for Godot once more

Published: 27 November 2009

Sean Mathias’s sell-out production of Waiting For Godot, starring Ian McKellen and Ronald Pickup, is to be revived at the Theatre Royal Haymarket next year for a strictly limited run.… Read More

TheatreCraft places available

Published: 27 November 2009

If you are aged 17-25 and interested in a career behind the scenes in theatre, TheatreCraft, an annual event held at the London Coliseum, offers a unique glimpse into what… Read More

Frost and Barat go Riverside

Published: 27 November 2009

Actress Sadie Frost and former Libertines guitarist Carl Barat will appear on stage together in Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love at Riverside Studios in January. The pair will perform as… Read More

The Priory

Published: 27 November 2009

Everyone hates New Year’s Eve, don’t they? The one night of the year when you are expected to go out and have fun is inevitably the night you find yourself… Read More

Drill Hall goes to Iceland

Published: 26 November 2009

Christmas at the Drill Hall features Icelandic storytelling, a sing-along workshop and an alternative Christmas story told through song. The centrepiece of the Drill Hall’s programming is The Yule Lads… Read More

Monkee joins Hairspray

Published: 26 November 2009

Former Monkee Micky Dolenz is to play joke shop owner Wilbur Turnbald in Hairspray at the Shaftesbury theatre from 2 February. The American actor and musician will partner Brian Conley,… Read More

A Christmas Carol at the Hackney Empire

Published: 26 November 2009

A Christmas Carol,  Charles Dickens’s famous tale of a hateful, covetous miser who can barely bring himself to look at a mince pie without exclaiming “Humbug!”, has been adapted in… Read More

Waterman replaces Goodyear as Miss July

Published: 25 November 2009

Former EastEnders actress Hannah Waterman is the latest actress to disrobe at the Noël Coward theatre in the stage adaptation of Calendar Girls. She replaces Julie Goodyear from 1 December.Former… Read More

Nation

Published: 25 November 2009

The National Theatre’s latest Christmas show, hoping no doubt to be as successful as past hit productions His Dark Materials and the still trotting War Horse, is Mark Ravenhill’s adaptation… Read More

Royal Court scores quadruple win at Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Published: 23 November 2009

The Royal Court productions of Jerusalem and Enron were among the winners at today’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards, sharing the spoils in their head to head battles.The plays, which both… Read More

Introducing… Chloe Hart

Published: 23 November 2009

Chloe Hart, currently playing big-haired heroine Tracy in Hairspray, tells Caroline Bishop why she is having such a Wicked time making her West End debut. CV in brief Age222008 Appears… Read More

Billy extends and welcomes new ballet boy

Published: 23 November 2009

As Billy Elliot - The Musical extends its booking period to December 2010, Dean-Charles Chapman will today become the latest name on the list of boys to have played the… Read More

Seagrove leads West End premiere of Christie’s Daughter

Published: 20 November 2009

Agatha Christie’s A Daughter’s A Daughter is to receive its West End premiere in December, 55 years after it first opened in Bath. Jenny Seagrove will lead the production, which… Read More

Stratford East to celebrate 125th birthday

Published: 20 November 2009

If there wasn’t already enough excitement surrounding the Theatre Royal Stratford East pantomime, a special performance of Aladdin will be held on 17 December to mark the venue’s 125th birthday.On… Read More

Mamma Mia! helps Children In Need

Published: 20 November 2009

London’s hit Abba musical Mamma Mia! has raised an impressive £45,885.50 for the BBC’s Children In Need through a special gala performance held earlier this week.The dancing queens and super… Read More

The Fahrenheit Twins

Published: 20 November 2009

If the early arrival of Christmas adverts, mince pies and idealistic portrayals of wintery wonderlands have left you feeling uninspired by the mottled grey English skies, take the lift two… Read More

Jest End

Published: 20 November 2009

Some people take life, art and musical theatre too seriously. Not so the folks at Jest End, a parody of all things West End that is running at the Jermyn… Read More

A Christmas cracker for all the family

Published: 19 November 2009

“If the family can take the kids out and have a lot of fun and they’re talking about that for weeks afterwards, then that’s a wonderful, wonderful gift that we… Read More

Cock

Published: 19 November 2009

The provocatively named Cock opened at the Royal Court last night and proved to be as vivid, punchy and revealing as the title would suggest, but in no way as… Read More

Dobson joins New Wimbledon’s celebrity lamp

Published: 18 November 2009

Anita Dobson is the final star to be confirmed as a celebrity Genie Of The Lamp for the New Wimbledon theatre's pantomime, Aladdin. She joins the previously announced Pamela Anderson,… Read More

Gareth Hale

Published: 18 November 2009

Gareth Hale talks comedy, Christmas and cats with Caroline BishopGareth Hale appears the antitheses of Scrooge. His flushed cheeks, rounded frame and mild-mannered, jovial demeanour make him a better fit… Read More

Lloyd Webber returns to hospital

Published: 18 November 2009

Theatrical impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber has been re-admitted to hospital following his recent prostate cancer surgery.A statement released on the producer and composer’s website confirms that while the initial operation… Read More

Chicago celebrates 5,000th performance

Published: 18 November 2009

The West End’s favourite felonious fishnet-clad musical, Chicago, will celebrate 5,000 London performances on its 12th London birthday when its cast takes to the Cambridge theatre stage tonight.The sixth longest… Read More

The Habit Of Art

Published: 18 November 2009

Is Alan Bennett getting concerned with coming to the end of his distinguished career? His new play The Habit Of Art would certainly suggest so.Both central characters, the poet WH… Read More

Lloyd Webber’s search for Dorothy begins

Published: 17 November 2009

Andrew Lloyd Webber has kicked off his search for an actress to play Dorothy in a new West End production of classic musical The Wizard Of Oz.The theatrical impresario will… Read More

Public Property

Published: 17 November 2009

Theatre PRs are a pleasant bunch, so I haven’t come across the sort of public relations officer who is prepared to ruin their client’s career in order to get publicity… Read More

Playhouse receives Petticoats transfer

Published: 16 November 2009

Dreamboats And Petticoats, the hit musical inspired by an album of 60s pop classics which closed at the Savoy theatre last month, will twist again at London’s Playhouse theatre from… Read More

Backstage: Irene Bohan

Published: 16 November 2009

Irene Bohan, whose recent shows include Inherit The Wind and Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical, gives OLT the low-down on costume supervision. Irene Bohan, 55, Costume Supervisor Sometimes… Read More

London gets Broadway’s Hair

Published: 16 November 2009

The current Broadway production of Hair will transfer to London’s Gielgud theatre next spring with the entire original Broadway cast. James Rado and Gerome Ragni’s 1967 rock musical centres on… Read More

Edward Woodward dies aged 79

Published: 16 November 2009

Actor Edward Woodward, best known for his leading roles in classic horror film The Wicker Man and US drama The Equalizer, has died aged 79.The Croydon-born performer died in the… Read More

New and old in Sadler’s Wells spring season

Published: 16 November 2009

Sadler’s Wells has announced a spring 2010 season blending old favourites with world and UK premieres, and its regular family, flamenco and hip hop festivals.Companies and performers including Paco Peña,… Read More

Heap’s Twelfth Night comes to National

Published: 13 November 2009

A new production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, aimed at children aged eight and over, will play at the National Theatre from 16 to 27 February.The production, which is created and… Read More

Debbie Reynolds is Alive And Fabulous in West End

Published: 13 November 2009

Star of classic films Singin’ In The Rain, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and That’s Entertainment, Debbie Reynolds will bring her one-woman show Debbie Reynolds Alive And Fabulous to London’s Apollo… Read More
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