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Sun brightens autumn for new Opera House audiences

Published: 29 July 2009

Audiences interested in trying opera or ballet for the first time are being offered the extra incentive of reduced price tickets through a partnership between the Royal Opera House, newspaper… Read More

West End showcase for young composer Bruce

Published: 29 July 2009

Emerging musical theatre composer Michael Bruce is to receive the rare opportunity to have his work showcased in the heart of Theatreland in a one-off gala performance this autumn.Michael Bruce:… Read More

A Streetcar Named Desire

Published: 29 July 2009

Let’s not make comparisons; Elliot Cowan is not Marlon Brando, nor should he be. He is, however, a sculpted, hulking powerhouse of a man whose bulging biceps, wide shoulders and… Read More

Once On This Island

Published: 29 July 2009

Like all good fairy stories, Hackney Empire’s musical Once On This Island has all the classic elements to create a memorable love story: the clash of two worlds, a ruthless… Read More

Katrina cast revealed

Published: 28 July 2009

The cast of a promenade performance aiming to shed new light on the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has been announced. Andrew Dennis, Andrea Harris, Stephanie Langton, Wunmi Mosaku, Joe… Read More

Quinn extension is birthday present for Grease

Published: 28 July 2009

Grease celebrated its second birthday at the Piccadilly theatre by announcing that Ray Quinn has extended his run as Danny until November 2009 and that the show has extended until… Read More

Spike Milligan’s Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall

Published: 28 July 2009

“It is juvenile, it should stop at once,” comes the complaint from one of Spike Milligan’s officers during his World War II campaign. He is partially right, Milligan’s humour might… Read More

Hampstead band of brothers give sneak preview

Published: 27 July 2009

Like a Dr Who-esque timewarp, the front of the 21st century Hampstead theatre leapt back to the Second World War this morning (27 July) as the cast of Spike Milligan’s… Read More

Ground-breaking choreographer Cunningham dies

Published: 27 July 2009

American choreographer Merce Cunningham, widely considered one of the greatest choreographers of his generation, has died at the age of 90. Cunningham, whose dance company has been a regular feature… Read More

Too Close to close on 8 August

Published: 27 July 2009

New musical Too Close To The Sun has announced that it will close earlier than expected on 8 August. The production had been booking to 5 September.Starring former Wicked leading… Read More

Too Close To The Sun

Published: 27 July 2009

Legendary author and Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway is the subject of new musical Too Close To The Sun, running for a limited run at the Comedy Theatre.Born in 1899… Read More

Classic tales reworked for Gate autumn

Published: 24 July 2009

New versions of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya and Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata will draw the 30th anniversary season of the Gate theatre to a close this autumn.Sam Holcroft’s Vanya, which runs… Read More

Full cast announced for London Cat

Published: 24 July 2009

Comedian and DJ Richard Blackwood is among those joining the cast of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, which opens at the Novello theatre on 1 December (previews from 21… Read More

4:48 Psychosis

Published: 24 July 2009

There is nowhere to hide from Sarah Kane’s savage monologue in Christian Benedetti’s stark production at the Young Vic. On a bare stage resembling nothing more than an oversized wooden… Read More

Burke joins Barrowman in La Cage

Published: 23 July 2009

Australian actor Simon Burke is to join Torchwood star John Barrowman in La Cage Aux Folles this autumn. The pair will replace Philip Quast and Roger Allam as lovers Georges… Read More

NT tells tall stories

Published: 23 July 2009

The National Theatre’s Watch This Space festival will be enticing families into a squashy dome to hear tales from leading storytellers during its Flights Of Fantasy Family Fun week from… Read More

Light illuminates Globe’s New World

Published: 23 July 2009

Royal Shakespeare Company regular John Light will lead the cast of Trevor Griffiths’s new play A New World: A Life Of Thomas Paine when it opens at Shakespeare’s Globe in… Read More

Troilus And Cressida

Published: 23 July 2009

Matthew Dunster’s heated, bawdy, impassioned, rowdy production depicts the Greeks and the Trojans as impetuous schoolboys squabbling over fickle women.The Globe’s stage, as ever, is bare but for a curtained… Read More

Ruth Wilson

Published: 22 July 2009

It is an odd sensation, chatting to Ruth Wilson; part admiration, part jealousy, part self-loathing and part-dumbfoundedness, writes Matthew Amer.Every other sentence the actress, who leapt to fame in the… Read More

Kids theatre at Camden Fringe

Published: 22 July 2009

Shows about sheep, camping and magical dustbins feature in the line-up of child-friendly entertainment at this year’s Camden Fringe, which takes place from 3 to 30 August. Established in 2006… Read More

Young Vic appoints Nash as Executive Director

Published: 22 July 2009

The Young Vic has announced that Gregory Nash, director of The Point in Eastleigh, is to succeed Executive Director Kevin Fitzmaurice in October 2009. Nash, who joins the Waterloo venue… Read More

STAR shines a light on ticket buying

Published: 22 July 2009

The Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers (STAR) today launched a new set of recommended terms and conditions for its members aimed at making the purchasing of tickets as simple… Read More

Talent lines up at Menier

Published: 22 July 2009

The Menier Chocolate Factory has confirmed the cast of Victoria Wood’s revival of her comedy with songs, Talent, which runs at the London Bridge venue from 17 September to 14… Read More

The Black Album

Published: 22 July 2009

Hanif Kureishi’s stage adaptation of his own 1995 novel reflects on the fatwa of 1989 in the context of our post-7/7 world. After growing up in the sedate environs of… Read More

McFadden and Mulholland go Blonde

Published: 21 July 2009

Reality show stars Susan McFadden and Aoife Mulholland are to join the cast of Legally Blonde The Musical, which opens at the Savoy theatre in December. The two Irish actresses… Read More

The Mountaintop

Published: 21 July 2009

Every so often a play emerges on the London fringe to such rapturous notices that its transfer to the West End is almost a necessity. Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, which… Read More

The Container

Published: 17 July 2009

This season the Young Vic theatre has taken the action from one metal box – in the form of a submarine in Kursk – to another, the altogether less glamorous… Read More

Dreyfus joins Breakfast At Tiffany’s

Published: 17 July 2009

James Dreyfus is to join Anna Friel and Joseph Cross in the new stage adaptation of Truman Capote’s Breakfast At Tiffany’s at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 9 September. Also… Read More

Koos Sas

Published: 17 July 2009

Fork lightning may have illuminated the London sky last night, but inside the Tricycle theatre the world was sparse and barren.Set against a dry, desert landscape, Koos Sas: Last Bushman… Read More

Award-winner Cohu joins Speaking In Tongues

Published: 16 July 2009

Lucy Cohu, who won an International Emmy Award for her role in television drama Forgiven, is to join John Simm, Ian Hart and Kerry Fox in the autumn revival of… Read More

Jerusalem

Published: 16 July 2009

Jez Butterworth takes another wry and biting look at the eccentricities and the mundanities of life in England with this new play set in the depths of Wiltshire.A veritable forest… Read More

Record-breaking first day for Kids Week 2009

Published: 15 July 2009

Kids Week in the West End 2009 is a record-breaking success, having sold over 19,000 tickets in just its first day of sales, around 3,000 more than the previous record… Read More

Niamh Perry

Published: 15 July 2009

Former Nancy hopeful Niamh Perry tells Caroline Bishop about the 18-month learning curve that has turned her from schoolgirl into West End star.If Niamh Perry’s original plans for 2009 had… Read More

Kids Week launches with celebrity Bear Hunt

Published: 14 July 2009

Kids Week in the West End, the annual initiative offering free children’s tickets to West End shows, launched today with a special performance of We’re Going On A Bear Hunt… Read More

Dennis and Doyle go to High School

Published: 14 July 2009

Les Dennis has been confirmed in the cast of the new touring production of High School Musical 2 Live On Stage, which kicks off at London’s New Wimbledon theatre on… Read More

Family festive offerings at the Barbican

Published: 14 July 2009

A cabaret show for kids and the return of hip hop dance show Pied Piper will run over the Christmas period at the Barbican this year. Cabaret Simon comes to… Read More

Soho theatre reopens following Dean Street fire

Published: 13 July 2009

Soho theatre is to reopen today with comedy Dreams Of Violence after having to cancel performances on Friday and Saturday due to a nearby fire which saw plumes of smoke… Read More

Dyer visits Trafalgar Studios

Published: 13 July 2009

Danny Dyer is to return to the London stage to play Sid Vicious in new play Kurt & Sid at Trafalgar Studio 2 from 9 September (press night 14 September).Kurt… Read More

Higgins leads Almeida autumn

Published: 13 July 2009

The Almeida theatre has revealed the casts for its autumn productions of Judgment Day and Mrs Klein, with multi-award winner Clare Higgins taking the eponymous lead in the latter.Higgins, who… Read More

Barbican announces autumn Bite09 season

Published: 10 July 2009

The Barbican has revealed a typically eclectic selection of shows that comprise its autumn season, with performers including Michael Clark, Slung Low, Told By An Idiot and Blue Boy Entertainment.The… Read More

Vickers leads London Little Voice

Published: 10 July 2009

Jim Cartwright’s award-winning black comedy The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice is to be revived in the West End this autumn starring X-Factor contestant Diana Vickers.The reality show star… Read More

Taylor joins Prick Up Your Ears

Published: 10 July 2009

Gwen Taylor is to join Matt Lucas and Chris New in Simon Bent’s drama about playwright Joe Orton, Prick Up Your Ears, which starts previews at the Comedy theatre from… Read More

Hoods goes into the Southbank Centre

Published: 9 July 2009

Into The Hoods, the hit street dance show which enjoyed a West End run last year, is to return to London for a Christmas season at the Southbank Centre. The… Read More

The Importance Of Being Earnest

Published: 9 July 2009

What finer way to spend a summer’s evening than drinking tea and eating muffins in the idyllic setting of Regent’s Park?Actor Dominic Tighe must think himself a lucky man, for… Read More

Menier has new Talent this autumn

Published: 8 July 2009

Comedian, writer and actress Victoria Wood is to direct a new version of her comedy Talent at the Menier Chocolate Factory this autumn. Co-produced with the Old Laundry Theatre, Bowness,… Read More

Olivier bursaries announced

Published: 8 July 2009

The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) has awarded bursaries to 13 second year drama students from across the UK to continue their final year studies. The nine recipients of this… Read More

Cumming makes West End return in Blue Car

Published: 8 July 2009

Scottish stage star and Hollywood regular Alan Cumming is to make a fleeting return to the West End this autumn, performing his solo show Alan Cumming: I Bought A Blue… Read More

The Mountaintop comes to Trafalgar Studios

Published: 7 July 2009

American playwright Katori Hall’s new play about the last night of Martin Luther King, The Mountaintop, is to transfer to Trafalgar Studio 1 from 16 July (press night 20 July)… Read More

Matthew Dunster

Published: 7 July 2009

Matthew Amer discovers why Troilus And Cressida director Matthew Dunster decided to stage a play he knew nothing about…Who would choose to direct a play they had never read, nor… Read More

Royal Opera’s DiDonato really does break a leg

Published: 7 July 2009

American mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato had an Independence Day 2009 to remember, breaking her leg while performing at the Royal Opera House on the opening night of Il Barbiere Di… Read More

Thriller Live pays tribute to Jackson

Published: 7 July 2009

As Los Angeles prepares to honour Michael Jackson in a public memorial later tonight, the cast of Thriller Live at London’s Lyric theatre will pay its own tribute to the… Read More

Idle’s Not The Messiah (He’s A Very Naughty Boy)

Published: 6 July 2009

The Royal Albert Hall will help celebrate 40 years of Monty Python with a one-off performance of Eric Idle and John Du Prez’s Not The Messiah (He’s A Very Naughty… Read More

Peter Pan extends summer run

Published: 6 July 2009

London’s spectacular new production of Peter Pan has extended its run at Kensington Gardens due to public demand and will now run until 13 September. The new re-telling of JM… Read More

Forbidden Broadway

Published: 3 July 2009

Sunday In The Park With George, A Little Night Music, La Cage Aux Folles; what do they have in common? Apart from successfully transferring from the Menier Chocolate Factory to… Read More

Acosta joins Ballet Nacional de Cuba for Spring Dance 2010

Published: 2 July 2009

Ballet superstar Carlos Acosta is to headline Spring Dance 2010 at the London Coliseum, performing with the whole company of Ballet Nacional de Cuba for the first time in the… Read More

Brent Cross celebrates tkts birthday

Published: 2 July 2009

The Brent Cross shopping centre will be alive with theatrical celebration this weekend (4 & 5 July) as it marks the first birthday of its own tkts ticket booth.Like every… Read More

Anna Jane Casey

Published: 1 July 2009

It is not just any West End star who, after five minutes of meeting you, will offer to pop round to your house and lend a hand with your tiling.… Read More

Wyndham’s finds Redemption

Published: 1 July 2009

The Gaiety theatre Dublin production of The Shawshank Redemption is to receive its London premiere at the Wyndham’s theatre on 13 September (previews from 4 September). Based on the 1982… Read More

Law’s Hamlet to be on Broadway

Published: 1 July 2009

The Donmar West End production of Hamlet, which stars Jude Law as the troubled Danish prince, will be hoping to recreate its London success when it transfers to New York… Read More

A little less Night Music

Published: 1 July 2009

The Menier Chocolate Factory production of A Little Night Music, which transferred to the Garrick theatre in March, is to close on 25 July.The Trevor Nunn-directed production of Stephen Sondheim’s… Read More

Pina Bausch dies aged 68

Published: 30 June 2009

Pina Bausch, the renowned German dancer and choreographer, has died at the age of 68. Bausch founded her dance company, Wuppertal Tanztheater, in 1973 and with it produced many innovative… Read More

Family Christmas at Hampstead

Published: 30 June 2009

Hampstead theatre’s 50th anniversary season will be rounded off by two family shows: a visit from Charlie and Lola and a ghost story by Michael Punter.Charlie and Lola, the brother… Read More

Clark stands down at Hampstead

Published: 30 June 2009

Anthony Clark is to leave his position as Artistic Director of Hampstead theatre. He announced today that he will step down from the post, which he has held for seven… Read More

Simm stars in Speaking In Tongues

Published: 29 June 2009

John Simm is to return to the stage in a new production of Andrew Bovell’s Speaking In Tongues this autumn. The Life On Mars star will appear alongside Ian Hart… Read More

Exclusive: Michael Attenborough on programming the Almeida Festival

Published: 29 June 2009

The Almeida Summer Festival 2009 brings an eclectic and innovative group of theatre-makers to the Islington venue for a three week period. Talking exclusively to Official London Theatre, the Almeida… Read More

Jackson tributes paid at Lyric theatre

Published: 26 June 2009

Fans of Michael Jackson having been paying tribute to the entertainment superstar at London’s Lyric theatre, home of Thriller Live, the show inspired by the King of Pop’s music.Flowers and… Read More

Thriller Live dims lights for Jackson

Published: 26 June 2009

Thriller Live, the West End show celebrating the life and music of Michael Jackson, who died yesterday, is to dim its lights and observe a minute’s silence in tribute to… Read More

Summer theatre course at Drill Hall

Published: 26 June 2009

The Drill Hall is offering two youth theatre courses this summer. The first, held from 27 to 31 July, is aimed at 11-14 year-olds from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual… Read More

Lloyd leads Arcola Ghosts

Published: 25 June 2009

Harry Lloyd, best known for playing Will Scarlett in the BBC Saturday family drama Robin Hood, is to lead the cast of the Arcola theatre’s summer production of Ibsen’s Ghosts,… Read More

Carrie’s War

Published: 25 June 2009

As the adaptation of one wartime children’s novel, War Horse, extends its West End run, it is joined by another, though Carrie’s War takes a more traditional approach to stage… Read More

War Horse charges on in West End

Published: 24 June 2009

The Laurence Olivier Award-winning National Theatre production of War Horse, which trotted over to the West End’s New London theatre in March, has extended its booking period until February 2010.The… Read More

Kacey Ainsworth

Published: 24 June 2009

As she returns to the stage in Carrie’s War at the Apollo theatre, Kacey Ainsworth talks to Caroline Bishop about balancing her career with motherhood.There is no danger of Kacey… Read More

Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme

Published: 24 June 2009

As troops fight on in Afghanistan, Hampstead theatre’s revival of Frank McGuinness’s 1986 play illuminates the futility of war with a portrayal of eight men being led to almost certain… Read More

Lyric Hammersmith looks to autumn

Published: 23 June 2009

New productions by Fevered Sleep and Oily Cart, plus a brand new pantomime production of Jack And The Beanstalk, form the autumn children’s theatre season at the Lyric Hammersmith. The… Read More

King’s Head hits get Arts transfer

Published: 23 June 2009

F***ing Men and Naked Boys Singing 2009, the two shows currently enjoying hugely successful runs at Islington’s King’s Head theatre, are to transfer to the more central Arts theatre from… Read More
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