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Jessie Buckley

Published: 15 April 2009

It may have taken slightly longer than she had hoped, but I’d Do Anything’s Jessie Buckley has just made her West End debut. Matthew Amer found out exactly how excited… Read More

Stephens joins Quinn as Grease extends

Published: 15 April 2009

Ray Quinn, who dons the leather jacket of Danny Zuko in Grease on 11 May, will be partnering his real-life girlfriend Emma Stephens on stage as the actress, who already… Read More

International artists gather for Breakin’ Convention

Published: 14 April 2009

Breakin’ Convention, the annual hip hop festival, returns to Sadler’s Wells for its sixth year from 2 to 4 May, featuring performances from major international hip hop artists including Compagnie… Read More

Sunset continues to September

Published: 9 April 2009

Craig Revel Horwood’s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Sunset Boulevard has extended its booking period at the Comedy theatre until 26 September. The show, which received four nominations at… Read More

Death And The King’s Horseman

Published: 9 April 2009

Based on real events that took place in Nigeria in 1946, Wole Soyinka’s Death And The King’s Horseman is set three years earlier in a hot, dusty market place, where… Read More

Andrew Lincoln

Published: 8 April 2009

Andrew Lincoln tells Caroline Bishop about his passion for new writing and his love of the stage – even if it has been a while since we last saw him… Read More

Lipman and Waddingham make Night Music at Garrick

Published: 8 April 2009

Maureen Lipman has compared the work of multi-award-winning American composer Stephen Sondheim to the divisive breakfast spread Marmite. “You love it or you don’t. I happen to love it. I… Read More

Mamma Mia celebrates a decade

Published: 7 April 2009

ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus took to the stage at the Prince of Wales theatre last night to help celebrate the 10th birthday of Mamma Mia!, the hit musical… Read More

The Fever

Published: 7 April 2009

A bare stage can be a frightening proposition. No elaborate set to enhance and distract, no costume to indicate the period of time, just an actress and some carefully placed… Read More

Horne and Staunton make stage return

Published: 6 April 2009

Mathew Horne and Imelda Staunton will return to the cast of Entertaining Mr Sloane today following their illness-induced absence.The pair has not performed in the show since Horne collapsed during… Read More

Morpurgo “profoundly moved” by War Horse adaptation

Published: 6 April 2009

Former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo has heaped praise on the National Theatre’s stage adaptation of his novel War Horse, which opened at the New London theatre last week.Speaking at the… Read More

West leads Enron

Published: 6 April 2009

Samuel West has been cast in Lucy Prebble’s new play Enron, which opens at Chichester Festival Theatre in July before transferring to London’s Royal Court from 17 September. West, who… Read More

Abbot plays Fagin as Atkinson has surgery

Published: 3 April 2009

Russ Abbot is to replace Rowan Atkinson as Fagin in London’s hit production of Oliver! for two weeks while the former Blackadder star has immediate surgery on a hernia.Atkinson had… Read More

Horne collapses during Sloane performance

Published: 2 April 2009

Update 3 Apr 14:30: Mathew Horne, star of hit TV comedy Gavin And Stacey, collapsed during yesterday’s matinee performance of Entertaining Mr Sloane at the Trafalgar Studio 1. He was… Read More

New productions dominate ENO 2009/10 season

Published: 2 April 2009

The English National Opera 2009/10 season, announced earlier today, features 12 new productions, collaborations with the Young Vic and Punchdruck, and the London opera debut of director Rupert Goold.Goold joins… Read More

Tusk Tusk

Published: 2 April 2009

Such was the success of Polly Stenham’s That Face, which has collected a clutch of awards since premiering at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in 2007, that the young… Read More

Frances Barber

Published: 1 April 2009

Last on the West End stage as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s King Lear/The Seagull ensemble, Frances Barber returns to London in a piece she describes to Matthew Amer… Read More

American musicals receive London spring season

Published: 1 April 2009

Contemporary American musicals The Last 5 Years and tick… tick… BOOM! are to be staged as part of a short series at the Duchess theatre this May with a cast… Read More

Musicals extend London runs

Published: 1 April 2009

Three of the West End’s hit musicals, The Lion King, Blood Brothers and recent Laurence Olivier Award winner Jersey Boys, have announced extensions to their current runs, taking their London… Read More

Stratford East stages Africa-set dramas

Published: 30 March 2009

Two new plays exploring contemporary African life, Paul Sirett’s Bad Blood Blues and Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom’s Foreplay, are to be staged at the Theatre Royal Stratford East this spring. Sirett’s… Read More

Spring Awakening

Published: 27 March 2009

Already a hit stateside, Spring Awakening is both a new musical and a new kind of musical, a rallying call for teen angst where microphones symbolically give power back to… Read More

The Last Cigarette comes to London

Published: 27 March 2009

Richard Eyre’s production of The Last Cigarette will transfer from Chichester Festival Theatre to London’s Trafalgar Studio 1 on 21 April (press night 28 April), where it runs until 1… Read More

Centre Stage: Kit Harington

Published: 27 March 2009

After two successful runs at the National Theatre, World War I drama War Horse is transferring to the West End. Adapted from Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 novel, the play tells the… Read More

Parlour Song

Published: 27 March 2009

The Almeida theatre is transformed into the leafy, claustrophobic world of suburbia for Jez Butterworth’s new comedy Parlour Song, where behind the twitching lace curtains of your neighbours’ homes, everything… Read More

Full cast joins Anderson in Doll’s House

Published: 27 March 2009

Toby Stephens, Tara Fitzgerald and Christopher Eccleston will join Gillian Anderson in the cast of A Doll’s House at the Donmar Warehouse from 14 May (press night 19 May). The… Read More

Dimetos

Published: 26 March 2009

Douglas Hodge directs this eerie play by Athol Fugard which explores the consequences of our inability to act against something we know to be wrong. Designer Bunny Christie has conjured… Read More

Swan Lake

Published: 26 March 2009

As part of the annual Spring Dance at the London Coliseum, the renowned American Ballet Theatre performs the most famous and well loved of all the classic ballets, Swan Lake.Telling… Read More

La Clique unveils tantalising new treats

Published: 25 March 2009

The ever-changing desert trolley of cabaret delights that is London show La Clique will feature two new delicacies from tomorrow night, Le Gateau Chocolat and Carl-Einar Häckner.Confusingly not, in fact,… Read More

Alex Lanipekun

Published: 25 March 2009

Currently starring in Dimetos at the Donmar Warehouse, former journalist and hip hop artist Alex Lanipekun seems to have finally found the career path he was looking for. Or has… Read More

Sam Kelly gets Wicked new role

Published: 25 March 2009

Sam Kelly, star of many of the UK’s favourite sitcoms, is to take on the role of the Wizard in Wicked from 11 May. Also joining the cast are Natalie… Read More

Dench “thrilled” to make swift stage return

Published: 25 March 2009

Dame Judi Dench returned to the cast of Madame De Sade last night, having been forced to miss four performances with an ankle injury.The seven-times Laurence Olivier Award-winning actress tripped… Read More

Explore Theatreland’s history and win Theatre Tokens!

Published: 24 March 2009

To celebrate the launch of the Official London Theatre Guide online archives, we are offering you the chance to win one of five prizes of £50 in Theatre Tokens by… Read More

Hare’s Wall returns to Royal Court

Published: 24 March 2009

David Hare’s Wall, which was read by the playwright at the Royal Court in three sell-out performances in March, will return to the theatre for a longer run next month.Hare’s… Read More

Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical

Published: 24 March 2009

Much has been said about the abundance of ‘jukebox’ musicals in the West End: shows that are fashioned around a soundtrack of songs by an artist or genre. Some manage… Read More

Pollard joins Shout! at Arts

Published: 23 March 2009

Su Pollard is to lead the cast of Shout!, a musical celebration of the swinging 60s, which plays at the Arts theatre from 17 April to 28 June (press night… Read More

Ordinary Dreams for Lance and Bower

Published: 23 March 2009

Former Teachers co-stars James Lance and Adrian Bower are reuniting for new comedy Ordinary Dreams, which plays at Trafalgar Studio 2 from 12 May to 6 June (press night 14… Read More

Stoppard’s Arcadia revived in West End

Published: 20 March 2009

Ed Stoppard is to appear in the first major revival of his father Tom Stoppard’s Laurence Olivier Award-winning play Arcadia, which plays at the Duke of York’s theatre from 27… Read More

Dench misses Madame De Sade this weekend

Published: 20 March 2009

Dame Judi Dench will not perform her role in Madame De Sade this weekend after injuring her ankle. The star, who opened in the Donmar Warehouse production of Yukio Mishima’s… Read More

West End honours Richardson

Published: 20 March 2009

Lights will be dimmed for two minutes before curtain up in theatres across London’s West End this evening in a tribute to the late English actress Natasha Richardson, who died… Read More

Ainsworth joins Carrie’s War

Published: 20 March 2009

Kacey Ainsworth has joined the cast of Carrie’s War, which opens at the Apollo theatre on 24 June (previews from 18 June).Ainsworth is best known for playing Little Mo Slater… Read More

New Boy

Published: 20 March 2009

Skins star Nicholas Hoult makes his West End debut in this play about a boy, the New Boy at school, and the sexual and social confusion he sparks. The boy… Read More

Kafka’s Monkey

Published: 20 March 2009

Watching a woman pretending to be an ape pretending to be a man does not initially sound like the ideal way to spend an evening, but in the hands of… Read More

Natasha Richardson dies in hospital

Published: 19 March 2009

The British stage and screen actress Natasha Richardson has died in hospital in New York following a fall whilst holidaying at a ski resort in Canada. Richardson, 45, was having… Read More

Madame De Sade

Published: 19 March 2009

The Donmar West End season continues with the Judi Dench-led, West End premiere of Mishima’s Madame De Sade.Madame De Sade is one of those plays where a lot happens while… Read More

Polka hosts Easter workshops

Published: 18 March 2009

Polka theatre is offering a range of workshops and activities for children and their families this Easter school holidays, 7 to 17 April. Based around The Jolly Postman, which is… Read More

Sunset lasts longer at Comedy

Published: 18 March 2009

The pared down, actor/musician production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard currently playing at the Comedy theatre has extended its London run. It is now booking to 27 June.Directed by… Read More

Tony Sheldon

Published: 18 March 2009

Australian actor Tony Sheldon may have caught a plane over to London to make his West End debut, but he is actually on the latest leg of an ongoing road… Read More

Horrible Histories: Frightful First World War

Published: 18 March 2009

Birmingham Stage Company once more applies its trademark Bogglevision effects to Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories to give young audiences an entertaining education about the First World War. The programme for… Read More

Quinn spends Summer Nights in Grease

Published: 18 March 2009

Ray Quinn, former X-Factor finalist and current star of Dancing On Ice, will showcase his singing and dancing talent in the West End when he takes Grease’s iconic lead role,… Read More

West End helps Australian bushfire victims

Published: 17 March 2009

Cast members from some of the West End’s biggest shows will take to the Palace theatre stage on 29 March for a benefit concert to help the victims of the… Read More

Gate’s Nocturnal stars West End cast

Published: 16 March 2009

London theatre regulars Paul Hunter, Justin Salinger and Justine Mitchell will star with frequent Kneehigh performer Amanda Lawrence in the UK premiere of Nocturnal at the Gate theatre. In David… Read More

Sondheim’s Saturday Night transfers to Arts theatre

Published: 16 March 2009

Stephen Sondheim’s musical Saturday Night, which enjoyed a sell-out season at Jermyn Street theatre, is to transfer to the Arts theatre later this month.Starring Helena Blackman, runner up in the… Read More

Stubbs returns to London to lead Alphabetical Order

Published: 13 March 2009

Actress Imogen Stubbs is to return to the London stage in the Hampstead theatre revival of Michael Frayn’s Alphabetical Order.She is joined in the hugely experienced cast by Annette Badland,… Read More

Duet For One transfers to Vaudeville

Published: 13 March 2009

The Almeida theatre’s production of Duet For One is to transfer to the West End’s Vaudeville theatre for 12 weeks from 7 May (press night 12 May). Matthew Lloyd’s production,… Read More

Jenůfa

Published: 13 March 2009

In 2007, English National Opera’s Jenůfa scooped two prestigious Laurence Olivier Awards for Best New Opera Production and Outstanding Achievement in Opera, which was presented to the show’s lead, Amanda… Read More

Stuke leads Rookery cast

Published: 13 March 2009

Neil Stuke has been cast in Terry Johnson’s production of Rookery Nook at the Menier Chocolate Factory from 16 April, along with Edward Baker-Duly, Kellie Shirley, Lynda Baron, Mark Hadfield… Read More

Invasion!

Published: 13 March 2009

Calling into question the very nature of identity and the idea of belonging, Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Invasion! attempts to open a debate with the audience and address deep-set prejudices and… Read More

London theatres explore Origins

Published: 12 March 2009

Soho theatre and Riverside Studios are to host four plays about the experience of the indigenous cultures of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US in a festival entitled Origins,… Read More

Skinner extends, Toyer closes

Published: 12 March 2009

Frank Skinner’s Credit Crunch Cabaret, a series of Monday night variety shows with tickets at a pocket-pleasing £10, has announced a further five dates at the Lyric theatre this spring.The… Read More

Allam and Quast extend La Cage

Published: 11 March 2009

Roger Allam and original cast member Philip Quast are to take over from Graham Norton and Steven Pacey in La Cage Aux Folles at the Playhouse theatre from 4 May.… Read More

Gareth Gates

Published: 11 March 2009

Pop star turned musical theatre performer Gareth Gates, who recently replaced Lee Mead in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, shares his new passion with Matthew Amer.Gareth Gates’s journey to… Read More

Berlin Hanover Express

Published: 11 March 2009

In his new play Ian Kennedy Martin explores an intriguing side of World War Two, focusing on the difficulties and moral dilemmas of treading the high wire of neutrality whilst… Read More

National Theatre hosts Scofield memorial

Published: 10 March 2009

The life and works of one of the West End’s greatest stars, Paul Scofield, is to be celebrated with a memorial service at St Margaret’s Church and the National Theatre… Read More

Kelly stars in Woolf at the Trafalgar Studios

Published: 10 March 2009

TV presenter and actor Matthew Kelly is to return to the London stage next month, when he stars as George in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? at the… Read More

Johnson back at the Chocolate Factory

Published: 9 March 2009

Terry Johnson, whose production of La Cage Aux Folles was named Best Musical Revival in Sunday night’s Laurence Olivier Awards, is to return to the Menier Chocolate Factory this spring… Read More

Q transfers to Shaftesbury Avenue

Published: 9 March 2009

Hit musical Avenue Q, which was expected to end its run in the West End on 28 March, has announced that though it is still closing at the Noel Coward… Read More

Brown returns for enigmatic West End summer

Published: 9 March 2009

Mind-control magician Derren Brown is to return to the London stage this summer with new show Derren Brown: Enigma.The master of psychological illusion is to play 30 dates at the… Read More

Scales joins Carrie’s War in West End

Published: 6 March 2009

Prunella Scales is to appear in an adaptation of Nina Bawden’s novel Carrie’s War at the Apollo theatre from 18 June (press night 24 June). The production, which first played… Read More

Warchus and Stewart combine for Ghost musical

Published: 6 March 2009

Matthew Warchus is to direct a new musical based on the Oscar-winning film Ghost, which will feature music by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard.The new production, which is scheduled to… Read More

Dancing At Lughnasa

Published: 6 March 2009

Keeping its in-the-round configuration, the Old Vic revives Brian Friel’s Laurence Olivier Award-winning play, which harks back to a lost era in rural Ireland.A sense of foreboding hangs over Friel’s… Read More

A Miracle

Published: 5 March 2009

A soldier returns from war, a baby lies crying in its grandmother’s kitchen and a father struggles to hold on to his home in A Miracle. Molly Davies’s first full-length… Read More

Michelle Dockery

Published: 4 March 2009

It is something of a boom time for the emergence of young British actresses. Recent years have seen the likes of Hayley Atwell, Andrea Riseborough and Felicity Jones make their… Read More

Burnt By The Sun

Published: 4 March 2009

There is a delicious unspoken tension about the first half of Peter Flannery’s adaptation of the 1995 Russian-language Oscar-winning film, Burnt By The Sun. A looming air of rivalry and… Read More

Nichol and Fleischer bring spring comedy to Chocolate Factory

Published: 3 March 2009

Comedians Phil Nichol and Charles Fleischer are to play short seasons at the Menier Chocolate Factory this spring. If.comedy Award-winner Nichol plays seven performances between 12 and 20 March, while… Read More

High School Musical returns to the stage

Published: 3 March 2009

The New Wimbledon theatre is to host the UK premiere of High School Musical 2 Live On Stage! in August. The new show will tour the UK following the run… Read More
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