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In A Dark Dark House

Published: 28 November 2008

A very green Almeida theatre presents the European premiere of Neil LaBute’s In A Dark Dark House, a story of abuse and the potentially more destructive silence that follows.Two brothers,… Read More

Festive feast

Published: 27 November 2008

A veritable feast of seasonal offerings adorns the Christmas dinner table of Theatreland this year, with not one but two Cinderellas, a pair of Sleeping Beauties, an unprecedented number of… Read More

August: Osage County

Published: 27 November 2008

After dominating this year’s Tony Awards, collecting five wins in the play categories, August: Osage County opened at the National Theatre with a weight of expectation adding to the oppression… Read More

Norton joins La Cage

Published: 27 November 2008

TV presenter and comedian Graham Norton is to replace Douglas Hodge as Albin in La Cage Aux Folles at the Playhouse from 19 January. At a press conference today Norton… Read More

Steven Mackintosh

Published: 26 November 2008

Screen star Steven Mackintosh tells Matthew Amer how fate has led him to break his eight year theatrical exile and return to the stage in In A Dark Dark House.It… Read More

Gates inherits Mead’s Dreamcoat

Published: 26 November 2008

Pop star Gareth Gates is to replace Lee Mead when the Any Dream Will Do winner leaves the cast of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in the new year.Mead… Read More

The Family Reunion

Published: 26 November 2008

Why is there a pile of sand in the corner of the austere drawing room of a grand country house? This and many other questions remain unexplained in T S… Read More

Mousetrap continues to set records

Published: 26 November 2008

The Mousetrap’s 56th birthday was celebrated yesterday with a presentation by representatives from Guinness World Records, confirming the thriller’s reign as the world’s longest running stage show. Agatha Christie’s tale… Read More

Donmar scoops four Evening Standard Awards

Published: 24 November 2008

The Donmar Warehouse has scooped four awards out of six nominations in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards, announced today at a ceremony at the Royal Opera House. Chiwetel Ejiofor, who… Read More

Stellar cast celebrates Eliot

Published: 24 November 2008

Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter and leading actors Dame Eileen Atkins, Charles Dance, Edward Fox, Pam Ferris, Dominic West and Rory Kinnear are among those lined up to appear in… Read More

Annis in Conways at National

Published: 21 November 2008

Francesca Annis has been cast in Rupert Goold’s debut production at the National Theatre, Time And The Conways, which opens in the Lyttelton on 5 May. Also confirmed in next… Read More

Atwell joins View From The Bridge

Published: 21 November 2008

Actress Hayley Atwell is the latest cast member to be confirmed for the 2009 revival of Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge, joining the previously announced Ken Stott and… Read More

A Touch of Frost at Trafalgar Studios

Published: 21 November 2008

Sadie Frost is to return to the stage for the first time in more than 20 years to play a woman obsessed with pop star Madonna. The play, entitled Touched…… Read More

Eddie Izzard: Stripped

Published: 21 November 2008

Actor and stand-up comedian Eddie Izzard has reached rock star status within the comedy world since his first, Laurence Olivier Award-nominated, West End performance, Live At The Ambassadors, in 1993.… Read More

La Clique extends at Hippodrome

Published: 20 November 2008

Quirky variety show La Clique has extended its run at the Hippodrome until 19 April ahead of the Leicester Square venue’s proposed conversion into a casino. A cult hit at… Read More

Imagine This

Published: 20 November 2008

Imagine This: an original new musical opening in the West End, one not based on a book, a film or a band’s back catalogue, and not a transfer from Broadway.… Read More

Una Stubbs

Published: 19 November 2008

Currently appearing in The Family Reunion at the Donmar Warehouse, actress Una Stubbs tells Caroline Bishop how bringing up her own family has shaped her career. She may have turned… Read More

Globe loves 2009

Published: 19 November 2008

Shakespeare’s Globe will celebrate young love in its season next year, which includes three of the bard’s romances and a new version of Euripides’s Helen by Frank McGuinness. Announcing the… Read More

The Tragedy Of Thomas Hobbes

Published: 19 November 2008

In the atmospheric setting of Wilton’s Music Hall, simultaneously ancient and modern, the Royal Shakespeare Company launches its 2008 London season with the world premiere of The Tragedy Of Thomas… Read More

Mumsnet sends kids to Hairspray

Published: 18 November 2008

The musical Hairspray has teamed up with family website www.mumsnet.com to offer free children’s tickets for Monday night performances from 5 January.Mumsnet’s sponsorship means that for every top price adult… Read More

Bush gives breaking up a festive twist

Published: 18 November 2008

The Bush theatre’s collected tales of relationship endings, 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, returns to the West London venue next month with a new seasonal slant.Written by young playwrights… Read More

Treasure Island

Published: 18 November 2008

Sword fights, pirate shanties, adventures on the high seas and sinister spirits of pirates past are all to be found in the Theatre Royal Haymarket’s new family production of Robert… Read More

Sunset Boulevard recreated in West End

Published: 18 November 2008

The Watermill Theatre production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Sunset Boulevard transfers to the West End in time for Christmas, opening at the Comedy theatre on 15 December, after previews… Read More

Full cast announced for Priscilla

Published: 17 November 2008

Former Pop Idol finalist Zoe Birkett and Hairspray’s Kate Gillespie have been cast in forthcoming show Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical, which opens at the Palace theatre on… Read More

Nominations open for Theatregoers’ Choice Awards

Published: 17 November 2008

Theatregoers wanting to have their say on the best of London theatre in 2008 can do just that in the ninth annual Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’ Choice Awards, for which nominations are… Read More

Lion King celebrates 10th year with special performances

Published: 14 November 2008

As Disney’s The Lion King prowls into its 10th year in the West End’s theatrical jungle, it is marking the occasion with special appearances on the Royal Variety Performance and… Read More

Haymarket hunts for treasure on Sundays

Published: 14 November 2008

Treasure Island will join the growing list of London shows to stage Sunday performances when it changes its schedule at the Theatre Royal Haymarket next month. The family-friendly adaptation of… Read More

Marshal plays in Rain

Published: 14 November 2008

Actress Lyndsey Marshal has joined James McAvoy and Nigel Harman in the cast of Three Days Of Rain which opens at the Apollo theatre in February.Marshal, an international star since… Read More

New Boy Hoult makes West End debut

Published: 14 November 2008

Nicholas Hoult, star of Skins and About A Boy, will appear in his first West End production in 2009. New Boy, which also stars Mel Giedroyc and Ciara Janson, opens… Read More

Centre Stage: Zoe Rainey

Published: 14 November 2008

Hairspray was the hit musical of last year, winning several Laurence Olivier Awards and bringing a smile to the faces of curmudgeonly critics everywhere. The heartwarming tale is set in… Read More

Last chance for Olivier judges

Published: 14 November 2008

Theatre fans who fancy helping to select 2009’s best work and seeing a year’s worth of free productions in the process, have just two weeks left to apply to be… Read More

Goldberg brings Sister Act to West End

Published: 14 November 2008

Whoopi Goldberg is to co-produce a musical version of her hit 1992 film Sister Act in the West End. The new production opens at the London Palladium on 2 June… Read More

I Caught Crabs In Walberswick

Published: 14 November 2008

A stage bathed in lurid pink and lime green light, heart-pounding dance music and a backdrop which mixes a rural scene with images of teenage life, immediately shout youth as… Read More

On Emotion

Published: 13 November 2008

Are we the puppets of our emotions? That is the question asked and pondered in the new ‘Theatre Essay’ from On Theatre, currently playing at the Soho theatre.Of course, it… Read More

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Victoria Park 2008

Published: 13 November 2008

Following Footsbarn’s brief stay at Shakespeare’s Globe this summer with A Shakespeare Party – its first London appearance in 17 years – the company returns to the capital, pitching its… Read More

Hartnett leads stellar gala cast

Published: 12 November 2008

Hollywood star Josh Hartnett is among the many stars confirmed for this year’s Old Vic 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala, which takes place at the Waterloo venue on 30 November.Hartnett,… Read More

Stars turn out for Mathilde reading

Published: 12 November 2008

A host of West End stars, including Samuel Barnett, Daniel Evans, Josefina Gabrielle, Ella Smith and Sally Ann Triplett, are to stage a special industry reading of new musical Mathilde… Read More

Adriano Shaplin

Published: 12 November 2008

With cutting edge theatre company The Riot Group, playwright Adriano Shaplin has built a reputation for unflinchingly contemporary work. For his RSC debut, however, he has tackled a new idea,… Read More

Buddy rocks off in Feb 2009

Published: 12 November 2008

Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story will end its rocking West End run at the Duchess theatre on 7 February 2009, four days after the 50th anniversary of Buddy Holly’s… Read More

Gethsemane

Published: 12 November 2008

Politicians, fundraisers, journalists and ordinary members of the public swing around an ethical pivot in David Hare’s new play Gethsemane, which premiered at the National’s Cottesloe theatre last night. How… Read More

Hampstead’s season combines past and present

Published: 11 November 2008

Hit plays by Noël Coward, Michael Frayn and Frank McGuinness will be revived at Hampstead theatre in 2009 as part of its celebratory 50th anniversary season. The season, which Artistic… Read More

First Night: The Long Road

Published: 11 November 2008

The collision of two lives, once totally unrelated and unknown to each other, can have truly catastrophic results, binding the pair together in an unexpected and painful way. Charlotte Marshall… Read More

The Long Road

Published: 11 November 2008

The collision of two lives, once totally unrelated and unknown to each other, can have truly catastrophic results, binding the pair together in an unexpected and painful way. Charlotte Marshall… Read More

Come Dancing with Sadler’s Wells

Published: 10 November 2008

Four of the professional dance stars of BBC television show Strictly Come Dancing will show off their moves next spring as part of Sadler’s Wells’s new season.Anton du Beke and… Read More

Soho turns 40

Published: 10 November 2008

Soho theatre celebrates its 40th birthday in 2009 with a programme of work that includes a new piece by Steve Thompson, the award-winning first play of model turned playwright In-Sook… Read More

Colman debuts in National spring

Published: 7 November 2008

The National Theatre has confirmed its spring season of shows, which includes the Southbank debut of Peepshow star Olivia Colman.The previously announced productions of England People Very Nice, Death And… Read More

Williams shows off Weapons at Gielgud

Published: 7 November 2008

American actor and comedian Robin Williams is bringing his stand-up show Weapons Of Self-Destruction to the Gielgud theatre for two nights only on 13 and 14 November, in aid of… Read More

Donmar tops Evening Standard shortlist

Published: 7 November 2008

The Donmar Warehouse leads the shortlisted nominations in the 2008 Evening Standard Theatre Awards with a total of six nominations for three of its shows. Today’s announcement whittles down the… Read More

Othello at the Lyric Hammersmith

Published: 7 November 2008

There may never have been a more unlikely setting for Shakespeare’s tragedy of jealousy than a West Yorkshire housing estate pub at the turn of the millennium. Pool tables and… Read More

Partridge moves into Chickenshed this Christmas

Published: 6 November 2008

Chickenshed theatre is taking inspiration from a famous Christmas carol for its festive show this year, The Twelve Days Of Christmas, which plays at the North London venue from 3… Read More

Bad? No it’s a Thriller

Published: 6 November 2008

Thriller – Live, a high-energy, all singing, all dancing tribute to the legendary singer Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5, is moonwalking into London from 2 January (press night 21… Read More

Higgins, Horrocks, Richardson and Rylance lead Court 2009

Published: 6 November 2008

Clare Higgins, Jane Horrocks, Miranda Richardson and Mark Rylance will appear at the Royal Court during the new writing theatre’s spring/summer 2009 season. The first half of 2009 sees the… Read More

Bookless Musical Futures re-launched

Published: 6 November 2008

Musical Futures, Greenwich Theatre’s annual festival of new music theatre, will re-launch this weekend, with a twist; this year’s offerings leave the traditional idea of a ‘book’ musical on the… Read More

Patinkin plays Duke of York’s

Published: 6 November 2008

American stage and screen actor Mandy Patinkin will bring his solo show Mandy Patinkin: In Concert to London’s Duke of York’s theatre for nine performances only from 8 to 18… Read More

Rank

Published: 6 November 2008

Three Irish taxi drivers waiting around at Dublin airport, desperately hoping for customers, sounds like an unlikely setting for a thriller. But Rank takes this group of seemingly normal men… Read More

Denis Lawson

Published: 5 November 2008

On stage for the first time in years in one of London’s most uplifting shows, actor Denis Lawson is enjoying the lighter side of life, finds Caroline Bishop.  Denis Lawson… Read More

West End captured in half century of images

Published: 5 November 2008

A new exhibition collecting 50 years of images from theatrical photographer Reg Wilson opened at the Playhouse theatre yesterday. Titled Capturing The Moment, the display includes some of the most… Read More

Rat Pack plays Palladium

Published: 5 November 2008

Frank, Sammy and Dean will be back in London this Christmas spreading their own style of festive cheer as Christmas With The Rat Pack – Live From Las Vegas comes… Read More

Lucky Seven

Published: 5 November 2008

Anthony Clark directs a new play by Hampstead theatre writer-in-residence Alexis Zegerman, which focuses on the human obsession with comparing ourselves to others. Our universal fascination with the minutiae of… Read More

Standard announces Awards long list

Published: 4 November 2008

Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Spacey, Alan Rickman and last year’s Laurence Olivier Award winner Chiwetel Ejiofor are among the names on the long list for the 2008 Evening Standard Theatre Awards,… Read More

Well transfers to Apollo

Published: 3 November 2008

Well, Lisa Kron’s Tony Award-nominated comedy which played at Trafalgar Studios earlier this year, transfers to the West End’s Apollo theatre on 29 December for a limited season to 24… Read More

Dreyfuss stars in Complicit

Published: 3 November 2008

American actor Richard Dreyfuss returns to the London stage to take on the lead role in Joe Sutton’s new play Complicit, directed by Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic from… Read More

Horne and Staunton take on Orton

Published: 31 October 2008

Imelda Staunton and Mathew Horne are to star in a new production of Joe Orton’s black comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane, playing at Trafalgar Studio 1 from 22 January to 11… Read More

McKellen and Stewart wait for Godot

Published: 31 October 2008

Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will team up for a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot, which plays at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 30 April to… Read More

Carroll joins Prenger as Nancy

Published: 30 October 2008

Australian actress Tamsin Carroll has been cast as the alternate Nancy in the forthcoming revival of Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, which plays at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane from 12 December… Read More

To Be Straight With You

Published: 30 October 2008

Speech, text and dance are powerfully combined in physical theatre company DV8’s hard-hitting To Be Straight With You at the National Theatre.Performed in the Lyttelton theatre, DV8 director Lloyd Newson… Read More

Rue Magique

Published: 30 October 2008

Based on a true story, new musical Rue Magique turns the intimate space at the King’s Head pub theatre into a brothel on Coldharbour Lane, South London.It is here where… Read More

Friedman Rearranges Trafalgar Studios

Published: 29 October 2008

West End star Maria Friedman will bring her solo show Maria Friedman: Rearranged to Trafalgar Studio 1 this Christmas, for 25 performances only, from 27 November to 4 January (press… Read More

Peter Polycarpou

Published: 29 October 2008

With numerous successful musicals under his belt, actor Peter Polycarpou could be a good omen for new show Imagine This, writes Caroline Bishop, if only he remains in one piece.The… Read More

Well-lit Bush catches Crabs

Published: 29 October 2008

West London new writing theatre the Bush, back to normal following its brief interlude without lighting, will stage Joel Horwood’s I Caught Crabs In Walberswick from 11 November to 6… Read More

Henry’s horrid at the Trafalgar Studios

Published: 28 October 2008

Horrid Henry, the naughty youngster from the popular children’s book series, will spread his mischief over London when Horrid Henry – Live And Horrid! opens at the Trafalgar Studios on… Read More

Mastrantonio joins Stott in Bridge

Published: 27 October 2008

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio will join Ken Stott in Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge, which plays at the Duke of York’s from 24 January (press night 5 February). In… Read More

Trio debuts in Spring Awakening

Published: 27 October 2008

Three young actors will lead the cast of new musical Spring Awakening when it opens at the Lyric Hammersmith next year. Charlotte Wakefield, Aneurin Barnard and Iwan Rheon are among… Read More

TMA Award-winners announced

Published: 27 October 2008

Black Watch, the RSC’s Histories cycle and The Pitmen Painters were among several shows seen in London recently which were honoured at the Theatrical Management Association Awards held at Hampstead… Read More

McAvoy and Harman in Three Days Of Rain

Published: 24 October 2008

James McAvoy and Nigel Harman will return to the West End next year to star in Richard Greenberg’s Three Days Of Rain, which plays at the Apollo theatre from 30… Read More
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