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King Lear

Published: 17 April 2008

King Lear, like Hamlet and Macbeth, is one of those Shakespearean roles that, when played by an acclaimed actor, has audiences salivating at the thought. It has the phrase career-defining… Read More

Further delays for Menier’s Cage

Published: 17 April 2008

The press night of the illness-troubled Menier Chocolate Factory production of La Cage Aux Folles has been postponed again due to the continuing ill-health of lead Douglas Hodge. The media… Read More

New season revealed at Trafalgar Studio 2

Published: 17 April 2008

Trafalgar Studio 2’s spring 2008 season has been announced and is brimming with new shows for the London stage. Among the productions are the award-winning comedy Angry Young Man, playing… Read More

The First Night Feature: The Seagull

Published: 17 April 2008

Following its premiere in the new Courtyard theatre in Stratford and a world tour, Trevor Nunn’s Royal Shakespeare Company production of Chekhov’s The Seagull comes to the capital in repertoire… Read More

Duff and Stewart lead Evening Standard winners

Published: 17 April 2008

Anne-Marie Duff and Patrick Stewart collected the awards for Best Actress and Best Actor at today’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards, for their eponymous roles in Saint Joan and Macbeth. The… Read More

Big ambitions for Shakespeare’s Globe in 2008

Published: 17 April 2008

Dominic Dromgoole has announced an ambitious new season for Shakespeare’s Globe in 2008, which kicks off earlier than usual on 23 April, Shakespeare’s birthday, with the tragedy King Lear.Presented under… Read More

Cast ensures we Never Forget new musical

Published: 17 April 2008

The cast of Never Forget, the new musical based on the songs of boy band Take That, performed at a special event in London on 26 November to launch the… Read More

Daniel Boys

Published: 17 April 2008

Showbusiness – it is a risky business indeed, as Daniel Boys well knows. Having paid his dues as a jobbing actor, in and out of work, he considered giving it… Read More

Tameka Empson

Published: 17 April 2008

Nothing quite prepares you for meeting Tameka Empson, currently playing the audience-dwelling Mrs Aphrodite in The Big Life. Her diminutive stature belies a character big enough to envelope entire continents… Read More

Doubt

Published: 17 April 2008

 is not the first production to delve into the abuse of children by authority figures, particularly of a religious persuasion. What makes it stand apart is that there is no… Read More

Marcell joined in Kwei-Armah’s Let There Be Love

Published: 17 April 2008

The full cast has been announced for Kwame Kwei-Armah’s newest play Let There Be Love, which opens at the Tricycle in January. Joining the previously announced Joseph Marcell are Sharon… Read More

New cast for Woman In Black

Published: 17 April 2008

One of the West End’s longest-running shows, The Woman In Black, welcomes a new cast on 3 December as Sean Baker and Ben Porter take over the two-hander from current… Read More

Horrocks and ENO in Young Vic spring

Published: 17 April 2008

Jane Horrocks will lead the cast of Bertold Brecht’s The Good Soul Of Szechuan, the final production of the Young Vic’s spring 2008 season. This is preceded by collaborations with… Read More

Some Kind Of Bliss

Published: 17 April 2008

It is not a dilemma I have ever faced, but what would you do if you found yourself running six hours early to interview Lulu? The decision taken by Daily… Read More

West Side Story tops Sadler’s spring season

Published: 17 April 2008

The eclectic spring season at Sadler’s Wells and the Peacock, which includes one world premiere and eight UK premieres, will culminate in a staging of West Side Story marking the… Read More

Tara brings Tempest to Arts

Published: 17 April 2008

Tara Arts’s production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest comes to the Arts theatre from 9-27 January (press night 10 January), prior to a national tour. This production of Shakespeare’s tale of… Read More

Site-specific Petra at Southwark

Published: 17 April 2008

A new site-specific version of The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant is to be performed at the newly re-homed Southwark Playhouse this December. The theatre is now housed in… Read More

A century of stage brought to the page

Published: 17 April 2008

A new book by theatre critic Robert Tanitch, London Stage In The 20th Century, charts, as its title suggests, all the major happenings in London’s Theatreland between 1900 and 2000.… Read More

War And Peace at Hampstead

Published: 17 April 2008

Nancy Meckler and Polly Teale are to revive their 1996 stage production of Tolstoy’s War And Peace at the Hampstead next April. Adapted by Helen Edmundson, the two-part production first… Read More

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Published: 17 April 2008

Last night at the Playhouse theatre, Val Kilmer added his name to the ever-growing list of Hollywood A-listers travelling to London’s West End to ply their trade. Kilmer plays drifter… Read More

Artsdepot welcomes Fungus

Published: 17 April 2008

Fungus The Bogeyman will be in residence at Artsdepot this Christmas as a stage adaptation of Raymond Briggs’s classic story comes to the North London venue from 24 November-6 January.… Read More

Full cast joins Atkins in The Sea

Published: 17 April 2008

The complete cast has been confirmed for the second production in the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company season, Edward Bond’s The Sea, which runs from 17 January-19 April. Joining Eileen Atkins,… Read More

La Cage delays opening

Published: 17 April 2008

La Cage Aux Folles, the Christmas show at the Menier Chocolate Factory, has delayed its first performance by three days and moved its press night due to several members of… Read More

Wicked supports anti-bullying week

Published: 17 April 2008

The stars of Wicked joined Ed Balls MP and Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA) President Esther Rantzen at the Apollo Victoria yesterday afternoon to help launch Anti-Bullying Week 2007, which kicks off… Read More

Desperately Seeking Susan

Published: 17 April 2008

New Yorker Peter Michael Marino came up with the unusual concept of combining the story of Desperately Seeking Susan – that 1985 cult film in which Madonna was quite good… Read More

Major Barbara launches National Theatre spring season

Published: 17 April 2008

The sixth year of the National Theatre’s Travelex £10 season opens in 2008 with a revival of Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara directed by the National’s Director Nicholas Hytner. Also coming… Read More

Statement Of Regret

Published: 17 April 2008

Following Elmina’s Kitchen and Fix Up, Statement Of Regret is the third part of Kwame Kwei-Armah’s triptych exploring the African-Caribbean experience in today’s Britain. Set in the office of a… Read More

The Brothers Size

Published: 17 April 2008

Can a friend feel more like kin than your own brother? Or is blood thicker than water? Those are the questions asked by American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play The… Read More

Anthony Neilson

Published: 17 April 2008

March 2007 was a breakthrough month for playwright Anthony Neilson. The opening of The Wonderful World Of Dissocia at the Royal Court marked Neilson’s first return to London in four… Read More

Centre Stage: Selina Chilton

Published: 17 April 2008

The Almeida’s first ever family show is an intriguing project. Marianne Dreams, based on a 1958 novel by Catherine Storr, is neither panto, nor musical, nor straight drama. Unusually, it… Read More

The Big Life

Published: 17 April 2008

The Big Life is an appropriate name for Paul Sirett and Paul Joseph's trailblazing Ska musical: the characters, and their voices, are big, bold and buoyant, and everyone positively oozes… Read More

Paul Spicer

Published: 17 April 2008

Back in the autumn of 2003, a trio of theatre professionals in their early 20s produced a one-off performance highlighting new musical theatre from America; Notes From New York was… Read More

Spiro, Swift and Lloyd in Royal Court Family

Published: 17 April 2008

Casting details have been released for The Family Plays, a double-bill of The Good Family and The Khomenko Family Chronicles, which plays in the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs as… Read More

Mead’s Joseph stays on at Adelphi

Published: 17 April 2008

Joseph And the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has extended its stay at the Adelphi until 18 October. Tickets for the new booking period will be available from Monday 19 November. This… Read More

Fill Your Festive Season

Published: 17 April 2008

‘Tis the season to take the whole family to see a festive show, and this year’s Christmas stocking of theatrical treats is positively bulging at the seams. There are shows… Read More

Casanova

Published: 17 April 2008

Casanova, the famous Venetian philanderer, was an intellectual, an alchemist, an accomplished musician, a writer, a fugitive, a traveller and a serial lover. Could such a person be a woman?… Read More

Chappell wins Verity Bargate Award

Published: 17 April 2008

Korean-born playwright In-Sook Chappell has won the 2007 Verity Bargate Award for her play This Isn’t Romance, triumphing in the biennial competition over 800 other entrants. The prestigious award, given… Read More

Faerie Queen recycled for Lilian Baylis

Published: 17 April 2008

A new production of The Faerie Queen, which runs at the Lilian Baylis theatre this December, will use sustainable and recycled materials to create sets and costumes for the enchanting… Read More

Royal Court season announced

Published: 17 April 2008

Artistic Director Dominic Cooke has revealed details of the spring 2008 season at the Royal Court. New plays by Debbie Tucker Green, Martin Crimp, Fiona Evans, Anthony Neilson, Olivier Choinière… Read More

Macbeth leads Evening Standard nominations

Published: 17 April 2008

The Chichester Festival Theatre production of Macbeth, currently at the Gielgud, leads the nominations in this year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards with three nominations, while the National’s War Horse collects… Read More

Official London Theatre crowned top performing arts website

Published: 17 April 2008

Hitwise competitive intelligence service has just announced that officiallondontheatre.co.uk has won the award for the most visited Entertainment-Performing Arts website in the UK for the period of July–September 2007.Hitwise uses… Read More

Death Of A Salesman

Published: 17 April 2008

Before his death in February this year, American Arthur Miller was considered by many to be the world’s greatest living playwright, with Death Of A Salesman at the very pinnacle… Read More

The Giant

Published: 17 April 2008

Sixteenth century Florence; a town of political intrigue, sexual ambiguity, zealous religion and the birthplace of the world’s most famous statue, Michelangelo’s David. Antony Sher’s new play The Giant concerns… Read More

Josefina Gabrielle

Published: 17 April 2008

She has an eight-year ballet career and 15 years in musical theatre behind her, but Josefina Gabrielle still feels the thrill of a new role – particularly if it is… Read More

The Arsonists

Published: 17 April 2008

Like modern day Gunpowder plotters, Schmitz and Eisenring sneak barrels of combustible fuel – in their case petrol rather than gunpowder – into houses before lighting the blue touch paper… Read More

Help judge the 2009 Laurence Olivier Awards!

Published: 17 April 2008

The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) is looking for 14 avid theatregoers to spend next year going to the theatre, for free, as a member of the judging panel for… Read More

McGowan and Brand in Gilbert and Sullivan

Published: 17 April 2008

Alistair McGowan, Jo Brand and Nichola McAuliffe will guest star in a five-week season of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas at the Gielgud from 30 January-1 March, presented by the Carl… Read More

Stellar cast for Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular

Published: 17 April 2008

Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy Absurd Person Singular opens at the Garrick theatre later this month, following Bad Girls The Musical, which closes on 17 November. Jane Horrocks, Jenny Seagrove, John Gordon… Read More

Hairspray and Fiddler announce extensions

Published: 17 April 2008

Hit London musicals Hairspray and Fiddler On The Roof have announced extensions to their London runs. Hairspray, which opened last week, is now booking at the Shaftesbury until 25 October… Read More

Vincent River

Published: 17 April 2008

The claustrophobic environs of the Trafalgar Studio 2 make Vincent River uncomfortable viewing. The tight seating, enclosing the stage on three sides, brings the audience squirmingly close to two characters… Read More

New residents on Avenue Q

Published: 17 April 2008

Daniel Boys and Rebecca Lock lead a major cast change in Avenue Q on 3 December, as original cast members Julie Atherton, Jon Robyns, Simon Lipkin and Sion Lloyd leave… Read More

Never Forget sets West End date

Published: 17 April 2008

London audiences will be able to see Never Forget, the new musical based on the songs of Take That, at the Savoy theatre from May 2008. It was today announced… Read More

Peter Hall Pygmalion comes to Old Vic

Published: 17 April 2008

Sir Peter Hall is to return to the Old Vic, a landmark venue in the iconic director’s career, when he brings Pygmalion to London in May 2008. The transfer of… Read More

Dench confirmed in Donmar De Sade

Published: 17 April 2008

Dame Judi Dench returns to London in the spring of 2009 to star in the Donmar West End production of Madame De Sade at the Wyndham’s. Dench is to play… Read More

South Africa comes to Young Vic for Christmas

Published: 17 April 2008

Head to the Young Vic from 20 November to see two perennial favourites given a South African twist by producing company Isango Portobello. Impempe Yomlingo, a reimagined version of Mozart’s… Read More

Samuels’s Giant at Unicorn

Published: 17 April 2008

The London premiere of How To Beat A Giant, by Diane Samuels, runs in the Unicorn’s Clore theatre from 2 November-2 December. How To Beat A Giant follows Lenny and… Read More

Cloud Nine

Published: 17 April 2008

The Almeida describes Caryl Churchill’s 1978 play as being about ‘sex, work, mothers, Africa, power, children, grandmothers, politics, money, Queen Victoria and sex’. Of those, sex is the prevailing element… Read More

Centre Stage: Ben James-Ellis

Published: 17 April 2008

As one of the 12 wannabe Josephs on the BBC reality show Any Dream Will Do, Ben James Ellis gave up his course at Italia Conti in order to strive… Read More

The Big Interview: Lynda Bellingham

Published: 17 April 2008

If you are trying to lose a ‘mumsy’ image, probably the worst thing you can do, short of spitting on a tissue and wiping an interviewer’s mouth, is offer the… Read More

Gill directs own play at Donmar

Published: 17 April 2008

Peter Gill’s Small Change, directed by the playwright, and Enid Bagnold’s The Chalk Garden continue the 2008 season at the Donmar Warehouse, following the already announced The Man Who Had… Read More

Hairspray

Published: 17 April 2008

There can only be one musical in the West End that includes the line ‘Feed the monkey / He’s in the back seat’. No, not Doctor Dolittle, it is Hairspray,… Read More

Menier deals transfer for Marber play

Published: 17 April 2008

Samuel West’s production of Patrick Marber’s Dealer’s Choice, currently playing at the Menier Chocolate Factory, transfers to the West End’s Trafalgar Studio 1 on 6 December (press night 11 December).Marber’s… Read More

Immodesty Blaize And Walter’s Burlesque!

Published: 17 April 2008

Jaunty hats, delicately-arranged fishnets, figure-hugging frocks and décolletage which bring to mind my trip to the Grand Canyon. No, this isn't a description of my latest Freudian reverie, but a… Read More

Mayall’s monster graces Pleasance

Published: 17 April 2008

Theatre company These Colours presents an adaptation of Chris Wormell’s children’s book The Big Ugly Monster And The Little Stone Rabbit at the Pleasance theatre in Islington from 12-30 December.… Read More

Hare’s The Vertical Hour comes to London

Published: 17 April 2008

The Vertical Hour, David Hare’s latest play, which premiered on Broadway last year, will have its first UK outing at the Royal Court in January, with Indira Varma heading the… Read More

Quicksilver’s Upstairs comes to Arcola

Published: 17 April 2008

Upstairs In The Sky, an interactive play for 3-5 year olds from Quicksilver Theatre, comes to the Arcola from 30 November to 20 December.The play, written by Quicksilver artistic directors… Read More

Goold, Page and McCrory in Almeida new season

Published: 17 April 2008

The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot, directed by Rupert Goold, and Anthony Page’s rescheduled production of Ibsen’s Rosmersholm, with Helen McCrory and Paul Hilton, will follow Pinter’s The Homecoming in… Read More

Uncle Vanya inaugurates Rose of Kingston

Published: 17 April 2008

Following six years of development, the newly completed Rose of Kingston theatre will open on 16 January 2008 with Sir Peter Hall directing an English Touring Theatre production of Chekhov’s… Read More

Tintin shortens West End stay

Published: 17 April 2008

Hergé’s Adventures Of Tintin, Rufus Norris’s stage show featuring the famous comic book hero, has reduced its run at the Playhouse. After opening on 12 December, it will now run… Read More

Rambert gives family matinee at Sadler’s Wells

Published: 17 April 2008

Rambert Dance Company is holding a family matinee at Sadler’s Wells on Saturday 17 November as part of its next visit to the Islington venue.The special 14:30 matinee includes performances… Read More

Celebs line up for Old Vic 24 Hour Plays

Published: 17 April 2008

Christian Slater, Ralf Little, Stephen Mangan and Fiona Shaw are among those participating in the Old Vic’s 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala this year, held on 11 November. The annual… Read More

A Night In November

Published: 17 April 2008

A Night In November is a brave choice for Patrick Kielty’s stage acting debut. The Northern Irish comedian, known for his stand up routines and presenting duties on television shows… Read More

Stewart’s Macbeth transfers to States

Published: 17 April 2008

The Rupert Goold-directed, Chichester Festival Production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which is currently playing at the Gielgud, has announced that following its London run the show will transfer to the Brooklyn… Read More

The Far Pavilions

Published: 17 April 2008

Following on where Bombay Dreams and Twelfth Night left off, a taste of India was once again brought to the West End with the opening of The Far Pavilions; the… Read More

Collins and Toksvig in Fry’s Cinders

Published: 17 April 2008

Pauline Collins and Sandi Toksvig will be taking to the Old Vic stage this Christmas in Stephen Fry’s pantomime Cinderella, leading a cast that also includes Madeleine Worrall, Paul Keating,… Read More
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