Published: 17 April 2008
The party season may be in full swing, but it won’t be long until the fun and frolics die down and the only social engagement in your diary is a… Read More
Were it not for the fact that Romola Garai has spent much of her formative years in the acting profession building a significant number of credible credits, 2007 would be… Read More
Former EastEnder Jessie Wallace heads to the West End this Christmas as she takes over the role of Maureen in Rent from Denise Van Outen, who leaves the show on… Read More
Get Into London Theatre, the annual event offering incredible ticket offers for many of London’s most loved shows, launched today, earlier than ever before. Theatregoers can now purchase tickets for… Read More
Last night saw the opening of Talking To Terrorists at the Royal Court, the latest piece of verbatim theatre to be developed by Max Stafford-Clark’s Out Of Joint company. Robin… Read More
With enough comings and goings through doors to give even Boeing Boeing a run for its money, Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular begins as a farce centred on a people-pleasing… Read More
Most parents would be chuffed if their offspring had manners, brushed their teeth without being nagged and said pardon after burping. But not Little Wolf’s mum and dad; they would… Read More
The Royal Shakespeare Company is holding several family storytelling sessions this Christmas season to accompany its stay at the New London theatre with King Lear and The Seagull. Storytelling for… Read More
New musical Hairspray has dominated the nominations for the 2008 What’s On Stage Theatregoers’ Choice Awards, receiving 10 nominations. The Lord Of The Rings is also strongly represented with seven… Read More
The Cambridge theatre was awash with talent yesterday as a phalanx of former Chicago cast members returned to the production for a special one-off 10th anniversary production of the sexy… Read More
Last year the Barbican staged its inaugural pantomime, Dick Whittington, penned by the oft-controversial playwright Mark Ravenhill. The success of that production sees panto return to the cultural venue in… Read More
If Dickens was to set A Christmas Carol today, what kind of man would Scrooge be? That is the question Anthony Neilson asked when creating this new production. The answer… Read More
The anticipation was high and the ticket sales equally so for Michael Grandage’s production of Shakespeare’s Othello, for which the Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director has lined up a high calibre… Read More
Tara Fitzgerald, Timothy West, Richard Coyle and Charlie Cox are to star in two rarely-performed plays by Harold Pinter, The Lover and The Collection, at the Comedy from 15 January… Read More
The President Of An Empty Room by Steven Knight, screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things, opened at the National’s Cottesloe Theatre last night. The play is set in a Cuban cigar… Read More
The Lyric Hammersmith has announced its line-up of children’s shows for spring and summer 2008 which covers half-terms, the Easter holidays and Saturdays throughout the season, culminating in the annual… Read More
After the success of the inaugural Chain Play fundraising event earlier this year, the Almeida theatre has invited a sextet of leading authors to pen its sequel for 2008. Stephen… Read More
The Lyric Hammersmith has announced a spring/summer 2008 season which celebrates some of the radical greats of world theatre. Highlights of the season include Artistic Director David Farr and Zimbabwean… Read More
Desperately Seeking Susan is to close at the Novello theatre on 15 December, just a month after its press night. It had been booking until 19 April 2008.Devised by Peter… Read More
For the second of its two shows at the Young Vic this Christmas season South African company Isango/Portobello presents a vibrant and uplifting version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, with… Read More
A Christmas Carol: the consummate tale of a snow-covered, frost-bitten yuletide London full of woollen scarves, top hats and roasted chestnuts. Not at the Young Vic. This is A Christmas… Read More
The cast of Boeing Boeing, the hit farce at the Comedy theatre, will be packing its flight bags after Christmas as the show closes on 5 January prior to a… Read More
The Old Vic and the Barbican may have turned their hands to the art of panto-making of late, but Hackney Empire has been a purveyor of quality pantomime for years.… Read More
Hampstead theatre will start 2008 with a new Executive Director at its helm. Rebecca Morland joins the new writing venue in January to work alongside Artistic Director Anthony Clark. Morland,… Read More
We are pleased to be able to offer you the chance to win £100 of theatre tickets simply by telling us about your past theatre experiences, as part of a… Read More
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, the new show based on the songs of the Smiths, opened last week at the Lyric Hammersmith. Laura North spoke to Andrew Wale and… Read More
In the stark space of a disused warehouse a group of women sit, pace and wait in the dim yellow light, hearing the ominous sounds from behind the locked doors… Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
‘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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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