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The Merchant Of Venice

Published: 17 April 2008

The press night of this production of The Merchant Of Venice was postponed after the abrupt departure of Michelle Duncan and the recasting of the role of Portia. Last night’s… Read More

Boogie on down to Bethlehem with McManus

Published: 17 April 2008

Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus is to play Mary in a disco version of the nativity story at the Arts this Christmas. Discotivity premieres at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in… Read More

Mojo Mickybo

Published: 17 April 2008

Bombs, riots, fires and fighting – its all just in a day’s play for two small boys in Belfast in 1970. Even the rubber bullets are just a souvenir to… Read More

Kean steps out of the Apollo early

Published: 17 April 2008

Kean, the Jean-Paul Sartre drama in which Anthony Sher plays 19th century classical actor Edmund Kean, is closing at the Apollo on 14 July, over a month earlier than planned.… Read More

Kismet

Published: 17 April 2008

The grand auditorium of the London Coliseum is the frame within which the rich red set for this new staging of Kismet is assembled. The entrance to a mosque, doorways… Read More

RSC announces London productions

Published: 17 April 2008

The Royal Shakespeare Company will be performing in several very different venues across London later this year and early next year.The History Cycle, featuring eight Shakespeare plays directed by RSC… Read More

New move for English Touring Theatre

Published: 17 April 2008

English Touring Theatre has taken the unusual step of appointing a producer as its director and chief executive. Rachel Tackley, who takes over from current director Steve Unwin when he… Read More

Dance in the park with Rambert

Published: 17 April 2008

Rambert Dance Company has teamed up with the Royal Parks once again this year to offer a one-week creative dance project in Regent’s Park called Outside. Held in August, the… Read More

Angels In America

Published: 17 April 2008

There are no two ways about it, Angels In America is an epic piece of drama: seven hours of theatre, split into two parts (Millennium Approaches and Perestroika), examining America… Read More

Cumberbatch at international Royal Court

Published: 17 April 2008

Benedict Cumberbatch leads the cast of European classics Rhinoceros and The Arsonists, playing in rep at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs this autumn, while five contemporary international plays run… Read More

Bad Girls get West End jailhouse

Published: 17 April 2008

Handcuffs and swag bags were given out to invited attendees at the press launch of Bad Girls The Musical earlier today. The new show comes to the West End’s Garrick… Read More

Centre Stage: Marc Salem

Published: 17 April 2008

"Always think good thoughts," is Marc Salem’s motto in life. You would be wise to do exactly that when going to see his show at the Tricycle in July because… Read More

Elena Roger

Published: 17 April 2008

Elena Roger was the toast of the West End last year following her performance as Eva Peron in the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Evita. It is quite a… Read More

Watch This Space again this summer

Published: 17 April 2008

Theatre Square is the place to be once more this summer as the National Theatre kicks off its annual Watch This Space festival on 6 July. Running throughout the summer… Read More

The Pain And The Itch

Published: 17 April 2008

The scene is a slick modern apartment in urban America. The sofas are cream, spotlights smatter the ceiling, a widescreen telly and an Ipod docked in its speaker system provide… Read More

Join the watery party at Lyric Hammersmith

Published: 17 April 2008

The Lyric Hammersmith is embracing the great British summer weather with its Summer Party on Saturday 7 July, which takes the theme of water. The day-long event, from 10:30-17:00, features… Read More

Pemberton joins Drowsy Chaperone

Published: 17 April 2008

Steve Pemberton, best known as one quarter of comedy team The League Of Gentlemen, joins the cast of The Drowsy Chaperone from 10 July. Pemberton replaces Bob Martin as Man… Read More

Rigg and Manville lead Almodóvar adaptation

Published: 17 April 2008

Lesley Manville and Diana Rigg have been cast in All About My Mother, the new play by Samuel Adamson based on Pedro Almodóvar’s film, which runs at the Old Vic… Read More

West End goes live

Published: 17 April 2008

Leicester Square will be alive with The Sound Of Music, among other things, at this weekend’s West End Live event. The free annual showcase for the cream of London’s shows… Read More

Ball dons drag for Hairspray

Published: 17 April 2008

Michael Ball has been cast in the gender-swapping role of the year, Edna Turnblad, in the musical >Hairspray, which opens at the on 30 October (previews from 11 October). Ball,… Read More

Sing-along-in-London

Published: 17 April 2008

The Royal Opera House and the London Coliseum are taking part in an initiative to get London singing. Sing London, a 10-day event held from 29 June-8 July, is a… Read More

Small Miracle

Published: 17 April 2008

An Irish caravan site doesn’t seem the most likely setting for a miracle, but this is no ordinary place. Neil D’Souza’s first play examines the minutiae of 21st century family… Read More

The Lord Of The Rings

Published: 17 April 2008

Following millions of pounds of investment, the compete rebuilding of the Drury Lane stage and months of rehearsals, The Lord Of The Rings, the West End's most expensive show ever,… Read More

Capaldi and Marshal lead Absurdia cast

Published: 17 April 2008

Peter Capaldi and Lyndsey Marshal have been cast alongside John Hodgkinson and Judith Scott in the Donmar Warehouse's celebration of British Absurdist comedies Absurdia. The production is directed by Douglas… Read More

No more Dancing in London streets

Published: 17 April 2008

Dancing In The Streets closes in London on 14 July after a run of two years. The toe-tapping Motown show is embarking on a UK and international tour immediately after… Read More

Poliakoff and Humphries lead arts honours

Published: 17 April 2008

Playwright/director Stephen Poliakoff and actor/writer Barry Humphries lead the names of arts personalities named in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2007, both receiving CBEs. Other stars to be honoured include… Read More

Adelphi doors open for Kalidas and Mead

Published: 17 April 2008

Preeya Kalidas described her Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat co-star, and winner of reality show Any Dream Will Do, Lee Mead, as "fantastic" today, when the pair stepped out… Read More

Innovative line up at Lyric Hammersmith

Published: 17 April 2008

A Rupert Goold-directed adaptation of Simon Schama’s Rough Crossings, a new multimedia production created by David Farr and an alternative version of Casanova are some of the highlights in the… Read More

Cumming hosts Angels gala

Published: 17 April 2008

Scottish actor Alan Cumming is lending his support to the National AIDS Trust by fronting a charity gala performance of Angels In America at the Lyric Hammersmith on 4 July.… Read More

Chocolate Factory strikes American transfer deal

Published: 17 April 2008

The Menier Chocolate Factory, the theatre that has produced West End hit transfers including Sunday In The Park With George and Little Shop Of Horrors, has announced an agreement with… Read More

Gaslight

Published: 17 April 2008

Kenneth Cranham has, among his weighty list of theatrical credits, the record of playing Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls on 796 occasions. At the Old Vic, he is back… Read More

Danny and Sandy meet schoolmates

Published: 17 April 2008

Full casting has been announced for the West End return of Grease, which found its leads, Danny Bayne and Susan McFadden, through the ITV talent contest Grease Is The Word.Joining… Read More

Centre Stage: Corey Snide

Published: 17 April 2008

When a trio of young actors jointly became the youngest ever winners of a Best Actor in a Musical Laurence Olivier Award in 2006 (beating fellow nominees Ewan McGregor and… Read More

Henry Goodman

Published: 17 April 2008

Henry Goodman likes nothing better than tackling a type of role he hasn’t tackled before. But attaining such variety in his career – from Shakespeare to satire, New Yorker to… Read More

Become an opera singer for the day

Published: 17 April 2008

The London Coliseum is giving children aged 7-13 the opportunity to experience what it is like to be an opera singer with English National Opera. The one-off workshop, entitled A… Read More

Kids from Fame in West End Live

Published: 17 April 2008

The 30 winners of Kids Week workshop Fame Factor will be performing on stage in Leicester Square on Saturday 23 June as part of West End Live. Auditions for Fame… Read More

Laura Michelle Kelly

Published: 17 April 2008

It is hard not to slip into cliché when talking about The Lord Of The Rings, but when, on a visit to interview leading lady Laura Michelle Kelly, I am… Read More

Terfel is demon barber at Royal Festival Hall

Published: 17 April 2008

Welsh opera singer Bryn Terfel is to sing the title role of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street in a dramatised concert at the Royal Festival Hall from… Read More

Fry gets in panto spirit at Old Vic

Published: 17 April 2008

Following the success of the Old Vic’s first pantomime, Aladdin, which starred Sir Ian McKellen as Widow Twankey and ran for two consecutive Christmas seasons, the venue has announced a… Read More

Young people’s workshop at Open Air

Published: 17 April 2008

The MacbethsThe season at the Open Air theatre in Regent’s Park is underway with weather-hardy theatregoers bringing their jumpers and picnic blankets to the leafy venue to see two Shakespeare… Read More

Bush hit Elling transfers to Trafalgar Studios

Published: 17 April 2008

The Bush theatre's sell-out hit Elling, which saw Life On Mars star John Simm return to the London stage for the first time in 11 years, transfers to Trafalgar Studio… Read More

Globe delays Merchant opening night

Published: 17 April 2008

Shakespeare’s Globe has postponed the press night for its new production of The Merchant Of Venice, which was scheduled for tomorrow, until 28 June, due to the “indisposition” of cast… Read More

Sheila Hancock

Published: 17 April 2008

There are very few people who can truly be described as British acting royalty; performers you would happily offer up a body part to see, let alone meet for an… Read More

Victoria Hamilton

Published: 17 April 2008

She has been described as ‘diminutive but prodigiously talented’ by one critic, ‘part china doll, part pixie’ by another, with the Independent perhaps paying her the greatest of flatteries when… Read More

Hackney Empire gets Tracy

Published: 17 April 2008

Tracy Beaker Gets Real, which brings children’s novelist Jacqueline Wilson’s much-loved character to life in a brand new stage adaptation, comes to Hackney Empire from 3-7 July as part of… Read More

Tonys dominated by Utopia and Awakening

Published: 17 April 2008

Tom Stoppard's The Coast Of Utopia and new musical Spring Awakening collected more than half the awards handed out at the 2008 Tony Awards yesterday, winning in 15 of the… Read More

Stars found for Joseph, Danny and Sandy

Published: 17 April 2008

The leads in two West End musicals were cast on Saturday night as reality shows Any Dream Will Do and Grease Is The Word both had their finals. Lee Mead… Read More

Schaufuss gets Satisfaction from Stones

Published: 17 April 2008

A dance show set to the back catalogue of The Rolling Stones comes to the Apollo this summer, from 28 August (press night 29 August) for a limited season until… Read More

Sadler’s Wells takes show to Glastonbury

Published: 17 April 2008

Sadler's Wells will make history when it takes a showcase of dance to this year's Glastonbury Festival. It will be the first time that the leading dance venue has presented… Read More

Children’s workshop in Open House

Published: 17 April 2008

A free workshop for 8-11 year olds forms part of the Royal Court’s Open House Day on 23 June.Led by the Court’s resident Young Writers’ tutor and playwright, Leo Butler,… Read More

Sondheim revue sidles out of West End

Published: 17 April 2008

The Stephen Sondheim revue Side By Side By Sondheim is to close at The Venue on 23 June, three weeks earlier than planned. It opened on 1 May. Neil Laidlaw,… Read More

Record theatre attendance revealed by 2006 Box Office Data Report

Published: 17 April 2008

The West End is attracting bigger audiences than ever, with 2006 showing the highest attendance since records began. For the third year running, more than 12 million people saw a… Read More

Betrayal

Published: 17 April 2008

Written in 1978, Harold Pinter’s Betrayal is a portrait of an affair and the affect it has on the relationships between man and wife, two best friends and the lovers… Read More

The Drowsy Chaperone

Published: 17 April 2008

Who would have thought that a skit originally written as a wedding present would, with a little shaping and moulding, make its way to Broadway and then the West End?… Read More

The Christ Of Coldharbour Lane

Published: 17 April 2008

Omo is released from Brixton prison after his good work with a Christian group. His mentor, Dona, sees him as a sign of how well she has done and her… Read More

James paints Chicago blue

Published: 17 April 2008

Duncan James, former member of four-piece boy band Blue, is the latest star lined up to play Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago at the Cambridge. James takes over the… Read More

Court holds Open House

Published: 17 April 2008

The Royal Court throws open its doors to the general public on 23 June to give interested theatregoers the chance to take a look at the internal workings of a… Read More

Arterton swaps stockings for Shakespeare

Published: 17 April 2008

Gemma Arterton, the RADA graduate who plays the Head Girl in the forthcoming St Trinian's film, will leave the glitz and glamour of the Cannes Film Festival behind to take… Read More

Mary Poppins packs her bags

Published: 17 April 2008

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Elaine Paige

Published: 17 April 2008

Nearly 30 years after her major West End breakthrough and with many leading roles under her belt, Elaine Paige is once again in the West End. But this time the… Read More

Menier deals out Marber revival

Published: 17 April 2008

The Menier Chocolate Factory presents the first major revival of Patrick Marber’s play Dealer’s Choice from 27 September (press night 3 October) to 17 November, directed by Samuel West. The… Read More

Nunn With The Wind

Published: 17 April 2008

A new musical adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s epic novel Gone With The Wind, directed by Trevor Nunn, comes to the New London in April 2008. Nunn and first-time composer/lyricist Margaret… Read More

Perlman jets in for Boeing Boeing

Published: 17 April 2008

American actress Rhea Perlman, best known for playing Carla in long-running American sitcom Cheers, makes her West End debut at the end of this month when she joins the cast… Read More

Human faces join puppet cast

Published: 17 April 2008

From 4 June there will be new faces on the street inhabited by puppets, Avenue Q, as Delroy Atkinson and Mary Doherty join the cast. Atkinson, who plays the part… Read More

Rings performances cancelled following onstage injury

Published: 17 April 2008

No performances of The Lord Of The Rings will take place before Saturday 2 June, following an injury to a member of the cast during last night's show. Actor Adam… Read More

Kean

Published: 17 April 2008

Edmund Kean, described by many as one of Britain’s greatest Shakespearean actors, was, by the time he died aged 42 in 1833, as famous for his private life as he… Read More

Almodovar, Fry and Mendes confirmed in new Old Vic season

Published: 17 April 2008

The 2007/8 Old Vic season, which was announced today, opens with the world premiere of Samuel Adamson's stage adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother. The season also sees… Read More

New cast for Les Mis

Published: 17 April 2008

West-End long-runner Les Misérables welcomes several new cast members from 25 June. Joining existing leads John Owen-Jones (Valjean) and Hans Peter Janssens (Javert) in the French revolutionary musical are Gary… Read More

McKellen and Barber bring double bill to London

Published: 17 April 2008

The Royal Shakespeare Company productions of King Lear and Chekhov’s The Seagull, starring Ian McKellen and Frances Barber, are to transfer to the West End’s New London theatre on 12… Read More

Fiddler On The Roof

Published: 17 April 2008

Lindsay Posner’s new production of an ever-popular musical received a West End welcome last night as Fiddler On The Roof opened at the Savoy, following a transfer from the Sheffield… Read More

Glover brings his happy feet to London

Published: 17 April 2008

American tap dancer Savion Glover – the man behind the tap-dancing feet of Mumble the penguin in the film Happy Feet – makes his UK debut at Sadler’s Wells on… Read More

Bloom debuts on London stage

Published: 17 April 2008

Orlando Bloom makes his West End stage debut this summer in David Storey’s In Celebration at the Duke of York’s from 5 July (press night 12 July). Lynda Baron, Gareth… Read More

First family show at Almeida

Published: 17 April 2008

This Christmas the Almeida is to stage its first ever production specifically for families, an adaptation of Catherine Storr’s Marianne Dreams, which runs from 13 December 2007-19 January 2008 (press… Read More

Hound departs the Duchess

Published: 17 April 2008

The Hound Of The Baskervilles is closing a month early at the Duchess, on 23 June. It had been booking until 21 July. Peepolykus’s comic adaptation of the Arthur Conan… Read More

Havana Rakatan

Published: 17 April 2008

When the dancers of Ballet Rakatan burst onto the Peacock stage in a whirl of colour, slick suits and sashaying skirts, they begin an immensely energetic two-hour display of Cuban… Read More
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