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Centre Stage: Robert Portal

Published: 17 April 2008

A black and white film about a man on the run after being accused of a murder he didn’t commit isn’t an obvious choice for a comic stage adaptation. But… Read More

Kim Medcalf

Published: 17 April 2008

She has a degree in Law, she used to work in sales and marketing, and until embarking on a one-year postgraduate course at the Central School of Speech and Drama,… Read More

Little Angel tours London with free show

Published: 17 April 2008

Children across the capital have the chance to experience the art of the puppeteer for free through a new touring marionette show from Little Angel theatre, which kicks off on… Read More

Audrey gets new home

Published: 17 April 2008

Little Shop Of Horrors’s man-eating plant Audrey II, who has been happily scoffing cast members nightly at the Duke of York’s since March, is moving to the Ambassadors (formerly the… Read More

Maria’s Dillon debuts in Grease

Published: 17 April 2008

Siobhan Dillon, who made it into the last three during last year's search for a lead in The Sound Of Music, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?, makes… Read More

Cast joins Triplett to Take Flight

Published: 17 April 2008

Ian Bartholomew and Michael Jibson join Sally Ann Triplett in the cast of new musical Take Flight at the Menier Chocolate Factory from 13 July.Written by Richard Maltby Jr and… Read More

Young Vic 2007/8 season announced

Published: 17 April 2008

The 2007/8 season at the Young Vic was today launched by David Lan, Artistic Director of the Waterloo venue. In addition to an extension of current hit Vernon God Little,… Read More

Drowsy Chaperone wakes up for charity

Published: 17 April 2008

The Drowsy Chaperone is doing its bit to help raise funds for the Breast Cancer Campaign by offering 150 charity tickets at the cost of £55 to the 1 June… Read More

Channing back in London

Published: 17 April 2008

Stockard Channing returns to the London stage in Awake And Sing! at the Almeida from 31 August (press night 6 September), directed by Almeida Artistic Director Michael Attenborough.American playwright Clifford… Read More

The 39 Steps to Broadway

Published: 17 April 2008

The 39 Steps extends its stay in London until 9 February 2008 and sets dates for a US production to play in Boston prior to a Broadway run. Patrick Barlow’s… Read More

Circus spectacular comes to Wimbledon

Published: 17 April 2008

Le Grand Cirque, a spectacle which, if the photos are anything to go by, defies description, comes to the New Wimbledon from 5-9 June as part of the company’s first… Read More

Yellow brick road to Ealing

Published: 17 April 2008

A new stage production of children’s classic The Wizard Of Oz comes to the Questors theatre in Ealing during the half-term week, 30 May-2 June. In L. Frank Baum’s magical… Read More

Caulfield joins Chicago

Published: 17 April 2008

Scottish-born American actor Maxwell Caulfield takes on the role of Billy Flynn in Chicago from 29 May for a limited five-week season finishing on 30 June. Caulfield first came to… Read More

Hairspray comes to London

Published: 17 April 2008

Hairspray The Musical, which has enjoyed success on Broadway, opened booking this weekend for its London run, previewing in the Shaftesbury theatre from 11 October (press night 30 October). Based… Read More

Coconuts at midKnight

Published: 17 April 2008

On Thursday 21 June, the longest day of the year, Monty Python’s Spamalot is holding a special ‘midKnight matinee’ (which, despite the pun, starts at 23:30) in aid of The… Read More

National celebrates Olivier

Published: 17 April 2008

The National Theatre is holding a celebration to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Laurence Olivier, the National’s first director, in the theatre that bears his name, on… Read More

Free Grapes at The Scoop

Published: 17 April 2008

The Scoop at More London once again brings free theatre to London this summer with productions of John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath and Disney's The Jungle Book KIDS. This… Read More

Big White Fog

Published: 17 April 2008

It is 1920s Chicago, in the sepia-toned family home where Ella Mason and her husband Victor live with their four children, Ella’s matriarchal mother and Vic’s playboy brother. The tentative… Read More

Centre Stage: Summer Strallen

Published: 17 April 2008

She has been performing in West End musicals since she was in her early teens, and in the past year alone she has notched up a starring role at the… Read More

Two Christines for the Phantom

Published: 17 April 2008

As The Phantom Of The Opera approaches its 21st birthday later this year, two actresses are to equally share the role of Christine for the first time in the London… Read More

Three Sisters at the Barbican

Published: 17 April 2008

In an unnamed provincial town somewhere in Russia, three pretty sisters and their intelligent brother are trying to work out how to live their lives as their class crumbles around… Read More

National connects with young people

Published: 17 April 2008

The National Theatre has announced its 2007 season of new plays commissioned for and about young people, NT Connections, which runs in the Olivier and Cottesloe theatres from 12-17 July.… Read More

Brits go big in 2007 Tonys

Published: 17 April 2008

West End transfers have done well in the nominations for the 2007 Tony Awards, with Frost/Nixon, Coram Boy, Journey’s End, A Moon For The Misbegotten and Mary Poppins all receiving… Read More

Get creative at the ROH

Published: 17 April 2008

The Royal Opera House is holding a series of fun musical workshops for kids and families during the half term break, 29 May-2 June, based around Beethoven’s opera Fidelio, which… Read More

Suchet brings Last Confession to London

Published: 17 April 2008

The Last Confession, starring David Suchet, is to transfer into the Haymarket on 28 June (press night 2 July) following its current run at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Roger Crane’s… Read More

Top shows join West End Live

Published: 17 April 2008

Two more of London's top musicals have announced they are taking part in West End Live on 23 and 24 June. The Sound Of Music and Little Shop Of Horrors… Read More

The Kids Week Interview: Stefan Ruiz & Jeana Cachero

Published: 17 April 2008

The Lion King and Queen: Jeana Cachero and Stefan RuizIn the words of the Mamas and the Papas ‘all the leaves are brown and the sky is grey’, which can… Read More

Menier takes flight

Published: 17 April 2008

Sally Ann Triplett is to star in new musical Take Flight at the Menier Chocolate Factory, which reunites the team behind the award-winning production of Sunday In The Park With… Read More

Danny comes to Richmond

Published: 17 April 2008

Birmingham Stage Company brings its adaptation of Roald Dahl’s popular story Danny The Champion Of The World to Richmond theatre from 19-23 June as part of a national tour. First… Read More

Watch the FA Cup Final with Billy The Kid

Published: 17 April 2008

There is an extra special way for all football fans to celebrate the FA Cup Final at the Unicorn theatre this Saturday 19 May. The theatre is holding a matinee… Read More

Globe actors set off on tour

Published: 17 April 2008

Shakespeare’s Globe is sending out a group of touring actors this summer to perform Romeo And Juliet in a variety of outdoor settings around the country, culminating in a performance… Read More

The Big Interview: Jenny Jules

Published: 17 April 2008

The green room of the Almeida's rehearsal area is all brightly coloured chairs and sofas, and tables covered in piles of papers, reminiscent of a sixth form common room. That… Read More

McGregor reunites with Grandage

Published: 17 April 2008

Ewan McGregor is to star in the Donmar Warehouse’s final production of the year, playing Iago in William Shakespeare’s Othello, along with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role and Kelly… Read More

Come up and see Cockney Rebel in Beckett

Published: 17 April 2008

Steve Harley, front man of 70s rockers Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, is to appear in the West End premiere of two one-act Samuel Beckett plays at the Arts in… Read More

Salem back at the Tricycle

Published: 17 April 2008

It wouldn’t take a mindreader to guess that Marc Salem might like to return to the Tricycle theatre for a fourth successive year this summer. Lo and behold, that is… Read More

A Matter Of Life And Death

Published: 17 April 2008

The 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger film, A Matter Of Life And Death, was a sweeping, romantic paean to the power of love, as well as an attempt to… Read More

Terre Haute

Published: 17 April 2008

A cage with walls of gauze and a metal grille for a floor takes up the majority of the stage at the tiny Trafalgar Studio 2. In the cage, which… Read More

New passengers for Boeing Boeing

Published: 17 April 2008

Elena Roger, Doon Mackichan, Adrian Dunbar and Neil Stuke join the cast of hit comedy Boeing Boeing from 29 May, replacing original cast members Daisy Beaumont, Michelle Gomez, Roger Allam… Read More

Riseborough shares Royal Court’s Pain

Published: 17 April 2008

Andrea Riseborough is to join Matthew MacFadyen in the Royal Court’s production of The Pain And The Itch, the first production to be directed by Dominic Cooke in his inaugural… Read More

My Child

Published: 17 April 2008

I had never watched theatre in a tube train until last night. I don't doubt you can, if you know where to look, but yesterday was a first for me.… Read More

Cross swords with NBT

Published: 17 April 2008

Northern Ballet Theatre (NBT) is giving young people the chance to try their hand at swashbuckling as the company brings its production of The Three Musketeers to Sadler’s Wells from… Read More

McEnery is Shylock

Published: 17 April 2008

Shakespeare’s Globe regular John McEnery returns to the venue this summer to take on the role of Jewish moneylender Shylock in Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice, which runs from 2… Read More

Audition for the Lyric Young Company

Published: 17 April 2008

UPDATED: The Lyric Hammersmith’s recently launched youth theatre company the Lyric Young Company is holding auditions for young West Londoners to perform in its debut season this summer.Launched earlier this… Read More

Vernon God Little

Published: 17 April 2008

There was tension in the air at the press night of Vernon God Little at the Young Vic. After all, DBC Pierre’s Booker Prize-winning novel is all about a student… Read More

Fame

Published: 17 April 2008

It may be a West End stalwart with more than 10 years’ history, four London homes, numerous national and international tours and, according to the press material, 2,500 pairs of… Read More

Hot summer season at the National

Published: 17 April 2008

Ian Rickson is to direct Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse in the National’s Lyttelton theatre this July. Other highlights in the summer season, announced today, include Thea Sharrock’s production of The… Read More

Douglas Henshall in The Coast Of Utopia

Published: 17 April 2008

On film and television, Douglas Henshall has acted alongside Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Hugh Grant, Patsy Kensit and Penelope Cruz. But his role in The Coast Of Utopia at the… Read More

Two more go Into The Woods

Published: 17 April 2008

Anna Francolini and Gary Waldhorn join the cast of Into The Woods, the Sondheim and Lapine musical revived by the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio next month. Francolini was most… Read More

Absolute Beginners

Published: 17 April 2008

The late 1950s, the dawn of the teenager; this is the setting for Absolute Beginners. The nation's youth is beginning to find its voice and exercise its right to free… Read More

Return of Rambert’s Summer School

Published: 17 April 2008

Rambert Dance Company, Britain’s flagship modern dance company, is once again holding its annual Youth Dance Summer School, which runs from 30 July-3 August. A week of workshops, dance activities… Read More

Douglas Hodge

Published: 17 April 2008

Douglas Hodge is possibly the busiest, hardest working man in theatre. When he is not acting, he is directing, and when he is not doing that he is probably writing… Read More

Lang joins cast of Forgotten Voices

Published: 17 April 2008

Belinda Lang is to join Matthew Kelly in World War One drama Forgotten Voices, which runs at Riverside Studios from 30 May-7 July (press night 1 June).Lang is well known… Read More

Blair continues to be Called To Account

Published: 17 April 2008

The political drama Called To Account, which examines whether Prime Minister Tony Blair should be indicted for taking Britain to war in Iraq, has extended at the Tricycle until 9… Read More

All Mouth at Menier

Published: 17 April 2008

Following historical drama Total Eclipse, the Menier Chocolate Factory is changing tack with the premiere of a new comedy by Jonathan Lewis and Miranda Foster called All Mouth, opening on… Read More

Buddy Holly back in town

Published: 17 April 2008

Buddy, the long running rock ‘n’ roll musical biography of 50s recording star Buddy Holly, returns to London in August for a West End run at the Duchess theatre. Buddy… Read More

New Access London Theatre brochure out now

Published: 17 April 2008

The Summer Access London Theatre brochure, which lists all audio-described, signed and captioned performances in London theatre, is now available. The brochure has information about more than 100 assisted performances… Read More

Showgirls return to Chicago

Published: 17 April 2008

Long-standing Chicago regulars Josefina Gabrielle and Amra-Faye Wright dust off their jazz hands and fishnets as they return to the cast of the musical at the Cambridge from 7 May… Read More

Rory Bremner

Published: 17 April 2008

“It would be quite nice if we were doing this in a shed somewhere.” Rory Bremner, the UK’s foremost satirical impressionist, has lofty ambitions as he prepares to make his… Read More

Rambert dances for families

Published: 17 April 2008

Rambert Dance Company is offering children and their families the chance to gain an insight into the workings of the company and the experience of modern dance through its family… Read More

Spall and Bottomley chill in Alaska

Published: 17 April 2008

Rafe Spall and Christine Bottomley lead the cast of Alaska, which runs at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs between 24 May and 23 June. The drama is the very… Read More

Broadway Prince stars in Kismet

Published: 17 April 2008

The Tony Award-winning Broadway star Faith Prince makes her West End debut in June, starring in English National Opera's new production of Kismet. Prince plays Lalume in the show, which… Read More

Get ready for free theatre with Kids Week!

Published: 17 April 2008

The countdown to Kids Week 2007 has begun. The 10th anniversary Kids Week, with new sponsor Buckle My Shoe, runs this summer from 17-31 August (yes, it’s a whole fortnight)… Read More

Centre Stage: Ian ‘H’ Watkins

Published: 17 April 2008

Charting the highs and lows of a group of students at a performing arts school in New York, Fame is a high-energy, feel-good musical. On 8 May it returns to… Read More

Patricia Hodge

Published: 17 April 2008

A slightly dingy company office, hidden in the bowels of the Comedy theatre, with the mildly fluorescent glow that comes from being lit entirely by electricity, is the last place… Read More

Shakespeare Abridged at Arts

Published: 17 April 2008

A new production of fast-paced Shakespearean romp The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged) comes to the Arts theatre this summer, from 12 June-23 September. The irreverent show became the… Read More

Kelly back on stage in London

Published: 17 April 2008

Matthew Kelly returns to the London stage in Forgotten Voices at the Riverside Studios from 30 May-7 July (press night 1 June).Adapted for the stage by Malcolm McKay, the play… Read More

Interview: Tina Arena

Published: 17 April 2008

Singer, songwriter and musical star Tina Arena has been entertaining since she was knee-high to a wombat, kicking off her career as a seven-year-old on Australian variety show Young Talent… Read More

Rafta, Rafta

Published: 17 April 2008

Rafta, Rafta means slowly, slowly in Hindi, a most appropriate title for a play about an extremely slow-burning sexual relationship between a newly married couple. Ayub Khan-Din’s play is based… Read More

John Weidman

Published: 17 April 2008

With director Susan Stroman, writer John Weidman created Contact (currently previewing at the Queen's ), one of the most successful Broadway musicals of recent years. He's had a partnership with… Read More

Tompsett and Mace step up in Wicked

Published: 17 April 2008

Adam Garcia and Martin Ball are to leave Wicked on 14 July, to be replaced by Oliver Tompsett and Andy Mace as Fiyero and Doctor Dillamond respectively. Both Tompsett and… Read More

Secret Garden at Peacock

Published: 17 April 2008

London Children’s Ballet (LCB) brings its adaptation of classic novel The Secret Garden to the Peacock from 17-20 May. This is the first ever ballet of The Secret Garden and… Read More

Harvey writes second Barbican panto

Published: 17 April 2008

While summer approaches, the Barbican has its sights set on Christmas as it announces its second annual pantomime, Jack And The Beanstalk, to be penned by Beautiful Thing playwright Jonathan… Read More

Sadler’s Wells breaks convention for fourth year

Published: 17 April 2008

Breakin’ Convention, the annual international festival of hip hop dance theatre, returns to Sadler’s Wells on the first May bank holiday weekend, 5-7 May. First staged at Sadler’s Wells in… Read More

Kindertransport

Published: 17 April 2008

Shared Experience presents this affecting play about the lasting effects of displacement on the thousands of children who left Germany just before World War II, alone and frightened. It has… Read More

Kiss Of The Spider Woman

Published: 17 April 2008

Every so often a performance sticks in the mind, pushing the multitude of other very good performances into the recesses of the memory. Will Keen's Molina, one of the two… Read More
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