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Published: 17 April 2008
Margaret Preece is to take over from Lesley Garrett as Mother Abbess in The Sound Of Music from Monday, as the musical announces an extension to its booking period to… Read More
Commissioned to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Slave Trade Act, African Snow sold out its run at the York Theatre Royal earlier this year. The parallel… Read More
We Will Rock You, the blockbuster Queen musical, is celebrating its fifth year in the West End on 14 May with a special performance involving the show’s creators and some… Read More
Our House, the new Madness musical which opened at the Cambridge this week, follows in a long line of high profile musicals based on the back catalogues of pop bands.… Read More
Lindsay Duncan is one of a rare breed, an extremely good actress who has remained fairly anonymous. Though she has two Laurence Olivier Awards glittering in her trophy cabinet –… Read More
The Tricycle continues its tradition of highly charged political plays with Called To Account: The Indictment Of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair For The Crime Of Aggression Against Iraq – A… Read More
Polly Stenham's first play paints a picture of a dysfunctional modern upper-middle class family. Dad is absent – immigrated to Hong Kong – Mum can't look after herself, let alone… Read More
Christopher Cazenove, Barry Cryer, Les Dennis and Angela Rippon have been unveiled as the guest narrators of Side By Side By Sondheim. The new production of the Sondheim revue show,… Read More
Scottish actor Alan Cumming returns to the London stage later this year, playing Dionysus in a new version of The Bacchae.The production is being mounted by the National Theatre of… Read More
Steven Pimlott theatre on 17 May at 11:45. The event is free, not ticketed and open to anyone. Pimlott died in February following a battle with cancer. He was just… Read More
English National Opera has announced the line up for the 2007/8 season. The company will present a total of 11 new productions and three revivals, with some exciting collaborations in… Read More
Additional casting has been announced for the Old Vic’s production of Gaslight. Joining Bond beauty Rosamund Pike and stage and screen veteran Kenneth Cranham will be Andrew Woodhall and Rowena… Read More
Broadway producer Boyett Ostar Productions (Bob Boyett and Bill Haber) has extended its 'first look' arrangement with the National Theatre that gives the company the first chance to take the… Read More
Little Shop Of Horrors has extended its current run in the West End. The musical tale of a blood-loving plant is now booking at the Duke of York's until 1… Read More
Avenue Q has become the first show in the world to offer customers the chance to buy and receive their tickets directly via their mobile phone, after Delfont Mackintosh Theatres… Read More
On a dark moor, in the middle of the night, a man is creeping through the fog. Surrounded by faint and creepy noises, he opens a creaking gate and steps… Read More
Fans of the classic 80s movie Dirty Dancing who haven’t yet been able to see the smash hit stage version at the Aldwych have got a chance to get their… Read More
Nicolas Kent is a busy man. The Artistic Director of the Tricycle is immersed in rehearsals for his new 'tribunal play' Called To Account and is barely coming up for… Read More
On 23 April, half a million new tickets go on sale for the hugely popular Billy Elliot The Musical. The extension means that from next week it will be possible… Read More
Oliver Ford Davies and Anne-Marie Duff, who recently appeared together in The Soldiers' Fortune at the Young Vic, are to work together again this year in the National Theatre's production… Read More
Susie Blake took to the Apollo Victoria stage last Thursday to entertain an auditorium packed with celebs and theatregoers as teacher-turned-spin doctor Madame Morrible in Wicked. The former Coronation Street… Read More
Jennifer Tanarez makes her professional West End debut when she joins the cast of Avenue Q on 16 April. The recent graduate of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts replaces Naoko… Read More
Jackie Clune joins the cast of Billy Elliot The Musical from 4 June. The actor, comedian, composer and broadcaster is set to play dance teacher Mrs Wilkinson in the West… Read More
Macbeth. The mere mention of the name sends shivers of fear down the spines of even the bravest and least superstitious of actors. Since the very first Macbeth died backstage… Read More
Amy Nuttall joins the cast of hit comedy Boeing-Boeing from 14 May. The former Emmerdale star, who was last seen in the West End playing Sarah Brown in Guys And… Read More
The Royal Ballet's 2007/8 season has been announced, and includes a new production of George Balanchine's Jewels. The season also contains the revival of the Laurence Olivier Award-winning piece Chroma… Read More
The Royal Opera's 2007/8 season has been revealed. In Antonio Pappano's sixth season as Music Director, the company presents one world premiere, two new productions, three co-productions being seen for… Read More
Actress Patricia Hodge joins the cast of hit comedy Boeing-Boeing from 30 April until 23 June. Hodge replaces Frances De La Tour in the role of long-suffering housekeeper Bertha. Of… Read More
Two times Laurence Olivier Award-winner Conleth Hill joins the previously announced Rory Kinnear and Ruth Wilson in the cast of Philistines at the National Lyttelton this May. Hill’s West End… Read More
Theatre-lovers relaxing in the park and in the cafes and bars of Leicester Square can now use their phone, PDA or even PSP to explore the tkts web pages, see… Read More
Tim McInnerny is to join Eamonn Walker in Othello at Shakespeare’s Globe this summer, along with Zoe Tapper and Lorraine Burroughs. McInnerny, who is still widely recognised for playing Lord… Read More
Victorian thriller Gaslight follows The Entertainer at the Old Vic, opening on 14 June. Former bond girl Rosamund Pike is to play the psychologically tormented heroine of the piece alongside… Read More
A new exhibition opened yesterday offering theatre fans a new insight into the theatrical world of the 18th century. Behind The Scenes: The Hidden Life Of Georgian Theatre 1737-1784 is… Read More
If you were asked to name Australia's highest selling female recording artist, a performer who sang at the opening of the Sydney Olympics and the Paris Live 8 concert, you… Read More
Nick Bateman was catapulted to fame by reality TV show Big Brother where he picked up the nickname 'Nasty Nick' for his underhand tactics. Now he's starring in cult musical… Read More
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns to the West End on Tuesday 17 July, when it opens at the Adelphi. In a repeat of last year's How Do You… Read More
Jenny Seagrove and Anthony Andrews are to star in Somerset Maugham’s play The Letter at the Wyndham’s from 19 April (press night 1 May).Set in the heat of a Malaysian… Read More
It may be a long way from Christmas, but Hampstead has already announced details of its family show for the festive season, Little Wolf’s Book Of Badness, which runs from… Read More
Cast members from Monty Python's Spamalot are hoping that the public supports them on St George's Day (23 April) as they attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the… Read More
Former Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director Sam Mendes has announced a new transatlantic theatre venture linking the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York and the Old Vic in London.… Read More
Clive Rowe is voicing bloodthirsty plant Audrey II in the musical Little Shop Of Horrors for a two week period which began last night, until 14 April. Rowe is temporarily… Read More
Dervla Kirwan, Toby Stephens and Samuel West have been cast in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal at the Donmar Warehouse (31 May-21 July).Betrayal is the story of a love triangle between a… Read More
Matthew Macfadyen leads the cast of The Pain And The Itch, which opens at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs on 21 June. The production is the first directed by… Read More
Ever fancied yourself as a bit of an opera singer? Now is your chance to see if you can cut it, by joining the Barbican’s Mostly Mozart Big Sing on… Read More
Grease Is The Word judge David Gest kicked off the competition with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rival reality show Any Dream Will Do last night by saying “Grease has good songs,… Read More
At first, Toby Jones isn’t happy: England are being walloped at cricket and it seems increasingly unlikely Prince Charles is ever going to appear as a guest in . However,… Read More
Will Keen is to replace Iain Glen in Kiss Of The Spider Woman at the Donmar Warehouse, which opens on 25 April (previews from 19 April).A statement issued today said… Read More
A new production of the musical revue Side By Side By Sondheim, featuring musical staging by Adam Cooper, is to run at The Venue from 26 April (press night 1… Read More
Blue Man Group, the off the wall entertainment show from New York, is to close at the New London on 24 June after a run of just over 18 months.… Read More
Lisa Goldman, the incoming Artistic Director at Soho theatre, has announced her first season of productions. The May-September season includes three new productions that Soho both commissioned and developed, two… Read More
Actor and former Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan is to star in Fantastic Mr Fox at the Open Air, Regent’s Park this summer. Duncan, who is best known as Blue… Read More
We've all been to parties where banter has got out of hand and someone has said something they regret, but the party hosted by Sam and Jo takes this to… Read More
Following an enforced absence on doctor’s orders after damaging her vocal chords, The Sound Of Music star Connie Fisher will now play only six of the eight shows a week,… Read More
Moving away from home for the first time is a milestone in any teenager’s life. But coming home again can be just as hard. In her first full-length play, Leaves,… Read More
As the audience files into its seats at the Tricycle, in the background of the shadowy set of The Caretaker a solitary figure in a leather jacket nonchalantly lights a… Read More
Grease is to slide into the Piccadilly theatre this summer, opening on 8 August after previews from 25 July. The musical, which follows the highs and lows of a group… Read More
Desperate poverty, freezing cold dark nights, starving Russian peasants and a man threatening to commit suicide. Not the ingredients you would normally expect to find in a comedy, but Dying… Read More
A perennial Shakespeare favourite, played out in a college garden on a just-bearable English summer evening, with the audience sipping Pimms and the cast cavorting in the bushes with flowers… Read More
It is genuinely surprising when a piece of theatre written 50 years ago, and at the cutting edge of drama when it was first produced, should, in an anniversary production,… Read More
The vast Lyttelton stage is transformed into a television studio of sorts for Katie Mitchell's new production of Martin Crimp's Attempts On Her Life. Confusing at first, the necessity of… Read More
Melody On The Move encompasses a trio of very distinct works by choreographers Christopher Hampson, David Dawson and Michael Corder, performed at Sadler’s Wells by the English National Ballet in… Read More
A leadership challenge, dirty tricks, sleaze and scandal – all in a day’s work if you are a party whip. The party is in crisis and the Prime Minister is… Read More
Patrick Stewart is one of those performers that you cannot wait to see playing Shakespeare's 'big' roles. This season he has already given London his aging, regressing Mark Antony, now… Read More
The media hype has been in overdrive in recent weeks and last night the stars, the cameras and the autograph hunters were out in force at the Gielgud to witness… Read More
He began as a playwright, but Christopher Hampton’s long career has encompassed this and much more. Now in his 60s, with new productions of two of his plays currently running,… Read More
From the moment he donned a sailor suit to help out at his parents’ amateur dramatics society, Nigel Harman wanted to be a musical theatre star. So what’s he doing… Read More
Under The Whaleback, Richard Bean’s new play about the swarthy lives of the Deckies aboard the trawlers fishing the North Sea, opened at The Royal Court‘s Jerwood Theatre Upstairs this… Read More
Best known for his impressions of celebrities and sports stars, Alistair McGowan is once again working with puppets for the first time since his early days on Spitting Image. He… Read More
Director Carl Heap is no stranger to adapting plays for young audiences. A former secondary school teacher, Heap, with company beggarsbelief, has devised and directed several family-friendly productions including the… Read More
A globetrotting director comes home this month as Tim Supple brings his ‘Indian Dream’ to the Roundhouse for a short season. A unique spectacle staged in a unique venue away… Read More
Ray Fearon is tired. He has been rehearsing all morning and his mind has been left in the rehearsal room, where it is passing the time pondering the subtleties of… Read More
James Mossman was a star reporter for the BBC in the 1960s, an overseas correspondent known for his reliability in turning out a 12-minute piece to camera. In 1971, he… Read More
Bare trees stand like sentries and snow falls relentlessly outside the Borkmans’ house. Peter McKintosh’s set conjures the cold, stark atmosphere of Norway in winter, while inside the house, the… Read More
Two soldiers return from war with no money and no way of making a living outside the armed forces. Adjusting to society rather than war proves a problem. It sounds… Read More
Maths is not funny. There is nothing humorous about a simultaneous equation or a cumulative frequency diagram. Long division does not make you smile. Yet David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof… Read More