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Hit musical Kinky Boots extends in London

Published: 29 January 2016

Fabulous high-heeled musical theatre hit Kinky Boots has proved a sparkling, sassy success with London’s theatre lovers, and is extending its run at the Adelphi Theatre to 24 September 2016.… Read More

Dominic Cooper is West End’s Libertine

Published: 29 January 2016

Dominic Cooper will return to the London stage this September to star in Stephen Jeffreys’ hedonistic drama The Libertine at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Olivier and Tony Award winner Terry… Read More

Cast of debutants lead Court’s I See You

Published: 28 January 2016

A cast of seven performers entirely new to the Royal Court Theatre will perform I See You in the theatre’s Upstairs space when acclaimed actor Noma Dumezweni makes her directorial… Read More

In rehearsal: Nell Gwynn

Published: 28 January 2016

In exactly one week’s time, Gemma Arterton will take to the stage for the very first time as legendary actress Nell Gywnn and, if these photos from the rehearsal room… Read More

Matt Barber joins Breakfast At Tiffany’s

Published: 28 January 2016

Downton Abbey’s Matt Barber will play Pixie Lott’s on stage love interest in the forthcoming West End run of Breakfast At Tiffany’s this summer. Barber will play Fred opposite Lott’s… Read More

Video: The Great Matilda Bake Off

Published: 27 January 2016

It seems Matilda The Musical has some rather unusual initiations when new cast members join its multiple Olivier Award-winning company. Rather than putting them through their paces in the dance… Read More

Video: Critics’ Circle Award winners

Published: 27 January 2016

It’s rare that awards lists receive universal agreement. There’s usually a raised eyebrow or two about a performance or production that sticks out like a saw thumb with a glow… Read More

New young stars join Matilda

Published: 27 January 2016

A trio of talented youngsters will join the cast of Matilda The Musical this March to play the hit London show’s title heroine. Zaris-Angel Hator, Clare Read and Emily-May Stephenson… Read More

In pictures: Olivier Concert performances

Published: 27 January 2016

There is a (rather rude) saying that some people have a face for radio, but in the cases of musical theatre stars Katie Brayben, Michael Ball, Elaine Paige, John Dagleish,… Read More

The Mother

Published: 27 January 2016

What’s it all about? Loss, abandonment, purposelessness, the dangers of an overactive imagination. I could be more specific, but that wouldn’t be playing writer Florian Zeller’s enigmatic game. While roughly… Read More

Wicked plans autism-friendly performance

Published: 26 January 2016

Hit family musical Wicked will host its first ever dedicated autism-friendly performance at the Apollo Victoria Theatre on 14 May. The Olivier Award-winning show will work with the National Autistic… Read More

In pictures: The Oliviers In Concert

Published: 26 January 2016

Scarlett Strallen and Michael Ball dueting on The Phantom Of  The Opera’s All I Ask Of You, Katie Brayben rocking out the title song from Beautiful – The Carole King… Read More

War Horse team unite for farewell

Published: 26 January 2016

The award-winning team behind War Horse, the National Theatre’s most successful show ever, will reunite for a one-off event to mark the last performance of the show at the New… Read More

Trio of Critics’ Circle wins for Court

Published: 26 January 2016

Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy Hangmen has been awarded Best New Play at this year’s Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, leading the way for three wins for the Royal Court Theatre. The… Read More

Tricycle to get £5 million makeover

Published: 26 January 2016

The Tricycle Theatre will increase the size of its auditorium by 25% in a major £5.5 million capital development project that will transform the theatre by 2017. Artistic Director Indhu… Read More

Kit Harington leads Doctor Faustus

Published: 26 January 2016

Jamie Lloyd will direct Game Of Thrones’ Kit Harington in a new modern version of Christopher Marlowe’s play Doctor Faustus at London’s Duke of York’s Theatre this April. The star,… Read More

UK premiere for LaBute’s Reasons To Be Happy

Published: 25 January 2016

Michael Attenborough will direct the UK premiere of Neil LaBute’s romantic comedy Reasons To Be Happy at the Hampstead Theatre this March. Written as a companion piece to the acclaimed… Read More

Menier premieres Zeller’s Truth

Published: 25 January 2016

Lindsay Posner will direct the UK premiere of Florian Zeller’s The Truth at the Menier Chocolate Factory this March. Following the huge success of the French playwright’s The Father and… Read More

In rehearsal: The Oliviers In Concert

Published: 22 January 2016

With The Oliviers In Concert, the musical celebration of 40 years of London’s most prestigious theatre prizes, just days away, we were invited into rehearsals with our camera to get… Read More

In rehearsal: The End Of Longing

Published: 22 January 2016

We’re not suggesting Friends star turned playwright Matthew Perry or director Lindsay Posner have imposed a dress code for their rehearsal room but grey jumpers and matching Converse certainly seem… Read More

Sam Mendes to judge Imagination Awards

Published: 22 January 2016

Sam Mendes will be among the panel judging the first ever Imagination Awards, which were launched by hit family West End musical Charlie And The Chocolate Factory today. Mendes, who… Read More

Herons

Published: 22 January 2016

What’s it all about? Fear. That gnawing knot in your stomach, sick in your gullet, freezing anxiety in your veins kind of fear. 15 years after Simon Stephens’ haunting play… Read More

Guys And Dolls transfers to Phoenix

Published: 22 January 2016

Following its triumphant five star run at the Savoy Theatre, Guys And Dolls has extended its West End life announcing it will transfer to the Phoenix Theatre. The show had… Read More

Glenn Close gets Sunset Boulevard cast

Published: 22 January 2016

Musical theatre stars Michael Xavier, Siobhan Dillon and Fred Johanson are to join Hollywood’s Glenn Close when she stars in Sunset Boulevard at the London Coliseum later this year. The… Read More

Youth Music Theatre holds auditions

Published: 21 January 2016

The UK’s leading music theatre company, Youth Music Theatre (YMT), is holding open auditions in London later this month to discover the next generation of musical theatre performers. Anyone aged… Read More

David Essex to lead War Of The Worlds

Published: 21 January 2016

David Essex, Jimmy Nail, Daniel Bedingfield, Heidi Range, Michael Praed and Madalena Alberto will star alongside a version of Liam Neeson created in 3D holography when The War Of The… Read More

RAZ transfers to Trafalgar Studios

Published: 21 January 2016

Olivier Award-winning playwright Jim Cartwright’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit RAZ will make its London premiere at the Trafalgar Studios this March. The timely one-man drama about a generation of adults… Read More

Rinse Cycle brings Wagner to West End

Published: 20 January 2016

Unexpected Opera’s condensed Wagner spectacular, The Rinse Cycle, will make its London premiere at the Charing Cross Theatre next month. Taking the legendary opera composer’s iconic Ring Cycle – all… Read More

Q&A: Sharon D Clarke

Published: 20 January 2016

For a woman who describes music as her lifeblood, surely there is no more perfect a role you could find than blues legend Ma Rainey. For Sharon D Clarke it’s… Read More

Video: Getting To Know… Joanna Vanderham

Published: 20 January 2016

Joanna Vanderham, who alongside Andrew Scott and David Dawson stars in The Dazzle, has a special talent. It’s not causing theatre tickets to disappear faster than a startled roadrunner –… Read More

NotMoses sets casting in stone

Published: 19 January 2016

Greg Barnett will star in the title role of biblical comedy NotMoses, the world premiere of prolific film writer Gary Sinyor’s debut play, at the Arts Theatre this March. Playing… Read More

Video: Indhu Rubasingham on Red Velvet

Published: 19 January 2016

When the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company season was announced last year, we were so overwhelmed by the casting – Judi Dench! Lily James! Rob Brydon! – and the line-up of… Read More

Harry Potter star leads Right Now to Bush

Published: 19 January 2016

Harry Potter star Sean Biggerstaff is the latest Hogwarts graduate to head to the London stage. The actor, who played Oliver Wood in the world-conquering franchise, leads the cast of… Read More

Catherine Tate leads Miss Atomic Bomb

Published: 18 January 2016

Catherine Tate will star in the world premiere of musical comedy Miss Atomic Bomb at the St James Theatre this March alongside a stellar cast including Dean John-Wilson, Daniel Boys… Read More

Mays joins Tim Spall in The Caretaker

Published: 18 January 2016

Daniel Mays and George MacKay are to join Timothy Spall in Matthew Warchus’ new production of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker at London’s Old Vic. Pinter’s acclaimed tale of a handyman… Read More

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Published: 15 January 2016

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Wares returns for Almeida’s Boy

Published: 15 January 2016

Sacha Wares, who directed the critically acclaimed Game at the Almeida Theatre in 2015, will return to the Islington venue this spring to direct Leo Butler’s new play Boy. The… Read More

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Published: 15 January 2016

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Curtain Up reveals exclusive access

Published: 15 January 2016

Legendary West End productions including A Chorus Line, The Phantom Of The Opera and Matilda The Musical will all contribute to the incredible theatrical Curtain Up experience at the V&A… Read More

Zoë Wanamaker leads Donmar’s Elegy

Published: 15 January 2016

Zoë Wanamaker will star opposite Barbara Flynn and Nina Sosanya in the world premiere of Nick Payne's Elegy at the Donmar Warehouse in April. The latest play from the Constellations… Read More

Audra McDonald’s Lady Day hits West End

Published: 15 January 2016

Six time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will make her long awaited West End debut this summer when the hugely acclaimed Broadway hit Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill… Read More

In rehearsal: The Winter’s Tale

Published: 14 January 2016

As the temperature plunges towards icicle levels of chilliness and snow dusts many a (particularly high) hilltop, we’re told, it seems fitting that we can glance into rehearsals for The… Read More

New Frantic Assembly show for Lyric

Published: 14 January 2016

Acclaimed theatre company Frantic Assembly’s latest show, Things I Know To Be True, will stage its UK premiere at the Lyric Hammersmith this autumn. The international co-production with South Australia’s… Read More

Video: Joanna Vanderham on The Dazzle

Published: 14 January 2016

It is as chilly as a penguin’s pocket with a hole in it at Found111. I’m here well before opening time for the new venue on Charing Cross Road yet… Read More

West End LIVE reveals 2016 dates

Published: 14 January 2016

West End LIVE with MasterCard, the world’s biggest and best musical theatre festival, has confirmed it will return to Trafalgar Square on 18 and 19 June in 2016. For more… Read More

Alan Rickman dies

Published: 14 January 2016

One of Britain’s greatest actors Alan Rickman has tragically died aged 69. The much-loved and hugely respected giant of stage and screen had been suffering from cancer. The devastating news… Read More

Bend It Like Beckham to close

Published: 13 January 2016

The full time whistle will blow on Bend It Like Beckham The Musical’s West End fixture with the show set to kick off for the last time at the Phoenix… Read More

In rehearsal: Uncle Vanya at the Almeida Theatre

Published: 13 January 2016

Have you noticed a shortage of Post-it notes this January? Like a stationery-obsessed Poirot, we’ve solved the mystery; they’re all with Paul Rhys, Tobias Menzies and Jessica Brown Findlay in… Read More

Court reveals full Cyprus Avenue cast

Published: 13 January 2016

Royal Court Theatre regular Wunmi Mosaku will join Academy Award nominee Stephen Rea in the forthcoming production of Cyprus Avenue, David Ireland’s new play that arrives in London following its… Read More

The Play That keeps going Wrong

Published: 13 January 2016

Olivier Award-winning comedy The Play That Goes Wrong has once again gone very right, adding six months to its current London booking period and extending to 26 February 2017. Tickets… Read More

Bad Jews makes West End return

Published: 12 January 2016

Joshua Harmon’s critically acclaimed comedy Bad Jews will return to the West End next month, bringing its tale of relatives fighting over a family heirloom to the Theatre Royal Haymarket… Read More

In rehearsal: The Mother

Published: 12 January 2016

While some of us – not me boss! – are slowly easing ourselves back into working life after Christmas, Gina McKee and the cast of The Mother are hard at… Read More

NotMoses find sons of God in London

Published: 12 January 2016

Izzy Lee and Theo Mackenzie will share the lofty title of Son of God following open auditions for the unique role in the world premiere of NotMoses at the Arts… Read More

Bush’s Storystock returns for 2016

Published: 12 January 2016

The Bush Theatre’s hugely popular half-term storytelling festival will return next month with a packed line-up of live performances, readings, creative workshops, parties and even a story treasure hunt. Described… Read More

The Father returns to the West End

Published: 11 January 2016

The five star hit production of Florian Zeller’s The Father will return to the West End next month for a limited five week run. Kenneth Cranham will reprise his critically… Read More

Arterton’s Nell Gwynn co-stars revealed

Published: 11 January 2016

Gemma Arterton will be joined in the West End transfer of Shakespeare’s Globe’s production of Nell Gwynn by many of the performers who appeared in the critically acclaimed drama at… Read More

Shaun Williamson joins Railway Children

Published: 11 January 2016

Former EastEnders star Shaun Williamson will take over the role of Mr Perks in the hit stage adaptation of The Railway Children as the show prepares to celebrate its first… Read More

Mrs Henderson Presents her full cast

Published: 8 January 2016

Former EastEnders star Jamie Foreman will join the cast of Mrs Henderson Presents when the new musical opens in London next month. Foreman, who played Derek Branning in the long-running… Read More

Cast revealed for Matthew Perry play

Published: 8 January 2016

Matthew Perry’s new play The End Of Longing will open on the London stage with a cast including the previously announced Friends star, Christina Cole, Jennifer Mudge and Lloyd Owen.… Read More

West End hit Hangmen drops into cinemas

Published: 8 January 2016

Martin McDonagh’s Royal Court and West End hit Hangmen is to be screened in cinemas in the UK and across the world from 3 March as part of National Theatre… Read More

Danielle Hope joins new Les Mis cast

Published: 7 January 2016

Over The Rainbow winner Danielle Hope and Miss Saigon’s Eva Noblezada will both appear as Les Misérables’ legendary Eponine this year in a major shakeup of the West End cast… Read More

ATG duo breaks Stage 100 record

Published: 7 January 2016

Ambassador Theatre Group’s Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire have become The Stage 100’s most successful ever entrants after overtaking Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record of six years at the top of… Read More

2016 shows to book for now

Published: 6 January 2016

With grown-up child wizards, genies, hand puppets, monsters and already acclaimed performances, 2016 is shaping up to be a spectacular year of London theatre. Here are our tips for what… Read More

War Of The Worlds goes on longer

Published: 6 January 2016

The War Of The Worlds will run longer than previously expected when the musical spectacular takes to the stage at London’s Dominion Theatre later this spring. The theatrical adaptation of… Read More

Lumiere London lights up the West End

Published: 6 January 2016

London’s Theatreland will be a riot of colour, images and, most importantly, light later this month when Lumiere London illuminates the West End’s streets from 14 to 17 January. The… Read More

Chris Addison makes Royal Opera debut

Published: 5 January 2016

Comedian and actor Chris Addison will make his Royal Opera debut in February’s “fabulously frothy” L’Étoile in a role specially created by director Mariame Clément. The hugely popular comedic performer… Read More

Emma Rice reveals Globe Wonder Season

Published: 5 January 2016

Shakespeare’s Globe will be transformed into a magical forest for Emma Rice’s inaugural Wonder Season, which is set to welcome Bardic classics including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming Of… Read More

Grease’s producer Robert Stigwood dies

Published: 5 January 2016

Robert Stigwood, the producer behind some of the world’s most popular musicals including Grease, Evita, Saturday Night Fever, Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, has died aged 81. The Australian born… Read More

First look: Grey Gardens

Published: 4 January 2016

For many, the new year means two things: a time to reflect and to fill several bin bags for charity with the overflow of wardrobes and unwanted gifts of Christmases… Read More

Snow White for Sadler’s Family Weekend

Published: 31 December 2015

BalletLORENT’s take on the popular Brothers Grimm fairytale Snow White is set to entertain children at Sadler’s Wells in March as part of the venue’s annual two-day festival Family Weekend.… Read More

Theatre nods in Queen’s New Year’s Honours

Published: 31 December 2015

Three of Britain’s much-loved actresses – Imelda Staunton, Siân Phillips and Barbara Windsor – have been recognised in the Queen’s 2016 New Year’s Honours List. Windsor and Phillips will both… Read More

School Of Rock pushes UK premiere to 2017

Published: 30 December 2015

School Of Rock, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical that has recently smashed Broadway box office records, has moved its West End premiere to spring 2017. The stage adaptation of the… Read More

Alison Steadman leaves Rabbit Hole

Published: 29 December 2015

Alison Steadman has withdrawn from her role in the Hampstead Theatre’s forthcoming production of Rabbit Hole, with Penny Downie stepping in to replace her in the cast.  Steadman leaves the… Read More

Exclusive: The return of Goodnight Mister Tom

Published: 29 December 2015

As Michelle Magorian’s much-loved children’s story Goodnight Mister Tom prepares to celebrates its 35th anniversary, David Wood’s Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation is back on the stage winning audiences with its… Read More

Stage Awards reveal 2016 shortlist

Published: 29 December 2015

London’s Almeida, Barbican and Shakespeare’s Globe theatres are in the running to be crowned London Theatre of the Year at this year’s The Stage Awards. The esteemed theatre publication has… Read More
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