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Globe creates riverside Shakespeare stroll

Published: 19 November 2015

Shakespeare’s Globe will mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death by creating a unique Bardic experience that audiences can enjoy for free along the banks of the Thames. Dubbed The… Read More

In rehearsals: The Lorax

Published: 18 November 2015

A West End puppet, quite frankly, is not a West End puppet without Simon Lipkin attached to one puppety appendage or another. War Horse, before you eagerly leap in with… Read More

In rehearsals: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Published: 18 November 2015

Sex, intrigue and betrayal; no, not the average goings on of a West End rehearsal room, but the themes of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. That said, rehearsal rooms are interesting places.… Read More

Video: We hula hoop with La Soirée

Published: 18 November 2015

London loves La Soirée. The Olivier Award-winning cabaret/circus spectacular is back for another season in its South Bank Spiegeltent and the capital couldn’t be happier. “Come down and film some… Read More

Derren Brown: Miracle

Published: 18 November 2015

What’s it all about? Have you ever wanted to witness a unicorn appear in front of your eyes, bring dinosaurs back from the dead or swap bodies with a loved… Read More

Katherine Soper wins Bruntwood Prize

Published: 17 November 2015

Katherine Soper has become the 10th anniversary recipient of the esteemed annual Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting Award; triumphing for her debut play, Wish List. Judged by theatre industry insiders including… Read More

Stick Man – Live On Stage

Published: 17 November 2015

What’s it all about? He’s Stick Man, he’s Stick Man, he’s Stick Man, that’s him. He’s chosen to go for a run, on a whim. But he doesn’t know of… Read More

Jobs in theatre: an interactive guide

Published: 17 November 2015

TheatreCraft, the annual beyond-the-stage theatrical careers fair is on us again. Thousands of would-be designers, directors, stage managers, finance directors, stage door managers and wardrobe mistresses will head to the… Read More

A day in the life of Baddies: The Musical

Published: 13 November 2015

The consumption of elderly relatives. The taunting of red riding hood-sporting little girls. The avoidance of woodcutters. Just some of the things you’d expect the Big Bad Wolf to get… Read More

Nigel Lindsay leads Young Vic’s Bull

Published: 13 November 2015

A stellar line-up of performers comprising Max Bennett, Susannah Fielding, Nigel Lindsay and Marc Wootton will star in Mike Bartlett’s Olivier Award-winning play Bull when it returns to the Young… Read More

In rehearsals: A Christmas Carol

Published: 13 November 2015

A Christmas Carol. It’s the consummate yuletide tale. It has spirits for fans of traditional ghost stories, a moral message and a heart-warming ending guaranteed to have you tossing mince… Read More

Hampstead reveals new Downstairs shows

Published: 13 November 2015

New comedies from Andrew Payne and William Boyd will play at the Hampstead Downstairs in early 2016. Payne’s biting boardroom comedy The Meeting opens the new year at the Swiss… Read More

King’s Cross Theatre hits extend

Published: 13 November 2015

The King’s Cross Theatre’s pair of popular productions – Olivier Award-winning hit The Railway Children and critically acclaimed musical In The Heights – have both extended their journeys in the… Read More

30 Million Minutes

Published: 13 November 2015

What’s it all about? 30 Million Minutes. The length of time a Friday in the office feels like? No. The notes from a very long meeting? No. The duration of… Read More

Four Minutes Twelve Seconds

Published: 13 November 2015

What's it all about? A video – one of those kinds of videos – that makes its way online. That's a problem in itself for the two individuals involved but… Read More

Henry V

Published: 12 November 2015

What’s it all about? There is something very fitting about the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of Henry V opening at the Barbican on Armistice Day. This, so often seen… Read More

Video: The Illusionists’ Colin Cloud

Published: 12 November 2015

There’s only one Sherlock Holmes. Okay, strictly speaking there are many Sherlock Holmeses, a certain Mr Cumberbatch being arguably the most high profile. But we’re yet to see – and… Read More

Michael Boyd makes Bush debut Right Now

Published: 12 November 2015

Michael Boyd will make his Bush Theatre debut in 2016, directing a new translation of Catherine-Anne Toupin’s exploration of one woman’s crisis and darkest secrets, Right Now. The play, which… Read More

Ian McKellen in Almeida’s Odyssey line-up

Published: 11 November 2015

Ian McKellen, Andrew Scott, Stanley Tucci and Juliet Stevenson are among the performers set to give voice to Homer’s The Odyssey when the Almeida Theatre’s epic reading is staged in… Read More

Waste starring Charles Edwards and Olivia Williams

Published: 11 November 2015

What’s it all about? Sex, scandal, politics, fatal abortions and ruined lives (several of them). This is the story of independent MP Henry Trebell and how his relations with a… Read More

BAC leads BBC theatre night

Published: 11 November 2015

The Battersea Arts Centre is working with the BBC and Arts Council England to create an evening of live theatre that will be broadcast on BBC Four this Sunday, 15… Read More

Ben Hanlin joins Illusionists line-up

Published: 11 November 2015

Ben Hanlin has joined the line-up for the West End’s latest magical offering, The Illusionists – Witness The Impossible, when it arrives at the Shaftesbury Theatre this weekend. The magician,… Read More

Close To You extends

Published: 11 November 2015

Kyle Riabko’s innovative journey through the songbook of one of music’s best loved singer songwriters, Close To You: Bacharach Reimagined, has extended its run in London’s West End by five… Read More

Shows revealed for Get Into London Theatre

Published: 10 November 2015

Theatre fans delight! Our hugely popular new year ticket promotion Get Into London Theatre will return next month, offering incredible cut-price deals for more than 40 of London’s hottest productions.… Read More

A day in the life of Rosalie Craig

Published: 10 November 2015

We’ve had the pleasure of meeting Rosalie Craig before and found her to be what your parents would term “a very nice girl indeed”, so when we asked her to… Read More

In conversation: Pig Farm

Published: 10 November 2015

Stephen Tompkinson, star of Drop The Dead Donkey and Ballykissangel, is waxing lyrical about the sound of 15,000 pigs while sitting next to a beautiful, sweeping marble staircase. I am… Read More

Jesus Christ Superstar gets Open Air debut

Published: 9 November 2015

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice will have their work seen on the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s stage for the first time next summer when their global hit musical… Read More

Harlequinade / All On Her Own

Published: 9 November 2015

What’s it all about? Playing alongside The Winter’s Tale, the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company troupe gets their hands on one of Terence Rattigan’s lesser known plays, the short, sweet and… Read More

The Winter’s Tale

Published: 9 November 2015

What’s it all about? Deck the halls! Kenneth Branagh and his humble company of players (Judi Dench! Zoë Wanamaker!) have officially begun their year-long residency at the Garrick Theatre. And… Read More

Samuel Buttery stars in Lyric’s Cinderella

Published: 6 November 2015

The Voice UK star Samuel Buttery will play Buttons in the Lyric Hammersmith’s annual festive pantomime, which comes in the form of Cinderella for 2016. The former talent show contestant,… Read More

Shakespeare & Akram Khan in Sadler’s season

Published: 6 November 2015

A long-awaited revival of Akram Khan’s Kaash, the UK premiere of a piece inspired by Shakespeare’s As You Like It and the world premiere of a new triple bill starring… Read More

Bush reveals Forget Me Not cast

Published: 6 November 2015

Eleanor Bron will return to the stage this winter to star in the European premiere of award-winning Australian playwright Tom Holloway’s devastating historical drama Forget Me Not. Steven Atkinson’s production… Read More

Elf

Published: 6 November 2015

What’s it all about? It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… This, as if you didn’t know, is the story of Buddy the Elf, made famous by the Will… Read More

War Of The Worlds hits West End

Published: 6 November 2015

Elf’s Christmas invasion at the Dominion Theatre will be followed by an attack by aliens when a new production of Jeff Wayne’s The War Of The Worlds lands for a… Read More

Joanna Vanderham joins London Dazzle

Published: 6 November 2015

Joanna Vanderham will join Andrew Scott in the UK premiere of Richard Greenberg’s The Dazzle at new venue Found111 next month. The Scottish actress, who was recently seen on screen… Read More

Uzo Aduba leads Jamie Lloyd’s The Maids

Published: 5 November 2015

Orange Is The New Black star Uzo Aduba will make her London stage debut alongside Laura Carmichael and Zawe Ashton in Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton’s The Maids when it… Read More

Hetty Feather returns to Rose Kingston

Published: 5 November 2015

Sally Cookson’s Olivier Award nominated production of Hetty Feather and Tall Stories’ The Gruffalo’s Child are among the theatrical treats on offer for families at the Rose Theatre Kingston in… Read More

In rehearsal: Pericles

Published: 5 November 2015

Who’d be Pericles, eh? First you’re forced to leave everything and everyone behind and run for your life after facing an impossible choice. Then you’re shipwrecked. But that’s tickety-boo because… Read More

Hampstead’s Firebird gets free streaming

Published: 5 November 2015

Hampstead Downstairs’ production of Firebird will be available for audiences to stream for free from Friday. The tale of a teenage girl who is groomed by an older man, which… Read More

Close To Kyle Riabko… and his guitars

Published: 4 November 2015

Close To You: Bacharach Reimagined’s Kyle Riabko is a real guitar hero. He makes my leaping around the living room with a plastic instrument and a PlayStation look even more… Read More

As You Like It

Published: 4 November 2015

What’s it all about? This is Shakespeare's classic pastoral comedy about love and a woman who rules the roost (or should that be flock?). Don't worry, all will become clear...… Read More

Video: Glenn Close talks Sunset Boulevard

Published: 3 November 2015

Glenn Close will return to Sunset Boulevard next year for the first time in more than 20 years. You may have heard. There has been more buzz about the production,… Read More

Wicked Young Writer Awards return for 2016

Published: 3 November 2015

Children (and adults) aged between five and 25-years-old will have the chance to showcase their writing talent yet again this year with the return of the Wicked Young Writer Awards.… Read More

In pictures: First look at Elf

Published: 3 November 2015

In just two days’ time fireworks will bring sparkle to the night sky, effigies of Britain’s most notorious gunpowder plotter will be set ablaze and Buddy The Elf will take… Read More

Exclusive: Guys And Dolls trailer

Published: 2 November 2015

Remember remember 10 December. Not the usual turn of phrase used at this time of year, but one we’ve been employing here at Official London Theatre since it was announced… Read More

Q&A: In The Heights’ Jade Ewen

Published: 2 November 2015

From representing Great Britain at Eurovision – and coming a frankly amazing fifth, given our recent dismal attempts – to appearing in Australian school-set comedy Out There and replacing Keisha… Read More

UK theatregoing wins against football

Published: 2 November 2015

More people saw a show at the theatre in the UK last year than watched a live football match in the English Premier League, English Football League and Scottish Premiership… Read More

McAvoy & Kidman in Evening Standard shortlist

Published: 2 November 2015

James McAvoy, Ralph Fiennes and Nicole Kidman are among the performers nominated at this year’s London Evening Standard Theatre Awards. McAvoy (The Ruling Class) and Fiennes (Man And Superman) will… Read More

Matthew Dunster joins Shakespeare’s Globe

Published: 2 November 2015

Hangmen director Matthew Dunster has joined Shakespeare’s Globe as Associate Director. The Globe regular joins today as Emma Rice also officially begins in the role of Artistic Director Designate. Dunster… Read More

Infographic: Transatlantic supershows

Published: 2 November 2015

London’s West End and New York’s Broadway; the world’s two great capitals of theatre. Many shows do well on one side of the Atlantic, wowing British crowds or bringing American… Read More

Alistair McGowan in Park’s 2016 season

Published: 30 October 2015

Alistair McGowan will return to the Park Theatre, where he starred as Jimmy Savile earlier this year, to lead the cast of amnesia drama 4000 Days as part of the… Read More

The Hairy Ape

Published: 30 October 2015

What’s it all about? This is the Eugene O’Neill play, the impact of which on US theatre, when it was first staged in 1922, was as thumping as a gorilla’s… Read More

MyAnna Buring returns for West End Wasp

Published: 30 October 2015

Ripper Street star MyAnna Buring will reprise her role in Hampstead Theatre hit The Wasp when the drama transfers to London’s Trafalgar Studio 2 in December. Buring will be joined… Read More

Lisa Dillon is Hampstead’s Hapgood

Published: 30 October 2015

Lisa Dillon will lead the cast of Hapgood when Tom Stoppard’s 1988 Cold War drama is revived at the Hampstead Theatre in December. Dillon will play the title role in… Read More

Andy Nyman replaces Shearsmith in Hangmen

Published: 30 October 2015

Ghost Stories co-creator and Assassins star Andy Nyman will join the cast of Royal Court Theatre hit Hangmen when the Martin McDonagh-penned dark comedy transfers to London’s West End in… Read More

Sheridan Smith’s Funny Girl heads to Savoy

Published: 30 October 2015

Double Olivier Award winner Sheridan Smith will return to London’s West End next year when the Menier Chocolate Factory production of Funny Girl transfers to the Savoy Theatre in April… Read More

Potter sells 175,000 tickets in eight hours

Published: 29 October 2015

Following a day of unprecedented ticket sales yesterday, producers of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Parts I and II have announced that even more tickets will go on sale… Read More

Michelle Dockery leaves Donmar’s Liaisons

Published: 29 October 2015

Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery has had to withdraw from the Donmar Warehouse’s forthcoming production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. She will be replaced by The Paradise’s Elaine Cassidy. Cassidy will… Read More

Broadway League launches prize draw

Published: 28 October 2015

The Broadway League is offering US-based theatre fans the chance to win an incredible trip to London’s glittering West End this autumn. Launched in collaboration with our own fantastic prize… Read More

Harry Potter extends booking to 2017

Published: 28 October 2015

Tickets for Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Parts I and II are now on sale through priority booking until 8 January 2017 after tickets for the initial 16-weeks of… Read More

Cats

Published: 28 October 2015

What’s it all about? Cats. Specifically the Jellicle Cats. Who are the Jellicle Cats? Jellicles are and Jellicles do. Jellicles do and Jellicles would. Jellicles would and Jellicles can… this… Read More

The Homecoming releases official trailer

Published: 27 October 2015

With Jamie Lloyd’s 50th anniversary staging of The Homecoming a matter of weeks away, Gemma Chan, Gary Kemp, John Simm and their fellow cast members are busy getting ready for… Read More

Tim Minchin leads Old Vic Variety Night

Published: 27 October 2015

Matilda The Musical’s Tim Minchin will lead the line-up for the first in a series of Variety Nights staged at The Old Vic as part of Artistic Director Matthew Warchus’… Read More

Motown musical holds open auditions

Published: 27 October 2015

Motown The Musical is set to hold open auditions to find the performers who will portray Marvin Gaye and the Young Michael Jackson for the production’s 2016 premiere at London’s… Read More

RoosevElvis

Published: 27 October 2015

What's it all about? The 26th President of the United States and one of the most prolific music icons of the 20th century, or rather the spirits of them as… Read More

Video: More from Elf’s cast recording

Published: 26 October 2015

“I don’t want a cheque that’s made out to cash or a corporate re-gift from some secret stash.” No neither do we, Michael; for Christmas we want another instalment of… Read More

Stephen Rea makes Royal Court return

Published: 26 October 2015

Academy Award nominated actor Stephen Rea will lead the cast of David Ireland’s Cyprus Avenue at the Royal Court next year. News of Rea’s stage return comes as the Sloane… Read More

Norris & Power on NT children’s programming

Published: 23 October 2015

When Rufus Norris took on the biggest job in British theatre back in April he brought with him a diverse programme of work that truly put the National in National… Read More

Tom Chambers leads Private Lives to London

Published: 23 October 2015

Strictly Come Dancing winner Tom Chambers will lead a production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives set to tour the UK before arriving in the West End. The former Top Hat… Read More

Harry Potter play ticket details revealed

Published: 23 October 2015

  Harry Potter fans should cast aside J K Rowling’s books and get out their diaries as dates and details for the highly anticipated Harry Potter And The Cursed Child… Read More

Andrew Scott makes London Dazzle

Published: 23 October 2015

Bond and Sherlock star Andrew Scott is to return to the West End stage, starring in the UK premiere of Richard Greenberg’s play The Dazzle when it opens at new… Read More

In rehearsal: The Branagh Season

Published: 22 October 2015

As The Winter’s Tale and Harlequinade / All On Her Own, the first shows in the eagerly anticipated Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company season, take to the stage, we glimpse into… Read More

Video: Haig hair loss for Guys And Dolls

Published: 22 October 2015

Just what do you have to do to get into character for one of the most iconic musicals of all time? In Olivier Award-winning David Haig’s case… shave off your… Read More

Kids Week offers free Halloween workshops

Published: 22 October 2015

Our annual kids go free promotion Kids Week is going spooky for Halloween, offering children aged eight to 12-years-old the chance to take part in free acting classes at the… Read More

Two premieres for St James spring season

Published: 22 October 2015

The St James Theatre is taking a tuneful turn for its forthcoming spring season with premieres of two musical offerings – acclaimed play with music The Pianist Of Willesden Lane… Read More
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