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In pictures: New York comes to TKTS

Published: 1 October 2015

What says New York more than the Statue of Liberty and a yellow cab? That’s right, nothing. So to celebrate our new prize draw, which gives anyone who buys tickets… Read More

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical at the Apollo theatre

Published: 1 October 2015

What’s it all about? Err… well… this is awkward. We don’t really know… Not because we weren’t paying attention but because from now until the end of November you could… Read More

Hackney named Most Welcoming London theatre

Published: 30 September 2015

Hackney Empire will be flying the flag for London at this year’s UK Theatre Awards after being chosen as one of the 12 winners of the My Theatre Matters! Most… Read More

In rehearsal: In The Heights

Published: 30 September 2015

In The Heights will be hip hopping its way to the King’s Cross Theatre next month, but the company seems to have chosen are rather more ecclesiastical setting for its… Read More

In rehearsal: The Hairy Ape

Published: 30 September 2015

Bertie Carvel and his fellow The Hairy Ape co-stars claim to be in rehearsals for Richard Jones’ new production of Eugene O’Neill’s iconic masterpiece, but having seen Manuel Harlan’s rehearsal… Read More

Indhu Rubasingham is TheatreCraft ambassador

Published: 30 September 2015

The Tricycle Theatre’s Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham has been announced as the ambassador for the 10th behind-the-scenes careers fair TheatreCraft this November. The acclaimed director takes the reins from previous… Read More

Jane Horrocks leads 2016 Young Vic season

Published: 30 September 2015

Jane Horrocks will star in the world premiere of “part dance piece, part gig” If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me as part of the Young Vic’s spring/summer 2016 season. The… Read More

Tipping The Velvet

Published: 29 September 2015

What’s it all about? Take your seat in the opulent setting of the Lyric Hammersmith and be transported to an era of music hall sensations and vaudeville titillation. In the… Read More

Kim Medcalf brings Gatsby to the Arts

Published: 28 September 2015

Former EastEnders star Kim Medcalf will make her London stage return alongside Matilda Sturridge and Ellie Nunn when Ruby In The Dust’s production of Gatsby transfers to the Arts Theatre… Read More

Beverley Knight’s Cats co-stars announced

Published: 28 September 2015

A clowder of all-singing, all-dancing felines has been announced to join Beverley Knight in the forthcoming return of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats at the London Palladium. Olivier Award nominee and… Read More

Round up: #15SecondShakespeare

Published: 25 September 2015

#15SecondShakespeare. It’s this year’s Ice Bucket Challenge, but with less water and even more overacting. The premise, if you’re new to the West End’s favourite hashtag, is that actors take… Read More

Friends announced for Margulies’ Dinner

Published: 25 September 2015

Hari Dhillon, Shaun Dooley, Sara Stewart and Finty Williams will star in Donald Margulies’ Dinner With Friends when it opens at the Park Theatre next month. The quartet will be… Read More

Stomp extends to January 2017

Published: 25 September 2015

Bin lids and barrels will continue to feel the rhythmic wrath of Stomp until 2017 as the Olivier Award-winning percussive hit has extended its booking period until 8 January 2017.… Read More

Harry Potter play to be staged in two parts

Published: 25 September 2015

J K Rowling has revealed that the forthcoming stage production of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, in which her internationally renowned boy wizard becomes the subject of an entirely… Read More

Hynter gets Critics’ Circle’s highest honour

Published: 24 September 2015

Nicholas Hytner has yet another accolade to add to his highly decorated mantelpiece after being awarded the Critics’ Circle Award for Services to the Arts. The Former National Theatre Director,… Read More

Video: How to get out of awkward situations

Published: 24 September 2015

The Play That Goes Wrong, London’s hit, Olivier Award-winning comedy, might not be the immediate go-to production for tips on escaping a potentially embarrassing situation. Let’s face it, they specialise… Read More

Video: Showstoppers! about town

Published: 24 September 2015

Who knows what audiences will get when they head to the Apollo Theatre this autumn? Only one thing’s for sure: they won’t get any of the shows that the Showstoppers!… Read More

Les Misérables stages 30th birthday gala

Published: 24 September 2015

Les Misérables will celebrate its 30th birthday on 8 October with a special West End gala performance in aid of Save The Children’s Syria Children’s appeal. The current London cast,… Read More

Exclusive: Sally Cookson on Jane Eyre

Published: 23 September 2015

“Fresh and exciting” said the Evening Standard. “Original, engaging and unexpectedly funny” declared The Telegraph. These aren’t exactly the most obvious reactions to an adaptation of a 170-year-old story, but… Read More

Stephen Tompkinson stars in Pig Farm

Published: 23 September 2015

Stephen Tompkinson will make his London stage return this autumn when he stars alongside Dan Fredenburgh, Erik Odom and Charlotte Parry in Greg Kotis’ comedy Pig Farm at the St… Read More

Dinner With Saddam

Published: 23 September 2015

What’s it all about? Imagine a sitcom set during the Iraq war; think My Iraqi Family or Men Behaving Baghdadly. There’s an incompetent father, sarcastic mother, strong-willed daughter, unsuitable boyfriend.… Read More

Exclusive: Wicked celebrates #ForGood

Published: 23 September 2015

Wicked, the enchanting Oz-set London musical, knows how to celebrate a birthday in the Dubsmash era; invite some friends over, whack on one of your favourite songs and lip sync… Read More

Sharon D Clarke joins Hackney panto

Published: 23 September 2015

Olivier Award winner Sharon D Clarke will return to the Hackney Empire this Christmas as she joins Clive Rowe, Debbie Kurup and Kat B in the venue’s annual pantomime Jack… Read More

Pink Mist descends on Bush

Published: 23 September 2015

Owen Sheers’ critically acclaimed poetic war drama Pink Mist will play at the Bush Theatre in January following its triumphant run at Bristol Old Vic this summer. Created as the… Read More

Stomp stages free schools’ performance

Published: 22 September 2015

West End percussion sensation Stomp will continue its 13th birthday celebrations next month by inviting hundreds of fellow 13-year-olds to enjoy the show for free. The Olivier Award-winning production, which… Read More

Mr Foote’s Other Leg

Published: 22 September 2015

What's it all about? The Mr Foote of the title is Samuel Foote, the 18th century performer and former Theatre Royal Haymarket manager who used the loss of his left… Read More

Glenn Close leads Sunset Boulevard

Published: 22 September 2015

Academy Award nominee Glenn Close will make her West End debut next April when she reprises her Tony Award-winning role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard. The US star will… Read More

A life in the theatre: Wardrobe Mistress

Published: 21 September 2015

In the next instalment of our new series that takes theatregoers behind the scenes to explore the lives of people working behind the scenes in the West End, we met… Read More

Dean Nolan is Baddies’ Big Bad Wolf

Published: 21 September 2015

Dean Nolan will lead the cast as the Big Bad Wolf in Baddies: The Musical when the fairytale world’s most fabled foes are brought to life at the Unicorn Theatre… Read More

Dench and McKellen host Standard Awards

Published: 21 September 2015

Theatre stalwarts Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen are to host the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards alongside the newspaper’s owner Evgeny Lebedev. The ceremony, staged this year in… Read More

La Soirée reveals winter line-up

Published: 21 September 2015

From bowler hat-wearing gents with a knack for spinning around lampposts to contortionists with unusual uses for a tennis racket, cabaret hit La Soirée’s alternative festive fun will return in… Read More

ENO appoints Cressida Pollock as CEO

Published: 21 September 2015

English National Opera has today announced two new appointments – Cressida Pollock and Dr Harry Brünjes – who take on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Chairman respectively. Pollock… Read More

In rehearsals: Measure For Measure

Published: 18 September 2015

We all know that Measure For Measure has its fair share of whorehouses, nunneries, betrothals and beheadings, but rarely has Shakespeare’s dark comedy featured a video camera. Until now, apparently,… Read More

YMT seeks aspiring young performers

Published: 18 September 2015

Youth Music Theatre is looking for aspiring performers and musicians aged 11 to 21-year-olds to star in a series of brand new musicals to be staged in London next summer.… Read More

Jane Eyre

Published: 18 September 2015

What’s it all about? This one's obvious, surely, it's Charlotte Brontë's classic story of a Victorian heroine. Hmm... Victorian heroines on stage... Sound familiar? Sally Cookson, the director behind the… Read More

Gemma Chan leads Lloyd’s Homecoming

Published: 18 September 2015

Humans star Gemma Chan will lead an all-star cast in Jamie Lloyd’s 50th anniversary staging of Harold Pinter’s seminal play The Homecoming at the Trafalgar Studios this autumn. Chan will… Read More

David Haig joins West End Guys And Dolls

Published: 18 September 2015

David Haig and Siubhan Harrison will join Sophie Thompson and Jamie Parker when Chichester Festival Theatre’s acclaimed production of Guys And Dolls transfers to London’s Savoy Theatre. Haig, the star… Read More

Rory Kinnear stars in new NT season

Published: 18 September 2015

Rory Kinnear will star in Simon Stephens’ new translation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera as part of Rufus Norris’s 2016 season at the National Theatre. Norris… Read More

War Horse to close in March

Published: 17 September 2015

War Horse’s much-loved equine star will make his final journey into battle on 12 March when the National Theatre’s critically acclaimed World War I-set production ends its run at the… Read More

F*ck The Polar Bears

Published: 17 September 2015

What’s it all about? The decision between taking a stand or wedging your head ever deeper into the sand in exchange for another mindless long shower, nine-hour flight or meat… Read More

First Look: Wicked’s new cast

Published: 17 September 2015

Next Monday is a big day for Wicked, the West End’s magical musical hit. It’s that time of year when the cast of enchanting performers receives an update. Without the… Read More

Lord Of The Dance makes West End return

Published: 17 September 2015

Irish dance will be back in London next month when Michael Flatley’s Lord Of The Dance: Dangerous Games returns to the Playhouse Theatre. The hit dance spectacular, which has rarely… Read More

Gypsy leads UK Theatre nominations

Published: 16 September 2015

Olivier Award-winning performer Imelda Staunton has earned a UK Theatre Award nomination for her universally acclaimed performance in Chichester Festival Theatre’s hugely successful West End transfer Gypsy. The hit-making regional… Read More

Steffan Rhodri joins Old Vic’s Hairy Ape

Published: 16 September 2015

Steffan Rhodri is among the performers set to join Olivier Award winner Bertie Carvel in The Old Vic’s forthcoming revival of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape. Richard Jones’ production, which… Read More

Video: Kinky Boots press night

Published: 16 September 2015

Kinky Boots, the hit musical, has finally arrived in London’s West End, complete with fabulous footwear, a cracking British cast and a feel-good factor that even the soggy start to… Read More

Kinky Boots

Published: 16 September 2015

What’s it all about? Not a particularly labyrinthine store of a popular chemist chain, but a bromantic tale of two men striving for acceptance. After Tony Award-winning success on Broadway,… Read More

Wallace Shawn joins NT’s Talk House

Published: 16 September 2015

Wallace Shawn will star in his own play Evening At The Talk House when the story of a reunion at an almost legendary club premieres at the National Theatre in… Read More

Lyric celebrates One Direction

Published: 15 September 2015

Dry those tears and take You Don’t Know You’re Beautiful off repeat; One Direction may be on an extended hiatus but the magic of the most popular boyband in history… Read More

Dogfight reunite for St James concert

Published: 15 September 2015

Following its hugely successful European premiere at the Southwark Playhouse, the company of Dogfight will reunite for a special one off concert at the St James Theatre next month. Benj… Read More

Playlist: American Idiot’s Amelia Lily

Published: 15 September 2015

On stage American Idiot’s Amelia Lily is all about rock. Good, old-fashioned, guitar-thrashing, angsty, political, angry rock. Playing Whatsername in the musical based on Green Day’s album of the same… Read More

Photograph 51

Published: 15 September 2015

What's it all about? A woman whose name isn't remembered as much as it should be. Rosalind Franklin took the X-ray image of a DNA molecule – Photograph 51 –… Read More

Pomona

Published: 15 September 2015

What’s it all about? This is the stuff nightmares are made of. A mysterious tale of twin sisters who disappear from the face of the earth, of brothels where both… Read More

In pictures: New Sunny Afternoon cast

Published: 14 September 2015

With four Olivier Awards to its name, including individual performance accolades for current leading men John Dagleish and George Maguire, it’s probably fair to say that forthcoming Sunny Afternoon cast… Read More

Creating Orpheus

Published: 14 September 2015

There’s commitment to a role and then there’s COMMITMENT TO A ROLE. Christian Bale might gain or shed a few pounds for a role. Jake Gyllenhaal might spend a couple… Read More

Monica Dolan leads Plaques & Tangles

Published: 14 September 2015

Monica Dolan will return to the Royal Court Theatre to take the lead role in Nicola Wilson’s venue debut Plaques And Tangles this October. The Wolf Hall actress will play… Read More

Hampstead revives Stoppard’s Hapgood

Published: 14 September 2015

Olivier Award winner Howard Davies will direct a revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1980s Cold War drama Hapgood at the Hampstead Theatre this winter. Davies will return to the North London… Read More

Brokeback Mountain comes to the stage

Published: 11 September 2015

Brokeback Mountain, the short story that inspired an Oscar-winning film, is to be adapted for the stage and is due to receive its world premiere in London next year. Producer… Read More

Peppa Pig spends Christmas in London

Published: 11 September 2015

Peppa Pig Live will return for its sixth consecutive Christmas season in London’s West End this year, when Peppa Pig’s Surprise plays at the Duke of York’s Theatre. The brand… Read More

Goodnight Mister Tom returns for Xmas

Published: 11 September 2015

David Wood’s Olivier Award-winning adaptation of Goodnight Mister Tom is to return to London’s West End, playing a Christmas season at the Duke of York’s Theatre. The stage version of… Read More

Charlie to stage relaxed performance

Published: 11 September 2015

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory is the latest London musical to stage a relaxed performance. The extra special sweet-filled show will play on 19 January 2016. In doing so, the… Read More

Branagh plays to hit cinema screens

Published: 11 September 2015

The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company productions of The Winter’s Tale, The Entertainer and Romeo And Juliet are the latest shows to join the screening revolution and be broadcast live to… Read More

A Day In The Life: Diana Vickers

Published: 10 September 2015

We always had a sneaky feeling Diana Vickers’ life would be pretty glamorous and by the looks of it, we were right. From doing interviews on set to applying her… Read More

NY’s Hand To God heads to London

Published: 10 September 2015

Robert Askins’ Tony Award nominated play Hand To God will transfer to the West End next February following its triumphant Broadway run. Described by one critic as the love child… Read More

Hampstead Downstairs hits transfer

Published: 9 September 2015

Hampstead Theatre will come to the West End this winter when two of its most recent successful studio hits, Four Minutes Twelve Seconds and The Wasp, transfer to Trafalgar Studio… Read More

In her words: Nicole Kidman

Published: 8 September 2015

Nicole Kidman has officially returned to London’s West End. The talk and expectation is over and the Hollywood star is treading the boards on a nightly basis in Photograph 51… Read More

The Play That continues to Go Wrong

Published: 8 September 2015

The Play That Goes  Wrong, which won the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, will continue to keep audiences laughing like hyenas on nitrous oxide in the West End… Read More

Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Apollo­­­­­­

Published: 8 September 2015

Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the hilarious pantomimic catastrophe from the team that created Olivier Award-winning comedy The Play That Goes Wrong, will bring tears of joy and laughter to London’s… Read More

Oresteia

Published: 8 September 2015

What’s it all about? This is a thousand year old story told in a very modern way. It’s a tale of a family caught in a bloody cycle of revenge.… Read More

Dusty

Published: 8 September 2015

What’s it all about? This is a musical named after a pop icon, so you know what you’re going to get with Dusty; it’s the theatrical equivalent of Ronseal. Here,… Read More

Bush Theatre reveals what’s on its RADAR

Published: 8 September 2015

The line-up for the Bush Theatre’s new writing festival, RADAR 2015, features 12 new pieces or works-in-progress, ranging from a tale of climate change to an exploration of an epic… Read More

Curious Incident extends to June

Published: 8 September 2015

The multi Olivier Award-winning The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time has extended its run at the Gielgud Theatre to 18 June 2016. The winner of seven Olivier… Read More

Exclusive: McQueen up close

Published: 7 September 2015

The work of a costume designer sometimes goes unsung. Certainly, you may well watch a production and notice the beauty of the clothing – the flow of a dress or… Read More

Graham Norton to host West End Bares

Published: 7 September 2015

West End Bares 2015 has just got more fabulous with the announcement that TV and radio host and West End star Graham Norton will host proceedings at the cheeky annual… Read More

Tamaryn Payne leads Park’s Dark Tourism

Published: 7 September 2015

Former Hollyoaks star Tamaryn Payne will lead the cast of new play Dark Tourism when it receives its world premiere at London’s Park Theatre this October. The biting satire of… Read More

Song From Far Away

Published: 7 September 2015

What’s it all about? Following the colossal success of his Mark Strong-led A View From The Bridge, Olivier Award-winning director Ivo van Hove has returned to the Young Vic with… Read More
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