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Published: 14 July 2015
Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet at the Barbican is without doubt one of the most eagerly anticipated Shakespearean shows in the history of London theatre. Well, in living memory at least. We… Read More
Janie Dee, Richard Fleeshman and Jamie Parker will lead the spectacular line-up of performers set to take to the Palace Theatre stage for Kings Of Broadway: Herman, Sondheim & Styne,… Read More
What’s it all about? Before you ask, no, Simon Baker hasn't cloned himself to create a duo of crime-solving psychics. That would be a different version of The Mentalists. The… Read More
Miss Saigon, Cameron Mackintosh’s legendary production, has extended its run at the Prince Edward Theatre until 27 February 2016, when it will close in the West End. The award-winning Boublil… Read More
Published: 13 July 2015
The Almeida Theatre’s forthcoming production of Bakkhai may feature just three actors and a chorus but, judging by images from the rehearsal room, they come with a lot of baggage.… Read More
Park Theatre productions of Crossing Jerusalem and Lady Anna: All At Sea have announced a full complement of cast members. Crossing Jerusalem, which runs in the Park 90 from 4… Read More
Olivier Award-winning actor Roger Rees died at his Manhattan home on Friday following a fight against cancer. He was 71. The performer, who last appeared in the West End in… Read More
Sanjeev Bhaskar will lead the cast of Anthony Horowitz’s new play Dinner With Saddam when it receives its world premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory in September. The play, which… Read More
Published: 10 July 2015
It may well be cricket season – and an Ashes summer at that – but you don’t often see the willow wafted at Shakespeare’s Globe. There’d be too much danger… Read More
Bertie Carvel will lead the cast of The Old Vic’s The Hairy Ape when Eugene O’Neill’s expressionist masterpiece opens at the historic London theatre this October. Carvel, who has been… Read More
Will Attenborough, Edward Bennett and Patrick Kennedy will pitch their scientific knowledge against Nicole Kidman when they join the Hollywood star in the UK premiere of Photograph 51 at London’s… Read More
English National Opera’s Artistic Director John Berry is to step down and leave the leading opera company after 20 years. Berry, who joined the London Coliseum-based company in 1995 as… Read More
Olivier Award winners Zoë Wanamaker and John Dagleish are the latest stars to join the line-up of Kenneth Branagh’s highly anticipated West End season of plays at the Garrick Theatre.… Read More
Published: 9 July 2015
The Gruffalo is a misunderstood beast. Yes, he may have turned-out toes and a very scary poisonous wart on the end of his nose but did you know he quite… Read More
Sunny Afternoon, the Olivier Award-winning musical tale of hit British band The Kinks, has extended its run at the Harold Pinter Theatre. The show is now booking to 16 April… Read More
What’s it all about? The invisible. These are people, not undetectable superheroes. Why are they invisible? Because the government’s cuts to legal aid mean that they cannot afford to be… Read More
David Suchet as The Importance Of Being Earnest’s Lady Bracknell; has any phrase ever conjured up so delicious an image in your mind? A man most famed for his pencil… Read More
What’s it all about? Tino McGoldrick has lived a life. Alone on a sparse stage, this enigmatic Irish son and brother – part street performer, part silent film start, part… Read More
Tony Award-winning musical In The Heights has confirmed it will return to London this autumn, playing a limited four-week season at the King’s Cross Theatre. The Manhattan-set tale, which had… Read More
Published: 8 July 2015
Carrie Hope Fletcher has more than half a million subscribers on YouTube, she writes her own songs and her first book, All I Know, was published earlier this year. She’s… Read More
What’s it all about? This is a powerful revival of Caryl Churchill’s masterpiece on the ethics of pushing the boundaries in genetic science. Sound heavy? Only in the best way.… Read More
Sir Bruce Forsythe will return to the London Palladium stage to host An Evening With Liza Minnelli later this summer. The former Strictly Come Dancing host, one of Britain’s favourite… Read More
Published: 7 July 2015
To celebrate a decade of acclaimed theatre, the much-loved Unicorn Theatre is searching for 10-year-olds who share its birthday to join them for a red carpet anniversary celebration. Epitomising its… Read More
In a rehearsal room used by the Donmar Warehouse, four performers await the return of the director… Okay, so that may or may not be what’s happening in Johan Persson’s… Read More
Jersey Boys are veterans of West End LIVE. The weekend of free musical theatre fun just would not be the same without those red jacket-sporting, like-a-man-walking, big-girls-don’t-crying, oh-what-a-nighting quartet of… Read More
While there are only two weeks until school’s out for summer, EduStage is encouraging budding musical theatre performers to swap classrooms for the rehearsal room and brush up their acting,… Read More
The Tiger Who Came To Tea will return to London’s Lyric Theatre this Christmas when Judith Kerr’s much-loved ravenous feline will wreak another round of teatime havoc in David Wood’s… Read More
Ricardo Chavira in The Motherf**ker With The Hat is unrecognisable. The US star making an impression at the National Theatre was, between 2004 and 2012, one of the stars of… Read More
Published: 6 July 2015
Don’t wanna be an American Idiot? No, neither do I. Not that I have anything against Americans – let me make that absolutely clear from the get go – but… Read More
Doctor Who’s Arthur Darvill will compose the music for a new page to stage adaptation of Jon Klassen’s much-loved children’s book I Want My Hat Back at the National Theatre… Read More
Rosalie Craig, Charles Edwards, Mark Gatiss, Mark Benton and Paul Chahidi have joined the line-up of stars set to take to the National Theatre’s stages this autumn. As previously rumoured,… Read More
The hugely successful family hit The Railway Children has extended its London stage journey until 3 January 2016, adding an extra four months to its run. Following Mike Kenny’s immersive… Read More
Booking is now open for the 10th TheatreCraft, as the behind the scenes theatrical careers fair prepares to return to the Royal Opera House to celebrate a decade of the… Read More
Published: 3 July 2015
What’s it all about? Everyone’s favourite purple-prickled, brown-furred, black-tongued, wart-nosed creature. But there’s no such thing as a Gruffalo, right? Well, who would I be to confirm or deny such… Read More
What’s it all about? Anyone who doesn’t know Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird should immediately hotfoot to their nearest Waterstone’s and pick up a copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning… Read More
Stiles & Drewe’s acclaimed musical adaptation of Peter Pan will soar into the West End for one day only this autumn as the Adelphi Theatre hosts two concert performances of… Read More
Families can once again delight in the incredible array of entertainment on offer as part of the Family Arts Festival, as the hugely popular initiative returns for a third year… Read More
Nat Sweeney will become the 41st young performer to take on the iconic role of Billy Elliot when he takes to the Victoria Palace Theatre stage tonight as he joins… Read More
Rufus Hound will join the previously announced Joely Richardson, Robert Sheehan and Kåre Conradi in the Rose Theatre Kingston’s autumn production of Shakespearean trilogy The Wars Of The Roses. Playing… Read More
West End magic show Impossible is on the search for children with a penchant for magic to take a starring role in the production when it premieres at the Noël… Read More
It’s all change for the Olivier Award-winning hit comedy The Play That Goes Wrong as a brand new cast gets set to have West End audiences in stitches from 19… Read More
Gugu Mbatha-Raw will play the title role in Jessica Swale’s Nell Gwynn when the tale of an unlikely heroine’s rise to fame during the 17th century premieres at Shakespeare’s Globe… Read More
Published: 2 July 2015
What’s it all about? I know it sounds like a 1960s beat combo, but this is actually a musical tale of World War I, looking at the conflict’s countrywide impact… Read More
What’s it all about? Not one of the Bard’s best known plays and renowned predominantly for its questionable morals, Measure For Measure tells the story of the Duke of Vienna… Read More
Yesterday was hot. So hot. Hotter than Tony Manero’s pants at the height of disco season. Hotter than the Phantom’s lair when he’s having a crazy candle day. Hot enough… Read More
What’s it all about? Come on, don’t pull that one, you know the deal. This is the legendary Oscar Wilde’s best loved comedy and Adrian Noble has delivered here a… Read More
Published: 1 July 2015
Olivier Award nominated sound design duo Ben and Max Ringham will be breaking boundaries and asking audiences to switch their phones on for theatre this summer with the premiere of… Read More
What do singer/songwriter Conor Maynard, comedian Russell Kane and former Pussycat Doll Kimberley Wyatt have in common? They were all pictured at the 2015 media night for The Curious Incident… Read More
James Macdonald’s acclaimed production of The Father, starring Kenneth Cranham and Claire Skinner, will bring its dark comic tale to the West End this autumn when it transfers to London’s… Read More
The Young Vic has added new productions of August Strindberg’s Creditors and Barrie Keeffe’s Barbarians to its autumn season. Both will run in the London venue’s Clare studio, directed by… Read More
Published: 30 June 2015
Is it too late to start a career as a performer? What kind of training should I do to prevent injury? How do I deal with rejection? Questions I ask… Read More
Actor Jack Gleeson, best known for playing Game Of Thrones’ tyrant teenage monarch Joffrey Baratheon, will star alongside puppet bears at Soho Theatre this summer. The star of the HBO… Read More
Published: 29 June 2015
Six aspiring young wordsmiths aged between five and 25-years-old have been crowned the winners of the fifth annual Wicked Young Writers’ Award. The triumphant writers – six-year-old Harry Sample, 10-year-old… Read More
The forthcoming West End transfer of Tony Award-winning hit Kinky Boots will strut its stuff for longer after the show announced it has extended its booking period until 6 February.… Read More
Tomcat, a new drama by James Rushbrooke exploring the ethics of genetic screening, mental illness and abortion, has won the Papatango New Writing Prize and will be staged at Southwark… Read More
Published: 26 June 2015
A cast of 350 children think they’re gonna like it on the London stage after being chosen to star in Annie Jr., a new all-children’s version of Tony Award-winning musical… Read More
A Bounty of sweet-toothed theatregoers came out in force last night as they made their (Milky) Way to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane to be (Turkish) Delighted by Sam Mendes’… Read More
Thriller Live fans have reason to Smile today after the hit Michael Jackson tribute concert announced it will be making some exciting new musical additions to the much-loved show. Thankfully… Read More
Trevor Nunn will direct Joely Richardson in the first major revival of Shakespeare-inspired trilogy The Wars Of The Roses at the Rose Theatre Kingston this autumn. John Barton and Peter… Read More
Witches and wizards will board their Nimbus 2000s and head to London’s Palace Theatre next summer, when Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, a new play based on an original… Read More
Published: 25 June 2015
What’s it all about? This is the Chekhov classic so, naturally, we have art and its role in life, love, almost all of which is unrequited, plenty of existential crises,… Read More
Jamie Campbell Bower, Lauren Samuels and Natalie Dew; if I was straining for a Bend It Like Beckham The Musical football-based analogy, I’d refer to them as the perfect hat-trick… Read More
Nineteen drama students have plenty of reason to celebrate today after being awarded almost £73,000 between them as part of the Laurence Olivier Bursaries scheme. The annual scheme, which is… Read More
What’s it all about? Parents and their children, shifting cultural rules, the rolling season of generational change and taking charge of your own destiny. Oh, you thought it was about… Read More
Published: 24 June 2015
The Lyric Hammersmith has announced a whole season of children’s shows, including adaptations of fairytale classics Pinocchio, Peter Pan and Goldilocks And The Three Bears, which will open at the… Read More
Stephen Merchant is firmly stepping out of the shadow of Ricky Gervais. Well, let’s be honest, he’s never been in his Extras co-star’s shadow as such. His rather more lofty… Read More
West End leading lady Julie Atherton, X Factor finalist and Blood Brothers star Niki Evans, and singer/songwriter Laura Mvula will all perform as part of a concert to be staged… Read More
What’s it all about? This is Verdi's epic tragedy like you've never seen it before, or have you? A lot of you might have. So popular is OperaUpClose's condensed English… Read More
Carrie Hope Fletcher and Rachelle Ann Go; two performers who, when their names are placed too close together on Twitter, could cause the microblogging site to explode like a glittery,… Read More
Elf the musical… in June. Some may call it premature festive craziness, but we loved having Ben Forster and Kimberley Walsh, stars of the seasonal treat, at West End LIVE.… Read More
Eva Noblezada already feels like a West End veteran, yet it was only last summer that the young American actress, discovered at a US schools’ concert, was making her London… Read More
Published: 23 June 2015
Memphis The Musical fans received a treat like no other this weekend. Well, the ones that came to both days of West End LIVE did, anyway. Not only did they… Read More
As new World War I musical The Dreamers prepares to come to the St James Theatre, its creators Gina Georgio and James Beeny share the tale of its journey to… Read More
What’s it all about? They f**k you up, your mum and dad. So said Philip Larkin and Rebecca Gilman, the playwright of this compelling, often harrowing look into the social… Read More
Andrew Dunn is on track to take over the role of Mr Perks in Mike Kenny’s Olivier Award-winning adaptation of The Railway Children from tomorrow. It’s full steam ahead for… Read More