Published: 8 September 2014
Olivier Award-winning actor Mark Rylance will return to the stage next year to star in the premiere of musician and playwright Claire van Kampen’s Farinelli And The King at the… Read More
Catherine Tate will make her Stephen Sondheim debut in Jamie Lloyd’s forthcoming production of Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory. The actress, best known for her hugely successful BBC comedy… Read More
Published: 5 September 2014
Screen star Helen Baxendale will return to the stage to lead forthcoming drama The Distance, Deborah Bruce’s exploration of parenthood that plays at the Orange Tree Theatre this autumn. Directed… Read More
What’s it all about? A pair of identical twins and their identical twin servants are cruelly separated as children by a freak storm at sea; this was a constant watery… Read More
Clare Cathcart, a regular on the London stage at venues including the National Theatre and Royal Court, has died aged 48. The tragic news was confirmed by the Call The… Read More
An incredible 27 former and current Billy Elliots will unite to perform a special one-off finale for the forthcoming live broadcast performance that will be screened to cinemas worldwide later… Read More
It may be the scariest show in the West End – though we’re sure The Woman In Black would have something to say about that – but that hasn’t scared… Read More
As the West End’s magical hit Wicked zooms on its hugely popular broomsticks into its 9th year, the show has announced it has extended its run to 7 November 2015.… Read More
Musical theatre icons Bonnie Langford and Gary Wilmot are to join Robert Lindsay, Rufus Hound and Katherine Kingsley in hit musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. From 16 September, the experienced pair… Read More
Former Coronation Street star Katherine Kelly will make her Donmar Warehouse debut later this year in much-anticipated musical City Of Angels. Kelly, who played Becky Granger in the long-running ITV… Read More
The Tony Award-winning Beautiful – The Carole King Musical will open in the West End next February following the autobiographical show’s huge success on Broadway. Featuring some of King’s most… Read More
Published: 4 September 2014
What’s it all about? Leading verbatim playwright Alecky Blythe took her dictaphone to the streets of Hackney during 2011’s summer riots and interviewed everyone from looting teenagers to terrified bystanders.… Read More
Ben Forster, who rose to fame by winning ITV casting show Superstar, will join Wet Wet Wet’s Marti Pellow and Argentine star Madalena Alberto in Evita when the musical opens… Read More
What’s it all about? A Brechtian-inspired metaphor on the battle between…. I kid, you know what this is about already; Michael Flatley is back with his world famous dance entertainment… Read More
‘Procreational comedy’, it’s hardly a familiar genre, but look up the word ‘procreational’ in the dictionary – well, online at least – and you’ll see it’s defined as ‘having the… Read More
Published: 3 September 2014
2014’s Kids Week was a record-breaking success with a staggering 176,000 tickets sold as part of the hugely popular kids go free ticket campaign. Now in its 17th year, our… Read More
Published: 2 September 2014
John Hannah will return to the London stage to play the title role in Anya Reiss’ new version of Chekhov’s masterpiece Uncle Vanya at the St James Theatre next month.… Read More
Cirque du Soleil will head to London next year with the return of its critically acclaimed big top theatrical production Kooza at the Royal Albert Hall. Described as “an adrenaline… Read More
Last month Kerry Ellis made her return to the hit musical Wicked more than five years since she had departed the production following critically acclaimed, much-loved performances in the role… Read More
Published: 1 September 2014
Matilda The Musical has announced BBC Radio 2’s Sir Terry Wogan will host a special gala performance of the hit family show this autumn in aid of BBC Children In… Read More
What would you do if your sister asked you to donate your sperm so that she could have a child with her lesbian partner? It may not be a question… Read More
Published: 29 August 2014
Acclaimed choreographer Arthur Pita will present his magical take on the classic story The Little Match Girl at Sadler’s Wells this Christmas. Playing from 13 December to 4 January, the… Read More
Over the last month, thousands of children have excitedly taken their seats in theatres across the capital to enjoy a show as part of the 17th annual Kids Week. But… Read More
West End stars Hadley Fraser and Caroline Sheen will come together in September to workshop a new musical by Stuart Matthew Price and Timothy Knapman, Before After. The pair, who… Read More
Director Jamie Lloyd has withdrawn from directing the highly anticipated forthcoming musical adaptation of Back To The Future. The Artistic Director of the Trafalgar Transformed season has left the project… Read More
Audiences will have the chance to watch Hollywood star Gemma Arterton in her musical debut for just £15 following the news that Made In Dagenham has released 15,000 tickets at… Read More
The Park Theatre’s revival of David Hare’s Vertical Hour has added Cameron Cuffe, Pepter Lunkuse and Finlay Robertson to a cast that already included Thusitha Jayasundera and Peter Davison. Cuffe,… Read More
Young performers eager to be The Lion King’s next Young Simba or Young Nala will have the opportunity to audition for the show’s Cub School at an open call on… Read More
The Woman In Black has extended its run at the Fortune Theatre, taking its more than a quarter of a century West End run to 25 July 2015. One of… Read More
George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was on hand at the Theatre Royal Brighton today to launch the government’s new theatre tax relief that comes into effect on 1… Read More
Once’s current Girl, Jill Winternitz will star alongside Ronan Keating when the pop star joins the cast of the hit West End musical in November. Winternitz, who took over from… Read More
Simon Paisley Day will reprise his role in Urinetown The Musical alongside Nathan Amzi and Matthew Seadon-Young when the production transfers to the Apollo Theatre next month. Sherlock and Being… Read More
Leading comedic performers Adrian Edmondson, Miles Jupp, Neil Morrissey and Robert Webb will star in a 20th anniversary West End production of Tim Firth’s classic comedy Neville’s Island this autumn.… Read More
Published: 28 August 2014
People are queuing around the block to get into Clarks, the Great British Bake-Off is down to just eight contestants – and one very controversial pedal bin… – and Stylist… Read More
Jake Canuso, James Dreyfuss, Matt Evers, Jill Halfpenny, Helen Lederer and Harriet Thorpe may not have a Cluedo what they’ve let themselves in for when they signed up as special… Read More
The 2013 Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of To Kill A Mockingbird is to be revived at the Barbican Theatre in the summer of 2015. The stage adaptation of… Read More
Published: 27 August 2014
Stephen Sondheim song cycle Marry Me A Little will return to the St James Studio this autumn following a successful run at the Victoria venue earlier this summer. The production,… Read More
The crises of family life are at the heart of the trio of plays presented in the Hampstead Theatre’s Downstairs space this autumn/winter. James Fritz’s Four Minutes Twelve Seconds, which… Read More
Terry Deary and Neal Foster’s hit family treat Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain Part Two! will return to the Garrick Theatre this Christmas following its current summer residency at the West… Read More
Published: 26 August 2014
As the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge floods social media with hordes of shivering fundraisers donating to Motor Neurone Disease charities, the West End’s finest have got in on the chilly… Read More
Following a UK tour and run at the St James Theatre, The Trials Of Oscar Wilde will transfer to the West End for a strictly limited four week season at… Read More
Jamie Lloyd will direct Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Tony Award-winning musical Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory this winter. The latest Sondheim offering from the London Bridge venue –… Read More
Legendary screen actor Richard Attenborough had died at the age of 90. The hugely respected performer, writer and director passed away on 24 August. Born in 1923 in Cambridge, Attenborough… Read More
Published: 22 August 2014
We’re two-thirds through Kids Week and thousands of children have been flooding through Theatreland’s doors to enjoy a theatrical treat as part of our Kids Go Free campaign. Running alongside… Read More
Aliens Love Underpants. We all know that. Well, those of us with toddlers do anyway. But why? What is it about undercrackers that make them irresistible? And which are the… Read More
Most shows, unlike vampires, do not live forever. The Mousetrap is an exception to the rule. The final curtain is set to fall on West End vampire tale Let The… Read More
As Michael Flatley prepares to jig his way back onto the London stage early next month, the Lord Of The Dance: Dangerous Games cast, including former Girls Aloud singer Nadine… Read More
Shakespeare In Love, the stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning film, has proved so popular with London theatre audiences that it will extend its run at the Noël Coward Theatre until… Read More
Game Of Thrones star Harry Lloyd will return to the London stage this autumn when he stars in the transfer of Dostoyevsky’s Notes From Underground at the Print Room. The… Read More
Published: 21 August 2014
The Almeida Theatre has announced the full cast that will join award-winning US actor and director David Cromer in the transfer of his New York hit production of Our Town.… Read More
Charity Wakefield, Bryan Dick, Rebecca Grant and Oliver Hembrough will play four aspiring writers mentored by Roger Allam’s cantankerous Leonard in the Hampstead Theatre production of Seminar this autumn. The… Read More
An influx of head-wobbling, Liverpudlian-accented musicians who want to hold your hand and twist and shout are expected at the Garrick Theatre on 3 September, as hit Beatles show Let… Read More
Published: 20 August 2014
The world premiere of renowned theatre company Oily Cart’s latest children’s show, There Was An Old Woman, will play as part of the Southbank Centre’s packed autumn/winter family season. The… Read More
Published: 19 August 2014
Miss Saigon will celebrate its 25th birthday next month with a special gala performance in which cast members from the original production will reunite to join the West End’s current… Read More
Jane Horrocks and Ayub Khan Din’s on stage East Is East family for the forthcoming revival of Din’s award-winning comedy at the Trafalgar Studios has been announced. Amit Shah, Nathan… Read More
Published: 15 August 2014
Stephen Macdonald’s Not About Heroes, a World War I drama charting the friendship of two of the greatest war poets, will end its forthcoming UK tour with an autumn run… Read More
Cynthia Erivo will join Harriet Walter in Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female production of Henry IV when it opens at the Donmar Warehouse this autumn. The actress, who joins other previously announced… Read More
Published: 14 August 2014
“Nothing he writes is ever not funny”, Max Stafford-Clark says of Richard Bean in Shakespeare’s Globe’s recent video in which the writer and director talk about the upcoming London premiere… Read More
Published: 13 August 2014
The St James Theatre is soon to welcome through its doors everything from a new comedy about lesbians trying for a baby to revivals of a Chekhov classic and Emlyn… Read More
The West Wing’s Richard Schiff will star alongside London stage veteran actor Nigel Lindsay in autumn’s much-anticipated Speed-The-Plow in which Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan will make her stage debut. The… Read More
Published: 12 August 2014
The Royal Court will stage a new play written by Palestinian writer Dalia Taha and inspired by recent events at the Sloane Square venue next year. The piece, entitled Fireworks… Read More
Published: 11 August 2014
Southwark Playhouse will present the epic story of a brave rabbit samurai warrior this Christmas, with the world premiere of a family adaptation of Stan Sakai’s iconic comic book series… Read More
If you live in London, you can’t turn a corner without seeing Lucy Briggs-Owen and Tom Bateman adorning the side of a bus or staring out at you wistfully from… Read More
Calvin Demba will return to the Royal Court next month to star alongside Anna Chancellor in Rory Mullarkey’s The Wolf From The Door. The production, which is directed by James… Read More
Lucy Punch will lead the cast of Great Britain when the hit National Theatre production transfers to the West End next month. The Bad Teacher star replaces Billie Piper as… Read More
Published: 8 August 2014
Families will be reacquainted with Julia Donaldson’s kind-hearted witch, disgruntled cat and their decreasingly spacious broomstick this Christmas as the Lyric Theatre makes room for the West End return of… Read More
Hit Oz-based musical Wicked has become the 14th longest-running musical in West End history after surpassing the run of Me And My Girl. The 1985 production of Noel Gay’s classic… Read More
Stewart Clarke, Zoë Rainey and Laura Pitt-Pulford will star in a new musical adaptation of The Return Of The Soldier when it receives its world premiere at the Jermyn Street… Read More
Hetty Feather is yet to officially set foot on the Vaudeville Theatre’s stage when I meet with author Jacqueline Wilson and adaptor Emma Reeves to talk about the feisty Victorian… Read More
Published: 7 August 2014
What’s it all about? Jacqueline Wilson’s Victorian heroine, of course. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Hetty Feather, she’s a feisty fearless foundling who is taken into foster… Read More
Published: 5 August 2014
Bad Education’s Kae Alexander, Sunshine On Leith’s Kevin Guthrie and London Irish’s Kerr Logan will star in the Royal Court’s hacking drama Teh Internet Is Serious Business. The trio is… Read More
There aren’t many occasions when you find yourself in the company of underwear-clad aliens, a Hawaiian shirt-sporting ghost elephant and some of Britain’s best-loved children’s authors, but that was the… Read More
Roger Allam is to return to the Hampstead Theatre this autumn when he stars as former novelist turned teacher Leonard in Theresa Rebeck’s comedy Seminar. In taking on the role… Read More
Published: 4 August 2014
Actors Isla Blair and David Cardy will join Gemma Arterton in the musical stage adaptation of hit film Made In Dagenham. The production opens at the Adelphi Theatre in November.… Read More
Published: 30 July 2014
Miss Saigon’s Rachelle Ann Go and Hugh Maynard, Mamma Mia!’s Dianne Pilkington and Olivier Award nominee Summer Strallen are among the stars who will perform in a cabaret to raise… Read More