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Riding and Xavier lead Pajama transfer

Published: 16 December 2013

Chichester Festival Theatre’s hit musical The Pajama Game will transfer to the West End next May, with Stephen Ward star Joanna Riding set to reprise her role alongside new cast… Read More

Peter O’Toole dies

Published: 16 December 2013

Irish actor Peter O’Toole, who was renowned for his appearances on stage and screen, has died at the age of 81. He died peacefully at London’s Wellington Hospital on Saturday… Read More

Colquhoun and Layden lead Believers premiere

Published: 13 December 2013

Christopher Colquhoun, Penny Layden, Richard Mylan and Eileen Walsh will star in the world premiere of Bryony Lavery’s new play The Believers, staged by Frantic Assembly, which plays at the… Read More

Hampstead theatre stages Kinks musical

Published: 13 December 2013

The tunes of hit 60s band The Kinks will come to the Hampstead theatre next spring when it stages the world premiere of new musical Sunny Afternoon. The show, which… Read More

I Can’t Sing reveals judges trailer

Published: 13 December 2013

As The X Factor builds towards its phone line-melting conclusion this weekend, I Can’t Sing – The X Factor Musical has unveiled a new trailer featuring its own judges. In… Read More

Richard II at the Barbican theatre

Published: 13 December 2013

It is at least two hours into Gregory Doran’s production before you get used to the hair. A cross-between Florence Welch and Jesus, this is David Tennant as you’ve never… Read More

American Psycho

Published: 13 December 2013

When it was first announced, American Psycho seemed musical theatre’s most unlikely source material, except maybe that of the National Theatre’s London Road, set in the aftermath of a spate… Read More

Reeves and Webb sign Mistress Contract

Published: 13 December 2013

Saskia Reeves and Danny Webb will star in the world premiere of Abi Morgan’s The Mistress Contract when it opens at the Royal Court in the new year. The production,… Read More

Dwan’s Beckett trilogy transfers to Duchess

Published: 13 December 2013

Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby, the trilogy of short plays written by Samuel Beckett that Lisa Dwan will perform at the Royal Court in January, will transfer to the West End’s Duchess theatre… Read More

Bond joins Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Published: 13 December 2013

Samantha Bond will make her West End musical theatre debut alongside Olivier Award winner Robert Lindsay when she takes to the stage in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels next year. The production,… Read More

Cast returns for Red Velvet

Published: 12 December 2013

Adrian Lester and the majority of the cast of hit Tricycle theatre show Red Velvet will return when the production is revived at the Kilburn venue early next year. The… Read More

Could you be an Olivier Awards judge?

Published: 12 December 2013

The Olivier Awards with MasterCard, the most prestigious theatrical prizes in the UK, is searching for public panellists to watch a year’s theatre for free and help choose the theatremakers… Read More

ENO joins cinema revolution

Published: 12 December 2013

English National Opera (ENO) has become the latest London arts company to announce it will take its productions to the big screen worldwide. David Alden’s production of Benjamin Britten’s Peter… Read More

The Mousetrap Interviews: The Ralstons

Published: 12 December 2013

It should be a time of great excitement, the launch of a new business and the festive season on the horizon, yet something doesn’t feel quite right with the owners… Read More

Who’s Behind You? with Potted Panto

Published: 11 December 2013

Men dressed as women, women dressed as boys, anyone dressed as a cow, sweet tossing, happy endings and more double entendres than you can shake a Dick Whittington at; it’s… Read More

History Boys crowned nation’s favourite play

Published: 11 December 2013

Alan Bennett’s Olivier Award-winning comedy about a group of pupils preparing to take Oxbridge entrance examinations is the UK’s most popular play according to a survey carried out by English… Read More

Godspell returns for Make-A-Wish Foundation

Published: 11 December 2013

Stephen Schwarz’s hit biblical musical Godspell is to return to the London stage for one night only when a special concert version is staged next May in aid of the… Read More

Eric And Little Ern extends Christmas season

Published: 11 December 2013

Like pets, Morecambe And Wise are not just for Christmas, a fact proven by the popularity of Eric And Little Ern, which has extended its London stage run into the… Read More

The Duck House

Published: 11 December 2013

Some people have good weeks. Some people have bad weeks. Ben Miller has the worst weeks ever if the characters he plays are anything to go by. Suffering a day… Read More

Drawing The Line

Published: 10 December 2013

The work of Olivier Award-winning director Howard Davies and acclaimed playwright Howard Brenton is back at the Hampstead theatre this winter with a new historical epic that once again condenses… Read More

Stage One launches new producers’ season

Published: 10 December 2013

Stage One, the charity that provides help, support and investment to new theatre producers, will give these dramatic entrepreneurs a new chance and challenge with the One Stage season that… Read More

Get Into London Theatre launches

Published: 10 December 2013

Booking is now open for Get Into London Theatre 2013, our annual promotion offering reduced price tickets to a wealth of London’s most popular shows. From long-running West End hits… Read More

Tobin becomes 36th Billy Elliot

Published: 10 December 2013

Mitchell Tobin has become the latest young actor to take on the iconic role of Billy Elliot in the hit West End musical of the same name after taking to… Read More

Q&A: Richard McCabe

Published: 9 December 2013

“I wasn’t expecting to feel so emotional, that’s the odd thing. It’s just a bit shocking really.” As Olivier Award reactions go, Richard McCabe’s endearingly bemused response as we interviewed… Read More

Wallace and Kemp Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be

Published: 9 December 2013

Olivier Award winner Terry Johnson will direct EastEnders’ Jessie Wallace and Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp in a new adaptation of musical comedy Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be when it… Read More

From Morning To Midnight

Published: 9 December 2013

From Morning To Midnight is a big show, in ambition, in ideas and in staging. You might even call it experiential, such is the impact of director Melly Still’s production,… Read More

Judges chosen for X Factor Musical

Published: 6 December 2013

I Can’t Sing - The X Factor musical, has found the judges who will sit alongside Nigel Harman’s high-trousered Simon when the show opens at the London Palladium next year.… Read More

The Night Before Christmas

Published: 6 December 2013

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the warehouse, A creature was stirring, it was a sad elf.A man left his home with pyjamas to wear,In hopes that some… Read More

Musicals lead WhatsOnStage race

Published: 6 December 2013

New British musicals Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and The Light Princess lead the way in this year’s WhatsOnStage Awards, with six nominations each. In what has been a bumper… Read More

Let The Right One In

Published: 6 December 2013

There are films that feel as if they could jump off the screen and on to the stage. Swedish cult horror Let The Right One In is not one of… Read More

Bodyguard extends (Queen Of The) Knight

Published: 6 December 2013

Beverley Knight will remain the West End’s Baby Tonight for many more nights to come with the news her that run as The Bodyguard’s leading lady Rachel Marron has extended… Read More

Elliott joins Urinetown cast

Published: 6 December 2013

Marc Elliott will join the previously announced Richard Fleeshman, Jenna Russell and Jonathan Slinger in Jamie Lloyd’s forthcoming production of Urinetown The Musical at the St James theatre. The EastEnders… Read More

Emil And The Detectives

Published: 5 December 2013

The National Theatre has big shoes to fill when presenting a new family production. The huge success of War Horse and His Dark Materials must make the prospect a daunting… Read More

King crowned winner of NT Playwright Award

Published: 5 December 2013

Playwright Dawn King, whose new play Ciphers is set to open at the Bush theatre in the new year, has been awarded the Royal National Theatre Foundation Playwright Award for… Read More

Exclusive: The Mousetrap Interviews

Published: 5 December 2013

Not since the misfit gang in Cluedo first set foot in the board game’s famously deathly house has such a shifty line-up of characters come together in one eerie, remotely… Read More

Introducing… Charlotte Spencer

Published: 4 December 2013

If it is daunting for a performer to play a character from the realms of reality on stage, imagine how much more daunting it must be when, through time, imagination… Read More

Foley heads Around The World

Published: 4 December 2013

Former Olivier Award nominee Sean Foley will direct a brand new version of Jules Verne’s family favourite Around The World In Eighty Days next summer. Described as a “multi-media marvel”,… Read More

Henry V at the Noël Coward theatre

Published: 4 December 2013

It is hard to believe that it was almost 18 months ago that Michael Grandage announced his star-studded West End season, which since December last year has brought us critically… Read More

Globe announces 2014 season

Published: 4 December 2013

The old will collide with the new for Shakespeare’s Globe’s 2014 season, which will feature four Shakespeare productions alongside a quartet of new plays by writers including Richard Bean and… Read More

Snail And Whale holds gala performance

Published: 3 December 2013

Tall Stories’ adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s popular picture book The Snail And The Whale will hold a special gala performance in aid of military organisation Storybook Soldiers… Read More

Dickens Abridged

Published: 3 December 2013

With more wit than Martin Chuzzle, the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s Adam Long has worked his minimising magic on another great writer. The start of Dickens Abridged would have us believe… Read More

Military Wives perform with Eternity

Published: 2 December 2013

The Military Wives Choir will join the cast of From Here To Eternity to perform a special curtain call rendition of Boys Of ’41 on 7 December to mark the… Read More

Q&A: Christmas In New York’s Eden Espinosa

Published: 2 December 2013

Across London small children – and adults who need a cheeky excuse to start their day with a chocolate fix – have started opening the doors of their advent calendars,… Read More

Fielding joins Fox in Hampstead’s Rapture

Published: 2 December 2013

Two-time Olivier Award nominee Emma Fielding will join Emilia Fox and a cast of London stage regulars in Hampstead theatre’s forthcoming drama Rapture, Blister, Burn. Dissecting gender politics and that… Read More

Father Christmas

Published: 2 December 2013

From the moment you enter the auditorium at the Lyric Hammersmith Studio you know you’re in for a festive treat courtesy of children’s author and chief Christmas cheer conjurer Raymond… Read More

Annis joins Versailles cast

Published: 2 December 2013

Francesca Annis will join the cast of Peter Gill’s self-directed play Versailles when it receives its world premiere at the Donmar Warehouse next year. The new play, which plays from… Read More

Gastronauts

Published: 29 November 2013

Ever fancied visiting a restaurant on a spaceship where nothing is what it seems and all comes with a side order of meaning and emotion? Welcome to Gastronauts. Cooked up… Read More

From now until April for Eternity

Published: 29 November 2013

New Tim Rice musical From Here To Eternity has announced it will close in April after a seven month run at the Shaftesbury theatre. The Pearl Harbor-set production, which features… Read More

Lansbury and Blakemore reunite for Blithe Spirit

Published: 29 November 2013

Angela Lansbury will return to the West End stage next year to star alongside Janie Dee and Charles Edwards in a revival of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud… Read More

Star-laden Mojo extends

Published: 29 November 2013

Hit play Mojo, which stars Harry Potter’s Rupert Grint, Merlin’s Colin Morgan, Downton Abbey’s Brendan Coyle and Skyfall’s Ben Whishaw, has extended its London run by two weeks. The dark… Read More

‘Tis the season to take your family to the theatre

Published: 28 November 2013

If there’s ever an excuse to take your little ones to the theatre it’s at Christmas, when you can escape the cold wintry weather in one of the capital’s iconic… Read More

In Conversation: Let The Right One In’s John Tiffany and Jack Thorne

Published: 28 November 2013

“The show’s really physically challenging,” John Tiffany tells me by way of explanation for the booming disco music reverberating throughout our interview. “They have to do warm ups, cardio and… Read More

Ende’s Momo tours London

Published: 28 November 2013

A new adaptation of Michael Ende’s musical fantasy adventure Momo will bring its unique tale of time thieves to three venues across the capital next year. Playing at Polka theatre,… Read More

Jumpers For Goalposts

Published: 28 November 2013

The Bush theatre’s auditorium may have been filled with the fumes of freshly applied paint last night but that was the only thing fresh about it, with a perfectly replicated… Read More

Once A Catholic

Published: 28 November 2013

Mary J O’Malley’s raucous comedy brings 1950s Willesden to the Kilburn High Road this Christmas, boasting characters with more comic presence than Father Christmas’ own personal joke shop. Taking place… Read More

Drowned Man extends into February

Published: 28 November 2013

Punchdrunk's immersive production The Drowned Man, which takes audiences into the world of Temple Studios, has announced it will continue its run until 23 February. Theatre journalists this morning received… Read More

In rehearsal: The El. Train

Published: 27 November 2013

While many of us are thinking of lurid lighting and brightly coloured wrapping paper, in Hoxton Ruth Wilson and co are heading to a darker place. Turn of the 20th… Read More

Southwark shares Superior Donuts

Published: 27 November 2013

Tracy Letts’ darkly comic and provocative drama Superior Donuts will receive its UK premiere at Southwark Playhouse next year. Brought to the stage by The Trick, the company formerly known… Read More

Mamma Mia! stages “wonderful” relaxed performance

Published: 27 November 2013

Catherine Johnson, writer of global musical theatre hit Mamma Mia!, described the ABBA-inspired show's first relaxed performance as a "wonderful evening" following the event held last night. "From the pre-show… Read More

Julie Madly Deeply

Published: 27 November 2013

Let's start at the very beginning. A very good place to start... Cabaret star Sarah-Louise Young loves Julie Andrews. She is a super fan, the type who embarks on The… Read More

In pictures: One Man feeling festive

Published: 26 November 2013

The fairy lights are twinkling and the scent of mulled wine is wafting through the streets. The cast of One Man, Two Guvnors needs no more excuse to pull their… Read More

Q&A: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland

Published: 25 November 2013

A Cheshire cat with a maniacal grin, an anxious rabbit with a pocket watch and enticingly labelled vials of magical potions that can shrink you to a tiny 10 inches… Read More

In rehearsal: Coriolanus

Published: 25 November 2013

Far from being a low key return to the London stage, Tom Hiddleston's leading role at the Donmar Warehouse is being awaited with breath as baited as a mousetrap in… Read More

Barking in Finsbury Park

Published: 25 November 2013

The Park theatre will stage its first annual pantomime this Christmas, bringing to life the story of Sleeping Beauty with the help of a cast including Hazel, the north London… Read More

St James reprises Tell Me On A Sunday

Published: 25 November 2013

Musical theatre star Marti Webb will return to the London stage next year to revive her classic performance in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s much-loved one-woman show Tell Me On A Sunday.… Read More

Full Duchess Of Malfi cast announced

Published: 25 November 2013

Full casting has been announced for The Duchess Of Malfi, the inaugural production at Shakespeare’s Globe’s new indoor theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, which will see Gemma Arterton return to… Read More

Teenager to make Saigon debut

Published: 25 November 2013

American teenager Eva Noblezada will make her professional theatre debut on the world's biggest stage, the West End, when she plays the role of Kim in the new production of… Read More

The Gruffalo

Published: 25 November 2013

A boy saw a show on the London stage, A fine adaptation that began on the page. "What show?" asked a friend, who wanted to know. "I went to see… Read More

West End beasts on the loose

Published: 22 November 2013

I’ve met some bizarre characters on the top deck of London’s iconic red buses in my time, but never any quite as terrifying as the one in the pictures above.… Read More

Careers fair draws bumper crowd

Published: 22 November 2013

Passionate theatremakers of the future came together at the Royal Opera House today as part of huge free theatrical careers fair TheatreCraft. More than 1,000 16 to 25 year olds… Read More

Stage Encounters for Henry and Suchet

Published: 22 November 2013

Lenny Henry and David Suchet will be the first two subjects of a new monthly interview series to be staged at the Lyric theatre. The comedian turned Shakespearean star and… Read More

IN THE NEXT ROOM or the vibrator play

Published: 22 November 2013

Not a day will go by between now and 4 January when the St James theatre’s Twitter feed won’t be populated with puns from audience members about Sarah Ruhl’s UK… Read More

Pythons return for O2 show

Published: 21 November 2013

Lumberjacks will sing, dead parrots will be returned and no-one will expect the Spanish Inquisition (probably) when comedy icons Monty Python reunite for a one-off live show at the 02… Read More

The 12 Days Of Christmas (Theatre)

Published: 21 November 2013

The countdown to Christmas has officially begun. Panic has broken out at the offices of Official London Theatre. While outside Covent Garden may be filled with twinkling lights and the… Read More

Miller announced as Orange Tree Artistic Director

Published: 21 November 2013

Paul Miller has been announced as the new Artistic Director of the Orange Tree theatre, succeeding the country’s longest-serving Artistic Director and venue founder Sam Walters. Miller, who is currently… Read More
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