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Published: 23 August 2013
With its first preview just two weeks away, photographer Alastair Muir took a peek inside rehearsals for Barking In Essex to give us the first glimpse of Essex’s most dysfunctional… Read More
Published: 22 August 2013
Following this summer’s announcement that Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s legendary musical Miss Saigon would return to the West End in its 25th anniversary year, dates have been announced for… Read More
When Jessica Swale made her directorial debut at Shakespeare's Globe in 2010, it was as the director of Nell Leyshon's story of 18th century asylum life Bedlam, the first play… Read More
Published: 21 August 2013
Nigel Lindsay will make his Royal Shakespeare Company debut this autumn when he plays the usurping Henry Bolingbroke opposite David Tennant in Richard II. The actor, who can currently be… Read More
Olivier Award nominated writer and performer Caroline Horton will return to the Bush theatre later this year to present her new play Mess. Playing at the west London venue on… Read More
As many of its cast members prepare to rock out until April 2014 following the show’s extension, hit West End musical We Will Rock You welcomes Amanda Coutts back to… Read More
Workers in and around Victoria wondering what to do during their lunch breaks next month need not look any further, as the St James theatre welcomes the return of lunchtime… Read More
Published: 20 August 2013
The Park theatre’s Artistic Director Jez Bond has today announced the north London venue’s second season, which sees Tim Pigott-Smith star in the world premiere of a new play by… Read More
Former Monty Python star Michael Palin will virtually join the cast of hit London musical Spamalot when he plays God for one week between 26 and 31 August. Palin's pre-recorded… Read More
Theatregoers have just six months to nervously wait before terror and supernatural happenings are unleashed in the West End with the return of Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s hit production… Read More
West End regular Killian Donnelly is to lead a cast packed with fresh talent when The Commitments opens in London this autumn. Donnelly, who has appeared in London productions including… Read More
For 16 years, thanks to Kids Week, children have been coming to the West End to experience the excitement of London theatre for free. Not only that, the annual promotion,… Read More
You might not get the full effect of experiencing the same battlefield conditions as the performers bringing Shakespeare's Globe's trio of Henry VI plays to Monken Hadley Common, but audiences… Read More
Published: 19 August 2013
Former Hollyoaks star Calvin Demba is to take his first major stage role, playing Kola in Rachel De-lahay's new Royal Court drama Routes. Demba, also a regular in hit E4… Read More
As musical theatre fans eagerly await the premiere of Stephen Ward, Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical about the Profumo affair, a second musical based on the same political scandal is… Read More
Published: 16 August 2013
Former EastEnder Gillian Wright, best known for playing Jean Slater in the long-running BBC soap opera, will lead the cast performing a quintet of short Steven Berkoff plays at the… Read More
Already a hit at the Almeida theatre, Chimerica arrives in the West End on the back of much acclaim and fanfare. It deserves that for its ambition alone. That it… Read More
Published: 15 August 2013
There are worse things you could do on a balmy summer's evening than sit in a courtyard chatting with actors Harry Hadden-Paton and Al Weaver. They've spent the day rehearsing… Read More
She’s already picked up an Olivier Award nomination and two major awards during A Doll’s House’s runs at the Young Vic, but now Hattie Morahan is back, bringing her powerful… Read More
Michael Xavier and Charlotte Wakefield will bring The Sound Of Music to the Regent’s Park Open Air theatre for an additional week, after the hit production has announced that it… Read More
Published: 14 August 2013
As Gloria Onitiri steps into the glamorous shoes vacated by Olivier Award nominee Heather Headley in The Bodyguard last weekend, a new video of Beverley Knight preparing to take over… Read More
Are the rehearsals for From Here To Eternity the most gruelling in the West End? This video might lead us to believe so. At the start of the summer we… Read More
There was a moment during last night’s press night of the revival of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride when a woman in the audience involuntarily let out a loud shriek… Read More
Published: 13 August 2013
The musical is set on the turbulent streets of New York, but last week cast members from West Side Story took to the streets of London to showcase some of… Read More
The autumn 2013 Access London Theatre brochure is out now, offering the choice of more than 145 assisted performances taking place across the capital between September and December. Listing captioned,… Read More
When Scarabeus Aerial Theatre announced it was collaborating with the Little Angel theatre on its first ever show for young children, we were more than a smidgeon excited to see… Read More
Denton Chikura’s debut play The Epic Adventure Of Nhamo The Manyika Warrior And His Sexy Wife Chipo, which opened to critical acclaim last week, has extended its run at the… Read More
Published: 12 August 2013
It’s no secret that the road to making it as an actor is, more often than not, a hard one, peppered with rejection and long periods on the sofa watching… Read More
London stage regulars Ian Gelder and David Burke will join the previously announced Jessica Raine, Linda Bassett, Michael Jibson and Emma Stansfield in the Donmar Warehouse's production of Arnold Wesker's… Read More
Published: 9 August 2013
After more than eight years at the helm of leading children’s venue the Little Angel theatre, Peter Glanville will join another renowned family theatrical institution, Wimbledon’s Polka theatre, as Artistic… Read More
It's strange, having worked in, around, with and for Kids Week for the last decade, I have had a particular experience. I've seen first-hand the enjoyment of young people taking… Read More
It is tragic that West Side Story feels so very contemporary more than 50 years after it premiered. That's without counting back to when choreographer Jerome Robbins, composer Leonard Bernstein… Read More
Full casting has been announced for Trevor Nunn’s forthcoming production of Scenes From A Marriage, which will star Olivia Williams as one half of the couple at the centre of… Read More
Published: 8 August 2013
Actor Tom Brooke will return to the Royal Court, where he was first seen in acclaimed drama Jerusalem, to lead the cast of autumn production The Ritual Slaughter Of Gorge… Read More
Summer has arrived at the National Theatre in the form of Richard Eyre’s atmospheric Liolà, which brings the hypnotic sound of cicadas and the white washed walls of Sicily to… Read More
Published: 7 August 2013
Starling Arts, the musical theatre company who helped launch Kids Week last week, is offering families the chance to attend a singing masterclass later this month in an event that,… Read More
Usually West End drama is reserved for the stage. This weekend, it spills out onto the football pitch as Les Misérables take on The Phantom Of The Opera. Professional footballers… Read More
The whiff of desperation drifts through the soul-destroyingly carpet-tiled office of the solicitors in Nick Payne’s new play like the scent of discarded Greggs bags, the contents of which once… Read More
Published: 6 August 2013
Time will be called at the Bourbon Room this November when big-haired soft rock musical Rock Of Ages brings its West End run to a close. Currently playing at the… Read More
Charlotte Wakefield and Michael Xavier face the thrilling, if slightly daunting, task this summer of stepping into Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer’s shoes to play one of the most loved… Read More
Have you had an accident at work? The Same Deep Water As Me could help you. Okay, it probably won't win you a multi million pound compensation pay out, but… Read More
Published: 5 August 2013
Walking across Regent’s Park in the middle of a heat wave on my way to interview Charlotte Wakefield and Michael Xavier, I catch snippets of sound rehearsals floating across the… Read More
A Chorus Line star Leigh Zimmerman, who picked up an Olivier Award earlier in the year, is to premiere her new cabaret A Love Affair From A2Z at the St… Read More
The latest hit production at the Young Vic, A Season In The Congo, is to stage an extra performance to raise funds for Oxfam's work in the Democratic Republic of… Read More
Published: 2 August 2013
Argentinian star Gerónimo Rauch will swap one period French musical for another as he leaves behind Les Misérables' Jean Valjean to play The Phantom Of The Opera this autumn. The… Read More
Two former Jersey Boys ushers will see the musical they wrote together, The 8th Fold, receive a one-off West End concert staging this autumn. Singer/songwriter Gianni Onori and producer Ava… Read More
If, like us, you're eager to hear what British soul sensation Beverley Knight sounds like performing as The Bodyguard's Rachel Marron, you're in luck. The multi award-winning songstress, who follows… Read More
Trevor Nunn will direct Olivia Williams in a revival of Scenes From A Marriage at the St James theatre later this year. Adapted by Joanna Murray-Smith, Ingmar Bergman’s portrait of… Read More
James Clyde, Lisa Davina Phillip and Joshua Wyatt are to join the Royal Shakespeare Company’s hit production of Matilda The Musical later this year, joining Alex Gaumond and Kay Murphy… Read More
Published: 1 August 2013
One hundred young theatre lovers aged between eight and 12-years-old gathered at Shakespeare’s Globe earlier today to perform as a West End choir and celebrate the launch of this year’s… Read More
The stars of the upcoming revival of The Pride, including Captain America star Hayley Atwell and Gavin And Stacey's Mathew Horne, are eager to discuss the show with audiences on… Read More
A new, diverse audience for Monday night performances has helped stars of The Hothouse keep performances fresh throughout the hit show's three month run. Speaking at a press event yesterday… Read More
Warwick Davis, star of comedy Life's Too Short and innumerable blockbuster films, is to join comedian Les Dennis as they hunt for the Holy Grail in hit London musical Spamalot.… Read More
Published: 31 July 2013
“From the second that I was offered the job, that was the thing I kept thinking about, ‘I can’t wait to be green!’” While this may have been told to… Read More
Tom Ellis is to star in the European premiere of Nicky Silver’s Broadway hit The Lyons when it opens at the Menier Chocolate Factory later this year. The Miranda star… Read More
Published: 30 July 2013
How do you follow James McAvoy in a post-apocalyptic Macbeth and a hallucinogenic Pinter comedy starring Olivier Award winner Simon Russell Beale? You gather a quartet of acclaimed young performers… Read More
Published: 29 July 2013
Last year saw Hattie Morahan tackle one of the most famous roles in theatre, playing Nora in playwright-of-the-moment Simon Stephens’ hugely successful adaptation of A Doll’s House at the Young… Read More
Casting for award-winning actor Rory Kinnear’s debut play The Herd has been announced, with a host of stage regulars lined up for its world premiere at the Bush theatre this… Read More
Published: 26 July 2013
Michael Elwyn, Peter Wight and James Garnon are among the actors set to join Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones at the Old Vic this autumn, in the Mark Rylance-directed… Read More
Rupert Grint will make his stage debut alongside Ben Whishaw, Daniel Mays and Brendan Coyle in Ian Rickson’s revival of Jez Butterworth’s Olivier Award-winning play Mojo when it opens at… Read More
Sam Mendes has assembled a stellar cast for his forthcoming production of King Lear at the National Theatre, with a selection of acclaimed NT regulars set to join the previously… Read More
A new report published by the Greater London Authority (GLA) has shown that 20% of London's smaller theatres fear for their financial future and that 75% need to significantly repair… Read More
Published: 25 July 2013
TheatreCraft, the hugely popular annual event offering young people the chance to learn more about careers available behind the scenes of the theatre industry, will return to London’s Royal Opera… Read More
There's something so intriguing, almost taboo about a married couple playing a married couple. As an audience member the line between reality and fiction becomes harder to define, the division… Read More
Simon Callow will take on the role of Richard Wagner in his latest one-man show, Inside Wagner’s Head, which opens at the Linbury Studio theatre later this year. Playing from… Read More
Published: 24 July 2013
Terence Rattigan and John Gielgud’s stage adaptation of A Tale Of Two Cities will receive its world premiere later this year, opening at the King’s Head theatre on 25 September.… Read More
Published: 22 July 2013
Little known performer Mike Noble is to step into the biggest role of his career in September, when he replaces Luke Treadaway in the lead role of Christopher in the… Read More
As concepts go, it's unusual; build a production around a musical instrument - the natural trumpet in the case of Gabriel - and the music composed for it. It would… Read More
Gabriel. It's a name that conjures such angelic thoughts. Quite a contrast, then, to Shakespeare's Globe's brilliantly bawdy and bittersweet new production. That said, the live music is heavenly. It… Read More
David Horovitch, Adrian Schiller and Lydia Wilson will join double Olivier Award winner Antony Sher in Terry Johnson’s self-directed production of Hysteria at the Hampstead theatre. Well known for his… Read More
Nicky Silver’s familial Broadway hit The Lyons will make its European premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory later this year, with acclaimed US director Mark Brokaw returning to the production… Read More
Published: 19 July 2013
Loretta Tomasi, Chief Executive of English National Opera, is to leave the company at the end of the year after a decade at the London Coliseum-based organisation. Tomasi, who was… Read More
Scarabeus Aerial Theatre will present its first ever production created specifically for young people next month when La Tempesta plays a limited run at a site-specific location in north London.… Read More
The full cast of Chichester Festival Theatre’s West End transfer of The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui has been announced with the entire original company set to reprise their roles… Read More
Published: 18 July 2013
Summer has arrived just in time with the surprise announcement that the National Theatre’s Watch This Space festival will return next month to present a pop-up mini version of the… Read More