Published: 29 March 2013
Olivier Award-winning actor Richard Griffiths has died aged 65 from complications following heart surgery. Arguably best known for his Olivier and Tony Award-winning role in Alan Bennett's critically acclaimed play… Read More
Published: 28 March 2013
Here at Official London Theatre, we’re getting rather eggs-cited about Easter and all of the cracking productions that are playing in London. We know there’s nothing better than a good… Read More
One of London’s royal parks will rival Jurassic Park this summer as family puppet show Dinosaur Zoo comes to the Regent’s Park Open Air theatre from 9 August to 8… Read More
The excitement was palpable at the May Fair Hotel earlier this week as the nominees for the Olivier Awards 2013 with MasterCard were announced. As I'm sure you know by… Read More
Dominic Cooke comes full circle for his final production as Artistic Director at the Royal Court theatre, directing this new play by Clybourne Park writer Bruce Norris whose 2007 drama… Read More
She may already have won a handful of awards for her celluloid work and be a regular at the National Theatre of her native Croatia, but chances are you've not… Read More
Published: 27 March 2013
Fevered Sleep’s enchanting children’s show Brilliant will return to the Young Vic theatre this summer, entertaining young audience members for a limited two-week run from 3 to 13 July.Aimed at… Read More
Three productions linked by a sense of violence and terror will play at the Young Vic's Maria theatre later this year. Trash Cuisine, a co-production with Belarus Free Theatre, The… Read More
Published: 26 March 2013
The second production in the Michael Grandage Company’s inaugural season sees Skyfall co-stars Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw reunited with the Bond film’s writer John Logan to tell the story… Read More
We don't have a sorting hat or OWL tests, so when we set out on a mission to discover which of Potted Potter's performers knew more about the show's magical… Read More
Published: 22 March 2013
Kirsty Bushell and Hari Dhillon will lead the cast of Nadia Fall’s forthcoming production of Disgraced at the Bush theatre. Ayad Akhtar’s play about ambition, culture and faith, which has… Read More
Here’s what you probably already know about The Book Of Mormon: 1. You can’t move in London without encountering one of its leaping Mormon adverts. 2. It won a clutch… Read More
Director Joe Wright will reunite with two former collaborators, actor Daniel Kaluuya and award-winning choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, for his forthcoming production at the Young Vic theatre A Season In… Read More
Aspiring young adventurers will be heading to the Lyric theatre later this year when We’re Going On A Bear Hunt comes to the venue for a limited summer run following… Read More
Keeley Hawes will join Lee Evans and Shelia Hancock in Clive Exton’s comedy Barking In Essex when it opens at the Wyndham’s theatre later this year. Best known for her… Read More
Singin’ In The Rain has announced it will end its Olivier Award nominated run at the Palace theatre in June and will pack up its umbrellas to head off on… Read More
Published: 21 March 2013
Acclaimed theatre company Punchdrunk has teamed up with the National Theatre once again to present The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable, a new production inspired by Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck to… Read More
A British 1960s sitcom about a rag and bone father and son team, as different as chalk and cheese, doesn’t seem an obvious choice for theatre company Kneehigh, more known,… Read More
Published: 20 March 2013
Today marks World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People and the Half Moon Young People’s theatre is celebrating with a new play championing healthy eating. Award-winning writer Tanika… Read More
Christopher William Hill likes to scare kids. Now, while that may conjure up an image of some grumpy old man, hell-bent on keeping children at arms-length, nothing could be further… Read More
The second Terence Rattigan revival to grace the London stage in less than a year, following Angus Jackson’s production of The Browning Version last spring, The Winslow Boy brings to… Read More
Published: 19 March 2013
As Olivier Award-winning actor Alex Jennings says when we meet huddled around a tiny bar heater in the lofty heights of the Menier Chocolate Factory where he is rehearsing, Alan… Read More
A premature spring clean will see sheaves of cobwebs and decomposing wedding cake removed from the Vaudeville theatre’s stage later this month as Great Expectations is set to end its… Read More
Alex Beard has been announced as the new Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House, following Tony Hall’s departure from the venue to take up the role of Director General… Read More
Published: 18 March 2013
Hit Harry Potter parody Potted Potter will – like an exceedingly studious Hermione at the end of levitation class – stay behind for an additional helping of magic, having extended… Read More
Hit musical Wicked spread some of its famous magic recently when it joined forces with Starlight Children’s Foundation to grant the wish of one 16-year-old musical fan, arranging for her… Read More
Published: 15 March 2013
It has been an incredible week for The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time. It has opened in the West End, won a South Bank Sky Arts Award… Read More
Phyllida Lloyd will direct Cush Jumbo’s debut play Josephine And I, which opens at the Bush theatre this summer. Playing from 12 July to 10 August, the tale of a… Read More
The premiere of Howard Brenton’s new adaptation of August Strindberg’s The Dance Of Death will open at the Gate theatre later this year, starring Linda Marlowe and Michael Pennington. Directed… Read More
Renowned director Katie Mitchell will present a promenade piece based on Gertrude Stein’s work at the Hampstead theatre’s Downstairs venue this spring. Say It With Flowers, which will play from… Read More
The Lenny Henry-led production of August Wilson’s Tony Award-winning drama Fences will open at the Duchess theatre for a limited 13-week season later this year following its acclaimed run at… Read More
Actress and writer Zawe Ashton, best known for her performance in Channel 4's university sitcom Fresh Meat, will star in Anthony Neilson's new play Narrative at the Royal Court. The… Read More
X Factor – It’s Time To Face The Musical, a new musical comedy written by television comedian Harry Hill and directed by double Olivier Award winner Sean Foley, is set… Read More
Mad Dogs star John Simm will return to the London stage later this year when he teams up with Simon Russell Beale for Harold Pinter's The Hothouse. The tale of… Read More
Published: 14 March 2013
It was a little surreal earlier this week to watch characters from 17 long-running West End shows chatting on stage. Who'd have thought we'd have ever seen Joey from War… Read More
Nick Fletcher and Darrell D’Silva will star in David Harrower’s new Ibsen adaptation Public Enemy, which opens at the Young Vic theatre later this year. Playing from 4 May (press… Read More
Betty Blue Eyes star Reece Shearsmith will join Jim Broadbent in the Bush theatre’s special gala performance of The Chapel Of Unrest this Friday. The reading of screenwriter Stephen Volk’s… Read More
The fight to save and support local theatres across the UK was given a huge boost today with the launch of new campaign My Theatre Matters! Spearheaded by theatre trade… Read More
Published: 13 March 2013
The Tricycle theatre's tale of unlikely drag performers, Paper Dolls, has proved so popular at the Kilburn venue that two extra weeks have been added to its run. The production,… Read More
From a stage of polar tiles sitting like tessellated mini icebergs, lamps of different heights scattered across it, watching the performance attentively like illuminated metal meerkats, a lone actress addresses… Read More
Published: 12 March 2013
This week, a new cast takes to the stage in the National Theatre’s hit West End production War Horse. It’s a show that needs no introduction and a story that… Read More
With temperatures continuing to plummet and the UK facing yet another onslaught of wintry weather, the Shaftesbury theatre has just what the West End ordered as Burn The Floor turns… Read More
Published: 11 March 2013
Charlie Rowe has worked with Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel and Bob Hoskins, appeared in hit films The Golden Compass and The Boat That Rocked, won an… Read More
Christopher Luscombe will direct the stage adaptation of Graham Greene’s Travels With My Aunt when it comes to the Menier Chocolate Factory later this year. Adapted for the stage by… Read More
Shakespeare’s Globe will present a relaxed performance of Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy Romeo And Juliet this weekend. Telling the Bard’s well-known story of two star-crossed lovers, the specially adapted 90-minute production… Read More
Graham Linehan’s imaginative 2011 hit adaptation of the classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers will return to the West End this summer. Nominated for an impressive five Olivier Awards including Best… Read More
Published: 8 March 2013
The Royal Court theatre has announced casting for the rehearsed readings of plays written by Georgian and Ukrainian playwrights, which are to be staged at the venue’s Jerwood Theatre Upstairs… Read More
House star Robert Sean Leonard will return to the London stage for the first time in 22 years to star in Timothy Sheader’s production of To Kill A Mockingbird, the… Read More
The Chichester Festival Theatre production of The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui will transfer to the Duchess theatre later this year, with double Olivier Award-winning actor Henry Goodman reprising his… Read More
Rarely has a play's title so succinctly encapsulated a piece's overwhelming emotion. So strong is the unspoken history between Tamsin Greig's provincial doctor and Iain Glen's successful Moscow lawyer that… Read More
Brian Cox, Dervla Kirwan, Ardal O'Hanlon (pictured), Ciarán Hinds and Jim Norton will all take to the Donmar Warehouse stage this year as the intimate theatre revives Conor McPherson's The… Read More
Samantha Bond and Owen Teale will join Olivier Award-winning actress Zoë Wanamaker in David Leveaux’s forthcoming revival of Peter Nichols’ Passion Play at the Duke of York’s theatre. Playing from… Read More
Published: 7 March 2013
TV astrologer and Strictly Come Dancing legend Russell Grant will turn the judging tables later this year when he gets the chance to give fellow performers anything from nil to… Read More
Based on Israeli director Tomer Heymann’s 2006 documentary, Paper Dolls tells the true story of five Filipino men who find work in Tel Aviv looking after elderly Orthodox Jews. While… Read More
The Unicorn theatre has announced some extra special, creepy crawly events to take place alongside its forthcoming show Mister Holgado, a dark grisly tale about a boy and his invisible… Read More
“I didn’t want to do something bogus or sentimental or saccharin or half-arsed,” Simon Stephens says, pausing between each adjective for emphasis, as he tells me how you deal with… Read More
Published: 6 March 2013
The Menier Chocolate Factory will present the European premiere of the Tony Award nominated musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple later this year. Directed and… Read More
Olivier Award-winning hip hop company Boy Blue join the Royal Shakespeare Company, venue regulars Michael Clark Company and Dutch outfit Toneelgroep Amsterdam in returning to the Barbican in the coming… Read More
Sadler’s Wells’ National Youth Dance Company (NYDC) has completed its search to find its first company members, with 30 young people aged between 16 and 20-years-old emerging triumphant over hundreds… Read More
Booking is now open for our annual season of Theatreland Walking Tours, the sightseeing excursions that prove you don’t have to be sat in the theatre watching a show to… Read More
So steeped in gravitas and detail is The Audience, you’d be forgiven an hour into the play for forgetting you were watching fiction. But fiction it is with Peter Morgan… Read More
Published: 5 March 2013
Oscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent will return to the stage for a special one-off gala reading of Stephen Volk’s The Chapel Of Unrest at the Bush theatre. Taking place on 15… Read More
Ralf Little will lead the cast of Stephen Unwin’s production of Peter Nichols’ A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, which opens at the Kingston’s Rose theatre next month.… Read More
Actress, singer and writer Nina Kristofferson will bring her one woman show about legendary jazz performer Billie Holliday to the Charing Cross theatre next month for a strictly limited eight… Read More
Edd Post and David McGranaghan will join the cast of Jersey Boys later this month, as the hit musical prepares to celebrate its fifth anniversary in the West End on… Read More
Following her debut in the West End last summer, Dora The Explorer’s search is back on in the City of Lost Toys as she brings her live stage show to… Read More
It must be strange making your London stage debut in a play that is virtually sold out before it's even had its first preview, but for young actress Catrin Stewart,… Read More
Zach Atkinson will become the latest talented youngster to express himself on the Victoria Palace theatre’s stage when he joins the cast of Billy Elliot The Musical this evening, playing… Read More
Published: 1 March 2013
One of the most famous dogs in the world, Spot the dog will step out of the pages of Eric Hill’s much-loved picture books and onto the stage with the… Read More
Politics and rock music isn’t a combination you’d expect to find in the House of Commons, but, in James Graham’s This House, they co-exist like parliamentary meetings and the ceremonial… Read More
Published: 28 February 2013
With more than 35,000 votes already cast for the BBC Radio 2 Audience Award and the nominations for this year's Olivier Awards with MasterCard less than a month away, we… Read More
Max Bennett scares me. His searing blue eyes. His predatory prowl. I would not want to be confronted by his attitude-soaked Polish Piotr. This is less the case at the… Read More
Published: 27 February 2013
Analysing the marketing shot for Matthew Dunster’s forthcoming drama Before The Party, it appears audiences can expect an array of vintage dresses straight out of Mad Men’s enviable dressing-up box… Read More
The Judas Kiss star Rupert Everett, who has been enjoying phenomenal stage success in the biographical tale of Oscar Wilde, has won the 2013 Sheridan Morley Prize for his own… Read More
Published: 26 February 2013
The National Theatre’s hit production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time has triumphed once again, scooping a pair of awards at The Mousetraps, the annual theatre… Read More