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Evans and Hancock are Barking

Published: 30 November 2012

Lee Evans and Sheila Hancock will return to the West End next year when they co-star in new comedy Barking In Essex, which runs at the Wyndham's theatre from September.… Read More

Audience announces Prime Ministers

Published: 30 November 2012

Michael Elwyn, Nathaniel Parker and Rufus Wright will join Helen Mirren in the world premiere of The Audience next year when it opens at the Gielgud theatre. Playing three of… Read More

Packed spring for Lyric’s children’s season

Published: 29 November 2012

The Lyric Hammersmith has announced its 2013 season for children, with everything from driving pigeons to unicorn rides on the menu. With a whole host of productions on offer for… Read More

Room On The Broom

Published: 29 November 2012

It would be just delightful to review Room On The Broom solely in rhyme. Unfortunately, dear readers, I just haven’t the time. But theatre lovers fear not, head down to… Read More

More Hard Day’s Nights at Savoy for Let It Be

Published: 29 November 2012

Following its run at the Prince of Wales theatre, Let It Be will Twist And Shout its way across the West End to the Savoy theatre next year. The theatrical… Read More

Hopefuls eager for Once big chance

Published: 29 November 2012

We thought we were excited about Tony Award-winning musical Once coming to London, but these auditionees, desperate to win a starring role in the new West End musical, trump even… Read More

Kiss Me, Kate

Published: 28 November 2012

Classic musicals are in the midst of somewhat of a revival, with Top Hat and Singin’ In The Rain still going strong in the West End and now, down the… Read More

Behind the scenes at Goodnight Mister Tom

Published: 28 November 2012

One of the most treasured privileges of being a theatre journalist are those occasions when you’re allowed to cross the sacred space between the audience and what lies behind the… Read More

Goodnight Mister Tom

Published: 28 November 2012

With Penelope Skinner’s recent adaptation of Aleksei Arbuzov’s The Promise and the impending opening of Peter Nichols’ Privates On Parade, the Second World War seems to be a popular topic… Read More

Globe’s Sam Wanamaker theatre revealed

Published: 27 November 2012

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced that its new Jacobean indoor theatre will be named The Sam Wanamaker theatre in tribute to the venue’s founder and his original vision to create the… Read More

An Arabian Morning

Published: 26 November 2012

In a rehearsal room in West London, sun streaming through the great glass walls, a group of performers has just been asked to "take a different urination shape". I didn't… Read More

Put your questions to Room On The Broom

Published: 26 November 2012

Ever wondered what the witch from Room On The Broom does over Christmas, where the beautiful bird has flown from exactly or who the friendly frog’s best friend in the… Read More

Standard Awards double honour for Hytner

Published: 26 November 2012

Nicholas Hytner, Director of the National Theatre, collected two awards at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards yesterday. Hytner, who has been at the helm of the Southbank institution for nearly… Read More

Sturridge leads Stenham’s No Quarter

Published: 23 November 2012

On The Road star Tom Sturridge and Downton Abbey’s Zoe Boyle will lead the cast of Polly Stenham’s forthcoming drama No Quarter, the playwright’s third play to premiere at the… Read More

Jones and Madeley Turn up at Almeida

Published: 23 November 2012

Gemma Jones, Anna Madeley and Orlando Wells will hope to set spines a-shiver when they star in Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s new stage adaptation of Henry James’ spooky story The Turn Of… Read More

Partridge, Strallen and Zimmerman Line up

Published: 22 November 2012

Actresses Scarlett Strallen (pictured), Leigh Zimmerman and Victoria Hamilton-Barritt will be hoping to impress John Partridge when A Chorus Line opens at the London Palladium next year. The trio of… Read More

Ricardo Afonso’s #TopHatChat

Published: 22 November 2012

During today’s #TopHatChat, Ricardo Afonso took to Twitter to reveal everything from his all-time favourite role, the best place to eat in London and how he manages to balance being… Read More

Hall to leave Opera House

Published: 22 November 2012

Royal Opera House Chief Executive, Tony Hall, is to leave the flagship venue to become the new Director General of the BBC. He will take up the his new position… Read More

The Magistrate

Published: 22 November 2012

The Christmas opening at the Olivier; it's like the first mince pie of the season, warm, comforting and loaded with anticipation. This year the National Theatre breaks from the recent… Read More

Goldblum returns for 24 Hour Musical

Published: 21 November 2012

Hollywood star Jeff Goldblum will return to the Old Vic theatre to show off his hidden musical skills in the venue’s debut The 24 Hour Musicals Celebrity Gala on 9… Read More

Mays and Kaluuya lead Wright’s Trelawny

Published: 21 November 2012

Daniel Mays and Daniel Kaluuya will star in leading film director Joe Wright’s theatrical debut at the Donmar Warehouse next year, leading the cast of Arthur Wing Pinero’s classic Trelawny… Read More

Gill directs Arden tribute

Published: 21 November 2012

Peter Gill will direct a rehearsed reading of John Arden’s classic play Sergeant Musgrave’s Dance at the Royal Court theatre on Sunday in memory of the late playwright.Taking place in… Read More

Theatrical Evening at Downing Street

Published: 21 November 2012

Politics is full of drama, but 11 Downing Street was arguably as dramatic as it has ever been last night as Olivier and Theatre Award UK winners, producers and supporters… Read More

Martin Ball’s #TopHatChat

Published: 20 November 2012

In the latest of our #TopHatChat Twitter takeovers, actor Martin Ball was on hand at the Aldwych theatre to answer your questions about life as an actor, his love of… Read More

The Promise

Published: 20 November 2012

As a graduate of the Royal Court’s Young Writers programme, Penelope Skinner’s 2011 play The Village Bike earned her an Olivier Award nomination when it premiered at the acclaimed Sloane… Read More

Wynter comes to Dreamboats

Published: 19 November 2012

Venus In Blue Jeans singer Mark Wynter will roll back the clock to the era when he was a pop chart regular this week when he joins the cast of… Read More

Twelfth Night at the Globe Theatre

Published: 19 November 2012

When Mark Rylance is on the cast list, there’s not many people whose role would be more eagerly anticipated, but if you’re universally declared as a national hero who hasn’t… Read More

Constellations

Published: 19 November 2012

Topping off the Royal Court’s West End season, Nick Payne’s Constellations is the only production from the three part season – which also included Laura Wade’s Posh and April De… Read More

Richard III at Shakespeare’s Globe

Published: 19 November 2012

For anyone who missed this summer's hot ticket as Mark Rylance returned to his former home at Shakespeare's Globe, winter comes with its own hot offering, Rylance's return to the… Read More

Hampstead hosts Here And Now

Published: 16 November 2012

Tu I Teraz (Here & Now), a play about immigration and family ties, is the latest production to be announced for Hampstead theatre's Downstairs space. The play, written by Nicola… Read More

Atherton takes Soho LIFT

Published: 16 November 2012

Julie Atherton will leave her glass slippers behind at the Lyric Hammersmith this Christmas, swapping her pumpkin carriage for a new form of transport to star in new musical LIFT… Read More

The Dark Earth And The Light Sky

Published: 16 November 2012

Like Nick Dear’s last play, the National Theatre production of Frankenstein, The Dark Earth And The Light Sky features a man haunted by an unnerving, unseen presence, a man who… Read More

Arts hosts Beautiful Thing

Published: 16 November 2012

Jonathan Harvey’s award-winning play Beautiful Thing will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year with a new production at the Arts theatre starring Suranne Jones.Beautiful Thing, which will play from 13… Read More

Stars collide for Mousetrap gala

Published: 16 November 2012

A stunning cast, including theatrical knight Patrick Stewart, Olivier Award winner Tamsin Greig and Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville, will take to the St Martin's theatre stage this Sunday to… Read More

Stephen Boswell’s #TopHatChat

Published: 15 November 2012

From Life Is A Dream at the Young Vic to Racing Demon in Ipswich and from NHS The Musical in Plymouth to Much Ado About Nothing in Liverpool, actor Stephen… Read More

Lily a Believer for Children In Need

Published: 15 November 2012

Former X Factor star Amelia Lily became the latest pop star to pop up in a West End show last night, when she joined Shrek The Musical for a special… Read More

Tozer steps into new musical

Published: 14 November 2012

Faye Tozer, one fifth of Brit Award-winning pop group Steps, is to star in the world premiere of new musical The Tailor-Made Man next year. The tuneful tale of MGM… Read More

Vivien Parry’s #TopHatChat

Published: 14 November 2012

Actress Vivien Parry, who plays witty wife Madge Hardwick in Top Hat, was the second performer to face your questions in our #TopHatChat Twitter takeover. The Theatr Clwyd regular and… Read More

The Effect

Published: 14 November 2012

Following their collaboration on hit play Enron in 2009, writer Lucy Prebble and Olivier Award-winning director Rupert Goold have already proven their combined talents to have a startling result on… Read More

West Side Story returns to Sadler’s

Published: 13 November 2012

Following its 15th anniversary season announcement last month, Sadler’s Wells has confirmed further productions for 2013 including the return of hit production West Side Story and ZooNation’s Some Like It… Read More

Bush pledges support to new writers

Published: 13 November 2012

The Bush theatre has announced a new direction for its continued support of playwrights at the start of their careers, pledging that from 2014 a minimum of one unsolicited script… Read More

Direct from the Donmar

Published: 13 November 2012

After three years and nine productions, the Donmar Trafalgar season is coming to an end. Alex Sims, Titas Halder and Simon Evans are the final trio of graduates from the… Read More

Husband and wife make Standard shortlist

Published: 12 November 2012

The Evening Standard Theatre Awards shortlist has been announced with husband and wife team Adrian Lester and Lolita Chakrabarti both receiving nods for their roles in the Tricycle theatre’s current… Read More

Get Into London Theatre with incredible offers

Published: 12 November 2012

Astounding annual ticket offer Get Into London Theatre will return next month, offering incredible cut price tickets for more than 45 of the capital's hottest shows. From 11 December, audiences… Read More

Loserville to close at the Garrick

Published: 12 November 2012

New West End musical Loserville has announced that it will end its run at the Garrick theatre on 5 January.The Elliot Davis and James Bourne-penned musical, which opened in the… Read More

Shrek’s festive frolics for Centrepoint

Published: 9 November 2012

Irritable ogre Shrek and his band of festive fairytale companions left their enchanted world at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane last night to help publicise the work of homeless charity… Read More

Hound to play Henshall in London

Published: 9 November 2012

Comedian Rufus Hound will take over from Owain Arthur as food-loving Francis Henshall in the West End production of National Theatre hit One Man, Two Guvnors next year.Hound, who is… Read More

US stars lead Mormon cast

Published: 9 November 2012

American actors Gavin Creel and Jared Gertner will be bringing their LA-wowing performances in hit US musical The Book Of Mormon to the UK. The stateside performers, currently starring in… Read More

Lapaine, NcNally and Varma Dance with Death

Published: 9 November 2012

Daniel Lapaine, Kevin R McNally and Indira Varma will star in Conor McPherson’s new adaptation of The Dance Of Death, which plays as part of the final Donmar Trafalgar season… Read More

Summer Strallen’s #TopHatChat

Published: 8 November 2012

We first met Summer Strallen six years ago, when she was starring in The Boy Friend at the Regent's Park Open Air theatre. Back then, she was just breaking out… Read More

People

Published: 8 November 2012

The second half of the National Trust's Middle England-cheering name does not, it would seem, ring true to Alan Bennett. The History Boys writer's latest London show, always eagerly anticipated,… Read More

Greig Packs for the Gate

Published: 8 November 2012

Tamsin Greig and Roger Lloyd Pack will appear in the forthcoming production of The Trojan Women, which opens at the Gate theatre later this month.Adapted by award-winning poet Caroline Bird,… Read More

Daddy Long Legs

Published: 8 November 2012

Jean Webster’s 1912 novel Daddy Long Legs has brought about more screen adaptations than its fear-inducing winged namesake has legs, but John Caird’s new stage version, which received its UK… Read More

Scrooge The Musical

Published: 7 November 2012

Nothing says Christmas like a Dickensian winter. Throw in a few ghosts, a goose bigger than your average small boy and some parlour games, and you’ve got yourself a festive… Read More

Digital Theatre launch new platform with Shakespeare’s Globe

Published: 7 November 2012

For the first time ever, the public will be able to download or watch online four hugely popular Shakespeare’s Globe productions on Digital Theatre’s new performing arts platform, marking a… Read More

Blackta

Published: 6 November 2012

With characters named after their skin tone and a set that looks like the brown section of a Pantone chart, it does not take long to grasp the politics behind… Read More

Lyric reveals Father Christmas’ identity

Published: 6 November 2012

Barry McCarthy will star as Father Christmas in the Lyric Hammersmith’s forthcoming adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ festive classic. The first ever stage production of the hugely successful children’s picture book,… Read More

Top Hat takes over Twitter

Published: 6 November 2012

Musical theatre fans should make sure they're all Twittered up over the next month, as the stars of hit musical Top Hat will be joining Official London Theatre on the… Read More

Grant tangos back into the West End

Published: 6 November 2012

Russell Grant will return to the West End next year to once again share the stage with his Strictly Come Dancing partner Flavia Cacace in the return of Midnight Tango… Read More

Cooke announces familiar faces for final season

Published: 5 November 2012

Dominic Cooke’s last season as Artistic Director of the Royal Court theatre will see the return of three playwrights who presented work in his first year at the helm of… Read More

Uncle Vanya

Published: 5 November 2012

Boring characters complaining that they are bored of their boring lives; it's not the most promising of synopses, yet Uncle Vanya is one of Chekhov's most enduring plays. But there's… Read More

Steptoe And Son transfers to Lyric

Published: 2 November 2012

Kneehigh Theatre Company’s stage adaptation of cult British sitcom Steptoe And Son is to transfer from co-producing theatre West Yorkshire Playhouse for a run at the Lyric Hammersmith next year.… Read More

Casting announced for NT’s Port and Köpenick

Published: 2 November 2012

Further casting has been announced for the National Theatre’s forthcoming productions of Carl Zuckmayer’s The Captain Of Köpenick and Simon Stephens’ Port, which will play at the Southbank venue in… Read More

Gwynne plays Mirren’s Thatcher

Published: 2 November 2012

Actress Haydn Gwynne is to return to the London stage in 2013, when she will play Margaret Thatcher opposite Helen Mirren's Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's latest play The Audience.… Read More

Lee returns for Top Hat

Published: 2 November 2012

Musical theatre veteran Gavin Lee is to head back to the West End next year to lead the cast of Top Hat from 5 February, replacing current star Tom Chambers… Read More

Grandage reveals Privates casting

Published: 2 November 2012

Sophiya Haque, Harry Hepple, Mark Lewis Jones and John Marquez will join the previously announced Simon Russell Beale in Peter Nichols’ Privates On Parade, which kicks off the newly formed… Read More

OLT’s winter check list

Published: 2 November 2012

Here at Official London Theatre we love a list. Our desks are cluttered with them, pads full of numbered musings and white boards stacked with bullet pointed gems of inspiration.… Read More

Gate receives Gruesome Injuries

Published: 1 November 2012

The Gate theatre will present the European premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries this winter. Directed by Justin Audibert, the unusual love story will play at… Read More

Casting announced for Tricycle’s Arabian Nights

Published: 1 November 2012

Full casting has been announced for Lu Kemp’s forthcoming production of The Arabian Nights at the Tricycle theatre.Jonathan Bonnici, Denton Chikura, Tunji Falana, Sandy Grierson, Éva Magyar, Itxaso Moreno, Adura… Read More

Curious Incident set for West End

Published: 1 November 2012

The National Theatre’s The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time will transfer to the West End next year following the critically revered production’s sell-out season at the Southbank… Read More

Thrilling Halloween for Hackney school kids

Published: 1 November 2012

Halloween fever swept through the auditorium at the Lyric theatre yesterday as 41 children from a primary school in Hackney took to the stage as flesh-eating zombies. Organised by children’s… Read More

NSFW

Published: 1 November 2012

Not Safe For Work. Not Safe For Women more like. From lads’ mags to impossibly pretty but apparently imperfect female bodies, Lucy Kirkwood’s new comedy is a barrage of verbal… Read More

Gallery: Seussical cast revealed

Published: 31 October 2012

Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Mayzie La Bird and Sour Kangaroo are all characters from a strange and magical land set to arrive in the West End and we’ve got… Read More

Fans reveal first Bodyguard image

Published: 31 October 2012

The first image of The Bodyguard’s leading duo Heather Headley and Lloyd Owen as they will appear on stage in the highly anticipated new musical was revealed today in a… Read More

Full casting for Old Money

Published: 31 October 2012

Further casting has been announced for the world premiere of Sarah Wooley’s Old Money at the Hampstead theatre this winter.Nadia Clifford, Geoffrey Freshwater, Eve Pearce and Timothy Watson will join… Read More
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