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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
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
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
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
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Published: 20 November 2013
Sixteen years after opening Shakespeare’s Globe alongside Her Majesty The Queen, His Royal Highness The Duke Of Edinburgh returned to the theatre to officially open the venue’s new inside auditorium,… Read More
As that much-loved gift-giving time of year fast approaches, the West End is making plans to get Londoners in the Christmas spirit, with stars of the capital’s stages coming together… Read More
Robert Allan Ackerman’s glossy production of Strangers On A Train may have been sold as an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, but the inspiration for its staging blatantly lies in… Read More
Published: 19 November 2013
Nick Moran and Jeff Fahey, who can currently be seen arguing about the guilt of a murder suspect in Twelve Angry Men, are the latest celebrities to sign up for… Read More
Richard Eyre’s Almeida theatre production of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, starring Lesley Manville as its tortured protagonist, will transfer to the West End next month. Playing at the Trafalgar Studios from… Read More
How much do you know about German Expressionism? My vague understanding of the movement, which reached its peak in the 1920s, are consigned to the hazy memories of my university… Read More
A lucky 18-year-old performing arts student from South London will get the chance to make her West End debut after winning a competition to join the cast of Billy Elliot… Read More
Following a sell-out autumn run, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead will return to the Young Vic’s Maria studio next year to play as part of a season that also includes a… Read More
The Peacock theatre will host the UK premiere of Pilobolus Dance Theater’s hit shadow dance work Shadowland next year. Playing from 11 to 30 March, the show combines shadow theatre,… Read More
Published: 18 November 2013
It has been more than a decade since the endearing creature with turned out toes and a poisonous wart at the end of his nose first stepped out of Julia… Read More
Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear were last night crowned joint winners in the Best Actor category at the 59th Evening Standard Theatre Awards after judges decided it was impossible to… Read More
Shortly after celebrating its first anniversary in the West End, hit new musical The Bodyguard has extended its booking period to summer 2014, making an additional 300,000 tickets available for… Read More
Published: 15 November 2013
Actresses Emilia Fox and Imelda Staunton will return to the London stage in 2014 to lead productions of Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn and David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People at Hampstead… Read More