304 stories by "Doug Mayo"
By Doug Mayo
Casting has been announced for The Clockmaker’s Daughter, an original musical by new writers Daniel Finn and Michael Webborn which has its world premier at the Landor Thea…
By Doug Mayo
The Lyric Hammersmith announced today the their production of Bugsy Malone would extend its run until Saturday 5th September 2015. Wriiten by Alan Parker and Paul Williams, the …
By Doug Mayo
Last night, Billy Elliot celebrated ten years in the West End. The show’s gala opening night took place exactly 10 years ago yesterday. To co-incide with the 10th annivers…
By Doug Mayo
Multi-Platinum selling recording artist and songwriter Matt Cardle will join the cast of Memphis from 6th July 2015. Cardle was the winner of the seventh series of ITV’s T…
By Doug Mayo
A new cast has been announced for the award-winning play The Curious Incident Of the Dog In the Night Time which is being produced by the National Theatre at the Gielgud Theatre…
By Doug Mayo
James Freedman: Man Of Steal will transfer to Trafalgar Studio One for a strictly limited season following its sell-out success at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Funny and fast-f…
By Doug Mayo
Big top Bravado meets boyish burlesque, comic campery meets contemporary circus, shameless splendour meets sensational spectacle. After a critically acclaimed debut in Londo…
By Doug Mayo
Following a sell-out season at the White Bear Theatre, and with the play about to be published, Inigo transfers to the main house at the Pleasance Theatre for a limited three-we…
By Doug Mayo
"Never have so many people who missed a flop musical wished so fervently that they had seen it. Many of those who did see it found themselves unable to stop talking about it…C…
By Doug Mayo
BritishTheatre.com caught up with Lorna Luft recently to talk about her current tour with The Judy Garland Songbook asking what audiences might expect from the tour. The Judy Ga…
By Doug Mayo
Key to the success of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is the onstage relationship between Jameson played by Michael Praed and Benson played by Noel Sullivan. There is an immediate chemi…
By Doug Mayo
Following David Cameron’s victory in the UK General Election, playwright Peter Morgan has announced that he has updated his script for The Audience – his play about …
By Doug Mayo
There are some great shows heading your way in the near future. Here at BritishTheatre.com we go all out to promote great shows in the West End, Off West End and on Tour across …
By Doug Mayo
Drawing on material from interviews, tv shows and transcripts, Jonathan Maitland’s An Audience With Jimmy Saville explores the most shocking sex scandal of our time. Write…
By Doug Mayo
It has been reported in tonight’s London Evening Standard that one of the hottest new musicals on Broadway may be headed to the West End of London sooner than anticipated.…
By Doug Mayo
Daring to be different may well be considered acceptable in modern times but spare a thought for Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park, two cross dressers in Victorian England. Show…
By Doug Mayo
Olivier Award nominee, Caroline Horton, will revive her 2012 hit Mess for audiences of children and young people on the main stage of the Traverse Theatre as part of Scotland's …
By Doug Mayo
Snapdragon Productions and Theatre Bench will present Teddy, a new musical world premiere by Tristan Bernays and music by Dougal Irvine at the Southwark Playhouse in June. The t…
By Doug Mayo
Dusty, a new multi-media show celebrating the music of the iconic Dusty Springfield will receive its World Premiere at the Charing Cross Theatre. With original music by the lege…
By Doug Mayo
Following the resounding critical response to the opening of Gypsy in the West End, the show has announced an extension and is now booking at the Savoy Theatre until 28 November…
By Doug Mayo
Nicole Kidman will return to the West End stage with the Michael Grandage Company in September 2015. Kidman will play the role of Rosalind Franklin in Photograph 51, a new play …
By Doug Mayo
It was announced today the Women On the Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, currently playing at the Playhouse Theatre will close on May 23, 2015. Based on the 1998 Pedro Almodovar fi…
By Doug Mayo
It has been announced that the current national tour of Anything Goes will close four months earlier than planned. Anything goes was a co-production between Sheffield Theatres a…
By Doug Mayo
Alexander Hulme is intriguing and charismatic as Jackson and you see a glimpse of what a tortured beauty trapped in another man's world can suffer. David R Butler is at his best…
By Doug Mayo
Kenneth Branagh is back in the West End with a series of plays being presented at the Garrick Theatre under the banner of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company. Commencing in Octo…
