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Enter Lucy Kerbel's eminently practical book All Change Please.
It's a brave new world for the RSC, collaborating with Intel and Andy Serkis's Imaginarium Studios on a notably high-tech Tempest. But, for all the computer-generated trickery, it's the huma…
Bath's Ustinov Studio has become something of a European hub. Visionary director Laurence Boswell and ever-skilful translator Christopher Hampton, who first introduced us to Florian Zeller, …
Investigation into the charity's downfall is slickly dramatised at Donmar WarehouseA memorable 2015 parliamentary select committee hearing asked Kids Company CEO Camila Batmanghelidjh a…
London is never short of theatre temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a Tennessee Williams revival and Bob Dylan-scored drama to royal poli…
James Graham's portrait of Seventies politics,This House, recently enjoyed a West End outing, and his latest epic venture into Britain's past may well follow suit. If slightly weighed down b…
One American great inhabits another in this superior cabaret, as the Broadway legend Audra McDonald slips into the skin - and unforgettable voice - of jazz icon Billie Holiday. The emotional…
Ashley Gilmour's previous work includes Link Larkin inHairsprayand the ensemble of the original revival cast of Miss Saigon. Now, he's graduated to playing Chris in the UK and Ireland tour o…
American playwright Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins asserts that the nightmarish workplace depicted in Gloria bears no resemblance to his time at the New Yorker, but that tension between truth and im…
Sisters Grimm, a company founded by composer Ella Spira and choreographer Pietra Mello-Pittman, is following up hit show INALA with new dance musical Voices of the Amazon. Fusing ballet, con…
Sara Poyzer, whoseprevious work includesBilly Elliot, has been starring as Donna Sheridan on theMamma Miatour and now takes the role in the West End production at the Novello Theatre.
Following a sold-out Almeida run, Robert Icke's thoughtfully contemporary take on Shakespeare hits the West End, with its original cast mainly intact Derbhle Crotty succeeds Juliet Stevenson…
Jon Brittain's Rotterdam, the 2017 Olivier Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, has played at Theatre503, Trafalgar Studios and 59E59 Theaters in New York. The b…
Relative newcomers Andrew Polec and Christina Bennington were thrilled to landthe lead rolesin Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman musicalBat Out of Hell. Several decades in the making, the show isno…
Killian Donnelly's stellar musical career includesKinky Boots, Memphis, The Commitments, Billy Elliot and The Phantom of the Opera. From tonight, he becomes the new West End Jean Valjean in …
'My mother says you're tragedy personified,' reports a precocious child to Carol, who recently attempted suicide. It's typical of Alice Birch's harrowing new play, which wrings blistering hu…
In this febrile climate, do we want societal critique from our theatre or pure escapism As I experienced when I recently swapped BroadwayWorld UK Editor duties for a New York trip, both thea…
Has there ever been a time when we're more in need of irrepressible optimism The orphan who convinces everyone around her that 'the sun will come out tomorrow' has certainly hit the West End…
Simon Lipkin's numerous credits include Avenue Q, Rock of Ages, The LoraxandGuys and Dolls.He's currently starring as Rat in a new musical version of The Wind in the Willows, which begins it…
It's entirely possible that there will one day be a fascinating Heart of Darkness-esque documentary about the making of Common. We can only hope, because the creation of something so extraor…
Actor Gary Trainor, whose past work includes the West End productions ofBeautiful The Carole King Musical,I Can't Singand The Shawshank Redemption, has been playing the role of alternate Dew…
Actress Janique Charles was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She moved to the UK to join the touring cast ofThe Lion Kingin 2013, and is now playingNala in the West End production.
London is never short of theatre temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a classic musical and acclaimed Shakespeare tobuzzy history plays, he…
Directorchoreographer Drew McOnie's work includes In the Heights, Strictly Ballroom, The Wild Party and Jesus Christ Superstar. He's now back at Regent's Park helming On the Town - the class…
Actor Alex Bourne's past musical work ranges fromKiss Me, Kateto ChicagoandWe Will Rock You.After playing Daddy Warbucks on tour, he's now back in the role for the West End run ofAnnie, whic…
