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Daniel Rigby's work includesTwelfth Night,One Man, Two Guvnors, and his BAFTA-winning performance as Eric Morecambe. He's currently playing Bottom inA Midsummer Night's Dreamat Sheffield Cru…
London is never short of temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From gender-flipped Sondheim to David Hare and Martin McDonagh, here are some of t…
Jamie Lloyd is marking the 10th anniversary of Harold Pinter's death in remarkable style with his Pinter at the Pinter season, staging all the great man's 20 short plays, plus some sketches …
Lucas Rush's past work includesAmerican Idiot,We Will Rock You,GreaseandLes Miserables. He's currently playing Lonny in the UK tour of Eighties-tastic musicalRock of Ages, alongside a cast t…
Death and all his frenemies descend on a vicious American high schoolThis London premiere of Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe's 2010 musical (based on Daniel Waters' oh-so-Eighties cult …
It's all change at the Kiln was Tricycle Theatre, with a 5.5 million redevelopment resulting in a bright, light, spacious and welcoming new building complete with a more obvious street pres…
Stephen Karam uses domestic drama to tell a contemporary American horror storyTransatlantic theatrical traffic is busier than ever, and now here at the Hampstead is not just Stephen Karam's …
The buzz abounds for the new show hitting the West End, Sylvia, but the production is already facing trouble.
Wild, raw, hilarious and tender, Clare Barron's electrifying play - first seen in New York earlier this year - is a candid portrait of prepubescent girls, rare compared with the myriad male …
London is never short of temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a new hip-hop history lesson to Pinter and Shakespeare, here are some of this…
A blooming marvellous revival of a classic musicalThe resplendent partnership of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman " which produced Disney hits Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Little Me…
There's an explosion of spirit and - yes - 'cheer face' at Southwark Playhouse, hosting the long-awaited UK premiere of this 2011 musical last year's national tour was sadly postponed. But E…
Classic Spring's year-long season ends with Wilde gone wild a free love riot that yanks the homosexual subtext into text, with everyone from masters and servants to, er, the long-lost brothe…
Jeremy Swift is well known to TV audiences as Septimus Spratt on Downton Abbey. On the big screen, he's appeared in Polanski's Oliver Twist and Altman's Gosford Park, and will shortly be see…
The first thing we see is Anna Fleischle's Fifties-tastic giant doll's-house set each period-perfect room bathed in a different twinkling hue, flowers painted onto the brick wall, and jaunty…
London is never short of temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From starry Shakespeare and a new musical to family entertainment, here are some o…
Gerard Alessandrini is not throwing away his shot. The creator of satirical revue Forbidden Broadway realised that the unprecedented success of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical warranted a stand…
This highly anticipated new play from 84-year-old Alan Bennett premieres at the Bridge, continuing his long-standing relationship with Nicholas Hytner. It's an exciting get, and there are wo…
Australian actor Damian Humbley's past work includes Merrily We Roll Along,The Woman in White andThe Last 5 Years.He's currently starring inSpamilton, an affectionate spoof of the all-conque…
Through one family and one company, Italian playwright Stefano Massini tackles big topics the development of Western capitalism, the immigrant experience, the American Dream. But this isn't …
London is never short of temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a new theatrical epic to Shakespeare and musical spoof, here are some of this…
This August, a company of over 200 people from across London joins forces at the National Theatre to perform a new musical version of Shakespeare's Pericles.
A golden production helmed by the incomparable Kelli O'HaraShall we dodge? (One, two, three) No, the brilliance of Bartlett Sher's Tony-winning Lincoln Center revival " first seen on Br…
Alison Bechdel's graphic novel becomes achingly intimate theatreIt seems only too fitting that David Lan's luminous reign at the Young Vic should draw to a close with this bold, creativ…
Cole Porter's 1948 love letter to showbiCole Porter's 1948 love letter to showbiz is brilliantly served by Opera North's big, bold and bawdy production - both soaringly romantic and packed w…