Tickets for O2 reunion featuring Cleese, Palin, Idle, Jones and Gilliam go in a flash, with four more dates addedTickets for the Monty Python comeback performance sold out in a very precise …
Small investors asked to cover 10% of cost of stage show planned for 2015 " with returns of up to 60% targetedYou wouldn't lend him your car, but would Toad be worth investing money in? The …
London Symphony Orchestra's principal conductor issues statement following gay rights protests in London and New YorkValery Gergiev, the Russian conductor facing a gay rights protest at his …
Renowned dance theatre to create 500-seat space for mid-scale work amid growing appetite for dance from young and oldLondon's renowned dance centre Sadler's Wells is planning to make the cap…
Authors say excessive dominance is unhealthy and recommends reallocating lottery money to rebalance investment in EnglandPublic spending on the arts is heavily skewed towards London, with pe…
Young Vic announces The X Files star will play Blanche DuBois in 2014 production of Tennessee Williams classicGillian Anderson, fresh from her acclaimed role in the BBC2 thriller The Fall, i…
Research finds resurgence of interest in plays among younger people " and change in attitudes to audience etiquetteA higher proportion of people went to the theatre last year than attended a…
Show that attracted cult following during a run on Broadway more than a decade ago plays in London next FebruaryFor months, it has been referred to only as "UGC London", a secret musical tha…
Theatre launches ambitious project to find and perform UK's best-loved play written in EnglishHamlet and Macbeth will be up there, you would imagine, along with Waiting for Godot, An Inspect…
Artistic director says plays will transfer to London venue in 2014 and 2015 more than a decade after acrimonious splitThe Royal Shakespeare Company is to return to London's Barbican Centre i…
Cameron Mackintosh left 'flummoxed' after musical sells more than £4.4m worth of tickets in one day for 25th anniversary run It had songs such as I Still Believe and Now That I've Seen He…
Cowell is set to be the butt of many jokes − from lovechilds to high trouser waistlines " but he is taking them in good spirit"I honestly thought this is the worst idea I have ever hea…
Actor fined and given three penalty points over New Year's Eve incident in which his car hit a pedestrian in central LondonSteven Berkoff, the actor best known to some for his larger than li…
Report calls for free advertising on underground network and says mayor should appoint ambassador for small theatresTube posters for West End shows that have been left beyond their expiry da…
Report calls for free advertising on underground network and says mayor should appoint ambassador for small theatresTube posters for West End shows that have been left beyond their expiry da…
Eat Pray Laugh! show to take place across country from October to spring 2014With a telephone by her side " "it is in touch with the bedside of little Kate Middleton" " Dame Edna Everage on …
Ballet choreographed by Will Tuckett will run at Duchess theatre over Christmas as ROH follows in footsteps of National and RSCOne tricky issue will be the interval car chase of Toad. "We've…
Festival theatre's Angus Jackson to direct Langella in role often called the Ever~est of acting at Minerva theatre in NovemberFrank Langella, the triple-Tony award winning actor who memorabl…
English National Ballet scores coup with new commissions as part of programme inspired by centenary of first world warNew works by British choreographers Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant and Li…
First adaptation of PG Wodehouse's comedy double act as a play is based largely on 1938 book The Code of the WoostersThere are the books of course, TV series in the sixties and nineties, rad…
Top performer who walked from Midnight Express will dance principal role with Stanislavsky Ballet in London"He is a good boy," Vladimir Urin said reassuringly to the dancer normally portraye…
Play about maths genius equals Matilda's record, as Helen Mirren has first win and Top Hat is named best musicalThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time dominated the UK's most pres…
Roddy Doyle says admiration for shows such as The Producers finally persuaded him to allow staging of bestselling novel Continue reading...
Roddy Doyle says admiration for shows such as The Producers finally persuaded him to allow staging of bestselling novelOne very big reason why it has taken 25 years for The Commitments to hi…
First production in six years, The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable, to be staged in huge disused venue in central LondonMost theatre companies announce new productions in a press release. Onl…