Two writer-directors who work both in the theatre and on film will stage their own new work at London's Almeida this fall, with Stephen Poliakoff directing the world premiere of his latest p…
Broadway's Rock of Ages, currently on hiatus before resuming performances March 24 at the Helen Hayes Theatre, has now set dates and a venue for a London production. It will begin performanc…
Stephen Sondheim is the recipient of the Olivier Special Award at this year's Laurence Olivier Awards ceremony, which is being held March 13 at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Nicola Stephenson and Patrick Robinson will join the West End cast of the National Theatre's production of War Horse at the New London Theatre, beginning performances March 9, to play Albert…
Imelda Staunton, Lucy Cohu and Tim Pigott-Smith will join the previously announced Penelope Wilton in the forthcoming revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance at London's Almeida Theatr…
The box office has opened for the London premiere of Lincoln Center Theater's Tony-winning production of South Pacific, which will begin performances at the Barbican Theatre Aug. 15 for a ru…
Keira Knightley returns to the Comedy Theatre, where she made her West End debut in 2009 in The Misanthrope, to star opposite "Mad Men" star Elisabeth Moss in a new production of Lillian Hel…
Nicholas Hytner's production of Hamlet, starring Rory Kinnear in the title role that was a sell-out success in the Olivier Theatre last year, will return for a season to the South Bank, begi…
This year's annual summer season at Chichester Festival Theatre and its adjoining Minerva Studio will go big on musicals, including new productions of She Loves Me (starring Wicked's Dianne …
Stephen Fry, who made his own contribution to British musical theatre history when he did the book revisions to the hit 1980s West End and Broadway revival of Me and My Girl, will host The G…
Rupert Everett, last seen onstage on Broadway when he starred in Blithe Spirit opposite Angela Lansbury at the Shubert Theatre in 2009, will reprise the role of Professor Henry Higgins in Ge…
Love Story, a West End musical version of the Erich Segal novel that became the famous tear-jerker film of the same name, is to shutter Feb. 26 at the Duchess Theatre. It opened Dec. 6, 2010…
James Purefoy and Sheridan Smith will join the previously announced Sienna Miller in Trevor Nunn's production of Terence Rattigan's Flare Path, beginning performances at the Theatre Royal, H…
Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle, of "Slumdog Millionaire" fame, returns to to directing for the theatre for the first time in 15 years with a new stage version of Mary Shelley's Frankenst…
The West End has posted record results for the seventh year running, with box office revenues achieving a new high of £512,331,808, up 1.46 percent on a like-for-like basis on 2009 and…
The Royal Court will premiere the second play of Anya Reiss, a double award winner of most promising playwright awards from both the Critics' Circle and Evening Standard Theatre Awards for h…
Shakespeare's Globe in London has confirmed plans to move forward with the completion of an indoor Jacobean theatre, the shell of which already exists on the Globe site in Southwark.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, currently at the West End's Adlephi Theatre, will have a round of major cast changes, beginning March 7.
Additional details have been announced for the Young Vic Theatre's new season through March 2012.
Pacino has the kind of charismatic intensity that means you can’t take your eyes off him whenever he is onstage, but the particular pleasure of Daniel Sullivan’s production is th…
Andrew Lloyd Webber's new stage production of The Wizard of Oz, based on the story by L Frank Baum as immortalized in the 1939 M-G-M film musical featuring music and lyrics by Harold Arlen a…
Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, seen at Off-Broadway's Second Stage in 2009, receives its British premiere at London's Almeida Theatre Jan. 20 (following previews from Jan. 13), for a run thro…
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber talks to Playbill.com's London correspondent Mark Shenton about his latest show, The Wizard of Oz, as well as current and future projects.
The only people with nothing to worry about are producers David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers, who have another solid West End hit on their hands and a sure-fire Broadway transfer ahead.