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Matt Cardle, winner of the seventh series of the U.K.'s "The X Factor" in 2010, is to join the West End company of Memphis the Musical, beginning performances July 6 at the Sha…
Motown the Musical, the hit Broadway jukebox musical based on the legendary Motown catalogue that features a book by Motown founder Berry Gordy, has found its West End home and set dates. It…
Just the other day I was trumpeting the spectacular crossover made from plays to musicals by Jamie Parker, and no sooner had
Broadway composing giants Cole Porter, Frank Loesser and Jerry Herman are all being celebrated in shows big and small this week, among
A new production of High Society, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Arthur Kopt based on the 1956 film of the same name, opens at London's Old Vic Theatre May 14, follow…
There’s a priceless moment in Peter Morgan’s The Audience " an entirely imagined recreation of the weekly meetings between the Queen and
The Royal Shakespeare Company's revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which ran at Stratford-upon-Avon's Royal Shakespeare Theatre through May 2, is transferrin…
Not since Another Country in the early 1980s " which launched actors as diverse as Kenneth Branagh, Rupert Everett, Daniel Day-Lewis, Colin
Britain elected a new government last week — or at least it re-elected David Cameron as Prime Minister, but gave him a clear majority this time so he was no longer in…
Casting has been announced for the world-premiere run of Damon Albarn's new musical wonder.land, beginning performances June 29 prior to an official opening July 2 at Manchester'…
Grand Hotel — the 1989 Tony-winning musical that has a book by Luther Davis based on Vicki Baum's novel of the same name, music and lyrics by George Forrest and Robert Wrig…
Beginning June 15, a new line-up of principals and ensemble members will join some existing cast for the West End production of Les Misérables, now in its 30th year at the Que…
This week previews begin in the West End for Bend It Like Beckham, a rare sighting of an all-new British-written musical with
A new production of Nöel Coward's Hay Fever, starring stage and TV veteran Felicity Kendal as Judith Bliss, matriarch of a highly theatrical family, opens at the West End's …
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Critics and the theatres we cover exist in a delicately arranged and finely managed relationship. Our jobs depend, after all, on the
Susan H. Schulman, whose Broadway credits include The Secret Garden, Little Women and revivals of Sweeney Todd and The Sound of Music, is to direct the world premiere of Hoagy Carmichael'…
Susan H. Shulman, whose Broadway credits include The Secret Garden, Little Women and revivals of Sweeney Todd and The Sound of Music, is to direct the world premiere of Hoagy Carmichael'…
It’s a week big on transfers of productions first seen outside the capital, proving just how much London theatre relies on a
The New York based singer-songwriter Scott Alan has been in London for four sold-out concerts at the St James Theatre and Studio
The London premiere of the musical version of Stephen King's novel Carrie, 27 years after the musical was first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, finally takes place May 6 at Sout…
Opera North, a regional opera company based in Leeds in the U.K. which also tours extensively, plans to stage new productions of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate and Sondheim and Lapine's…
Last week Rufus Norris directed his first production as artistic director of the National Theatre there, and the early verdicts are now
The West End return for Peter Morgan's The Audience opens officially May 5 at the Apollo Theatre, following previews that began April 21. The run is booking through July 25. Kristin Scot…
Today I kick off a new weekly feature, that will provide a constant update on what's hot (and sometimes what's not) and what's to watch in London, onstage and off. Stay tuned &am…
