Further casting has been revealed for the previously announced Follies in Concert performance, to be held April 28 for two performances only at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Principal casting has been announced for a new production of Cole Porter and Arthur Kopit's High Society, based on the 1956 film musical of the same name and Philip Barry's play The …
Carrie: the Musical, which premiered under the auspices of the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1988 before going on to a short-lived Broadway run, is to recei…
You shouldn’t judge any theatre by commercial success, and especially not by an ability to transfer shows to the West End or Broadway. Those are ruthless marketplaces where the things …
Soho Theatre, London: The age of the 'mega-musical', which was all about scale and turning shows into theme park rides with a set-piece thrill, has inevitably, it seems, been repla…
A relatively low-key week in London offers a chance to catch up on things further afield (including, for me, stocking up on two regional openings) and catching a repeat or two. A View from t…
Performances of a two-year tour of the West End production of The Bodyguard begin Sept. 12 at Southampton's Mayflower Theatre. Alexandra Burke is reprising the role of Rachel Marron …
Last year's London fringe production of Sondheim and Wheeler's Sweeney Todd that was presented in a site-specific staging at a real-life London pie and mash shop in Tooting i…
Southwark Playhouse, London: Russell Labey, also represented in London by a revival of his musical adaptation of Mary Hayley Bell's Whistle Down the Wind (that predated Lloyd Webber…
One swallow does not a summer make, goes the famous saying, but I’m always fascinated by how critics " seeing two shows around the same theme or subject " start immediately detecting t…
Salisbury Playhouse: This stage version of Helene Hanff's 1970 memoir of her love affair with rare books and the London bookshop that regularly shipped them to her in New York has come …
A few years ago, I remember telling a theatre producer, “You’ll miss us when we’re gone.” And then I hesitated and corrected myself, “You’ll miss some of …
The West End production of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical begins performances Feb. 10 prior to an official opening Feb. 24 at the Aldwych Theatre. It is currently booking thro…
Further casting has been announced for a new production of Nöel Coward's Hay Fever, beginning performances April 29 prior to an official opening May 11 at the West End's Duk…
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced plans for the winter season at its Stratford-upon-Avon headquarters, that will include a new production of Henry V directed by artistic di…
Elf, which played a Broadway season at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in 2010, is to receive its London premiere at the West End's Dominion Theatre, beginning performances Oct. 24 prior to an…
Gatehouse, London: A brave fringe attempt to resuscitate a fast Broadway flop from 1993 unfortunately flounders all over again, despite the best efforts of a hard-working cast led by two Wes…
I recently wrote about coming late to shows that other critics have both panned and raved about, and making up my own mind. But what about coming back to a show I’ve raved about myself…
London's Young Vic Theatre has announced a slate of seven new shows to be produced in 2015, including main house productions of O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness!, Rory Kinnear in Kafka&#…
Kinky Boots, winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Musical, is to receive its U.K. premiere at the West End's Adelphi Theatre, beginning performances Aug. 21 prior to an official openin…
Actors are sometimes warned that if they’re going to believe their good reviews, they have to believe their bad ones, too " so its probably safer to disregard both (at least until some…
A quieter week ahead in London theatre sees most of the activity on the fringe, apart from one major piece of new writing at the Royal Court. But there’s plenty of interesting work aro…
For most people who work in the theatre, it is more than a job " it is a way of life. Theatre has a way of working its way into your soul, and I know…
Theatre Royal, Stratford East: The current London import of Broadway's The Scottsboro Boys tells its chastening tale of a major but previously mostly forgotten instance of 1930s America…
Anna-Jane Casey, Ria Jones and Sarah-Louise Young will star in the previously announced London revival of the 1985 Broadway revue Jerry's Girls that celebrates the work of compos…