Loserville, an original British musical originally created for Youth Music Theatre UK in 2009 before being given a professional outing at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds — wh…
We’re in the middle of awards season. And while the world ponders over whether Eddie Redmayne or Benedict Cumberbatch (two actors who began their careers on the London stage) will emer…
Michael Ball has been confirmed to lead the cast of a new production of Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart's 1974 Broadway musical Mack and Mabel that will begin performances at Chichester…
It's probably happened to us all, and now it’s happened to me. That dreadful sensation of feeling fit to burst " and you’re trapped in the middle of a row in the middle of a̷…
The three stars beautifully convey their characters' quirks, individuality and hurts with an open-hearted generosity and rapport that makes it entirely captivating.
There's no doubting the boldness of this bonkers play about a special kind of madness, and its alternately outrageous and courageous view of a titled - and heavily entitled - family's feud, …
Stoppard, now 77, is still spinning the plates of philosophical enquiry and discourse in the world premiere of his latest play, but it presents hard dramatic, as well as intellectual, proble…
Jonathan Church's production, which originated at Chichester's Minerva Theatre late last year, is a handsome, thoughtful addition to the West End roster. It may sometimes be gruelling to wat…
The 2005 Off-Broadway musical Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story, which received its London premiere at the Tristan Bates Theatre in 2011, will be revived for a new U.K. tour, w…
A new version of August Strindberg's The Father, previously seen at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre in 2012 and subsequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3, will receive its London pr…
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It’s a big week for fresh sightings of old shows " a play first seen at Hampstead’s downstairs studio in 2011 now finally reaches the West End, while Oh What a Lovely War returns…
Jenna Russell, Tony-nominated in 2008 for Best Actress in a Musical when she reprised her West End performance as Dot in Sunday in the Park with George, and Samantha Spiro join original …
Yesterday I hosted the annual Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards in my role as chairman of the drama section of the circle. It was my job to preside over the giving out of praise (and priz…
Tom Stoppard, currently represented in the West End by a stage adaptation of Shakespeare in Love, for which he wrote the original screenplay, returns to the National Theatre, where his new p…
Both the revivals of Gypsy and A View from the Bridge, first premiered in 2014 at Chichester Festival Theatre and London's Young Vic Theatre, respectively, have won awards in the U.K'…
This is no circus, but a massive barn-like structure big enough to accommodate a real-life train engine and a carriage.
The Nicks " Hytner and Starr " were always going to be a tough act to follow at the helm of the National Theatre. But they’ve also given their successors Rufus Norris and Tessa Ross…
Mark Hayhurst's Taken at Midnight, which received its world premiere at Chichester's Minerva Theatre last November, transfers to the West End's Theatre Royal, Haymarket, opening …
Made in Dagenham, an original musical version of the 2010 film of the same name that has been running at the West End's Adelphi Theatre since October prior to an official opening Nov. 5,…
Aaron Tveit is to depart the London revival of Assassins, currently running at the Menier Chocolate Factory though March 7, early, with West End regular and two-time Olivier Award nomine…
No Broadway composer who writes more than one or two shows is immune to the notorious flop: even Stephen Sondheim has had two, Anyone Can Whistle and Merrily We Roll Along. And Jerry Herman,…
The previously announced new production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest that will star David Suchet as Lady Bracknell has announced its full cast, as well as its West En…
Lara Pulver is to reprise her role as Louise and Peter Davison is newly joining the cast to play Herbie opposite the previously announced Imelda Staunton in the West End transfer of Chichest…
John Goodman and Tom Sturridge will join the previously announced Damian Lewis in the new West End revival of David Mamet's 1975 play American Buffalo, which begins performances April 16…