5,590 stories by "Mark Shenton"
Bradley Cooper is to reprise his performance in Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man, currently running at Broadway's Booth Theatre through Feb. 21, at London's Theatre Royal, Ha…
I’ve had an exhilarating few days catching up with new productions of a couple of classic modern musicals and revisiting an already classic brand-new show, too. Musicals, of course, ar…
Tony-winning actor Jim Dale is to return to the West End to the same venue where he made his West End musical debut 50 years ago when he brings his recent Off-Broadway biographical s…
Gary Watson is to join the London cast of Jersey Boys, taking over the role of Nick Massi, beginning performances March 10. He joins Michael Watson as Frankie Valli, Edd Post as Bob Gaudio a…
It’s a big week for London theatre, with the premiere of a new Stoppard at the National (his first new play since 2006′s Rock ‘n’ Roll which transferred from the R…
Rufus Norris, who is to take over from Nick Hytner as director of the National Theatre in April, has announced plans for the opening year with new chief executive Tessa Rose. It will include…
Critics claim not to like the star rating system because it reduces our work to a simple symbol, and discourages people from actually reading the words to find out what you really thought. B…
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…
In a recent feature in The Guardian, Michael Billington wrote, "I find myself in pre-match training for a new Stoppard play at the National Theatre. All I know about The Hard Problem is that…
Greg Wise is to star in the European premiere of Brad Fraser's Kill Me Now, beginning performances at London's Park Theatre Feb. 19 prior to an official opening Feb. 24, for a run th…
Full casting has been announced the world premiere of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ - The Musical at Leicester's Curve, beginning performances March 4 prior to…
You Won’t Succeed on Broadway If You Don’t Have Any Jews, a one-night celebration of the ongoing Jewish contribution to musical theatre, is to be staged at the West E…
Simon Russell Beale has been appointed the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University. He will succeed Stephen Fry in the post in February and wi…
Southwark Playhouse: In 1987, four black candidates were elected to the House of Commons for the first time: Dianne Abbott and Keith Vaz (still MPs), the now-retired Paul Boateng and the lat…
I’ve recently seen three shows that between them run for the same amount of time it takes to see Les Miserables once. Minute-for-minute Les Mis is obviously much better value, but each…
The Donmar Warehouse's revival of Kevin Elyot's 1994 Olivier Award-winning play My Night with Reg, which played a sell-out run at the Covent Garden venue last year, transfers…
Ask most producers, and they’ll tell you that the hardest job of all is securing a theatre. On Broadway, it sometimes feels like shows hover like vultures over each other: one showR…
The first-ever West End revival of Peter Barnes' 1968 play The Ruling Class begins performances Jan. 16 at the West End's Trafalgar Studios, prior to a gala opening Jan. 28, for …
Felicity Kendal is to star in Noel Coward's Hay Fever at the West End's Duke of York's Theatre, beginning performances April 29 prior to an official opening May 11 for a run thro…
Southwark Playhouse, London: Bat Boy - the Musical is in the direct line of the pedigree of shows from The Rocky Horror Show and Little Shop of Horrors to Urinetown: cult musicals that began…
A new production of Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1944 comedy Harvey is set to receive a West End revival at London's Theatre Royal Haymarket, beginning performances March …
The West End transfer of Ivo van Hove's Young Vic production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge will be broadcast live March 26 as part of NT Live to over 1,500 venue…
Regional theatre, as ever, feeds London, and this week there are transfers for two highly acclaimed plays first seen outside the capital. These kick off this week’s round-up followed b…
Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews, which received its U.K. premiere in a season at Bath's Ustinov Studio in 2013, transfers to London's St. James Theatre, where it begin performances Jan.…
If at first you don’t succeed, goes the old saying, try, try, try again. But I prefer Samuel Beckett’s advice: “Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.&…
