Kristin Scott Thomas has been made a dame, and John Hurt has been knighted in the annual Queen's New Year's Honors list announced by Buckingham Palace, both for "services to dra…
Looking ahead to the 2015 spring theatre season in London and the U.K., theatregoers will see the first production of Gypsy in more than 40 years while Emma Thompson serves up the worst pies…
Mark Shenton selects his peaks and troughs among the capital's musicals and plays over the past year, noting that the West End seems to have found its way back to the 1980s. While last year&…
At this time of year, Classic FM " my station of choice while I work " becomes virtually unlistenable thanks to the constant stream of Christmas music it plays. But here’s an alternati…
Glenn Carter, who played the the title role in the 2000 Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar that he had previously played in the West End, is to return to the role for a new U.K. tour…
Critics inevitably look at what’s happening onstage in our end-of-year round-ups, and I’ve already provided my 10 best London musicals of the year and a critical round-up of the …
It’s the time of year when critics and commentators routinely draw up their best of the year lists, and I’m no exception. In the bumper Christmas edition of The Stage, you can fi…
A new production of Jerry's Girls, the 1985 Broadway musical revue that celebrated the work of composer Jerry Herman, is to receive a new production at London's St James Studio, begi…
A new production of Jerry's Girls, the 1985 Broadway musical revue that celebrated the work of composer Jerry Herman, is to receive a new production at London's St James Studio, begi…
The West End production of The Commitments, a stage version of Roddy Doyle's best-selling novel of the same name, has extended bookings at the Palace Theatre through Sept. 13, 2015.
Full casting has been announced for the new U.K. touring production of David Hare's 1993 play The Absence of War, that is being jointly produced by Headlong, Rose Theatre Kingston and Sh…
I’m currently enjoying the luxury of a month-long visit to New York, my favourite city on the planet " and it is giving me a chance to catch up with everything that’s playing her…
The U.K.'s Playful Productions, which in April 2015 will celebrate its fifth anniversary as an independent production company, has confirmed that its plans for the New Year will include …
The current U.K. and Irish tour of Jersey Boys has added further dates to its touring schedule for 2015, with visits now scheduled for Bradford's Alhambra Theatre, Cardiff's Wales Mi…
The West End premiere run of the 2005 Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is to shutter at the Savoy Theatre March 7, 2015. It follows the announcement that Gypsy is to begin performanc…
The revival of the 1959 Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents musical Gypsy that ran at Chichester Festival Theatre in October and November has confirmed its West End transfer to …
There’s a final flurry of new shows opening in London and around the country ahead of Christmas " and not much of a break after it as the theatre schedule resumes almost immediately in…
Donmar Warehouse, London: This heavenly musical premiered on Broadway in 1989, bringing a decade of British domination of musicals there to an end. It did so with a jazz-based score in the c…
I’ve long had to remind myself that I simply can’t get to everything, much as I try. Sometimes, though, I get a second bite of the cherry. As I've written about previously, I mis…
The West End premiere of a heavily revised version of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane's 2010 Broadway musical version of the 1988 film of the sam…
Casting has been announced for a new Royal Shakespeare Company production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman that will begin performances at Stratford-upon-Avon's Royal S…
Almeida Theatre, London: One of the presumably unintended consequences of the Royal Shakespeare Company no longer having a permanent London home has been that its productions are nowadays on…
I’m in New York for the next month, and of course will be drawing on the hospitality of New York theatre publicists as much as I can " Broadway theatre is, often, simply unaffordable t…
London's first major revival of Cy Coleman, David Zippel and Larry Gelbart's 1990 Broadway musical City of Angels opens officially Dec. 16, following previews that began Dec. 6, for …
Jack Thorne’s Hope recently opened at the Royal Court, offering a fictional account of the difficult choices local councils have to make when trying to achieve the sort of cuts that ar…