The Old Vic production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, which had a sell-out run June 21-Sept. 13, is screened in 350 cinemas in the U.K. and Ireland Dec. 4 and 7 only, with furt…
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to embark on a major restoration project of the Swan Wing of its Stratford-upon-Avon base, the oldest part of the company's theatres there.
I feel like I’ve written a lot of columns about the 'crisis in criticism' over the years, so I’m not going to go over those arguments here again. It’s nice, instead, to …
Menier Chocolate Factory, London: It's official - the Menier Chocolate Factory, which has done so much to re-investigate and reclaim Sondheim's work in vivid, striking new ways, is…
This time last year I wondered aloud about the results of that year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards. It seemed to me that the process " which produced a longlist of potential nominee…
Union Theatre, London: Charles Busch's play, first premiered Off-Broadway in 1985 and now revived in New York by its author every year for the past decade for a one-off Christmas staged…
The Stage, as I noted here, reviews more shows around the country than any other national publication, a daunting task at any time of year but especially now with the mad rush of Christmas e…
A new production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins, which premiered at Off-Broadway's Playwright's Horizons in 1990 and received its British premiere at the Do…
Tom Hiddleston, Gillian Anderson and the London productions of The Scottsboro Boys and Here Lies Love are amongst the winners of the Evening Standard Theatre Awards, presented Nov. 30 in a c…
London's King's Head Theatre is to offer Shock Treatment, a stage premiere of Richard O'Brien's 1981 film of the same name that was a sequel to "The Rocky Horror Picture…
Charles Strouse and Lee Adams's short-lived 1966 Broadway musical It's a Bird… It's a Plane…. It's Superman is to get a short West End run, beginnin…
Danielle Hope, who won the BBC's "Over the Rainbow" reality casting show to star as Dorothy in the London Palladium stage production of The Wizard of Oz in 2011, is to star in …
British comedy favorite Ross Noble is set to make his musical theatre debut in the new U.K. touring production of The Producers. He will join the the tour May 18, 2015, when it plays Woking&…
Full casting has been announced for the first-ever West End revival of Peter Barnes' 1968 play The Ruling Class that will begin performances Jan. 16 at the West End's Trafalgar S…
Hackney Empire, London: The best local in-house pantomimes don't just create a sense of community ownership; they create their own sense of community in themselves. Nowhere is this bett…
The show, they always say, must go on, and in the theatre, that means understudies are a fact of life. Actors are only human and will succumb to illness, like the rest of us. I’ve̷…
It’s not all pantos and Christmas fare just yet, though my own week actually starts by reviewing one at Hackney Empire and then continues with the Union’s seasonal UK premiere fo…
Phoenix Theatre, London: Once first arrived in the West End in the immediate juggernaut wake of The Book of Mormon, so it inevitably slipped a little below the radar. But in some ways this i…
Critics are only human " and we all do a bit of navel gazing from time to time. I’ve often written about the future of theatre reviewing here, as I observe a fast-changing landscape wh…
A season of four new plays has been announced for London's Bush Theatre, all of which deal in different ways with a struggle for justice, including the British premiere of American write…
Liverpool Playhouse is to open its 2015 spring season with a new, 35th anniversary production of Willy Russell's Educating Rita, beginning performances Feb. 6 prior to an official openin…
Last Sunday, Chicago " already the longest-running American musical revival in either West End or Broadway history " set yet another new record to become Broadway’s second-longest runn…
Northampton's Royal & Derngate Theatre is to offer the world premiere of Arthur Miller's The Hook, co-produced with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse. It will begin …
I recently wrote about how punters enjoy bad reviews " and how those that draw attention by objecting publicly to them can end up attracting more publicity than they bargained for. Just last…
London's Hampstead Theatre is to revive Peter Souter's debut play Hello/Goodbye, a comedy that premiered at the theatre's Downstairs Studio last year and now transfers to the mai…