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Shakespeare's Globe has announced details for the final season that Dominic Dromgoole will preside over as artistic director in 2015.
The other day I returned to Wicked again. I’d been invited to see Jennifer DiNoia, a sparky American performer who has been associated with the show for over eight years, and who has n…
London's Young Vic has announced a series of plays for its smaller studio theatres that will include the London premiere of Mike Bartlett's Bull, a triple bill of plays by Tennessee …
You Me Bum Bum Train, a unique interactive theatrical experience previously nominated for an Olivier Award in 2013 for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, is to return to London…
London's Old Vic Theatre is to present the London premiere of Daniel Kitson's Tree, which was previously presented at Manchester's Royal Exchange, and a new production of Cole Po…
It’s the lull before the Christmas show storm in London, with no West End openings at all over the next seven days. But that doesn't mean there's nothing to see… Forbidden Broadw…
Brodie Donougher, an 11-year-old from Blackpool, becomes the 39th boy to play the title role in Billy Elliot the Musical, beginning performances Nov. 19. Also joining the company is …
Professor Brian Cox is to write and direct The Age of Starlight that will be presented at the 2015 Manchester International Festival that, according to press materials, is "a world firs…
We’re in the midst of awards season again, with the publication of the Evening Standard shortlist for its annual Theatre Awards, and nominations opening for both The Stage Awards and t…
Elephants, a new comedy by debut playwright Rose Heiney, is to begin performances at Hampstead Theatre's Downstairs Dec. 11 for a run through Jan. 17, 2015.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, currently running at the West End's Savoy Theatre, where it is booking through March 7, 2015, is to launch a U.K. national tour that will begin performances at B…
St James Theatre, London: In 2011, the ever-invaluable Finborough in Earl's Court uncovered another of its regular rediscoveries with the first-ever revival, since its original producti…
Awards are, of course, not the reason people work in the theatre. But they’re always nice to have " a recognition of work done well, and a badge of professional pride to mark a particu…
The shortlist for the 60th Annual London Evening Standard Theatre Awards — London's longest-standing theatre awards ceremony — has been announced.
Off the Page, a new series of online "micro-plays" that are being presented in a collaboration between Royal Court playwrights and theatre directors and Guardian journalists, h…
Full casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Jennifer Haley's The Nether, which received its U.K. premiere at London's Royal Court in Jeremy Herrin's co-produ…
Broadway no longer produces the same dizzying number of new musicals it once did, nor for that matter the number of outright flops, either, that used to make seeing them before they folded s…
Louie Spence will join the previously announced Jason Manford in a new U.K. touring version of The Producers that will begin performances at Bromley's Churchill Theatre in Southeast Lond…
Ivo van Hove's production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, which played a sell-out season at London's Young Vic Theatre, where it opened in April, is to transfer to…
The Donmar Warehouse's revival of Kevin Elyot's 1994 play My Night with Reg, which played a sell-out run at the Covent Garden venue from July to September this year, is to transf…
Minerva Theatre, Chichester: It's one surprise to find Chichester's 'summer season' now stretching to play all the way into early December. But it's an even bigger s…
This week, London saw the long overdue stage debut of a New York theatrical veteran, even legend. But no, it wasn’t at the Royal Albert Hall " or even the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. It was…
Godspell — last presented in the West End for a one-night concert gala that was held May 19 at the Lyric Theatre, featuring the orchestrations of the 2011 Broadway rev…
Going to the theatre is partly a job for me, of course, but it remains (at least most of the time and above all) a pleasure first. My own theatre diary for the next week…
Jeyll and Hyde is to be staged in a new adaptation by Jo Clifford for a U.K. tour that will begin performances at London's Greenwich Theatre Feb. 11, 2015, prior to an official opening F…
