Radiant Vermin, a new comedy by Philip Ridley, is to receive its world premiere at Bristol's Tobacco Factory Theatre, beginning performances Feb. 27, 2015, for a run through March 7, bef…
Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre's Winter Festival, London: Ten years on from its first appearance on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2004, La Soiree is now an established feature of the glo…
We live in an age where the price tag for everything is no longer what is stated on the official label. The price for a lot of things, it seems, is subject to variable conditions….
Jonathan Miller is to return to the U.K.'s touring company Northern Broadsides to direct a new production of King Lear, beginning performances at Halifax's Viaduct Theatre Feb. 27, 2…
Talawa Theatre Company, Britain's primary black-led theatre company, is to revive its 2013 production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, which it co-produced with Manchester'…
The members of Mischief Theatre company, currently represented in the West End by their production of The Play That Geos Wrong, will bring Lights! Camera! Improvise! to join it ther…
Comedian and stage actor Phill Jupitus is to join the cast of Urinetown, beginning performances Dec. 1. He takes over from Simon Paisley Day as Cladwell B. Cladwell, who departs Nov. 29.
Last week, I looked at the future of the fringe, amid a fevered debate that is being waged by Equity (and recently in the employment tribunal courts) about the enforcement of legal minimum w…
Charles Busch's 1985 play Times Square Angel, which still gets an annual one-night-only outing at New York's Theatre for a New City when it stars Busch himself, is to receive…
Nothing, they always say, lasts forever (apart from herpes). But just as I still mourn the loss over here of Dress Circle, which provided a social hub for musical theatre fans as well as a&#…
The full cast has been announced for the revival of Nina Raine's Tiger Country, which premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 2011 and is now returning there to begin performances Dec. 8 prior…
Three-time Laurence Olivier Award winner Philip Quast is to reprise the role of Sweeney Todd's Judge Turpin — a part he played at New York's Avery Fisher Hall …
I’ve often said that there’s no such thing as right and wrong when it comes to reviewing " it is always a matter of opinion, and our job is only to write as persuasively as…
A film version of Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre production of Hamlet, which completed its run Oct. 25, has been made, and is set to open in approximately 200 cinemas in the U.K. in…
Additional tickets will be released for sale for three West End musicals: Memphis the Musical, Mamma Mia! and Jersey Boys, which will now all be taking bookings through October 2015.
Adelphi Theatre, London: The template for Made in Dagenham is clearly Billy Elliot: an all-new, made in Britain musical based on a film about a true-life industrial dispute that led to lasti…
It's a busy week for transfers from the regions to London (including productions from Canterbury, Colchester and Birmingham), plus a return to London for La Soiree for the first time in thre…
A reimagining of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado will begin performances at London's Charing Cross Theatre Nov. 27, prior to an official opening Dec. 2, for a six-week run thro…
Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings: you’ve just missed one of the musical theatre productions of the year. The trouble is it only ran for seven performances that ended on November 4…
David Seidler's The King's Speech, originally written as a play before it was adapted as the Oscar-winning 2010 feature film, is to launch a national U.K. tour in a production th…
Unless you were around in 1933, when Terence Rattigan’s debut play premiered at the Q Theatre in Kew and subsequently transferred to the West End’s Comedy Theatre in January 1934…
London's Donmar Warehouse is to present a revival of Patrick Marber's 1997 play Closer with a cast that includes Rufus Sewell, plus offer the premieres of James Graham's The Vote…
Union Theatre, London: The Union Theatre concludes its mini-retrospective of Howard Goodall's musicals with a production of Girlfriends that proves to be the biggest revelation yet. Whi…
Jermyn Street Theatre, London: Director Tom Littler's Primavera continues to make intriguing dramatic rediscoveries of lost or neglected plays by now unearthing Terence Rattigan's …
Establishing your exact employment status is a tricky matter when it comes to bringing cases to an employment tribunal, as I recently found to my own personal cost when I claimed unfair dism…