The multiple Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Hairspray, which premiered on Broadway in 2002 and won the Tony for Best Musical in 2003, is to embark on a new 40-week tour to 29…
Bat Boy: The Musical, seen Off-Broadway in 2001 and subsequently at the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre in 2004, is to receive its first London revival, beginning performances Jan. 9,…
Peter Morgan's The Audience is to return to the West End, with Kristin Scott Thomas inheriting the role of Queen Elizabeth II originated by Helen Mirren, as Mirren reprises the role on B…
Bend It Like Beckham, a new British musical version of the 2002 film of the same name, is headed to the West End, where it will begin performances May 15, 2015, prior to an official opening …
Theatre, both offstage and on, is often a question of timing. And it was the unfortunate timing of Once to arrive in the West End last year in the immediate juggernaut wake of The Book…
This week saw the West End transfer of one new British created musical, Sunny Afternoon, which wowed the critics, including me at Hampstead Theatre and again now at the Pinter. But can we cr…
Harold Pinter Theatre, London: "Will they still be playing it in 30 years' time?", asks Ray Davies of his song Sunny Afternoon when it is first released in 1966. Not only are …
I’ve somehow managed to miss Tooting in my 35 years of living in London so far. But until Monday night, I had no reason to go there. Then the Tooting Arts Club put on a…
London's Regent's Park Open Air Theatre is to stage new productions of Peter Pan, The Seagull and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in its 2015 season, as well as a reprise of its 2011…
Harrington's Pie and Mash Shop, London: I've seen Sweeney Todds large and small from the Royal Opera House to the Union Theatre, and now from Broadway to Tooting Broadway. Visiting the …
Look through the listings of what’s playing on Broadway right now and you’ll recognise most of the titles and/or the casts and/or the authors. It’s unusual for a show to ge…
I’m just back from New York, where the Brits are out in force this autumn. I ran into producer Sonia Friedman on Eighth Avenue " she was running into a tobacconist at the time, as̷…
Willemijn Verkaik, Ricardo Alfonso and Haydn Oakley have joined the previously announced Tamsin Greig, Haydn Gwynne, Jérôme Pradon and Anna Skellern in the West End prem…
Full casting has been announced for the return of Cats to the London Palladium; performances begin Dec. 6 prior to an official opening Dec. 11.
British comedian Jason Manford is to play Leo Bloom in a new U.K. touring version of The Producers that will begin performances at Bromley's Churchill Theatre in south-east London Ma…
Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games, which had its premiere at the London Palladium in September for a season that is about to close Oct. 25, is to be reprised at the We…
James McAvoy is to return to the West End's Trafalgar Studios to star in the first-ever revival of Peter Barnes' 1968 play The Ruling Class, beginning performances Jan. 16, 2015,…
Shaftesbury Theatre, London: It took Hairspray, the 2003 Tony winner for best musical, five years to reach London and now Memphis, the 2010 winner, has taken the same amount of time to trans…
I’ve been on one of my regular New York theatre binges this week, catching up on some of the 10 new shows that will have opened by Sunday this week. I’ve long missed the first…
Linda Gray is to make her U.K. pantomime debut to play the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella at London's New Wimbledon Theatre, beginning performances Dec. 5 prior to an official opening Dec…
Mark Hayhurst's Taken at Midnight, currently receiving its world premiere at Chichester's Minerva Theatre though Nov. 1, is to transfer to the West End's Theatre Royal, Haymarket…
Autumn winds may be stripping the leaves from the trees, but it's springtime in theatreland, with budding new shows sprouting up all over the country. My picks this week reflect the current …
The Welsh rugby legend Gareth Thomas is to be the subject of a new verbatim play Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage that will premiere at Cardiff's Sherman Theatre, beginning performances Feb.…
Broadway producer David Binder, who is currently represented as lead producer on Hedwig and the Angry Inch, is to join London's LIFT Festival as artistic associate. He will work with LIF…
Duke of York's Theatre, London: The Duke of York's Theatre has been turned into damp, smelly swampland. And no, I'm not talking about the state of the toilets there, but that of th…