I won’t deny that it is one of the considerable perks of my job that I sometimes meet my heroes. They say you should never meet your heroes, but I am happy to say that…
Garrick Theatre, London: When I first reviewed The Scottsboro Boys at its British premiere last October for The Stage, I expressed doubts that it would have a commercial life beyond the Youn…
Okay, the man sitting in front of me at the Shaftesbury Theatre on Saturday afternoon couldn’t help being tall. But it was like having a pillar in front of me, and no ordinary pillar e…
Potted Sherlock, which follows Potted Potter (which has played the West End and Off-Broadway), Potted Panto and Potted Pirates, is to come to the West End's Vaudeville Theatre to pla…
Alexandra Burke is to reprise the role of Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard, which she previously played in the final months of the West End run, when it embarks on an extensive U.K. and Irelan…
Laura Pitt-Pulford will play Maria and Michael French will play Captain Von Trapp in a new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music beginning performances Nov. 28 p…
Plans for the 2015 season at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre include a major revival of David Hare's The Absence of War, prior to a national tour, plus Arthur Miller's Playing for T…
This year’s UK Theatre Awards, held in the baronial splendour of London’s Guildhall, brought the assorted administrators, marketing and press departments of UK’s regional t…
Alex Gaumond will join the West End company of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, taking over the role of Freddy Benson from Rufus Hound, beginning performances Nov. 11.
The full cast has been announced for the West End production of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, beginning performances Feb. 10, 2015, prior to an official opening Feb. 24, at …
Mrs. Henderson Presents, a stage version of the 2005 film of the same name that starred Judi Dench and the late Bob Hoskins, is to receive its world premiere at the U.K.'s Bath Theatre R…
Mrs. Henderson Presents, a stage version of the 2005 film of the same name that starred Judi Dench and the late Bob Hoskins, is to receive its world premiere at the U.K.'s Bath Theatre R…
Jennifer Haley's The Nether, which received its U.K. premiere at London's Royal Court in Jeremy Herrin's co-production with Headlong Theatre, is to transfer to the West End, …
Young Vic Theatre, London: After its recent sell-out production of A Streetcar Named Desire, the Young Vic offers a new production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, continuing its amazin…
I’ve been seeing a slew of new musicals and revivals recently, including in the last week alone Here Lies Love, The Infidel and Gypsy, while the previous week brought Urinetown back to…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London: Though David Baddiel's stage musical version of his 2010 hit comedy film The Infidel inevitably recalls shows such as The Book of Mormon, Monty Pyt…
In Twelfth Night, Duke Orsino declares, “If music be the food of love, play on; /Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, /The appetite may sicken, and so die.” But if theatre is …
One of the first things Nick Hytner programmed after he took over the reins at the National Theatre was Jerry Springer " the Opera, with its famous song I Just Wanna (Fucking) Dance, thrilli…
The Twickenham Theatre, London's newest fringe theatre that was established above the London Road pub in the south-west London suburb of Twickenham, has shuttered after its sell-…
A late-night concert performance of Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald's 1995 Off-Broadway musical John and Jen is to be staged at the Delfont Room at the West End's Prince of Wa…
Sell a Door Theatre Company and Richard Darbourne Ltd., who toured Avenue Q for six months earlier this year, will tour it again in 2015-16 in the U.K., beginning performances April 22, …
Jason Robert Brown, the three-time Tony winning-composer of such shows as Parade, The Bridges of Madison County and 13, will appear in concert at London's Royal Festival…
Dorfman, National, London: By sheer coincidence, the London transfer of the Off-Broadway hit Here Lies Love coincides with a West End revival of Evita, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber'…
The overriding reason for going to the theatre is, of course, to see what it is that is being presented on its stage. "The play's the thing", to borrow a phrase of Shakespeare's. But it's…
A new production of the classic 1959 Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents musical Gypsy officially opens at Chichester Festival Theatre Oct. 14, following previews that began Oct…