Bugsy Malone, a stage version of Alan Parker's 1976 debut film feature of the same name, will reopen London's Lyric Hammersmith after a multi-million pound redevelopment. It will…
The Old Vic production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, which had a sell-out run June 21-Sept. 13, is to be screened in 350 cinemas in the U.K. and Ireland Dec. 4 and 7 only, wit…
The world premiere of Sinatra 100, a concert celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra, will begin performances at the London Palladium Ma…
It may be difficult to credit nowadays, but tabloid newspapers were once home to serious and important critics. Kenneth Tynan cut his teeth on the Evening Standard before going to The Observ…
Here Lies Love, currently running at Off-Broadway's Public Theater, officially opens Oct. 13 following previews that began Sept. 30 at the new Dorfman Theatre (formerly the Cottesloe…
A new London fringe theatre Bridge House Theatre SE20, in Penge in South East London, is to be officially launched with Tony Palermo's It's a Wonderful Life, performed as a live radi…
A one-night concert performance of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's 1973 Broadway musical A Little Night Music to be held at the West End's Palace Theatre Jan. 26, 2015, will …
Full casting has been announced for a new production of Cole Porter's Anything Goes that will begin performances at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre Nov. 28 prior to an official opening …
Just this week I was writing about how Twitter often means having to say you’re sorry. As they always say, speak in haste and repent at leisure. But Twitter does bring out the defensiv…
Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews, which received its U.K. premiere in a season at Bath's Ustinov Studio in a production that began performances July 31 prior to an official opening Aug. 12, …
Ruby Wax is to bring her new solo show, Sane New World, based on her best-selling 2013 book, "Sane New World: Taming the Mind," to London's St. James Theatre. It …
I’ve long said there’s no right and wrong when it comes to reviewing: it’s always a matter of personal opinion. But critical judgement is also usually applied against a con…
Ambassadors Theatre, London: Director Ed Hughes gives his necessarily youthful reading of Macbeth for the National Youth Theatre an arresting opening that could have come straight out of the…
Apollo Theatre, London: It's not every day that an entirely original, Brechtian-inspired socialist show that also acts as a meta-musical, commenting on the form it is itself inhabiting,…
Landor Theatre, London: Sport and the theatre don't often go together, but the two worlds collided at Clapham's Landor pub. While the bar was packed with football fans watching tha…
Ambassadors Theatre, London: Oscar Wilde's story of The Picture of Dorian Gray has been given a radical but dramatically arid modern makeover for the "me" generation. Read th…
The Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Once has announced that it will complete its West End run March 21, 2015, at the Phoenix Theatre, following Ronan Keating's stint in the sh…
There are some shows you fall in love with at first sight. In the case of a musical, at first listen. That, for me, was the experience I had when I saw the premiere of…
Finborough Theatre, London: The Finborough Theatre is well known for its rediscoveries of long lost plays, but it has also been making great strides in reclaiming neglected musical gems. Com…
Even if theatre ultimately turns into a professional job and work for many of those engaged in the putting on of a show, it invariably begins as a passion project: something that has to be&#…
Jerry Herman's 1979 Broadway flop The Grand Tour is to receive its European premiere, beginning performances Jan. 1, 2015, at London's Finborough Theatre prior to an official opening…
London's current standby for the role of Elphaba, Emma Hatton, is to graduate to that lead role, beginning performances Feb. 2, 2015. She will succeed Kerry Ellis (who plays the role thr…
Further National Theatre plans for productions through April 2015 have been announced, including dates and casting for new plays by Shahid Nadeem and Sam Holcroft and a new production of Sha…
Harlow Playhouse, then touring: Barry Manilow's 1978 hit single Copacabana provided the springboard for a made-for-TV film, first aired in 1985, and then a stage musical, developed via …
Tom Stoppard, currently represented in the West End by a stage adaptation of Shakespeare in Love, for which he wrote the original screenplay, is to return to the National Theatre, where his …