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London's National Theatre has revealed the title and casting for its previously announced world premiere of a play by Tom Stoppard.
The Railway Children, a Laurence Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's novel of the same name that previously played at Waterloo Station for two seasons, is to return…
After previews began for Speed-the-Plow at the Playhouse Theatre, I asked whether Lindsay Lohan would have learned her lines by the time press night came around? I was reporting reactions fr…
Playhouse Theatre, London : David Mamet's 1988 play is an arresting but derivative satire on Hollywood's shallow values, but its staging now inadvertently provides its own commenta…
Broadway's Aaron Tveit is to make his U.K. theatre debut to play John Wilkes Booth in the Menier Chocolate Factory's production of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, which begins perf…
Just the other day I was remarking on the number of musicals Broadway is sending us, and the number of plays the West End is sending to Broadway. Broadway plays, of course, also come to̷…
The Old Vic, London: Sophocles' intense and timeless Greek revenge tragedy affords Kristin Scott Thomas another important change of dramatic register in the title role. In the last few …
Critics are not in the business, by and large, of being famous. One or two may have become infamous and dreaded and feared in their time, but it invariably passes when they stop reviewing. N…
Lindsay Lohan makes her professional stage debut in the new West End production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, which officially opens Oct. 2 following previews that began Sept.…
Miss Havisham's Expectations and Sikes & Nancy, a pair of solo shows based on Dickens characters, will be performed by Linda Marlowe and James Swanton, respectively, beginning pe…
Composer Georgia Stitt will showcase her work at the West End's Garrick Theatre Oct. 26 in a concert entitled My Lifelong Love. She will be joined by guests Simon Bailey, Norman Bowman, …
I've said it before and I'll say it again, new musicals are made, not born. They never arrive fully formed on the stage without a long preparation process. And even then there are endless pi…
Here Lies Love, currently running at Off-Broadway's Public Theater in an open-ended commercial run following its premiere there last year, begins performances at the new Dorfman …
Southwark Playhouse, London: Off-Broadway actor, director and playwright Geoffrey Nauffts was also formerly artistic director of the New York theatre company Naked Angels, under whose auspic…
We all pay, through our taxes, to support subsidised theatres, so there is a duty on those theatres to reach as many taxpayers as they possibly can. Of course, theatre is largely static (unl…
Nikolai Foster's 21st anniversary production of Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing, seen at London's Arts Theatre in 2013, is to be re-staged for an 18-week U.K. national …
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London: It was a masterstroke by the National back in June to have this play waiting in the wings as the verdict in Rebekah Brooks' trial was announced, and the…
Once again, the transatlantic exchange of shows is buzzing in both directions. They’re sending us a bunch of musicals, either in identical recreations of the original productions there…
Nicole Scherzinger is set to make her West End stage debut as Grizabella in the return of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, beginning performances Dec. 6 at the London Palladium prior …
Nicole Scherzinger is set to make her West End stage debut as Grizabella in the return of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, beginning performances Dec. 6 at the London Palladium prior …
Initial West End casting has been announced for Beautiful – the Carole King Musical that will begin performances Feb. 10, 2015, prior to an official opening Feb. 24 (a change from …
Theatre rehearsals are a safe and sacred place where actors and the people guiding them " directors, choreographers, musical directors, fight directors, dialogue coaches etc " can investigat…
A brand-new production of the Broadway musical Annie is to launch a new U.K tour, beginning performances July 11 at Newcastle's Theatre Royal, starring Craig Revel Horwood as Miss Ha…
Damn Yankees, the 1955 Broadway musical that revolves around baseball and was last revived in the West End at the Adelphi Theatre in 1997 in a tansfer of the 1994 Broadway revival, is to be …
The updated 2006 Off-Broadway edition of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, a musical revue based around the work of the prolific late Belgian singer-songwriter, is …
