This week Evita returned to the West End’s Dominion Theatre, and as I declared in my review for The Stage, “It's the oldest cliche in showbiz to stay a star is born, but one has&…
Tony winner Frances Ruffelle (the original Eponine in Les Miserables) is to reprise her solo cabaret show Paris Original at London's St. James Studio for three performances Oct. 1-3.
A new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway classic Oklahoma! is to be staged for an extensive U.K. tour, beginning performances at Northampton's Derngate Theatre Feb. 19,…
For as long as I’ve been going to the South Bank, the skateboarding arena below the Queen Elizabeth Hall have been providing a wonderful example in urban colonisation and the creative …
Lindsay Lohan makes her professional stage debut Sept. 24 in the new West End production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow at the Playhouse Theatre. The production, which officiall…
Southwark Playhouse, London: The Forest of Arden is summonsed to the industrial shed of Southwark Playhouse with the mere flutter of a few hundred (or maybe thousand) strips of multi-coloure…
Dominion Theatre, London: It's the oldest cliche in showbiz to stay a star is born, but one has arrived in Madelena Alberto in the title role of the West End's new Evita. I first s…
As a critic, you have to get used to sometimes being unpopular. And sometimes it comes at a price: just last week, Charles Spencer wrote a heartfelt farewell to his Daily Telegraph reader…
This week I had a spare free guest ticket for a play, and put a call out on Facebook to see if anyone wanted to join me. It was snapped up in a minute. But…
A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. But only one word was needed when English National Opera released publicity stills of Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson in character and in costum…
Thriller Live has extended booking at the West End's Lyric Theatre through Sept. 6, 2015, with a further 138,000 extra tickets now on sale. It had previously been booking thorugh April 2…
The West End run of King Charles III, Mike Bartlett's play that imagines a future when Prince Charles takes over the monarchy from his mother Queen Elizabeth, has extended its run at Wyn…
Shakespeare's Globe, London: Shakespeare's Globe is one of the most embracing public theatre spaces in the capital, and in a year of inevitable remembrance for the 100th anniversary of …
This week a new London production of Sweeney Todd was announced that will come to the London Coliseum next year, initiating a new partnership between ENO and new commercial managers GradeLin…
London's Barbican Centre is to offer new productions that include Belgian director Ivo van Hove directing Juliette Binoche in a new English translation of Sophocles' Antigon…
London's Barbican Centre is to host a three-week International Beckett Season, featuring nine pieces performed by six international companies and artists.
Twickenham Theatre: A brand-new intimate fringe theatre above a pub in Twickenham gets off to a rousing and inspiring start with a musically and scenically stunning production of Sondheim�…
Regular readers will know I see a lot of theatre. Too much, I sometimes think. My husband regularly tries to wean me off the relentless schedule, but I can never manage it. I wonder if…
Casting has been announced for a new production of John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's A Whore that will open the second season at the new indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespare…
Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson will reprise the roles that they performed in a semi-staged production of Sweeney Todd, produced by the York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center earlier this yea…
Vaudeville Theatre, London: In New York, Forbidden Broadway always stands consciously (and sometimes self-consciously) on the sidelines, throwing potshots at its illustrious targets from the…
Last week every single West End theatre went simultaneously dark. Fortunately it wasn’t a massive power outage, or worse a catastrophic run of bad shows, that caused it, but a planned …
One of London's oldest pie shops is to host a new intimate production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd, beginning performances Oct. 21 at Harrington's Pie and …
Full casting has been confirmed for the West End return of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita that will begin performances Sept. 16 at the Dominion Theatre, prior to an of…
Jenna Russell, Tony-nominated in 2008 for Best Actress in a Musical when she reprised her West End performance as Dot in Sunday in the Park with George, and Samantha Spiro are to join or…