5,590 stories by "Mark Shenton"
Duchess Theatre, London: It's hardly an original idea: the spectacle of plays going wrong have long provided comic delight from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to Mich…
Some shows, it has to be said, are cruel to audiences, simply by dint of making them watch. Others are cruel to their clothes. Though the front rows are issued with special protective gear f…
Director Jamie Lloyd has answered accusations of animal cruelty made against his West End production of Richard III for its treatment of a live goldfish.
London's Hampstead Theatre is to present two plays about two essential public services in the U.K.: the world premiere of Roy Williams' Wildefire about the Metropolitan Poli…
The West End is to dim its lights Sept. 12 at 7 PM (2 PM EST) in memory of Sir Donald Sinden, who died at home, aged 90, Sept. 11 after suffering a long illness.
While White Christmas, a stage version of the 1954 Irving Berlin film musical of the same name, is to be presented at the West End's Dominion Theatre this Christmas season, a different p…
U.K. television presenter and author Alan Titchmarsh, best known for such shows as "Gardener's World," "Ground Force" and "The Alan Titchmarsh Show," is to …
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again. Or, as Beckett once put it, “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” Theatre producers …
Love Story, Howard Goodall and Stephen Clark's 2010 musical based on the 1970 film of the same name and Erich Segal's best-selling novel, is to be revived at London's Union T…
Punchdrunk is to premiere a new exhibit called Against Captain's Orders: A Journey Into the Uncarted, beginning March 28 at London's National Maritme Museum, which will run through A…
Ruthie Henshall will take part in the Last Night of the Proms — the televised event that marks the end of the annual BBC festival of live classical and popular music — wh…
Curve Theatre, Leicester: A 1980 Broadway hit about PT Barnum, the 19th-century circus entrepreneur and self-styled "greatest showman on earth", has now been revived, co-produced a…
Menier Chocolate Factory, London: The title of Becky Mode's short, fast, sketch-like play refers to the reservations diary of a fashionable New York restaurant, but 'fully committe…
My column on young producers made a very brief passing reference to the fate of young critics. To wit: “There are plenty of budding actors, writers, directors and even critics (though …
London's Almeida Theatre has announced plans for the winter and spring season that will include a belated London showing for artistic director Rupert Goold's 2011 RSC production of T…
Tricycle Theatre, London: The American dream unravels dramatically in Sam Shepard's combustible masterpiece, revived in a constantly alert, eventually scorching production that was firs…
This week Forbidden Broadway transfers from the Menier Chocolate Factory to the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre, while the first show it ever transferred " Fully Committed, which was ori…
Further casting has been announced for the U.K. premiere of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which begins performances Dec. 18 prior to an official opening Jan. 12, 2015, at the W…
St James Theatre, London: Ben Ockrent's new comedy Breeders is bright and breezy, acted with a fresh vigour and has some pertinent things to say about the desire to parent (whether you&…
A flood of new musicals will be arriving in the West End from New York this autumn. There are British premieres for the 2010 Tony-winning Memphis and the current Off-Broadway hit Here Lies L…
Initial casting has been announced for the previously announced new production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins that will begin performances at London's Menier Chocol…
Union Theatre, London: Here's a gorgeous, musically enveloping dream of a show that takes a beloved Shakespeare play and delicately transposes it to a pre-First World War English countr…
We’ve long known there are lots of theatres in London, but it wasn’t until the London Theatre Report was published that we could finally put a definitive number on them. There we…
The full cast has been announced for the new production of Cy Coleman, David Zippel and Larry Gelbart's 1990 Broadway musical City of Angels that will begin performances Dec. 5 at London…
Bonnie Langford and Gary Wilmot will join the West End company of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, currently running at the Savoy Theatre, beginning performances Sept 16.
