5,590 stories by "Mark Shenton"
Jon Lee, former member of the U.K. pop group S Club 7, whose stage credits include playing Marius in Les Miserables and Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys in the West End, is to star with Richard …
Theatre buildings exist, first and foremost, to offer a place for actors to perform their shows and for audiences to pay to see them do so. They are places where those two communities …
Full casting has been announced for the Donmar Warehouse's new all-female production of Henry IV that will begin performances Oct. 3 prior to an official opening Oct. 9, for a run throug…
The next couple of months are bringing a slew of new musicals to the West End: the locally-created Made in Dagenham to the Adelphi, plus two imports from New York, Here Lies Love (to theR…
Full casting has been confirmed for a new production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, co-produced by Newcastle's Northern Stage, Northampton's Royal & Derng…
Richard Schiff and Nigel Lindsay will join the previously announced Lindsay Lohan in the new West End production of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow, beginning performances Sept. 24 at the…
Tickets finally went on general public sale (after priority booking for Barbican members) on August 12 for a new production of Hamlet that will play at the Barbican a full year away. By 1…
I was in New York last week, and for once I immersed myself less overall in the life of the theatre than in the theatre of life in this buzziest of all cities. Instead of…
The new season at the U.K.'s Theater Royal Plymouth is to include new commissioned work by playwrights who include James Graham, D.C. Moore and April de Angelis.
Philip Ridley's Ghost from a Perfect Place, which premiered at London's Hamsptead Theatre in 1994, is to receive a 20th anniversary production at London's Arcola Theatre, beginni…
Lucy Punch is to replace Billie Piper in the West End transfer of the National Theatre’s production of Richard Bean’s Great Britain, beginning performances Sept. 9 prior to an of…
This year is my 30th anniversary of visiting the Edinburgh Fringe regularly, but I'm not there to mark it myself. While all media outlets, including this one, rightly focus much of their cri…
Broadway and Hollywood composer Jule Styne’s work is to be celebrated in Everything’s Coming Up Roses, a revue that will be presented at London’s Crazy Coqs beginning perfo…
The London production of Wicked, now running at the Apollo Victoria, has just set a new record, overtaking the 1985 revival of Me and My Girl to become the 14th longest-running musical in We…
Paul Clarkson, who won an Olivier Award for starring in the original 1984 London premiere of Howard Goodall’s The Hired Man, is to now direct the London professional premiere of Goodal…
We live in an age of big data: Big Brother isn’t just watching us, but big businesses (and smaller ones, too) are collecting information about us every time we go online. Of course …
Geoffrey Nauffts' 2010 Tony-nominated play Next Fall is to receive its U.K. premiere at London's Southwark Playhouse, beginning performances Sept. 24 prior to an official opening Sep…
Theresa Rebeck's 2011 Broadway play Seminar is to receive its U.K. premiere at London's Hampstead Theatre, beginning performances Sept. 25 prior to an official opening Oct. 1, for a …
Alan Bennett's Single Spies, a double-bill stage adaptation of his television films An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution, is to be revived at the Rose Theatre, Kingsto…
Altar Boyz, the 1985 Off-Broadway musical that played for over five yeas and more than 2,000 performances during its run at New World Stages, is to receive its London premiere at Greenwich T…
Complete casting has been announced for the world premiere of Made in Dagenham, the new musical version of the 2010 film of the same name that will begin performances Oct. 9 prior to an offi…
A new production of David Hare's The Vertical Hour, which premiered on Broadway in 2007 and was subsequently seen at London's Royal Court in 2008, is to be staged at London's Par…
In 2012-13 more than 22 million people attended London theatre performances, according to the London Theatre Report, the first-ever comprehensive study across all professional sectors of Lon…
Hamlisch, a concert celebrating the music of the late Broadway composer Marvin Hamlisch, will be staged for two performances only Aug. 24 at London's St. James Theatre, with performances…
The first new Broadway musical of the 2014-15 season Holler if Ya Hear Me has already closed. Billed as Broadway’s first hip-hop jukebox musical, it was based on the poetry and music o…
