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The Print Room, a London fringe venue which opened in 2010 in a former 1950s warehouse that had served as a graphic design workshop in Notting Hill, has announced that it is moving to a new …
West End and Broadway producer Caro Newling has been appointed as President of the Society of London Theatre, the organization which represents the producers, theatre owners and managers of …
Dessa Rose, a musical based on the novel by Sherley Anne Williams of the same name that premiered Off-Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in 2005, is to receive its British premiere, b…
A series of theatrical furores have erupted recently, from Australia to America, that illustrate the widening reach of social media to put things under a minute and increasingly global spotl…
Arcola Theatre, London: This revelatory fringe production reveals haunting new textures in Rodgers and Hammerstein's richly patterned tapestry of life and romance among millworkers, fai…
There are some shows that you can’t give tickets away to, as witness the recent West End fates of Stephen Ward and I Can’t Sing! But both of them were playing in large West End…
Simon Bailey and Laura Pitt-Pulford are to star in the previously announced new production of the Sondheim revue Marry Me a Little, which begins performances July 29 at London's St.…
Women on the Verge of A Nervous Breakdown, David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane's 2010 Broadway musical version of the 1988 film of the same name by Pedro Almodóvar, is to receive its Br…
OK, here’s the moment I finally admit critical defeat. No, I’m not giving it all up – at least not yet – but sometimes it feels entirely impossible to make sense of w…
No sooner was I writing here yesterday about film director Ken Loach’s call for a world without critics than he may have got his wish, at least at the Sunday Telegraph where film criti…
Full casting has been announced for the new production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1976 Broadway musical Pacific Overtures that will be staged at London's Union Theatre in…
West End LIVE, an annual free celebration of London theatre, will take place June 21-22 on a mainstage in Trafalgar Square and in a historic 1920s Spiegeltent in Leicester Square. The event&…
Metro and the Independent on Sunday have already shown us what newspapers look like without critics. I simply don’t bother to read either anymore, even though the former is free and th…
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London: The Open Air Theatre continues its mission to genuinely surprise as well as seriously enchant, and pulls off both feats triumphantly with a terrifical…
Jodie Prenger is to star in the title role of a new U.K. touring production of Calamity Jane that will begin performances June 17 at Newbury's Watermill Theatre for a run through Sept. 6…
I Believe in Unicorns, a one-woman stage version of Michael Morpurgo's novel of the same name, is to receive a West End run of morning, matinee and evening performances, beginning Aug. 8…
After a lifetime of going to the theatre as regularly as I do in both the West End and on Broadway, I have, of course, been to every major theatre in both cities, more than…
Just two and a half years ago, the Daily Telegraph wondered aloud in a headline to a feature on West End ticket prices, “Are they out of control?” The feature pointed out, too, t…
Angelina Jolie, Maggie Smith, Daniel Day Lewis, John Barrowman and Hilary Mantel are amongst those who have been honored in the Queen's Birthday Honors, announced June 14.
Further casting has been announced for the West End premiere of Made in Dagenham, the new musical version of the 2010 film of the same name, that will begin performances Oct. 9 at the Adelph…
Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel are in negotiations to star in Sweeney Todd again next year, reprising the roles of Mrs. Lovett and the title role at the London Coliseum next March and April t…
The Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, a two-part dramatization of Hilary Mantel's novels of the same name, have extended their West End ru…
Billy Elliot the Musical will be broadcast live to cinemas across the U.K. and the world Sept. 28, direct from the West End's Victoria Palace Theatre.
One critic’s one star review, as I’ve just given Mr Burns at the Almeida here in The Stage, is another’s five star rave, as Michael Coveney has done on Whatsonstage. The ot…
Almeida Theatre: It is probably not a good sign that Mr Burns is subtitled "a post-electric play". That meaningless note of perversity duly pervades the evening which is played out…