Further dates have been announced for the previously announced U.K. tour of Jersey Boys that will begin performances Sept. 4 at Manchester's Palace Theatre for a run through Oct. 4. The …
Full casting has been announced for the U.K. premiere of Jennifer Haley's The Nether, beginning performances July 17 at London's Royal Court prior to an official opening July 24, for…
Only a year into Kevin Spacey’s regime at the helm of the Old Vic in 2005, the Evening Standard’s then chief theatre critic Nicholas de Jongh wrote a review of a play that Spacey…
“New York, New York, a helluva town/ The Bronx is up, but the Battery’s down”, goes the Comden and Green lyric in On the Town. And to paraphrase it, “the Tonys, the T…
Donmar Warehouse, London: The great Irish dramatist Brian Friel has long had a special affinity with the Russian masters Chekhov and Turgenev. And director Lyndsey Turner has a particular pa…
Full casting has been announced for the West End premiere of Memphis, which begins performances Oct. 9 at the Shaftesbury Theatre prior to an official opening Oct. 23.
Off-Broadway songwriting duo Kerrigan-Lowdermilk, who previously showcased their work in London in a weekend of concerts at the St. James Studio in February, are returning to the same addres…
It was a shock yesterday to hear of the passing of Rik Mayall, at the age of just 56. Though he wasn’t a prolific stage actor, I’d seen him in the West End in two…
Yesterday morning I went to the dress rehearsal for the Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall, and it was full of surprises. Then I flew home overnight to London as the awards were unfolding,…
London's Tricycle Theatre has announced its fall season that will include Sam Shepard's True West, the British premiere of Marcus Gardley's The House That Will Not Stand and a Ch…
The British premiere production of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel, currently running at Ustinov Studio at Bath's Theatre Royal, is to transfer to London's Park Theatre, beginnin…
Ronan Keating, Irish pop singer-songwriter and musician who was an original member of the pop group Boyzone and has subsequently enjoyed a successful solo career, will join the West End cast…
The West End transfer of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys to the Garrick Theatre, where it begins performances Oct. 4 prior to an official opening Oct. 20, is to newly feat…
With effect from this week’s print edition of The Stage, you will see some significant changes to the reviews pages in this paper, and also to the reviews published online. Mostly this…
Matthew Bourne's New Adventures company will revive his production of the dance thriller The Car Man, loosely based on Bizet's opera Carmen that premiered in 2000. It will launch a 1…
Cleo Higgins, former child star and finalist in the U.K.'s "The Voice" in 2013, where she was mentored by Will.i.am, is to make her West End stage debut in Thriller Live at the…
Sometimes a simple act of scheduling throws up an interesting coincidence. In my whirlwind catch-up of the current Broadway season, yesterday I saw two stage versions of literary works " Mos…
Will Tuckett's Royal Opera House production of The Wind in the Willows, which won this year's Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and Family Show, following a West End run at the Du…
Paul Miller, the incoming artistic director of London's Orange Tree Theatre — who takes over from the theatre's founder Sam Walters, who ran the theatre for 42 years — ha…
Broadway never ceases to surprise me: how on earth did an edgy musical about a post-operative transsexual (whose operation was botched) that originated off-Broadway back in 1998 return now a…
The Sondheim revue Marry Me a Little is to be revived at London's St. James Theatre Studio in a new production that begins performances July 29 prior to an official opening July 31, for …
Initial casting has been announced for a new U.K. tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which will begin performances July 23 at Windsors' Theatre Royal for a run through…
Menier Chocolate Factory, London: It may be a bit surprising to be celebrating the music and musicals of a composer/lyricist who is virtually unknown on this side of the pond, apart from a b…
Hampstead Theatre, London: This marathon theatre event, stretching across eight and a half hours in all, comprises four Simon Gray plays that tell the story of the same four principal charac…
A couple of years ago Hampstead Theatre produced a stage version of Chariots of Fire that saw the theatre turned into a giant running track. But on Saturday audiences who signed up for the e…