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In a newspaper interview in the Daily Telegraph a few years ago, it was revealed that Timothy Sheader, artistic director of the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, tells the cast on the f…
Miss Saigon, which premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1989 — where it ran for a record-breaking run of over ten years — returns to the West End's Prince Edward The…
David Schneider's Making Stalin Laugh is to premiere at London's JW3, a purpose-built Jewish Community Centre, on the Finchley Road in Hampstead, which has also commissioned the play…
Daytona, a new play by actor-turned-playwright Oliver Cotton that premiered at London's Park Theatre last year as part of its inaugural season, is to transfer to the West End, beginning …
The London Hippodrome, which already features a live performance space called The Matcham Room — which regularly hosts live cabaret appearances, where previous attractions have include…
Theatre is not a museum – look at what happened, after all, when they tried to set up a Theatre Museum in Covent Garden. It was static and deadly – the very opposite of what̷…
Veteran U.K. comedy cabaret trio Fascinating Aida will reprise their hit show Charm Offensive at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, followed by a national tour and a return season at London&#…
A new production of the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II classic The Sound of Music will be staged at Leicester's Curve this Christmas, beginning performances Nov. 28 prior to an…
The Ring Cycle Plays, a series of plays based on Wagner's operas but performed without their usual operatic scores, is to be staged at London's The Scoop, beginning performances Aug.…
The 40th anniversary of Frank Sinatra's legendary concert return Sintra: The Main Event, which was held Oct. 13, 1974, at New York's Madison Square Garden, following a self-impo…
The West End production of Orwell's 1984, presented in a new adaptation created and co-directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, has extended booking for five weeks through Aug. 23. …
There was a sudden gnashing of teeth " or at least a sharp intake of breath " when three high-profile musicals recently fell over after much shorter runs than were being expected. There was …
Southwark Playhouse, London: This sassy, sexy sensation of a show reaches such dizzying highs of theatrical ecstasy that it is surely destined to burst beyond south London - for now, though,…
Further casting has been announced for the forthcoming productions of Amadeus and the double-bill of Miss Julie and Black Comedy at Chichester's Festival Theatre complex.
Full casting has been announced for a new production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible that begins performances at London's Old Vic June 21 prior to an official opening July 3.
Just yesterday I was writing here about differences of critical opinion, and how some shows divide us into starkly different views. I’d written how, in my view, “There's nothing …
Shaftesbury Theatre, London: When I saw this production at Chichester last summer, it seemed constrained by the Minerva's studio space. Now, what had felt a bit squashed is utterly libe…
There’s nothing worse in the theatre than indifference: the sort of shows that leave you with a mere shrug and nothing more to say on the way out than to talk about where you’re …
As Billy Elliot marks the 9th anniversary of its premiere at the West End's Victoria Palace May 12, the show will also welcome its 37th boy to play the title role.
The second season at the new indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe in London will be bookended with two plays by John Ford, with another Jacobean play by Middleton inbetw…
Union Theatre, London: Even in 1950, when Noel Coward's Ace of Clubs was first premiered at the West End's Cambridge Theatre after a regional try-out, The Times referred to "i…
It is sometimes said that subsidised theatre can afford to take the sort of risks that the commercial theatre, with its eye constantly on the bottom line and recouping its investment, can…
Ben Foster will make his London stage debut in a new production of Tennessee Williams' A Streeetcar Named Desire, beginning performances July 23 prior to an official opening July 28…
Kerry Ellis is to embark on her first solo U.K. tour, following her successful solo debut at the London Palladium in May 2013.
Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace, best known for their appearances on TV's "Strictly Come Dancing," will bring their current touring dance show, Dance 'Til Dawn, to th…
