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Casting has been announced for the new U.K. tour of Simon Beaufoy's play version of The Full Monty; Beaufoy also wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay.
Michelle Collins will star in Martyn Hesford's The Glass Supper, beginning performances June 25 at Hampstead Downstairs at Hampstead Theatre, prior to an official opening June 30 for a f…
Jane Horrocks will star in the first major London revival of Ayub Khan Din's East Is East since it was first seen at the Royal Court in 1996 after premiering at Birmingham Rep. She will …
As part of London's Southbank Centre's Festival of Love, Simon Russell Beale and Harriet Walter will lead a complete reading of all 154 Shakesparean sonnets. This event will also mar…
Jermyn Street Theatre, London: Life is about change, and a lot has changed in the quarter of a century since David Shire and Richard Maltby's tender, tuneful and surprising song cycle r…
Fergus Linehan, who takes over as director of the Edinburgh International Festival from Oct. 1, 2014, and is currently planning the 2015-19 festivals, has announced a re-alignment of the dat…
Tony Kushner's early play A Bright Room Called Day, first workshopped in New York in 1985 before premiering in San Francsico in 1987, is to be revived at London's Southwark Playhouse…
Great artists always surprise you (and also, no doubt, themselves), by constantly entering uncharted waters. Fiona Shaw has done interesting things throughout her career, especially in colla…
David Hunter and Jill Winternitz will take over as Guy and Girl, respectively, in the West End production of Once, now playing at the Phoenix Theatre, beginning performances May 12.
Dogfight, the 2012 musical featuring music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and a book by Peter Duchan, based on the 1991 Warner Bros. film and screenplay by Bob Comfort, is to recei…
Juliette Binoche will star in a new English-language production of Sophocles' Antigone, to be directed by Belgian theatre director Ivo van Hove in a new version by Anne Carson, that…
Barbican Theatre, London: Describing the writing of the original stage version of The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin has said that the tone for the voice of Mary, the mother of Jesus, "…
Of course critics go to the theatre a lot. It’s our job, after all. But we also (most of us, anyway) love the theatre; it’s why we do it. And you can’t keep some of…
Full casting has been announced for Morphic Graffiti's new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel that will begin performances June 18 at London's Arcola Theatre, prior…
Further casting has been announced for Richard III — the opening production in Jamie Lloyd's second season at the helm of Trafalgar Transformed — which will be presented in t…
Curve, Leicester: After Broadway's now infamous Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark took the musical into new territory with aerial feats that had actors hurtling all over the auditorium and …
Jerry Hall, model, actress and former wife of rock star Mick Jagger, will star as the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Richmond Theatre this Christmas in Southwest London. …
As a critic, I am used to being contradicted " by other critics, by readers, and by followers on Twitter. And I’ve always said that I find that healthy; we can’t all like the sam…
Minerva Theatre, Chichester: This revival of a quietly unassuming 1977 play about the poet Stevie Smith kicks off a season that will include three world premieres (two co-produced with Edinb…
West End Live, an annual free outdoor celebration of West End theatre, will take place in London's Trafalgar Square over the weekend of June 21-22. This marks the event's 10th annive…
Ian McKellen and Trudie Styler will play Peter and Isobel, respectively, in a staged reading of Thomas Kilry's Irish version of Chekhov's The Seagull at the St. James Theatre in Lond…
I’ve written before in this blog about the depressions I’m prone to, and have suffered ever since I was a teenager. There’s absolutely nothing to be ashamed of about depres…
Hampstead Theatre, London: Hampstead comes up with a sunny summer surprise to offer an alternately tender and joyous jukebox show constructed out of Ray Davies' greatest hits to chart a…
Neil Morrissey will join the cast of the West End production of Noel Coward's Relative Values, which begins performances May 26 for a run through June 21. He takes over the role of Crest…
With ticket prices now breaching the £100 mark for some West End musicals (and for The Book of Mormon now hitting £152.25, with tickets in the very back row of the stalls for this Satu…
