Full casting has been announced for the previously reported return of Gerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway to London's Menier Chocolate Factory, where it last played in 2009 and …
Playwright Nick Payne is to reprise his one-man piece The Art of Dying at London's Royal Court Theatre. It premiered there in 2013 as part of The Big Idea: Death season as part of The Ro…
Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews, which premiered in October 2013 at the Roundabout's Black Box Theatre as part of the Roundabout Underground season before transferring to the upstairs Laura…
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to stage four new plays as part of Midsummer Mischief, a festival that will be held at Stratford-upon-Avon in June that will take place in a purpose-built st…
The annual race for Broadway’s most commercially important awards has begun in earnest, with the announcement of the nominations yesterday for this year’s Tony Awards. It saw an …
A season of cabaret, presented under the umbrella title Live in the Delfont Room: An Evening With..., is to feature West End performers Danielle Hope, Joanna Riding and Daniel Boys. The Delf…
John Kander and Fred Ebb's 2010 musical The Scottsboro Boys is to have another life. Its British premiere production, which was seen at London's Young Vic Theatre last year, is to tr…
It’s a perennial theme, alas, of this blog to find myself pointing out breaches of theatrical etiquette and manners. At this point, I thought I’d seen it all " whether it be ex-w…
Michael Watson will take over as Frankie Valli in the London production of Jersey Boys, beginning performances April 29 at London's Piccadilly Theatre.
English National Opera, the U.K. opera company headquartered at the London Coliseum, has announced plans for the 2014-15 season that include a new production of The Pirates of Penzance to be…
Greenwich Theatre, London: When Avenue Q first burst upon New York in 2003, it followed Rent from seven years earlier to offer a vivid, vital expression of youthful concerns among those livi…
Full casting has been announced for the U.K. premiere of Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns that will begin performances at London's Almeida Theatre June 5 prior to an official opening June 1…
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1976 Broadway musical Pacific Overtures will be revived at London's Union Theatre in Southwark, beginning performances July 2 prior to an official…
The Infidel — the Musical, a stage adaptation of David Baddiel's hit film comedy of the same name that was released in 2010, is to premiere at London's Theatre Royal, Stratford…
Hackney Empire, London: Blues in the Night was first seen in the UK at the Donmar Warehouse long before it became the full-time producing theatre it now is in 1987, before transferring to …
The failure of a West End musical is never a cause for celebration – unless you’re Steve Brookstein, that is, winner of the first series of The X Factor, and who proves the lie o…
I Can't Sing, the new musical based on TV's "The X Factor" that opened officially at the West End's London Palladium March 26, will stop singing there May 10, after an …
The annual BBC Proms – a celebration of global classical music that runs at London's Royal Albert Hall from July 18 to Sept. 13 and is also broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC TV and onl…
Full casting has been announced for the new production of Guys and Dolls, being staged as the first musical in the re-opened Chichester Festival Theatre following its major redevelopment. It…
It is one of the pleasures of my life " but simultaneously the bane of it " that I’m besieged daily with an endless stream of invitations and press releases advising me of a shows̷…
The Play That Goes Wrong, which premiered on the London fringe at the Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington last year before a season at the Trafalgar Studios 2, is to transfer to the West End&#…
Casting has been announced for the premiere of Tim Crouch's Adler & Gibb, which will begin performances June 13 at London's Royal Court Theatre prior to an official opening …
Picture Perfect, a contemporary song cycle featuring songs by American composer Scott Evan Davis, will premiere at London's St. James Studio in a production that will play four performan…
We live in an era of unprecedented public and private surveillance. As Edward Snowden showed, our every move – whether physical or electronic – is being watched and recorded. …
Further casting has been announced for Shakespeare in Love, a stage version of the hit film of the same name that playwright Lee Hall (Billy Elliot, The Pitmen Painters) is adapting from Mar…