Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice have issued a joint statement on the late Alan Doggett, the music master at Colet Court, a school where he commissioned and staged the very first incarnation…
Four West End shows bow out March 29, three of them prematurely: Stephen Ward, From Here to Eternity and The Full Monty were all booked for longer runs. Only The Duck House is closing as sch…
Alexandra Burke, who won the fifth series of the U.K.'s "The X Factor," will take over the role of Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard, the stage musical version of the film current…
Finborough Theatre, London: Musicals can come in all sorts of colours and moods, but you don't often see one as uncompromisingly dark as has been made here of Emile Zola's eponymou…
Hampstead Theatre, which is currently presenting a quartet of plays by Simon Gray under the umbrella title In the Vale of Health at its downstairs studio through May 17, is to move them to t…
Further casting has been announced for productions that will play at London's Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park this summer, including Tony-winning actress Brid Brennan (who will appea…
Full casting has been announced for the week-long West End run of Cool Rider, which begins performances April 15 at the Duchess Theatre prior to an official opening April 16, for a run throu…
Okay, it always sounded like a wildly improbable idea " a West End musical that puts TV’s X Factor centre stage seemed like it could be a madly self-cannibalizing phenomenon. And when …
Full casting has been announced for the London premiere of In the Heights, the 2008 Tony Award winner for Best Musical that also won its composer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony for Best Origi…
London Palladium: It was, I suppose, inevitable: amid all the film-to-stage musical adaptations, we now have a TV-to-stage show, a fictional behind-the-scenes look at The X Factor. Read the …
Richard Maltby, Jr. will direct a new production of his and David Shire's 1989 song cycle revue Closer Than Ever at London's Jermyn Street Theatre, beginning performances May 6 prior…
Future plans at London's Barbican Centre include a new production of Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role as part of an extended Shakespeare season at the theatre, and…
Tessa Ross, currently controller of Film and Drama for Channel 4 television, is to join the National Theatre as chief executive. She will join the theatre in November, working alongside Nich…
Max Stafford-Clark's revival of Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good will tour again, ahead of U.S. and Canada engagements. Stafford-Clark originally directed the wor…
Somewhere Under the Rainbow, a one-woman show written and directed by Cillian O’Donnachadha and performed by Sharon Sexton, is to play London's Landor Theatre, beginning performanc…
William Gaminara will join the previously announced Tom Conti in the continuing production of Twelve Angry Men, beginning performances March 31, at the Garrick Theatre.
A new stage version of Fatal Attraction opened last night at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, for which my review will be online here today. But one of the more urgent questions I was asked on&…
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London: You can buy the DVD of the original 1987 film Fatal Attraction for less than a fiver online, or alternatively spend up to £93 for a single premium …
I Can't Sing!, the new musical based on TV's "The X Factor", opens officially at the West End's London Palladium March 26, following previews that began March 5. (The o…
The Olivier Award-winning Slava's Snowshow, which has previously enjoyed West End seasons at the Piccadilly Theatre and Old Vic, and played both Broadway and Off-Broadway, is to return t…
Juliet Stevenson, who recently completed a sold-out run in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days at London's Young Vic, is to reprise that performance for a second run in February 2015.
Old Vic Theatre, London: When Other Desert Cities transferred to Broadway's Booth Theatre in 2011, after premiering earlier that year at Lincoln Center's off-Broadway Mitzi Newhous…
Tomorrow night the Apollo Theatre re-opens with the transfer of Let The Right One In, and I for one can’t wait to see the extensive refurbishment that has taken place inside since the …
Tracie Bennett, Tony-nominated for reprising her West End role as Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow on Broadway, will lead the cast of The WestEnders: The World’s Most Popular Musical…
A brand-new production of Saturday Night Fever is to be staged at the Theatre Royal, Bath, beginning performances Nov. 12 for a run through Nov. 22, prior to a national tour.