The partial collapse of the ceiling at the West End's Apollo Theatre in December 2013, which left some 76 theatregoers injured and led to the suspension of performances of The Curious In…
Just last Monday I was noting here how nobody knows anything when it comes to hits and flops in the theatre. The stage version of The Full Monty had just unexpectedly posted closing the Satu…
A new production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is to begin performances June 27 at the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre, prior to an official opening July 17, for …
Casting has been announced for the previously reported new U.K. touring production of Avenue Q, which begins performances April 23 at London's Greenwich Theatre prior to an official open…
This year's Olivier Awards will be hosted by West End stage and screen stars Gemma Arterton and Stephen Mangan, taking place at the Royal Opera House April 13.
Just over a year ago I saw one of the best productions I’ve ever seen of the troubled but terrific musicals Chess, staged at Southwark’s Union Theatre, which I reviewed for The S…
The British premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, currently enjoying a sell-out run at North London's Hampstead Theatre through April 5, is to transfer immediately to the W…
Nicholas Hytner has announced his final season at the helm of the National Theatre, which will include the opening of the Dorfman (previously the Cottesloe) as part of the theatre's curr…
Nicholas Hytner has revealed plans for his final season at the National Theatre, including new plays by Tom Stoppard and Richard Bean. Both plays are as yet untitled. Stoppard's play will pr…
Menier Chocolate Factory, London: Ray Cooney pays homage to Feydeau's A Little Hotel on the Side with his deliriously funny 1981 farce likewise revolving around thwarted efforts to cond…
Mercury Theatre, Colchester: A musical set in the post-war austerity Britain in 1947 is now staged with an appropriate sense of austerity of its own. Gone are the splashy sets and expensive …
The West End production of The Commitments, which opened at the Palace Theatre in October 2013, has extended bookings through April 19, 2015.
The London Festival of Cabaret, launched in 2013, will return for a second season, running in eight venues across London May 6-22. Amongst artists who will be appearing are Maria Friedman, A…
Angela Lansbury’s return to the London stage – for the first time in nearly forty years, since she played Gertrude to Albert Finney’s Hamlet for the National at the Old Vic…
Gielgud Theatre, London: Madame Arcati may summon the chill wind of ectoplasm in Noel Coward's comedy of spirits but it is a rare and enveloping warmth that pervades the auditorium, on …
The new season at London's Old Vic will see the return of artistic director Kevin Spacey to his own stage to star in a solo play, Clarence Darrow, in June (directed by Thea Sharrock), fo…
It is not unheard of for West End actors to find out that they are to be imminently unemployed by reading about their show’s closure in Baz Bamigboye’s weekly Daily Mail column, …
Richmond Theatre, Surrey: Originally created as part of the Theatre Royal Haymarket's Masterclass project and first performed two years ago at the theatre for two charity fund-raising e…
Angela Lansbury opens in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit March 18 at the West End's Gielgud Theatre, following previews that began March 1, marking her first stage appearance in Lon…
The previously announced revival of Jean-Jacques Bernard's Martine, translated by John Fowles, will star Hannah Murray and Susan Penhaligon in its first U.K. production at London's F…
De Profundis, a new musical based on the Oscar Wilde letter of the same name, is to receive its world premiere in the Lounge space at London's Leicester Square Theatre, after winning the…
The new stage version of The Full Monty, based on the 1997 British film of the same title, is to shutter prematurely at the West End's Noel Coward Theatre March 29. It opened officially …
As the screenwriter and playwright William Goldman once famously put it in his book about the film business Adventures in the Screen Trade, “Nobody knows anything.” (He also wrot…
Ralph Fiennes, who can currently be seen on screen in "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "The Invisible Woman" (the latter of which he also directed), is to return to the Nat…
Landor Theatre, London: Frank Wildhorn's musicalisation of the Jekyll and Hyde story may have run for more than 1,500 performances on Broadway after it opened in 1997 (though a revival …