5,590 stories by "Mark Shenton"
We’re well used to seeing films adapted for the stage as musicals: the music adds an extra means of storytelling and brings new textures to the way the story can be told. But when well…
The full cast has been announced for the world premiere of Simon Stephens' Birdland, which begins performances at the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Downstairs April 3 prior to an officia…
Comedienne and actress Dawn French, whose West End stage credits include a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (in which she played Bottom) and My Brilliant Divorce, is to embark on …
Southwark Playhouse, London: This is a brand-new British musical that is all over the map, in every sense. It's an intriguing musical adaptation of the true-life story of Phyllis Pearsa…
Last year started with two Broadway imports " which won the Tony awards for best musical in 2011 and 2012 respectively " opening back to back in the West End, when The Book of Mormon...
Stephen Ward, Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest musical with book and lyrics by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, is to shutter at the West End's Aldwych Theatre March 29, after a run of…
Casting has been announced for the world premiere of Mike Bartlett's King Charles III, described as a "future history play" about the U.K.'s next monarch, that will begin p…
Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of Sunny Afternoon, a musical telling the story of the early life of Ray Davies and the rise to stardom of The Kinks, that will begin p…
Blues in the Night, the revue that uses 26 great blues and jazz songs of the 1920s and '30s to tell the story of the lives of three women and a saloon singer in a cheap hotel during the …
Full casting has been announced for Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be, a new production of the Lionel Bart musical at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East that was originally premiered the…
The National Theatre's production of The Elephantom, based on Ross Collins' children's book of the same name about a little girl who is unexpectedly visited by a giant blue ghost…
I Can't Sing!, the new musical based on TV's "The X Factor," which was due to begin performances Feb. 27 at the London Palladium, has canceled the first two previews due to…
The West End's Apollo Theatre, shuttered since a partial collapse of its ceiling plaster injured more than 80 people, seven of them seriously, mid-performance of The Curious Incident of …
I wasn’t at the Whatsonstage Awards last night " I’d gone to Hackney Empire to catch up with the Union Theatre’s transfer of its production of HMS Pinafore instead. That sh…
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton's musical The Beautiful Game, which originally premiered at the West End's Cambridge Theatre in 2000, is to receive its first London revival, beginn…
The Pheasantry, London: The US-born Ray Shell has been a fixture in West End musicals for more than 30 years now, from Starlight Express (in which he created the role of Rusty in its 1984 st…
Arthur Darvill will reprise his Broadway role as Guy in the West End edition of Once, beginning performances March 17.
In the Heights, the 2008 Tony Award winner for Best Musical that also won its composer Lin-Manuel Miranda the Tony for Best Original Score, will receive its London premiere in a brand-new pr…
Memphis, the 2010 Tony winner for Best Musical that also won Tonys for its book (by Joe DiPietro) and score (with music by David Bryan, and lyrics by Bryan and DiPietro), is eyeing a West En…
There’s got to be a first time for everything, no matter how often you go to the theatre. It slightly surprised me, though, to realise that I was seeing Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste…
London's Tricycle Theatre has announced its spring/summer season, which will include the world première of award-winning Canadian playwright Adam Bock's The Colby Sisters of P…
Casting has been announced for a new U.K. touring production of the musical 20th Century Boy, based on the life and music of Glam Rock legend Marc Bolan.
The West End play Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, currently running at the Duke of York's Theatre through Sept. 20, is to immediately launch a U.K. tour after it closes there, be…
Godspell will be presented in a one-night concert May 19 at the West End's Lyric Theatre, in a charity gala to be hosted by David Essex, who starred as Jesus in the original West End pro…
Theatre is a transporting place, of course " you leave the world you’re in for a couple of hours and go somewhere else, all from the safety of your theatre seat. But sometimes you also…
