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Performance dates announced for Audra McDonald, highlights from the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, and news on this year’s Oliviers.
Last year’s planned bow was postponed when McDonald became pregnant.
Going to the theatre should always be primarily about the show you are going to see, but there are a lot of
It's less than two months since I interviewed Scarlett Strallen in these pages, as she returned to the London stage from New
In the programme notes for Shakespeare's Globe's new production of John Webster’s The White Devil, director Annie Ryan comments, “Here we are,
Nowadays there are often more (so-called) producers named on a theatre poster than there are actors in the show: Dear Evan Hansen,
Helen Edmundson’s play is directed by Natalie Abrahami.
Other plans include new productions of Twelfth Night and A Christmas Carol, plus two new plays.
London Musical Theatre Orchestra will also perform Candide in July.
Lots of quality newspapers (thankfully) still have dedicated arts reporters, and the tabloids cover celebrity with an almost religious fervour. But only
The Watermill Theatre helped to pioneer the pocket chamber actor-musician show in the UK. Director John Doyle staged Cabaret here with just
John Boyega will be joined by Sarah Green, Nancy Carroll, and Steffan Rhodri.
The nominations event on March 6 will also be carried live online.
The new year never feels like it has really begun until The Stage Awards come around. It’s one of the best annual
Thoroughly Modern Millie is a retro-fitted hybrid of a musical. It's based on a 1967 movie musical that is itself based on
The National Theatre announces a slate of new productions for 2017-2018, including Pinocchio, and Network with Bryan Cranston.
The new musical with a book by Julian Fellowes and a score by Stiles and Drewe will open at the London Palladium in June.
Annie Baker's John will also receive its European premiere.
Other winners include Sheffield Theatres, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and the temporary King’s Cross Theatre.
Rachelle Ann Go, soon to star as Gigi in Miss Saigon on Broadway, will play Eliza Hamilton.
Art forms have a habit of becoming more fluid, of refusing to stay in their polite little boxes. But as well as
Lee Hall’s play with songs by ELO will transfer to the Duke of York’s Theatre in May.
It is 10am on the morning after the Broadway premiere of the 2016 Sydney Theatre Company production of The Present, a modern
Subsidised theatre has long been the engine room of British performing arts. These are the places where actors, directors, writers and other
Peter Shaffer’s Lettice and Lovage will receive its first major revival since the original 1987 West End production.
