5,590 stories by "Mark Shenton"
Alan Ayckbourn's How the Other Half Loves — which premiered in Scarborough in 1969, and was then seen in the West End in 1970 and on Broadway in 1971 (the first of his…
Full casting has been announcef or the U.K premiere of Florian Zeller's The Truth, the third of the French playwright's plays lined up to open in London this side of April.
Hand to God has just begun previews in the West End prior to an official opening on February 15 with an all-new
Tracie Bennett, Tony-nominated for the Best Leading Actress in a Play Tony Award for playing Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow on Broadway in 2012, reprises her role in the West End tra…
LIFT 2016 — London International Festival of Theatre — running June 1 to July 2 will feature over 30 events from 14 countries, playing at venues that in addition to estab…
Full casting has been announced for the new U.K. national tour of American Idiot, the musical based on Green Day's eponymous album that played last year at London's Arts Theatre. It …
Mark Shenton's top ten of the week, including new entries Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Rabbit Hole, two Broadway plays now on London stages, plus this week's big openings, including Matthew …
One of the biggest behind-the-scenes jobs I have is juggling my diary " there are always far more shows to see than
The Broadway comedy Hand to God, which recently closed at the Booth Theatre after a run of nine months and 337 performances, begins performances at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre Feb.…
T he last time I interviewed Diana Rigg was five years ago, when she was appearing in Chichester's revival of Pygmalion that
Michael Crawford is returning to the West End to star in the new British musical The Go-Between, adapted from L.P. Hartley's novel of the same name.
The Rose Theatre in Kingston, situated on the Thames just southwest of London, has announced that John Malkovich, who has previously appeared on the West End stage in the transfer of Burn Th…
Amber Riley, best known for her role as Mercedes Jones in "Glee," is to take to the stage to play Effie White in the long-overdue British premiere of Dreamgirls that will begin…
The Father, a new play by Florian Zeller that premiered in Paris and then received its U.K. premiere at Bath's Ustinov Studio followed by runs at London's Tricycle Theatre and Wyndha…
Beverley Knight is to reprise her starring role in a West End return of The Bodyguard, a stage musical based on the 1992 film of the same name that she previously took over playing from orig…
The new London production of Funny Girl — starring Sheridan Smith in the title role of Fanny Brice — has extended bookings for a second time on its imminent West End tran…
Amber Riley, best known for her role as Mercedes Jones in "Glee," is to take to the stage to play Effie White in the long-overdue British premiere of Dreamgirls that will begin…
No small theatre in Britain has a larger impact on the theatrical ecology than the tiny Finborough in Earl’s Court. This minute
David Lindsay-Abaire's 2006 Broadway play Rabbit Hole, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is to finally receive its U.K. premiere, opening officially Feb. 4, follo…
Andrew Garfield is to return to the National Theatre in 2017 to star in a new production of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America that originally received its Briti…
I’ve written a lot about critics over the decade I’ve been filing this daily column, and indeed consider this evolving column as
Last week I was directly involved, as I’ve mentioned, in a number of theatre awards events, from this year’s Critics’ Circle Theatre
Sian Thomas is to step into the cast for Welcome Home, Captain Fox!, a new version of Jean Anouilh's Le Voyageur Sans Bagage, replacing the originally announced Francesca Annis who accor…
The full cast has been announced for the production of The Painkiller that will see Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon starring in Francis Veber's French farce at the West End's Garrick …
Mark Shenton's top ten of the week, including Florian Zeller's The Mother that has followed his play The Father (soon to return to the West End) to London from Bath. Plus, this week's bigges…
