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Last week was a serious week for theatre awards, with the presentation last Tuesday of the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards and last
I've not been here with my usual weekly diary of a theatre addict for a month now. 

So today I'm catching up, not on a week, but on an entire month " during which time I've been…
Dominic Cooper, one of the original troupe of Alan Bennett's The History Boys — on stage and screen — is to return to the London stage in a new production of…
The West End's Jersey Boys is to welcome four new leads to the show. They will begin performances March 15, as the hit musical prepares to celebrate its eighth anniversary March 18 at th…
Here’s a central London venue in a hitherto unloved spot near Victoria Station that was built as replacement for the Westminster Theatre,
New York actor, writer and columnist Ben Rimalower, who writes for Playbill.com amongst other things, is to bring his two acclaimed solo shows, Bad with Money and Patti Issues, to L…
London's Royal Court Theatre, which is celebrating its 60th birthday as a home for new writing, kicks off the year in its main house Jerwood Downstairs Theatre with Escaped Alone, a new …
The previously announced new production of Richard Greenberg's Broadway version of Breakfast at Tiffany's that will star singer/songwriter and actress Pixie Lott as Holly Golightly h…
While this year's Oscar nominations have been criticised for a lack of diversity, London has two openings on consecutive nights in the
"Game of Thrones" star Kit Harington is to play the title role in a new London production of Doctor Faustus.
The Olivier Awards have announced that this year's ceremony, taking place April 3 at the Royal Opera House, is to partner with Mellow Magic, a new station being launched by the ceremony&…
London's Hampstead Theatre is to present the U.K premiere of Neil LaBute's 2013 play Reasons to Be Happy, a companion piece to LaBute's Reasons to Be Pretty that was seen on Broa…
Keith Huff's A Steady Rain, which starred Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig in its 2009 Broadway bow, is to receive its London premiere, beginning performances Feb. 10 prior to an official o…
Florian Zeller, the French playwright who will be represented on Broadway by the March U.S. premiere of The Father starring Frank Langella, has three London openings lined up this sid…
Top ten of the week, including Bend it Like Beckham, Close to You and In the Heights, three shows I've already re-visited again and again, and intend to yet again!
The current West End production of Guys and Dolls is to continue its run thereafter in another West End house, resuming performances at the Phoenix Theatre March 19. A second mounting of the…
Further casting has been announced for the new London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, in which as previously announced Glenn Close is to reprise the role of Norma D…
Andy Nyman is, by his own reckoning, first and foremost an actor; but he's also well-known for his offstage support " as
The War of the Worlds, a much-traveled stage version of Jeff Wayne's album of the same name that has played regular arena tours around the U.K. and the world for eight years, is to f…
This year’s nominees for the Oscars have just been announced and include such luminaries as Eddie Redmayne, Mark Rylance, Cate Blanchett and
Cameron Mackintosh has revealed a few more aces that are up his producing sleeve. They include producing a new version of the 1963 British musical Half a Sixpence at Chichester Festival Thea…
Cameron Mackintosh has revealed a few more aces that are up his producing sleeve. They include producing a new version of the 1963 British musical Half a Sixpence at Chichester Festival Thea…
The Play That Goes Wrong, a comedy about an amateur university production that goes hopelessly awry, has gone blissfully right; it won last year's Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and c…
Broadway is famously seasonal in a way that the West End is simply not. That’s because the Tony Awards have a very
Full casting has been announced for a new production of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker that will begin performances March 26, prior to an official opening April 6, at London's Old Vic.
