Lead casting has been announced for the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the eighth story in the "Harry Potter" series and the first official Harry Potter story…
Lead casting has been announced for the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the eighth story in the "Harry Potter" series and the first official Harry Potter story…
"The Sound of Music Live," a made-for-television production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic that is being transmitted live from soundstages at London's Three Mil…
Review extracts from four shows that got 5-star reviews: The Lorax at the Old Vic, Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Donmar, Show Boat at Sheffield's Crucible & The Dazzle at Found111.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company's previously announced production of Hamlet, starring Pappa Esseidu in the title role under the direction of Simon Godwin, has announced casting. …
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, beginning performances Jan. 29, …
The National Theatre has revealed casting for the previously announced productions of Sarah Kane's Cleansed and Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs.
Principal adult casting has been announced for the first-ever U.K./Ireland tour of Billy Elliot the Musical, which, as previously reported, is to bow out of the West End April 9, 2016, a…
The Donmar Warehouse is like a cat with nine lives. It’s onto around the fifth of them now, I reckon; it keeps
What do the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Donmar Warehouse, Almeida, Chichester Festival Theatre and Sheffield's Crucible Theatre all have
In 2013, Derren Brown brought his show "Infamous" to the West End's Palace Theatre, and I interviewed him at the time for the SUNDAY EXPRESS, republished below. Now he's back at the same the…
The West End openings continue apace, almost up to the Christmas wire. On December 17, there’s are a quartet of London press
A lot is written about the theatre every week " not just reviews, of course, but also preview features, interviews and "think" pieces. Keeping track of them all is a hard task. I try to twee…
We’ve already seen the shape of the West End changing significantly with the arrival of residencies by directors such as Michael Grandage
In an interview in The Sunday Times, playwright Mike Bartlett spoke feelingly of how theatre is “a very unusual art form where
London's Menier Chocolate Factory have just scored their fourth Broadway hit: after previously transferring Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music, and Jerry Herm…
Last week Cynthia Erivo officially arrived on Broadway to reprise the role of Celie in John Doyle’s production of The Color Purple
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I've been consciously taking it easy (or at least easier than I usually do!) over the last week after dislocating my newly replaced hip the week before, as I described in a posting here last…
Big musicals news of the week: Billy Elliot is closing at the Victoria Palace, School of Rock is coming to the London Palladium, Bugsy Malone is returning to the Lyric Hammersmith, and Gypsy…
Sunny Afternoon, a musical that tells the story of Ray Davies and the Kinks and features some of their best-loved songs including "You Really Got Me," "Waterloo Sunset&quo…
Further casting has been announced for Robert Icke's new production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in a version that he has also created that will begin performances Feb. 5 prior to an off…
Sean Holmes's production of Bugsy Malone, a stage adaptation of Sir Alan Parker's 1976 debut film of the same name, is to return for a 12-week summer season in 2016.
December 19 will be the second anniversary of a dreadful night. That was the date the ceiling at the Apollo Theatre, in