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Billy Elliot: The Musical is to bow out of the West End, closing April 9 2016, after celebrating its 11th birthday at the Victoria Palace Theatre.
The Lytham Festival, a seven-day live music event planned for the seaside town of Lytham in Lancashire Aug. 1-7, 2016, will this year feature an all-star line-up of West End …
The rush towards the Christmas finishing line sees another push of shows opening in London and beyond " many, but not all,
Extracts from interview features with the Royal Opera House's (soon departing) Director of Opera Kasper Holten, Sheffield Crucible's (soon departing) artistic director Daniel Evans, Broadway…
Performances begin Dec. 10 for the West End transfer of Guys and Dolls, first seen at Chichester Festival Theatre in summer 2014. The classic musical is staged in London's Savoy Theatre,…
Last Sunday, Andrew Lloyd Webber " the ultimate showman among composers " opened his latest show on Broadway, School of Rock. It’s
In 2013, I interviewed John Gordon Sinclair and Ralf Little " both of whom started out acting as teenagers in youth theatre, became stars young (at 19 and 18 respectively), but had no formal…
Following previews that began Nov. 30, the West End production of A Christmas Carol starring Oscar winner Jim Broadbent as Scrooge, officially opens Dec. 9 at the Noel Cowa…
As Britain and the rest of the theatrical world prepare to mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in 2016, BBC TV has announced a new sitcom in which he will be featur…
The internet is a noisy place. There are always lots of voices, shouting to be heard. One of the reasons I put
There's currently a flurry of big openings in New York, with the return of The Color Purple to the Great White Way, via London's own Menier Chocolate Factory, coming this Thursday (December …
Waitress, a new musical heading to Broadway in the spring with a score by contemporary pop singer and composer Sara Bareilles, book
What's opening in London and beyond this week, plus my personal Top Ten of the Week including Bend it Like Beckham and The Winter's Tale
Reviews digest of openings in London, Leicester and Leeds from national critics for new productions of Linda, Funny Girl, The Girls, Oliver!, Barbarians and Macbeth.
The Oliviers in Concert, a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Olivier Awards that is to be held at London's Royal Festival Hall Jan. 25, 2016, will feature previous Olivier winne…
After opening to rave reviews at the Menier Chocolate Factory Dec. 2, the new production of Funny Girl — starring Sheridan Smith in the title role of Fanny Brice — has no…
Matthew Perry, the television star who is best known for "Friends" and "The Odd Couple" and who previously appeared in the West End in 2003 in David Mamet's Sexual Pe…
Jamie Muscato, previously seen on the London stage in the U.K. premiere of Dogfight at Southwark Playhouse and recently seen as Anthony Hope in the Welsh National Opera production of Sweeney…
Sheffield Theatres, the official umbrella name for the Crucible, Lyceum and Sheffield Studio combined, was named regional theatre of the year for
It feels odd to be offering up my picks of the week when I’m having to scale back my own theatregoing drastically
Northampton's Royal & Derngate, a two-theatre complex in the U.K.'s Midlands town, has announced that it will offer the European premiere of Rick Elice's Peter and th…
I'm being forced to take a theatre break thanks to dislocating my brand-new hip! But perhaps I can finally catch up some movies and TV series.....
The spring 2016 season at London's Donmar Warehouse will consist of three plays: Welcome Home, Captain Fox! (a new version of Jean Anouilh's Le Voyageur Sans Bagage, the world premie…
Daniel Evans, currently artistic director at Sheffield Theatres and a Tony Award nominee on Broadway for his starring role in Sunday in the Park with George, is to succeed Jonathan Church as…
Brevity is the soul of wit. So says Polonius in Hamlet, and as much as I love going to the theatre, there
