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The Illusionists – Witness the Impossible, which played a sell-out season at Broadway's Marquis Theatre last November, makes its West End debut, opening officially at the S…
In 2008 I interviewed the veteran actor Warren Mitchell, who died yesterday (November 14) at the age of 89, ahead of his final West End appearance in a play called VISITING MR GREEN that ca…
By coincidence, two of London's smaller producing theatres have taken on Broadway in the same week. Here's a look at which shows crossed the pond and what television stars are coming…
The return of Lin-Manuel Miranda's first Broadway musical, In the Heights, originally seen in London at Southwark Playhouse in 2014, has been extended a second time. It is now bookin…
I kicked off this new series last week with a venue on my doorstep " the Southwark Playhouse. This week I continue
Last week Ben Brantley, the powerful chief theatre critic of the New York Times, wrote a rare rave review for the latest
There’s a brief lull before the annual storm of Christmas openings. The big events are limited runs for variety turns, with each
A live reading of Homer's The Odyssey, being held Nov. 12 and live-streamed free from unusual and iconic locations across London, marks the culmination of the Almeida Greeks season. …
An audience member became seriously ill during the closing minutes of the National Theatre's production of Harley Granville Barker's Waste at its press-night opening Nov. 10.
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, which premiered in the West End in 1989, where it ran for over 12 years, originally at the Victoria Palace Theatre and subsequently the Strand (now the Ivor Nov…
A live reading of Homer's The Odyssey, being held Nov. 12 and live-streamed free from unusual and iconic locations across London, will mark the culmination of the Almeida Greeks seas…
Kath M. Mainland, who has been chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society for the last seven years, is to step down from the post, to take up a new position as executive direct…
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's New Testament musical Jesus Christ Superstar is to receive an outdoor staging at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in London in 2016, to mark the 45th…
One of the side-effects of the social media culture we now live in, is that everyone’s a critic " on Facebook and
I've had ten days in London between a holiday in Gran Canaria and heading to New York -- and have been to fifteen shows. But I'm finally giving up on going to live concerts.
The opening productions of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's season at the West End's Garrick Theatre officially open with a press day Nov. 7, following previews that began Oct. …
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the two-part new play co-created by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany that tells an original eighth "Harry Potter" story, is rep…
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…
Uzo Aduba, the double Emmy Award winning star of "Orange is the New Black," is to play opposite "Downton Abbey" star Laura Carmichael and Zawe Ashton in a new contemporar…
Earlier this week, I was one of the judges of the Empty Space Peter Brook awards, that every year acknowledges fringe and
The Menier Chocolate Factory's 2013 production of The Color Purple re-appears on Broadway, beginning performances Nov. 10 at Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. It is the latest in a line of …
It’s a week of big prices and big stars, the return of the Royal Shakespeare Company to the Barbican, and yet another
The West End premiere of Elf takes place at London's Dominion Theatre Nov. 5, following previews that began Oct. 24, for a 10-week season through Jan. 2, 2016, following the show'…
I suppose it was inevitable, but in a world where theatre critics (and lots of other journalists) now work for free, some
U.K.'s regional theatres have seen an increase in both attendance and revenue in the last year, according to a new report published by UK Theatre, the trade body that represents major th…
