Longtime Rodgers & Hammerstein vice president Bert Fink is leaving to join Musical Theatre International, the largest musical theatre licensing agency in America, as Chief Creative O…
Longtime Rodgers & Hammerstein senior vice president Bert Fink is leaving to join Music Theatre International, the largest musical theatre licensing agency in America, as Chief Creat…
Fame has long been a passport to power: one-time B-movie actor Ronald Reagan managed to become president of the United States, the
The shortlist of nominees for this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards has been announced, with the awards themselves to be given in a ceremony Nov. 22 at London's Old Vic.
The U.K. premiere of Xanadu, the 2007 Tony-nominated Broadway musical version of the cult 1980 film about a woman who makes dreams come true, opens officially Nov. 2, following previews …
The new James Bond film Spectre opened in British cinemas last week, and I took a rare afternoon off from the theatre
Kenneth Branagh turns 55 next month, but he still exudes the same youthful exuberance and ready enthusiasm for the theatre that he
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has gone on sale to the general public Oct. 30, after the initial priority booking period for those that pre-registered sold out in hours.
Full casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Martin McDonagh's Hangmen, from the Royal Court (where it ran through Oct. 10) to Wyndham's, where it begins performances…
It’s a true sign of grumpy middle-age when you start complaining that things aren’t the way they used to be. And the
The previously announced London production of Funny Girl, which sold out its entire run at the Menier Chocolate Factory within 90 minutes of going on sale, has now set West End dat…
Michelle Dockery, best known for her screen role as Lady Mary Crawley in "Downtown Abbey," has withdrawn from the new Donmar Warehouse production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in whi…
It’s a week of some very high-profile openings, with multiple press night clashes night after night. It’s impossible to be in two,
I am writing this sitting beside a pool, in glorious sunshine, at a private hotel across the street from a beach in Gran Canaria. This is the sort of holiday my husband and I always give our…
The world premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a new play based on an original new story by "Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, has announc…
When the current Benedict Cumberbatch Hamlet (currently playing at the Barbican, with the final week of the run next week through Oct. 31) went on sale a year ahead of its opening, it sold o…
Andrew Scott is to star in the U.K. premiere of Richard Greenberg's 2002 Off-Broadway play The Dazzle, originally produced by Roundabout Theatre Company at the Gramercy Theatre.
The world premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a new play based on an original new story by "Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, has announc…
Cats begins its return engagement at the London Palladium Oct. 23, which, as previously revealed, stars Beverley Knight as Grizabella for an 11-week season through Jan. 2, 2016.
It’s a week of returns of previous plays, productions, players and companies. So if you missed them before, or want to see
It really is, when you come down to it, a nice problem to have: the fact that there’s just so much happening
Now that we live in a short-attention-span society, where an hour and a half of theatre is quite enough, thank you very
The National Theatre's sold-out production of Duncan Macmillan's People, Places and Things, currently in the rep of the Dorfman Theatre though Nov. 4, is set to transfer to the W…
Andrew Lloyd Webber has long been the world's most commercially successful theatre composer. And without taking anything away from the shows themselves,
Gypsy was named Best Musical Production and its star Imelda Staunton, who plays Rose, won the award for Best Performance in a Musical in the U.K Theatre Awards, presented in a ceremony Oct. …