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If you haven't manage to get to London to see Imelda Staunton's definitive performance as Momma Rose in Gypsy, fear not: history isn't just being made here, it is now also being …
Nine years ago, when Les Miserables celebrated its 21st birthday and the next day duly took over from Cats as the longest-running
London is a bit quieter this week on the openings front, with only the Young Vic and Tricycle offering major openings, plus
The 30th anniversary performance of the West End's longest-running musical, Les Miserables, is marked by a charity gala Oct. 8, in aid of Save the Children Syria Children's Appea…
Veteran British stage and screen star Eileen Atkins, whose career has spanned seven decades, is to be honored at this year's U.K. Theatre Awards, being presented Oct. 18 at London's …
Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell are to star in the U.K premiere of the 2006 Broadway musical Grey Gardens, beginning performances Jan. 2 prior to an official opening Jan. 7 at Londno's …
Theatre is a two-way street " not all the drama happens on stage. We, the audience, are also there helping to make
My theatre addiction still saw me seeing 7 shows in New York last week - but it all faded into insignificance next to the show I presided over: the wedding of my friends Dana P Rowe and Andr…
The 2016 season at London's Tricycle Theatre will open with the transfer of Florian Zeller's The Mother from Bath's Ustinov Theatre. The theatre will also see artistic director I…
Curve in Leicester is to present an all-new production of the 2007 Broadway musical Legally Blonde, directed by artistic director Nikolai Foster in his opening slate of productions worki…
French film and stage star Isabelle Huppert is to return to the London stage to play the title role in Pheadra(s) at the Barbican Theatre. Also represented at the Barbican in 2016 will be di…
London's Old Red Lion Theatre, a pub theatre in Islington, is to present the world premiere of Arthur Miller's previously lost first play No Villain, beginning performances Dec. 8 pr…
Casting has been announced for the West End premiere of Motown the Musical, beginning performances Feb. 11, 2016, prior to an official opening March 8 at the Shaftesbury Theatre. The cast wi…
The National Theatre has set dates for the previously announced London premiere of Annie Baker's The Flick, as well as for new productions of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bo…
It’s fashionable " and inevitable " to bemoan the state of Broadway " both for its financial wealth (tickets for Hamilton are
Ian Kelly's Mr. Foote's Other Leg, currently running at Hampstead Theatre in its premiere run through Oct. 17, is to transfer immediately to the West End's Theatre Royal, Haymark…
The shortlist for the Radio 2 Audience Award for Best Musical, which will be presented as part of the 2015 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, has been announced.
Let’s hope this doesn’t become a self-fulfilling prophesy, but in New York the news that the city’s two big tabloids – the
The return of Lin-Manuel Miranda's first Broadway musical, In the Heights, originally seen in London at Southwark Playhouse in 2014, begins performances at the King's Cross Theat…
The controversy-generating previously announced new production of The Wars of the Roses opens officially at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, Oct. 3, following previews that began Sept. 16, fo…
Close to You - Bacharach Reimagined, a retitled version of What's It All About? that recently had its London debut at the Menier Chocolate Factory, begins performances at the West En…
The curse of cellphone usage and disruption in the theatre — whether deliberate or inadvertent — is being addressed in the U.K. with the launch of the "Cumberphone&q…
The previously announced return of Lin-Manuel Miranda's first Broadway musical, In the Heights, originally seen in London at Southwark Playhouse in 2014, has announced casting.
The West End production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Sam Mendes, is to hold open auditions for the first time, to find performers to play the iconic roles of the Oompa&#…
London's Crazy Coqs cabaret room, located within Brasserie Zedel restaurant off Piccadilly Circus, is to host runs by Tony winner Frances Ruffelle, New York's Christine Pedi and vete…
