The previously announced The Wind in the Willows, a new musical adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's celebrated novel that has a book by "Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes and …
Martin McDonagh's latest play, Hangmen, his first to be staged on a London stage in over a decade that is now running at the Royal Court through Oct. 10, is to transfer to the West End&#…
There are currently 21 musicals playing on Broadway. All but four of them are entirely written by men, and mostly directed by
Theatre exists, of course, in the here and now, but it also has a habit of looking forwards as well as backwards
Jane Horrocks, who created the title role of Little Voice in the original National Theatre production of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and its subsequent film version and who is also bes…
The West End is living in boom times: year on year, the box office take has increased and attendances have also generally
The Observer critic Susannah Clapp began her weekly review column last Sunday by declaring: “This is one of the best weeks I
The full cast has been announced for the return of Cats to the London Palladium, which, as was previously revealed, will star Beverley Knight as Grizabella, beginning performances Oct. 23 fo…
I wrote the other day about how the Evening Standard was undermining the credibility of its annual theatre awards, already severely diminished
You Me Bum Bum Train isn't exactly a train journey, but it provided the ride of my life; I also made two separate train journeys to Yorkshire that provided musical and comic diversions of th…
Michael Feinstein is a one-man living encyclopaedia of American popular song, and its keenest promoter and most active performer on stages large
During Dominic Cooke's seven-year tenure as artistic director of the Royal Court, which he left in 2013, he turned it into one
The previously announced world premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child that will take place at the West End's Palace Theatre in the summer of 2016 has revealed that it will be pres…
The Cumberphone Campaign has been launched in the U.K, named in honour of Benedict Cumberbatch who made a direct appeal to his fans to stop using their cellphones during his current run of H…
The Cumberphone Campaign has been launched in the U.K, named in honour of Benedict Cumberbatch who made a direct appeal to his fans to stop using their cellphones during his current run of H…
Casting has been announced for the London return of Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Dinner with Friends that will begin performances Oct. 27 prior to an official openin…
The previously announced world premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child that will take place at the West End's Palace Theatre in the summer of 2016 has revealed that it will be pres…
This week the Critics’ Circle Annual Award for Services to the Arts was presented to Nick Hytner at a lunch held at
Bringing a journey of scientific discovery — which turned out to the one of the most significant of the last century, providing a window into the very foundations of our existence …
Glenn Close, who famously usurped Patti LuPone to don the turban of Norma Desmond in the 1995 Broadway premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, is to play the role for the fir…
Glenn Close, who famously usurped Patti LuPone to don the turban of Norma Desmond in the 1995 Broadway premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, is to play the role for the fir…
The 30th anniversary performance of the West End's longest-running musical, Les Miserables, is to be marked by a charity gala Oct. 8, in aid of Save the Children Syria Children's…
The 30th anniversary performance of the West End's longest-running musical, Les Miserables, is to be marked by a charity gala Oct. 8, in aid of Save the Children Syria Children's…
As the London production of Gypsy, starring Imelda Staunton as Rose, enters its final stand before it shutters Nov. 28 at the Savoy Theatre, there is a cast switch of her daughters: Gemma Su…
You wait ages for a new British musical, and then 80 arrive all at once: I’m referring, of course, to the nightly improvised