This week, the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards " the most long-established of all of London’s theatre awards ceremonies " marks its
Glenn Close is to reprise the role of Norma Desmond, 21 years after winning a Tony Award for appearing in the original Broadway transfer of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard.
Glenn Close is to reprise the role of Norma Desmond, 21 years after winning a Tony Award for appearing in the original Broadway transfer of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard.
Once a year, The Stage 100 takes the pulse of the movers and shakers of Theatreland and lists the top practitioners in
Steven Berkoff returns to the London stage to play Saddam Hussein in the world premiere of Anthony Horowitz's Dinner with Saddam, officially opening Sept. 22 at the Menier Chocolate Fact…
Cynthia Erivo, the Broadway-bound star of The Color Purple, who is set to reprise her London performance as Celie in the Menier Chocolate Factory production when it transfers to Broadway…
Full casting has been announced for the new production of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape that will begin performances Oct. 17 at London's Old Vic, prior to an official opening Oc…
Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games, which previously played a six-month season at the West End's Dominion Theatre, will be reprised at the Playhouse Theatre, re…
Full casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Guys and Dolls, first seen at Chichester Festival Theatre in summer 2014. The classic musical will begin performances at the Savo…
This year's London Evening Standard Theatre Awards are to be presented Nov. 22 in a ceremony at London's Old Vic, co-hosted by Judi Dench and Ian McKellen with the paper's ow…
Over the last week, I saw no fewer than three shows with Harvey Fierstein connections " either that he’d written or originally
Broadway's Tom McGowan makes his West End stage debut in Wicked, reprising the role of the Wizard that he's previously played on Broadway in three separate engagements at the Gershwi…
I make up with Robert Lindsay and meet with the wonderful Mark Rylance, but I have more mixed emotions about Harvey Fierstein, even as I've seen three shows connected to him in the space of …
No fewer than three major London critics came up with the same pun while describing the U.K homecoming of Broadway version of the British film Kinky Boots, with The Guardian's Michael Bi…
A 50th anniversary production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming is to be staged at the West End's Trafalgar Studios, beginning performances Nov. 14 prior to an official opening Nov. …
The last time Rufus Norris, the National’s artistic director in succession to Nicholas Hytner, held a press conference, he did so in
Annie Baker's The Flick, currently playing a commercial run at Off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre after transferring from Playwrights Horizons, is to receive its U.K. premiere …
The original production of War Horse, that transferred from the National's Olivier Theatre to the New London Theatre, is to finally shutter March 12, 2016, after a run of eight years dur…
There are lots of high-profile openings in London and beyond over the next week, with major actors (David Morrissey, Reece Shearmith, Simon
The world premiere of Martin McDonagh's Hangmen, with a cast that features David Morrissey (last seen on the London stage in Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House at the Almeida), Reece…
Theatre is a living education. I've heard actors say how playing different roles and inhabiting different skins allows them to live many
Tom Stoppard's Hapgood, first produced in the West End in 1988 and subsequently in New York at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theatre in 1994, is to be revived for the first time in…
My fellow critic Matt Trueman recently wrote a piece on the challenges faced with reviewing friends, and as he noted, “It's not
Killian Donnelly and Matt Henry lead the company for the West End premiere of Broadway's Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots, opening officially Sept. 15 at the Adelphi Theatre (following…
The original London cast of Dogfight, Pasek and Paul's 2012 musical based on the 1991 film of the same name, is to be reunited at the St James Theatre in a concert staging that will be g…