Cassidy Janson is to replace the Olivier award winning Katie Brayben in the West End production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, to take over the title role beginning performances Nov.…
I know I’m one of the (really) lucky ones: I get paid to do what I love, namely go to the theatre
You can run, but you can’t hide, from some theatre names these days: while the man of the moment used to be
Bryan Batt — the Broadway actor best known for his TV appearances in "Mad Men" — is to appear in London as part of the Bayou Banquest Festival, celebrating the …
In the early days of lottery funding for capital projects, arts organisations quick off the mark found a lot of financial help
Joe McElderry, who won the sixth series of the U.K.'s "The X Factor" and subsequently won two more reality TV shows (the second series of ITV's "Popstar to Operastar&q…
Jim Broadbent, the Oscar-winning actor (for "Iris") who is also well known for his appearances in the "Harry Potter," "The Iron Lady," Woody Allen's &qu…
So this year's Edinburgh Fringe is finished for another year " though its effects will continue to ripple through in the months
The world premiere of Tamsin Oglesby's Future Conditional -- which inaugurates Matthew Warchus's first season at the helm of London's Old Vic (replacing Kevin Spacey as a…
The annual Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award, presented by the Carol Tambor Theatrical Foundation to fund a New York run of the winner, has been presented to Key Change, a play devised by…
Taking issue with contrary opinions on Twitter, an audience member taking photos at the Union, and visiting Southampton and Bath -- and of course seeing Cumberbatch's Hamlet.
Michael Grandage has, for as long as I've known him, been something of a life force: not content with running one theatre
Benedict Cumberbatch's parents — both of them also actors, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton — were first to praise their son after the opening of Hamlet at the Barbi…
Lionel Bart's classic musical Oliver! is to receive its first-ever Arabic language adaptation, featuring a cast of 36 Syrian refugees and under-privileged Jordanian children when…
I’m supposed to be in Edinburgh right now: I’d promised myself that I’d do the last five days of the festival before
Edinburgh enters the home stretch with a final five-day flourish that includes Bank Holiday Monday " and features one more international festival
The West End would already be a pale shadow of itself were it not for subsidised theatre: look at War Horse and
The annual competition for the Funniest Joke of the Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival, awarded by TV comedy channel "Dave," has been won by comic Darren Walsh for his joke, "I …
Julia Murney is to appear in concert London's Hippodrome Casino Nov. 2. There will be performances at 8 PM and 11 PM; the late show will include duets with current West End stars, who ar…
New York-based writer and performer Peter Michael Marino, whose stage musical version of the film "Desperately Seeking Susan" opened at the West End's Novello Theatre in 20…
In mid-July, I wrote a column for The Stage that noted ticket prices for Elf at the Dominion were “stretching to a
Willemijn Verkaik, the only actress to have played Elphaba in Wicked in multiple languages, including appearances on Broadway, the West End, in Germany and the Netherlands, appears in concer…
Since previews began Aug. 5, the London press has written about little else than Benedict Cumberbatch's London stage return in the title role in Hamlet, with three major outlets - Th…
The West End was long characterised as an old boy network on the management front. Even as recently as 25 years ago,
I've been to P-town, New York, DC and WIlliamstown in the last fortnight - and I finally catch up in my latest diary today!