Everywhere you look, it seems, there's a jukebox musical playing in the West End and/or Broadway, celebrating iconic music figures from Michael
Dusty, a new multi-media show celebrating the music of pop icon Dusty Springfield, has been previewing at London's Charing Cross Theatre since May and has twice postponed its opening…
James Phillips' McQueen, a play about the late fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen that received its world premiere at London's St. James Theatre in May, is set to transf…
The Lughnasa International Friel Festival, celebrating the work of the Tony-winning playwright Brian Friel — whose plays Dancing at Lughnasa, Wonderful Tennessee, Philadelphia …
Evie Hone and Lizzie Wells are to join Anna-Louise Knight and Lara McDonnell in sharing the title role in the original West End production of Matilda The Musical, beginning Sept. 15.
“Apart from that, Mrs Lincoln,” goes the famous quip about the last trip to the theatre paid by Abraham Lincoln and his
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Long before Susan Boyle was launched to global fame via Britain's Got Talent, another unheralded singer called Jane McDonald found herself the
Michael Ball has never been an actor to choose the easy option. In a West End career that has now spanned some 30
It is an almost universally recognised truth that revivals never run as long as the originals. (The glorious exception, of course, is Chicago, whose 1996 revival — still running on…
London's Royal Court has announced that casting for its production of Martin McDonagh's Hangmen will include David Morrissey (last seen on the London stage in Neil LaBute's In a …
It’s a week of concert and theatrical returns for me (and not just because I, too, am returning from a week in
Michael John LaChiusa's musical See What I Wanna See , is to receive its London premiere. It will begin performances Sept. 8 at Jermyn Street Theatre, prior to an official opening Sept. …
It's not just the audiences whose bad behaviour, recently highlighted by Patti LuPone, needs fixing. According to reports from Manchester, the Turner Prize winning artist Douglas Gordon …
It's not just the audiences whose bad behaviour, recently highlighted by Patti LuPone, needs fixing.
The new season at London's Royal Court will include the world premiere of Hangmen, Martin McDonagh's first new play in London for more than a decade, plus Brooklyn-based ensemble…
Last week Juliet Stevenson railed publicly against the cost of going to see her friend Harriet Walter in the current revival of
What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined, which originally premiered at Off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop in 2013, opens officailly at London's Menier Chocolate Facto…
The current U.K touring production of Calamity Jane, directed by Nikolai Foster (artistic director of Curve in Leicester) and starring Jodie Prenger in the title role, has been filmed in a 3…
The West End return of Miss Saigon, currently running at the Prince Edward Theatre where it opened May 2014, is to shutter Feb. 27, 2016 after a run of less than two years. The original prod…
Audiences are now so umbilically attached to their mobile phones that they seem to be actually affronted when asked not to use
I’ve long campaigned for West End theatres to be properly refitted, not just patched up along the way. I’ve also kept wondering
I'm in a sweltering New York right now -- but I've kept the heat on for myself with lots of shows and interviews planned.
David Suchet isn't an actor shy of reading his reviews. (He invariably has no reason not to). But it was one review
London is already awash with jukebox shows, drawing on the pop repertoires of everyone from the Beatles and Michael Jackson to Frankie