Kings of Broadway, a one-night concert to be held Nov. 29 at the West End's Palace Theatre, will celebrate the music of Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim and Jule Styne.
Zoë Wanamaker and John Dagleish have joined the line-up of the opening productions of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company at the West End's Garrick Theatre.
It’s hardly surprising, given my passion for musicals, that I measure big chunks of my life by them " and inevitably, their
Some of the best theatre, in London as in New York, happens in the smallest spaces, like the Donmar Warehouse, Almeida, Young Vic, Southwark Playhouse and Finborough Theatres — not…
On the eve of performances beginning for the Broadway transfer for Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (from July 13 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre), his previous Tony winning musical In t…
On the eve of performances beginning for the Broadway transfer for Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (from July 13 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre), his previous Tony winning musical In t…
I head to New York (again) from July 11-17, so I’m missing some of these openings (though I’m being allowed in early
An Intimate Evening with Liza Minnelli, which will mark the return of the star to the London Palladium, where she has appeared regularly over the years, will see her joined by Sir Bruce Fors…
There’s a first time for everything. Even Michael Billington, our most senior theatre critic (in every sense), is still making new discoveries
Derren Brown, psychological stage and television illusionist, is to bring his latest show, Derren Brown: Miracle, to the West End's Palace Theatre, beginning performances Nov. 11 prior t…
Tracie Bennett, Tony-nominated for the Leading Actress in a Play award for playing Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow on Broadway in 2012, is to replace the previously announced Janie De…
Ann Hampton Callaway and her sister Liz Callaway are reprising their show Sibling Revelry, which was previously presented in London in 1998 as part of the inaugural Divas at the Donmar seaso…
Hollywood has always looked not just across the US to Broadway, but even further afield across the Atlantic to find some of
Anne-Marie Duff, Rosalie Craig and Charles Edwards, all of whom have appeared regularly at the National in the past, will each return in new productions in the fall. Dates have also been…
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who recently starred in the films "Belle" (winning the 2014 BIFA Award) and "Beyond the Lights" and has also starred in "Larry Crowne" oppo…
I don’t like celery. But I don’t write endless articles about how much I hate it. I simply don’t eat it. And
Perhaps I should have taken a helicopter to Grange Park Opera to see Bryn Terfel's Tevye instead of a milk cart that got stuck in traffic. Still, it meant I saw an astonishing show in Woolwi…
There could be no more vivid or enduring testimony to the unrealised potential of James Menzies-Kitchin, a promising young director who died
“The heat is on in Saigon,” sings the male chorus in Miss Saigon. And in Kiss Me, Kate the second act begins
The big success story that is the biennial Manchester International Festival of all-new work that’s created out of collaborations between different artistic
The world-premiere run of Damon Albarn's new musical wonder.land opens at Manchester's Palace Theatre July 2 (following previews that began June 29), where it runs as part of the…
Ann Hampton Callaway and sister Liz Callaway have regularly played in London over the years, including most recently at Crazy Coqs, the cabaret room at Brasserie Zedel off Piccadilly Circus,…
The Father, a new play by Florian Zeller that premiered in Paris and then received its U.K. premiere at Bath's Ustinov Studio followed by a run at London's Tricycle Theatre, is to tr…
Theatre is a live art " and sometimes actors are only human. They can fall ill. That’s why shows have understudies. And
After the US Supreme Court made historic rulings in favour of gay marriage throughout the country and upheld affordable health care on