A work-in-progress show by the Britain's Got Talent judge will cost visitors to the Edinburgh festival three times as much as finished shows by other major comediansYou won't find Michael Mc…
The advent of £9,000 tuition fees for higher education places has affected the numbers applying, but competition is still fierceApplications to higher education-level drama courses are do…
With every demand for a 'new critical standard', another voice promotes reviewing values that haven't changed in 50 yearsIf you bury your head in the sand for long enough, does it start to f…
Is it a re-coronation? The actor may star as the Queen again, in a new Peter Morgan play, possibly directed by Stephen DaldryHelen Mirren could be set to play the Queen for a second time, ac…
Adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo put on hold by National theatre 'to give the project some more development time'Richard Bean's first new play since One Man, Two Guvnors has been inde…
The ex-boxer's performance draws from a turbulent life including time in prison and drug addiction, in a play directed by Spike LeeMike Tyson will bring a new meaning to the phrase heavyweig…
Director Sam Mendes heads a top creative team on a production for London's West End. But who will play Willy Wonka?Producers are to bring a new stage musical version of Roald Dahl's Charlie …
Bloggers debated this week whether the restaging of groundbreaking theatre events risked turning them into exhibitsWe're used to new productions of old texts, but what about resuscitations? …
Sofia Escobar, who is playing Christine in the musical at Her Majesty's theatre in London, took offence at a critical tweet " and responded in kindEach night, Phantom of the Opera star Sofia…
Actor is reportedly on board to play the struggling salesman Shelley Levene in David Mamet's Pulitzer prize-winning playWith Broadway productions, as with real estate sales, it's all about y…
Simon McBurney, artistic director of Complicite, is to become the Avignon Festival's first British associate artist next month.
First full-length play in six years by Caryl Churchill and new work by Jez Butterworth will feature in artistic director Dominic Cooke's penultimate seasonUnder Dominic Cooke, the Royal Cour…
With Broadway prices for Death of a Salesman stratospheric, the impact of market forces on theatre is obsessing bloggersPoor old Willy Loman, courting ignominy even in death. This week, the …
Theatre community lambasts Creative Scotland's latest funding review, as it sets out plans to make award-winning companies Vanishing Point and Grid Iron compete for sponsorship A fortnight a…
Hit musical The Book of Mormon is hottest ticket in Broadway's most profitable year to dateBroadway productions have once again broken annual box-office records, grossing a total of $1.139bn…
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced an additional run of its co-production of Troilus and Cressida at the RiversideLondon theatregoers will get only their second chance in a decade t…
Seventy-seater Jermyn Street theatre, London, wins right to put on All That Fall, which Beckett never permitted to be stagedA 70-seat fringe theatre has won the right to stage the West End p…
Young directors are being packed off to Berlin on a crash course in dynamic theatre, and bloggers debate the ethics of an Anne Frank musicalWho wants to hold a mirror up to nature, anyway? T…
Bloggers are smashing old orthodoxies this week, from ideas of what theatre should be to myths about race and actingThis may sound like I'm talking myself out of a job, but if you read one b…
Tony award nominee will reprise her role as Judy Garland in musical biopic when it goes on a tour of AmericaBroadway won't be the end of the line for Tracie Bennett's acclaimed performance i…
Actor has been offered lead role in musical adaptation set to open in Leicester this autumn, according to reportsA musical adaptation of Finding Neverland will receive its world premiere at …
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonHenry VI, Part 1; National Theatre Belgrade, Serbia 3/5Henry VI, Part 2; National Theatre of Albania 2/5Henry VI, Part 3; National Theatre Bitola, Macedonia 3/5The…
Hanks to make Broadway debut as a tabloid columnist in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy this autumn, while Zooey Deschanel will play Loretta Lynn " and a musical Charlie Chaplin comes to townTom Hank…
A blogger accuses the theatre of pandering to rather than provoking the middle classes, while audience etiquette hits the headlinesHas the Royal Court lost its way? Reviewing Mike Bartlett's…
Musical that topped Tony nominations wins two major prizes in run-up to US theatre awardsWith the Tony awards only a month away, the musical that topped the nominations has received a furthe…