BBC Radio 2 is to pay tribute to Gilbert and Sullivan with a special Friday Night is Music Night concert. The show will feature music from productions including HMS Pinafore and The Mikado a…
Writers of a major children's television drama who claim they are owed £250,000 for their work have criticised broadcasters for screening the series, claiming the move sets a "bizarre pre…
Natascha McElhone is to star in the stage adaptation of Fatal Attraction directed by Trevor Nunn. The play, based on the film of the same name, is written by James Dearden, who also penned t…
Michael Palin is to star in a TV drama for the first time in more than 20 years, with a three-part BBC series called Remember Me. The BBC1 ghost story is written by Gwyneth Hughes,...
Jodie Prenger is to star in Calamity Jane at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, directed by Nikolai Foster. Calamity Jane is adapted for the stage by Charles K. Freeman and has music by Sammy…
In the last couple of weeks I've seen two films featuring excellent leading performances from British actors " Idris Elba (in Mandela " The Long Walk to Freedom, which also stars the wonderf…
This year's London Festival of Cabaret has been brought forward by five months to May, with its producer promising more acts, more venues and an increase in international stars. The title of…
Comedian Michael McIntyre is to host his own chat show on BBC1. The six-part series, called The Michael McIntyre Chat Show, will feature celebrity guests, who will be interviewed by the come…
Ticket sales for the tour of new musical Happy Days tripled after it was featured as part of Channel 4's The Sound of Musicals documentary. Producer Amy Anzel said that being part of the doc…
Nicola Walker and Mark Strong will lead the cast of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic Theatre. Ivo van Hove, who is the director of theatre company Toneelgroep in Holla…
Lauren Samuels, a finalist in the BBC Andrew Lloyd Webber series Over the Rainbow, has been cast in new musical Water Babies at Leicester's Curve. Samuels, who has appeared in the West End p…
Monty Python musical Spamalot is to close at the Playhouse Theatre in London on February 22, following a run at the venue of 15 months. The show, written by Eric Idle and John Du Prez,...
Stephen Wood, the executive director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, has warned that the National Theatre's NT Live initiative must never become a "substitute" for actual theat…
Reece Shearsmith and Sheridan Smith are to star in a three-part ITV drama called The Widower, which is based on the crimes of convicted murderer Malcolm Webster. The Widower has been co-writ…
Paul Kerryson's last production as artistic director of Leicester's Curve will be The Sound of Music, which will run at the venue this Christmas. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical will pre…
Do you know who Marni Nixon is? Shamefully, I didn't until I watched the BBC's Secret Voices of Hollywood programme just the other week. In case you missed it, the documentary examined those…
Lacey Turner, Marcia Warren and Simon Russell Beale have earned nominations for this year's BBC Audio Drama Awards. The awards, held to honour actors, writers, producers and sound designers …
Cornwall's Minack Theatre is to increase its ticket prices for the first time in four years, with the venue blaming the move on the increased cost of travel and accommodation facing performe…
Producers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are set to benefit from a £12 million boost to Channel 4's out-of-England TV production spend, after regulator Ofom revealed plans to a…
Former cast members of Les Miserables have paid tribute to the show's long-serving head of wigs, Melanie Oakley-Dow, who died over Christmas following a lengthy battle with cancer. Oakley-Do…
Tell Me on a Sunday starring Marti Webb will transfer to the West End following its initial run at the St James Theatre. The musical opens at the St James Theatre on January 7, where...
An investigation into the cause of the Apollo Theatre's ceiling collapse will not be completed until the new year at the earliest. Westminster City Council, which is conducting the invest…
Unions Equity and BECTU have praised the staff at the Apollo Theatre for their "swift assistance" to both their members and to the public. Equity general secretary Christine Payne paid tribu…
Blackpool Opera House was forced to cancel a performance of the musical Scrooge after a cast member was hit by a piece of falling scenery. The performance, starring Tommy Steele, was halted …
All of the West End's "historic theatres" will today carry out further safety checks following the collapse of the ceiling at the Apollo Theatre. Westminster City Council said it believed th…