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Twenty years after she first played her, Elizabeth Mansfield returns to the role of Edith Piaf in a revised version of hit homage Hymn to Love, opening tonight (27 July 2018) at London's Jer…
The seven new musicals selected for Aria Entertainment's prestigious festival of new musical theatre, From Page To Stage (FPTS), which returns for a sixth successive year from 11-25 Septembe…
The West End transfer of Kevin Elyot's Coming Clean will run at Trafalgar Studios from 2 from 9 January to 2 February 2019 (press night on 11 January), directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher, art…
Having recently completed the restoration of the Victoria Palace Theatre, Delfont Mackintosh Theatres (DMT) are turning their attention to implementing a recommended programme of restorative…
Rob Houchen, Neil McDermott, Emily Tierney, Alex Bourne and Simon Thomas are joining the cast of British musical Eugenius! when it returns for a six-week season at The Other Palace from 1 Se…
Brendan Coyle will star in the Donmar Warehouse production of St Nicholas, a chilling one-man play by Conor McPherson, directed by Simon Evans, marking the first time McPherson and Coyle hav…
Alexandra Burke will join the West End cast of Chicago at the Phoenix Theatre, playing the role of Roxie Hart from Monday 16 August through to Saturday 14 October 2018.
The Playground Theatre has announced its first full autumn season, running from October 2018 to January. The programme features the world premiere of The Paradise Circus by cult American nov…
Rose Theatre Kingston has announced the full cast for Nick Dear's double-bill Hogarth's Progress. Anthony Banks directs Bryan Dick as the younger William Hogarth in the first major UK reviva…
Trish Wadley Productions and Dead Puppet Society are creating a 357-seat traditional performance theatre in the Jerwood Gallery at the Natural History Museum to host the European premiere of…
Following his hugely successful first year as artistic director, Tom Littler is marking the start of his second year at the helm with a season of new work celebrating rebellious spirits.
The producers of the award-winning Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre have announced that this week Rebecca McKinnis (Mamma Mia!, We Will Rock You) is stepping into the ro…
Star of stage and screen Bonnie Langford is to join the cast of 42nd Street as the production extends its residency at Theatre Royal Drury Lane for a final time, through to Saturday 5 Januar…
From 22 August 2018 term will begin for the year three cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Olivier Award-winning production of School of Rock " The Musical at the newly named Gillian Lynne Theatre.
Jonathan Bailey will play Jamie (originally written as the female character, Amy) and Alex Gaumond will play his devoted fiancée Paul in Marianne Elliott's new production of George Furth an…
The Almeida Theatre has announced the full cast for the UK premiere of Clare Barron's new play Dance Nation, directed by Bijan Sheibani (running from 27 August to 6 October, with a press nig…
Joshua McTaggart will step down as artistic director of The Bunker Theatre in September 2018. David Ralf will continue to lead the London off West End theatre in his new role as executive di…
Paul Roseby, artistic director and chief executive of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT) has today announced the company's summer and autumn programme for 2018, including its …
We're counting down to the opening of Stephanie Martin's Alkaline, the latest play premiere from plucky new writing theatre company, pluck. productions. What happens when religion gets in th…
Joining the Tommy Steele on stage at the London Coliseum in The Glenn Miller Story this summer is Marti Webb. The show runs for a limited season from 6 July to 18 …
Best-selling recording artist, X Factor winner and West End performer Matt Cardle is to join the cast of Strictly Ballroom The Musical, playing the role of bandleader Wally Strand from 31 Ju…
The Bush Theatre's artistic director Madani Younis has announced additions to the venue's autumn/winter 2018 season. Highlights include six plays to end the theatre's season " including t…
Olivier Award-winner Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones' Ramsay Bolton, Misfits) will star in Dawn King's comic drama Foxfinder which has its West End premiere at the Ambassadors Theatre from 6 Sep…
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will celebrate its German premiere at the Mehr! Theater am Großmarkt in Hamburg in the spring of 2020.
The full line-up for the 2018 HighTide Festivals in Aldeburgh and Walthamstow has been announced, alongside the news that artistic director Steven Atkinson will stand down in 2019 after 12 y…