It has been described as everything from a dog's dinner to an iceberg of terrible and awarded a desultory one-star by some of the most respected theatre critics in town. Could Wag! The Music…
Only a deranged optimist would head to a show called Wag! The Musical expecting a bitingly witty deconstruction of the culture of footballers' wives and girlfriends and its impact on the val…
The artistic director of the Bolshoi Theatre Sergei Filin has undergone 22 operations and has been left blind in one eye after the acid attack which plunged the famous ballet company into cr…
The actor Simon Callow has promised to take audiences to a "dark, murky, unsettling place", with a new one-man stage show that explores the composer Richard Wagner's "toxic" and "disgusting"…
What are we talking about? A starry new comedy in the West End, about a "well dodgy" family of hapless, dysfunctional Essex criminals. One of their number gets out of jail after seven years …
The Events is set to cause a stir at the Traverse (traverse.co.uk, Wed to 25 Aug): David Greig's new play contemplates a politically motivated attack and the limits of forgiveness.
There's a sucker born every minute. So says the eponymous circus owner in Barnum " the 1980s Broadway biomusical now enjoying a Chichester Festival Theatre revival, lavishly co-produced by C…
Every August in Edinburgh, the phrase "spirit of the Fringe" is bandied about, but seldom defined. Now help is at hand: that spirit " the peculiar quality that makes this carnival of multifa…
Dance Odyssey is a new scheme whereby you can see a clutch of performances, films or talks on one ticket. Worth a look is Christopher Hampson's Rite of Spring (Festival Theatre, eif.co.uk, 1…
Summertime. And the living is … well, not so easy if you've got a handful of children to entertain. Thankfully, the West End of London has plenty to offer children of all ages; it also has…
You're in a new play at the Donmar, The Same Deep Water As Me. What's it about?
Written by actor-turned-playwright Oliver Cotton, the third production to appear at the new Park Theatre is set in New York, 1986, and stars Harry Shearer and Maureen Lipman as married Jewis…
His final walk along Downing Street, hand in hand with his wife and two young sons, was an uncharacteristically human moment in the political life of a Prime Minister who could never convinc…
He might have hit the big time as a character more likely to pop frogs into his mouth than pills, but Harry Potter star Rupert Grint is set to make his theatre debut as a drug-addled gangste…
A musical based on the male stripper film Magic Mike is due to open on Broadway, the movie's lead actor Channing Tatum has confirmed.
2013 marks 75 years since the birth of Rudolf Nureyev, twenty since his death. English National Ballet's new triple bill pays tribute to one of ballet's greatest stars, and to the range of h…
All's Well That Ends Well is amongst the least loved of Shakespeare's comedies and though there have been a couple of excellent revivals in the Swan in the past couple of decades, it's been …
While West End theatres reported another record year in 2012, new figures reveal that beyond the bright lights of Theatreland half the capital's small venues fear financial pressures could f…
The West End may be flourishing but the capital's diverse range of smaller theatres are facing a struggle to survive, a new report warns.
As a gay man and a passionate football supporter Rob Ward has struggled for years to make the two aspects of his life sit together comfortably. Given the homophobia endemic in football it ha…
She may be better known for her appearances on Loose Women and I'm a Celebrity, but Kerry Katona is soon to hit the West End in the role of Marilyn Monroe.
The news that the perennial OK! cover star Kerry Katona is to play Marilyn Monroe on stage in the forthcoming production of Norma Jeane The Musical was met with appropriate snorts of laughte…
She may be better known for her appearances on Loose Women and I'm a Celebrity, but Kerry Katona is soon to hit the West End in the role of Marilyn Monroe.
She may be better known for her appearances on Loose Women and I'm a Celebrity, but Kerry Katona is soon to hit the West End in the role of Marilyn Monroe.
There's a play by Ben Jonson called Epicoene, or The Silent Woman in which a wealthy old fool named Morose has such a fanatical hatred of noise that he's devised a room with double walls and…