Park Theatre, situated near Finsbury Park station, officially opens tonight with the press performance of These Shining Lives. Here, its founding artistic director Jez Bond explains more abo…
Sara Kestelman is starring in Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles, which opens at the Print Room in Notting Hill tonight (14 May 2013). Transferring from the Ustinov Studio at Bath Theatre Royal, the …
Samantha Bond stars opposite Zoe Wanamaker, Owen Teale, Annabel Scholey and Oliver Cotton in David Leveaux's revival of Peter Nichols' Passion Play, which opens at the West End's Duke of Yor…
As Merrily We Roll Along transfers to the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre, we talk to its debutante director Maria Friedman (pictured in rehearsals), who was nominated for a Whatsonstage.co…
Jonathan Harvey's seminal play Beautiful Thing is 20 years old. Following a recent production at the Royal Exchange, the play is back - this time in London and then on tour. We caught up wit…
Tom O'Connell, a young producer who trained as an apprentice on the Stage One scheme (a former adopted charity of the Whatsonstage.com Awards) is producing the 20th anniversary rev…
James Dacre is currently directing the New Vic's production of The Thrill of Love, which has transferred to the St James Theatre this week (3 April 2013). Dacre was also last week appointed…
Sharp-tongued renaissance man Tim Minchin turns a page in his Broadway debut as the composer of Matilda, the hit London musical that debuts on Broadway this spring at the Shubert Theatre.
Ian Talbot is an Olivier-Award nominated director, who is currently directing the debut of Dermot Canavan’s play, Third Finger, Left Hand, which opened at the Trafalgar Studios last ni…
Declan Bennett is currently appearing as Guy in John Tiffany's production of multi Tony Award- winning screen-to-stage musical Once, which receives its West End premiere at the Pho…
Steve Kazee, the Tony Award winner for playing Guy in the Broadway musical Once, talks about his sudden exit from the show — and addresses his social-media life, his health issues and …
Dorothy Duffy is about to star in Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney at the Print Room, which starts previews tonight (27 March) and opens on 2 April. Her previous theatre roles include …
Stella Gonet is currently appearing in Matthew Dunster's revival of Rodney Ackland's Before the Party at the Almeida Theatre, which opens on Thursday (28 March 2013, previews from 21 March).…
Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife) talks about digging into his Texas roots to create the book of the new Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody, inspired by the film documen…
Janice Okoh won the 2011 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting for Three Birds, which transfers this week to the Bush Theatre following its premiere at the Royal Exchange. Here, in the first of a…
Professional dancer Jason Gilkison is the director/choreographer of Burn the Floor, which recently returned to the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre For those who aren't familiar with the show…
Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown (Parade) talks about seeing his cult hit The Last Five Years from both sides now — as songwriter and director of the new Off-Bro…
Gavin Lee recently took over from Tom Chambers as Jerry Travers in Top Hat at the West End's Aldwych Theatre. Lee, who originated the role of Bert in the London production of Mary Poppins, …
Charlotte Josephine's one-woman play Bitch Boxer, winner of the Soho Young Writers Competition, runs at Soho Theatre until 9 March ahead of a national tour. Tell us about Bitch Boxer It's a…
Kerry Ellis is one busy performer. As well as solo concerts, auditioning for The Voice last year, stepping onto the musical stage and releasing albums, she is about to tour the UK - performi…
While the Broadway run of Mary Poppins is playing its final weeks, Playbill catches up with Richard M. Sherman, the surviving member of the Sherman Brothers songwriting duo, who crafted clas…
Mark Benton plays Edna Turnblad in the new tour of Hairspray, which kicks off at Manchester's Lowry Theatre tonight (13 February 2013). Benton has clocked up previous credits onstage at the…
Mark Brokaw, lauded for directing the works of Paul Vogel, Douglas Carter Beane, Nicky Silver and Kenneth Lonergan, brings his magic to the Broadway premiere of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinde…
Actor and Tony Award-winning songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda will bring his Tony-winning Best Musical In the Heights to the United Palace of Cultural Arts in Washington Heights in a reunion co…
Actor-writer Martin Moran, a Drama Desk Award nominee for his autobiographical solo play, The Tricky Part, picks up the pieces of his story for his new work, All the Rage, about finding grac…