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Musical theatre actress Julie Atherton is currently appearing in new musical Lift , which premieres tonight (1 February 2013, previews from 30 January) at Soho Theatre.Craig Adams' show is s…
Following a stellar 2012, which saw no less than five major productions of his work in the UK, playwright Simon Stephens has returned to one of his early plays, 2002's Port, with a revival a…
Lucy Bailey's new RSC production of The Winter's Tale,
starring Tara Fitzgerald and Jo Stone-Fewings, opens in the Royal
Shakespeare Theatre this week (30 January, previews from 25 January)…
Master lyricist Sheldon Harnick talks about his musical-theatre career on the occasion of a new Encores! concert revival of his Fiorello!, the biographical musical about New York City Mayor …
Meet Sharr White, now making his Broadway playwriting debut with his lean 75-minute drama, The Other Place, about the splintering of a woman's world.
Cal McCrystal is an award-winning clown and comedy director who has worked with the likes of The Mighty Boosh, Spymonkey and Cirque du Soleil.
Among recent projects he directed the physical…
Amy Herzog's praised new play The Great God Pan ends its extended run at Playwrights Horizons Jan. 13, but her Belleville is in the wings at New York Theatre Workshop's home downtown…
Michael G Smith is the artistic director of Kooza, Cirque du Soleil's latest show to play at the Royal Albert Hall.
Billed as "an adrenaline rush of acrobatics in a zany kingdom", Kooza ope…
British producer Cameron Mackintosh, who shepherded the musical Les Misérables from its French album/arena roots to the London, Broadway and international stage, talks about the new m…
Tony Award nominee Jessie Mueller, who takes on the mysterious Helena Landless in Charles Dickens' final — and unfinished — story, explains how The Mystery of Edwin Drood is …
Meet Australian actress Yvonne Strahovski, known for TV's "Chuck" and Dexter," currently wowing Broadway as the love-and-loyalty-pulled lady in the middle of Golden Boy.
Paul Kerryson is artistic director of Leicester Curve, which opened in 2008. His current production is a revival of Hello, Dolly! starring Janie Dee in the title role, which continues until …
David Hunter (top centre of picture), recently seen in the ITV casting show Superstar, plays Horton the Elephant in the West End premiere of Seussical, which runs at the Arts Theatre until 6…
Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone talks about starring opposite Debra Winger in the David Mamet world-premiere drama The Anarchist, now on Broadway to Dec. 16.
Katy Secombe, daughter of popular entertainer Harry Secombe, plays the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella the Midnight Princess, which runs at the Rose Theatre, Kingston until 6 January.
Why sh…
American actress and singer Heather Headley steps into Whitney Houston's considerable boots in the West End premiere of The Bodyguard, which is currently previewing at the Adelphi Theatre ah…
The Mystery of Edwin Drood star Stephanie J. Block talks about her dual role as a leading lady and a leading man.
Peter Billingsley, the child actor who played Ralphie in the film-favorite "A Christmas Story," is all grown up and serving as an above-the-title producer of the Broadway musical s…
St. Louis playwright and theatre professor Deanna Jent makes her Off-Broadway debut with Falling, a play based on her real-life experience of a family touched by a child with autism.
Tamara Harvey directs the premiere of Joe Hammond's debut play Where the Mangrove Grows at Theatre503, where it opens tonight (9 November 2012, previews from 6 November).
Harvey's next proj…
John Caird is a director and writer whose latest production, two-hander musical Daddy Long Legs, opens at the new St James Theatre this week (7 November 2012, previews from 31 October).
Cai…
Broadway's Jason Danieley, of Curtains, Candide, Next to Normal and The Full Monty, is inking-in the title role(s) in Sunday in the Park With George, for Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
Colin Teevan's new play The Kingdom, which "vividly captures life as an Irish navvy in the last century", opens at Soho Theatre this week (24 October 2012).
Could you give us an overview …
New York-based playwright and screenwriter David West Read makes his Broadway debut with The Performers, a new romantic comedy that sets lovers and friends in the world of the adult entertai…
Denise Gough is currently starring in Desire under the Elms at the Lyric Hammersmith, which continues until 10 November 2012.
Her other recent credits include Messiah (BBC), Our New Girl (B…
