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Published: 21 April 2008
English National Ballet is offering an intensive dance course for young students of ballet on 28-30 May, linked to the company’s new production Strictly Gershwin at the Royal Albert Hall.The… Read More
The new drama from playwright Steve Waters, Fast Labour, receives its London premiere at the Hampstead theatre on 3 June (previews from 30 May). The topical piece, which has its… Read More
Published: 18 April 2008
Elena Roger is to make her debut at the Donmar Warehouse playing French icon Edith Piaf in Pam Gems’s play about the tragic performer, Piaf. The production, which opens in… Read More
The great actress Sybil Thorndike is resurrected from the dead, two explorers trek to the Arctic, a group of humanitarians consider the value of poetry and the ice-breaker ship Fram… Read More
Nigel Harman, James Dreyfus and Reece Shearsmith are to star in a revival of Simon Gray’s comedy about friendship, The Common Pursuit, at the Menier Chocolate Factory from 9 May… Read More
In my experience, there are few interviewees who would happily let you continue recording them while they had a phone conversation. There are even fewer who would actively encourage you… Read More
Adam Long, co-founder of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, has turned his condensing talents to Charles Dickens with a new comedy musical called Dickens Unplugged, which opens at the West End’s… Read More
The latest edition of Access London Theatre, the brochure which lists all audio described, captioned and sign language interpreted performances in London’s Theatreland, has just been published. The brochure contains… Read More
With a simple red lit stage, containing just the four solitary characters and a chair for each, Peter Gill’s kitchen sink drama Small Change is a vivid portrayal of the… Read More
Letitia Dean, best known as Sharon Watts in the BBC soap EastEnders, is to play the role of eccentric drama teacher Ms Darbus in the stage production of High School… Read More
Laurence Olivier Award-winning song-writing team George Stiles and Anthony Drewe celebrate 25 years of collaboration on 6 July, in a gala concert at Her Majesty’s in support of Mercury Musical… Read More
Janie Dee, Clive Rowe and Lisa O’Hare will be hoping for a warm, dry summer this year as they join the season at the Open Air theatre, Regent’s Park, which… Read More
Published: 17 April 2008
A distinctly English story was sprinkled with some Spanish fairy dust at the Garrick today, when Peter Pan – El Musical was launched to the press. The production, which has… Read More
From the moment you step into the Soho theatre you know this play isn’t going to be your average production, with Polish Rock and Rap blaring from the speakers and… Read More
Is a person just a metaphorical jellyfish, who cannot swim and is pushed around by the tides of fate, or can he make things happen in his life? That is… Read More
The award-winning success of 2007’s Saint Joan was taken by National Theatre Artistic Director Nicholas Hytner as a sign that London theatre was ready for a bit more Bernard Shaw.… Read More
Hannah Murray makes her professional stage debut as she joins the cast of That Face when it transfers to the Duke of York’s in May. Murray is best known for… Read More
The King’s Head in Islington showed off the refurbishment of its pub theatre to guests and members of the press today, who were treated to a sneak preview of two… Read More
After the reality blurring Hollyoaks storyline that saw an ambitious Chester student tenaciously stalk Andrew Lloyd Webber until he offered her the part of Maria in The Sound Of Music,… Read More
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is encouraging teachers and students to take a more practical approach to Shakespeare in schools with a new manifesto called Stand Up For Shakespeare.Over the… Read More
Marti Pellow, David Bedella and Clarke Peters have been added to the star-studded line up of Chess In Concert, a two-night concert performance of Tim Rice, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny… Read More
Transferring from Broadway, where it collected awards like its main character collects furniture, Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife, starring Jefferson Mays and directed by Moisés Kaufman, is now… Read More
Actress Sue Johnston, best known for her television roles which include Barbara in The Royle Family, makes her theatre return in Peter Gill’s Small Change at the Donmar Warehouse. The… Read More
The law is a serious business, or so anyone would think before watching this double bill of plays (The Dock Brief and Edwin) by former barrister John Mortimer. Mortimer sees… Read More
She grew up in the leafy New Forest and spent her youth watching MTV and copying Janet Jackson’s dance routines. Now 33, Kate Prince is an established choreographer who has… Read More
For 20 years Ian Talbot was Artistic Director of the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, concerned with money, casting, programming and the well being of everybody who worked at the… Read More
Following last year’s teenage-centric triptych Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship, the National Theatre’s Connections programme continues its commitment to presenting theatre for and about teenagers with this trio of new plays which address teen… Read More
Originally performed as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival, Leo Butler’s I’ll Be The Devil received its first full staging at the Tricycle last night. A wincing… Read More
Oscar winning composer Michel Legrand will perform for one night only at the Haymarket on 13 April. Legrand will perform his own work alongside singers Ruthie Henshall and Julian Ovenden,… Read More
Three long running London theatre productions have announced extensions to their runs. Buddy has extended its run by seven months and is now booking to 28 March 2009 at the… Read More
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest has been a big success in the West End in recent years with two productions led by Hollywood star Christian Slater. But Slater would… Read More
As a family comes to terms with the world after the end of the Second World War, where and with whom they belong is brought into question as they struggle… Read More
Twenty-five years after Howard Brenton’s The Romans In Britain created all manner of controversy with its portrayal of male rape on stage, Brenton’s work has returned to the National in… Read More
If you missed the stage debut of Angelina Ballerina at the New Wimbledon last year, there is another chance to catch the musical mouse in London this spring as English… Read More
Derren Brown will be controlling minds in the West End once more when his new stage show, Derren Brown Mind Reader: An Evening Of Wonders, comes to the Garrick for… Read More
A reunion with an absent father at the age of 16 would be hard enough, but when he turns up out of the blue from Iraq with a gift you… Read More
Kerry Ellis, who is currently playing lead character Elphaba in Wicked at the Apollo Victoria, will pack her pointy hat and black cape, and fly her broomstick across the Atlantic… Read More
The nation’s favourite patchwork elephant is getting his very own stage show. Elmer, the multicoloured mammal from David McKee’s children’s books, comes to UCL Bloomsbury from 16 to 19 April… Read More
As he prepares to take to the stage at the Donmar Warehouse in the title role of Arthur Miller’s The Man Who Had All The Luck, young rising star Andrew… Read More
The creators of AutoAuto!, which opens at the Riverside Studios on 10 April (preview 9 April), seem to have been confused about the term ‘car sound system’. Instead of a… Read More
The King’s Head theatre has announced a 2008 season packed with premieres. The season, the first in a decade that the Islington theatre is able to produce in its entirety,… Read More
Benedict Cumberbatch, who appeared in both Rhinoceros and The Arsonists at the Royal Court in 2007, returns to the Sloane Square venue in April to appear alongside Hattie Morahan in… Read More
Former CBBC presenter Andrew Hayden-Smith is to appear in Antic Disposition’s new production of Romeo And Juliet at Jermyn Street theatre from 21 April to 17 May (press night 24… Read More
Hailing from New York, the Blue Man Group has arrived at the New London theatre to hit British audiences with a production like no other. Knowing only that it involves… Read More
The spring season at Kilburn’s Tricycle theatre has been announced. Joining the Royal Shakespeare Company productions of I’ll Be The Devil and Days Of Significance are an Out Of Joint… Read More
Harriet Thorpe is to replace Susie Blake as witchy headmistress Madame Morrible in Wizard Of Oz-based musical extravaganza Wicked, from 14 April.Thorpe’s face may be familiar due to her numerous… Read More
Champagne corks should be popping all over the West End today as Theatreland celebrates a century of existence in the form that we now know it.Exactly 100 years ago today,… Read More
Action for Children’s Arts (ACA), the UK body dedicated to the promotion and development of the creative and performing arts for children, is offering young people and parents the chance… Read More
A glamorous 1950s society ball, identical twins, a ballet dancer and a madcap story which confuses even the protagonists combine to create Jean Anouilh’s Ring Round The Moon - a… Read More
West End star Michael Ball will be providing BBC Radio 2 listeners with their Sunday morning soundtrack from 6 April with a new show on the station.Ball's show will air… Read More
The Pleasance theatre is encouraging children to help create a play with its new interactive show Jack’s Quest, which runs from 28 February to 1 March. Jack’s Quest, by Emma… Read More
The Royal Court has confirmed details of the three plays in its Upstairs Downstairs season this summer. The Ugly One, Free Outgoing and Gone Too Far!, all of which were… Read More
The Almeida theatre has confirmed the cast for Chain Play II. The show is the second innovative fundraiser for the theatre which sees several playwrights collectively writing a play over… Read More
That Face, the debut play by multi award-winning young playwright Polly Stenham, is to have a limited West End season at the Duke of York’s from 1 May (press night… Read More
The Young Genius season, co-produced by the Barbican and Young Vic, turns its eyes towards today’s young geniuses with theatre-rites new show for children The Thought That Counts. Being little… Read More
From the moment you step into the Cinema Haymarket you are a part of Kneehigh Theatre’s time-travelling experience. The Cornish theatre company has taken the cinema back to its 1930s… Read More
The Old Vic has created an exciting opportunity for amateurs to grace the stage, both from behind the scenes and in the spotlight. Open auditions are being held for new… Read More
The Unicorn is holding a mini-festival of Japanese theatre from 11 March-6 April. Oha! Japan comprises a production by a visiting Japanese theatre company and a new play about the… Read More
It is somewhat fitting that the musical adaptation of one of the world’s most famous romantic novels, Gone With The Wind, should start rehearsals in the same week as St… Read More
Learn to play the ukulele, join in a 12-hour line dancing marathon or sample the sounds of samba in the Barbican’s Do Something Different Weekend on 8-9 March.Following last year’s… Read More
It takes a brave director and theatre to stage a play that runs for an hour and a half with absolutely no dialogue. But the National Theatre and James Macdonald… Read More
New musical production Hairspray, which recently broke the record for the most Laurence Olivier Award nominations by a single production in one year, has broken another awards record, receiving seven… Read More
Daniel Mays is only 28, but has already forged an exciting career. He is part of Mike Leigh’s family of actors, starring in two of the director’s films, he appears… Read More
The Sea may be calming for some, but it certainly isn’t for David Haig. Playing the mad draper in Edward Bond’s drama has come hot on the heels of his… Read More
The Old Vic revives David Mamet’s behind-the-screens satire Hollywood movie making has taken a battering on the West End stage in recent months. First came Swimming With Sharks featuring Christian… Read More
In a fitting tribute to a show that specifically aims to break down theatrical conventions, Tom Bowtell casts off the shackles of tradition and goes along to the second night… Read More
Douglas Henshall will swap hunting prehistoric time-travelling monsters for more devilish activity when he joins the cast of The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot, which receives its European premiere at… Read More
Into The Hoods, a street dance/theatre version of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Into The Woods, comes to London this spring. A hit at two successive Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, ZooNation’s urban fairytale… Read More
A cruel, question-filled comic drama set in a dingy North London house divorced from anything female, The Homecoming is considered by many to be the masterpiece work of the world’s… Read More
David Calder is to play King Lear in the opening production of this year’s season at Shakespeare’s Globe from 23 April. Calder is best known on television for playing the… Read More
As 80s pastiche Ashes To Ashes dominates headlines about television cop shows, this week proves timely for the opening of Thomas Babe’s A Prayer For My Daughter at the Young… Read More
A Spanish musical adaptation of JM Barrie’s famous children’s story Peter Pan comes to the West End’s Garrick theatre for a limited season this spring, from 28 March to 27… Read More
Opera North’s new family-friendly opera The Adventures Of Pinocchio has its London premiere at Sadler’s Wells from 29 February to 1 March, as part of a UK tour. Written by… Read More
The Royal Albert Hall’s forthcoming two-night production Chess In Concert should prove a doubly wicked night as Kerry Ellis joins Idina Menzel and Josh Groban in the cast. Also confirmed… Read More
The Bush theatre, which had its mooted funding cuts overturned by the Arts Council last week, has celebrated by announcing an exciting spring season of new talent. Mike Bartlett, whose… Read More