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Published: 17 April 2008
Scottish actor Alan Cumming is lending his support to the National AIDS Trust by fronting a charity gala performance of Angels In America at the Lyric Hammersmith on 4 July.… Read More
The Menier Chocolate Factory, the theatre that has produced West End hit transfers including Sunday In The Park With George and Little Shop Of Horrors, has announced an agreement with… Read More
Kenneth Cranham has, among his weighty list of theatrical credits, the record of playing Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls on 796 occasions. At the Old Vic, he is back… Read More
Full casting has been announced for the West End return of Grease, which found its leads, Danny Bayne and Susan McFadden, through the ITV talent contest Grease Is The Word.Joining… Read More
When a trio of young actors jointly became the youngest ever winners of a Best Actor in a Musical Laurence Olivier Award in 2006 (beating fellow nominees Ewan McGregor and… Read More
Henry Goodman likes nothing better than tackling a type of role he hasn’t tackled before. But attaining such variety in his career – from Shakespeare to satire, New Yorker to… Read More
The London Coliseum is giving children aged 7-13 the opportunity to experience what it is like to be an opera singer with English National Opera. The one-off workshop, entitled A… Read More
The 30 winners of Kids Week workshop Fame Factor will be performing on stage in Leicester Square on Saturday 23 June as part of West End Live. Auditions for Fame… Read More
It is hard not to slip into cliché when talking about The Lord Of The Rings, but when, on a visit to interview leading lady Laura Michelle Kelly, I am… Read More
Welsh opera singer Bryn Terfel is to sing the title role of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street in a dramatised concert at the Royal Festival Hall from… Read More
Following the success of the Old Vic’s first pantomime, Aladdin, which starred Sir Ian McKellen as Widow Twankey and ran for two consecutive Christmas seasons, the venue has announced a… Read More
The MacbethsThe season at the Open Air theatre in Regent’s Park is underway with weather-hardy theatregoers bringing their jumpers and picnic blankets to the leafy venue to see two Shakespeare… Read More
The Bush theatre's sell-out hit Elling, which saw Life On Mars star John Simm return to the London stage for the first time in 11 years, transfers to Trafalgar Studio… Read More
Shakespeare’s Globe has postponed the press night for its new production of The Merchant Of Venice, which was scheduled for tomorrow, until 28 June, due to the “indisposition” of cast… Read More
There are very few people who can truly be described as British acting royalty; performers you would happily offer up a body part to see, let alone meet for an… Read More
She has been described as ‘diminutive but prodigiously talented’ by one critic, ‘part china doll, part pixie’ by another, with the Independent perhaps paying her the greatest of flatteries when… Read More
Tracy Beaker Gets Real, which brings children’s novelist Jacqueline Wilson’s much-loved character to life in a brand new stage adaptation, comes to Hackney Empire from 3-7 July as part of… Read More
Tom Stoppard's The Coast Of Utopia and new musical Spring Awakening collected more than half the awards handed out at the 2008 Tony Awards yesterday, winning in 15 of the… Read More
The leads in two West End musicals were cast on Saturday night as reality shows Any Dream Will Do and Grease Is The Word both had their finals. Lee Mead… Read More
A dance show set to the back catalogue of The Rolling Stones comes to the Apollo this summer, from 28 August (press night 29 August) for a limited season until… Read More
Sadler's Wells will make history when it takes a showcase of dance to this year's Glastonbury Festival. It will be the first time that the leading dance venue has presented… Read More
A free workshop for 8-11 year olds forms part of the Royal Court’s Open House Day on 23 June.Led by the Court’s resident Young Writers’ tutor and playwright, Leo Butler,… Read More
The Stephen Sondheim revue Side By Side By Sondheim is to close at The Venue on 23 June, three weeks earlier than planned. It opened on 1 May. Neil Laidlaw,… Read More
The West End is attracting bigger audiences than ever, with 2006 showing the highest attendance since records began. For the third year running, more than 12 million people saw a… Read More
Written in 1978, Harold Pinter’s Betrayal is a portrait of an affair and the affect it has on the relationships between man and wife, two best friends and the lovers… Read More
Who would have thought that a skit originally written as a wedding present would, with a little shaping and moulding, make its way to Broadway and then the West End?… Read More
Omo is released from Brixton prison after his good work with a Christian group. His mentor, Dona, sees him as a sign of how well she has done and her… Read More
Duncan James, former member of four-piece boy band Blue, is the latest star lined up to play Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago at the Cambridge. James takes over the… Read More
The Royal Court throws open its doors to the general public on 23 June to give interested theatregoers the chance to take a look at the internal workings of a… Read More
Gemma Arterton, the RADA graduate who plays the Head Girl in the forthcoming St Trinian's film, will leave the glitz and glamour of the Cannes Film Festival behind to take… Read More
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Nearly 30 years after her major West End breakthrough and with many leading roles under her belt, Elaine Paige is once again in the West End. But this time the… Read More
The Menier Chocolate Factory presents the first major revival of Patrick Marber’s play Dealer’s Choice from 27 September (press night 3 October) to 17 November, directed by Samuel West. The… Read More
A new musical adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s epic novel Gone With The Wind, directed by Trevor Nunn, comes to the New London in April 2008. Nunn and first-time composer/lyricist Margaret… Read More
American actress Rhea Perlman, best known for playing Carla in long-running American sitcom Cheers, makes her West End debut at the end of this month when she joins the cast… Read More
From 4 June there will be new faces on the street inhabited by puppets, Avenue Q, as Delroy Atkinson and Mary Doherty join the cast. Atkinson, who plays the part… Read More
No performances of The Lord Of The Rings will take place before Saturday 2 June, following an injury to a member of the cast during last night's show. Actor Adam… Read More
Edmund Kean, described by many as one of Britain’s greatest Shakespearean actors, was, by the time he died aged 42 in 1833, as famous for his private life as he… Read More
The 2007/8 Old Vic season, which was announced today, opens with the world premiere of Samuel Adamson's stage adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother. The season also sees… Read More
West-End long-runner Les Misérables welcomes several new cast members from 25 June. Joining existing leads John Owen-Jones (Valjean) and Hans Peter Janssens (Javert) in the French revolutionary musical are Gary… Read More
The Royal Shakespeare Company productions of King Lear and Chekhov’s The Seagull, starring Ian McKellen and Frances Barber, are to transfer to the West End’s New London theatre on 12… Read More
Lindsay Posner’s new production of an ever-popular musical received a West End welcome last night as Fiddler On The Roof opened at the Savoy, following a transfer from the Sheffield… Read More
American tap dancer Savion Glover – the man behind the tap-dancing feet of Mumble the penguin in the film Happy Feet – makes his UK debut at Sadler’s Wells on… Read More
Orlando Bloom makes his West End stage debut this summer in David Storey’s In Celebration at the Duke of York’s from 5 July (press night 12 July). Lynda Baron, Gareth… Read More
This Christmas the Almeida is to stage its first ever production specifically for families, an adaptation of Catherine Storr’s Marianne Dreams, which runs from 13 December 2007-19 January 2008 (press… Read More
The Hound Of The Baskervilles is closing a month early at the Duchess, on 23 June. It had been booking until 21 July. Peepolykus’s comic adaptation of the Arthur Conan… Read More
When the dancers of Ballet Rakatan burst onto the Peacock stage in a whirl of colour, slick suits and sashaying skirts, they begin an immensely energetic two-hour display of Cuban… Read More
A black and white film about a man on the run after being accused of a murder he didn’t commit isn’t an obvious choice for a comic stage adaptation. But… Read More
She has a degree in Law, she used to work in sales and marketing, and until embarking on a one-year postgraduate course at the Central School of Speech and Drama,… Read More
Children across the capital have the chance to experience the art of the puppeteer for free through a new touring marionette show from Little Angel theatre, which kicks off on… Read More
Little Shop Of Horrors’s man-eating plant Audrey II, who has been happily scoffing cast members nightly at the Duke of York’s since March, is moving to the Ambassadors (formerly the… Read More
Siobhan Dillon, who made it into the last three during last year's search for a lead in The Sound Of Music, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?, makes… Read More
Ian Bartholomew and Michael Jibson join Sally Ann Triplett in the cast of new musical Take Flight at the Menier Chocolate Factory from 13 July.Written by Richard Maltby Jr and… Read More
The 2007/8 season at the Young Vic was today launched by David Lan, Artistic Director of the Waterloo venue. In addition to an extension of current hit Vernon God Little,… Read More
The Drowsy Chaperone is doing its bit to help raise funds for the Breast Cancer Campaign by offering 150 charity tickets at the cost of £55 to the 1 June… Read More
Stockard Channing returns to the London stage in Awake And Sing! at the Almeida from 31 August (press night 6 September), directed by Almeida Artistic Director Michael Attenborough.American playwright Clifford… Read More
The 39 Steps extends its stay in London until 9 February 2008 and sets dates for a US production to play in Boston prior to a Broadway run. Patrick Barlow’s… Read More
Le Grand Cirque, a spectacle which, if the photos are anything to go by, defies description, comes to the New Wimbledon from 5-9 June as part of the company’s first… Read More
A new stage production of children’s classic The Wizard Of Oz comes to the Questors theatre in Ealing during the half-term week, 30 May-2 June. In L. Frank Baum’s magical… Read More
Scottish-born American actor Maxwell Caulfield takes on the role of Billy Flynn in Chicago from 29 May for a limited five-week season finishing on 30 June. Caulfield first came to… Read More
Hairspray The Musical, which has enjoyed success on Broadway, opened booking this weekend for its London run, previewing in the Shaftesbury theatre from 11 October (press night 30 October). Based… Read More
On Thursday 21 June, the longest day of the year, Monty Python’s Spamalot is holding a special ‘midKnight matinee’ (which, despite the pun, starts at 23:30) in aid of The… Read More
The National Theatre is holding a celebration to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Laurence Olivier, the National’s first director, in the theatre that bears his name, on… Read More
The Scoop at More London once again brings free theatre to London this summer with productions of John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath and Disney's The Jungle Book KIDS. This… Read More
It is 1920s Chicago, in the sepia-toned family home where Ella Mason and her husband Victor live with their four children, Ella’s matriarchal mother and Vic’s playboy brother. The tentative… Read More
She has been performing in West End musicals since she was in her early teens, and in the past year alone she has notched up a starring role at the… Read More
As The Phantom Of The Opera approaches its 21st birthday later this year, two actresses are to equally share the role of Christine for the first time in the London… Read More
In an unnamed provincial town somewhere in Russia, three pretty sisters and their intelligent brother are trying to work out how to live their lives as their class crumbles around… Read More
The National Theatre has announced its 2007 season of new plays commissioned for and about young people, NT Connections, which runs in the Olivier and Cottesloe theatres from 12-17 July.… Read More
West End transfers have done well in the nominations for the 2007 Tony Awards, with Frost/Nixon, Coram Boy, Journey’s End, A Moon For The Misbegotten and Mary Poppins all receiving… Read More
The Royal Opera House is holding a series of fun musical workshops for kids and families during the half term break, 29 May-2 June, based around Beethoven’s opera Fidelio, which… Read More
The Last Confession, starring David Suchet, is to transfer into the Haymarket on 28 June (press night 2 July) following its current run at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Roger Crane’s… Read More
Two more of London's top musicals have announced they are taking part in West End Live on 23 and 24 June. The Sound Of Music and Little Shop Of Horrors… Read More
The Lion King and Queen: Jeana Cachero and Stefan RuizIn the words of the Mamas and the Papas ‘all the leaves are brown and the sky is grey’, which can… Read More
Sally Ann Triplett is to star in new musical Take Flight at the Menier Chocolate Factory, which reunites the team behind the award-winning production of Sunday In The Park With… Read More