Sunday, April 19, 2026
'If we celebrate the impact of physical storytelling, we must acknowledge the artists behind it,' says Equity body, calling out the lack of movement categories in major awards
Choreographers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Other winners include Inter Alia's Rosamund Pike, Ivo van Hove for All My Sons and Hayley Atwell who beat her Much Ado co-star Tom Hiddleston to best Shakespearean performance
Brendan Gleeso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2026
New work will be choreographed and directed by Benoit Swan Pouffer, artistic director of Rambert, with Davies and Pet Shop Boys serving as executive producers
It's a Sin, the award-winning T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2026
The director's first play " an 1830s 'rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise' " is planned for early 2027 opening in London
Since Quentin Tarantino announced last year that he had wri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2026
Two musicals dominate nominations while Tom Hiddleston and Bryan Cranston vie for best actor, with Cate Blanchett and Rosamund Pike up for best actress' Olivier awards 2026: full list of nom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Novelist George RR Martin says RSC is 'obvious choice' to put on new play The Mad King, which will open after spring
A new prequel to George RR Martin's blockbuster fantasy saga Game of Thro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 14, 2026
A trip to the pantomime is a Christmas tradition but they also lift the January gloom and even run later in the year
The Christmas decorations have been packed away, kids are back at school …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2025
Short story set in 1983, and published a year after the former prime minister's death, considers 'what happens when people feel they don't have a voice' says director John Young
Hilary Mante…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32AM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2025
Ola Ince, who has refreshed Agatha Christie's record-breaking mystery, says 'we all fancy ourselves as detectives'
Audiences left hungry for more suspense after the nail-biting Celebrity Tra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Deep Azure, written by the Black Panther star in response to the death of a fellow college student, will open at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse next year
A play by the Black Panther star Chadwick B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2025
Next summer, the star will appear in Stratford-upon-Avon first as Prospero and then alongside Helen Hunt in Chekhov's classic
More than 40 years after his star-making performance as Henry V …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM[SHARE]Monday, June 30, 2025
The Oscar winner will appear alongside Oscar nominee Andrea Riseborough when they play the same character at different ages in Tracy Letts' play Mary Page Marlowe
Susan Sarandon is to make h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 28, 2025
Public art project The Herds is passing through capital on 20,000km journey from Congo Basin to Arctic Circle, inspiring climate action
The animals went into the West End, not quite two by t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Attendances are up and average ticket prices down, even in the West End, but the sector faces mounting and unsustainable strain
A report by the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre, rele…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2025
Harewood " who became the first black actor to play Othello at the NT in 1997 " will play the role at Theatre Royal Haymarket opposite Toby Jones as Iago
David Harewood is returning to the r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 1, 2025
Revival of the 'profoundly moving' Irish pub drama will open at the Olympia theatre in Dublin before arriving in London this autumn
Brendan Gleeson will make his West End debut this autumn i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 29, 2025
John Niven's debut play explores rivalry between the two British bands who vied for the No 1 spot in the charts in 1995
It was the great Britpop showdown in the summer of 1995, billed as a c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2025
A pair of electrifying London shows bagged four prizes at the Olivier awards. Both were developed by Dutch company ITA, which has an eye for British talent
Olivier awards: full list of win…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Speaking after his best actor victory, Lithgow said Donald Trump's administration 'has done some shocking, destructive things' especially its takeover of the Kennedy Center
The actor John Li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 6, 2025
John Lithgow, Imelda Staunton, Romola Garai and Layton Williams are among the winners at the annual stage awards
Olivier awards: full list of winners
The play Giant, which portrays children'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM[SHARE]Actor, who won an Olivier for Oedipus, says her 'bugbear' is that venues outside London do not get enough money
Stars come out for theatre's Olivier awards 2025 " in pictures
Lesley Manville…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 27, 2025
Other winners include Francesca Amewudah-Rivers for Romeo & Juliet, Danny Sapani as King Lear and Giant playwright Mark Rosenblatt
A modern-day version of Oedipus, which turned Sophocles…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 25, 2025
The One Day actor will star in Sophia Chetin-Leuner's Porn Play, one of four new premieres announced by the London theatre
Ambika Mod is to star as an academic addicted to violent pornograph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Suzie Miller's award-winning monologue hits the road next year, with the Killing Eve actor playing a barrister who defends men of rape and is assaulted herself
Jodie Comer is to reprise her…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Garai is recognised for The Years and Giant, Oscar-winner Adrien Brody is nominated for his West End debut, while Imelda Staunton gets 14th nod for Hello, Dolly!
' Olivier awards 2025 " comp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2025
Conor McPherson's adaptation of the hit YA sci-fi novels and films " which starred Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen " will begin in October, having been delayed since last year
A new th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2025
Justin Audibert's production with the Hamilton star is part of season including Top Hat, Natalie Dormer's Anna Karenina and new play Safe Space
Since opening in 1962 under its first artistic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AM[SHARE]The writer of Shopping and Fucking will direct cycle of bawdy comedies inspired by scenarios from a 17th-century Italian collection
A premiere by Mark Ravenhill has been an event ever since …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2025
The songwriter, who has reunited with Andrew Lloyd Webber for a Christmas mystery, said popularity of TV subtitles may have a welcome effect in theatres
Surtitles should be routinely used fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2025
After a major restoration, new theatre in east London announces opening programme with Sara Pascoe and Rosie Jones on the bill " plus panto and a new show by Bryony Kimmings
It opened as a V…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2024
The Slow Horses star will perform the monologue Krapp's Last Tape at York Theatre Royal in the spring
After decades away from the theatre, Gary Oldman is to return to the Yorkshire playhouse…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE] 
