Saturday, September 10, 2016
Beth Steel, who scored at hit at the Hampstead in 2014 with a play about the 1980s miners' strike, has dipped back into history to create one with sickening relevance to the current financia…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:32PMFriday, September 9, 2016
Terry Johnson's Painfully funny and funnily painful The Times comedy, DEAD FUNNY, returns for a strictly limited season at the Vaudeville Theatre this autumn with Katherine Parkinson The IT …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:10AMIn 1974, renowned Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia to chart the downfall of Emperor Haile Selassie, 'King of Kings, elect of God', through interviews with his loya…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:04AMThursday, September 8, 2016
CITY OF GLASS, the first part of Paul Auster's landmark three-part novel, The New York Trilogy, will be brought vividly to life in spring 2017 in a dazzlingly original stage adaptation by To…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33AMWednesday, September 7, 2016
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and where better to get into the festive spirit than at Wilton's Music Hall, where panto is back with a bang this year as Roy Hudd presents the m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:08AMLeon Lopez has had an unusual career trajectory, from pop group AM and TV soaps like Brookside and EastEnders to musical theatre including Rent and We Will Rock You and directing independent…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:02AMEducation, education, education - it's an inescapable topic in theatre. Recent years have seen Future Conditional kicking off Matthew Warchus's Old Vic tenure, Matilda the Musical, The Brink…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:31AMTuesday, September 6, 2016
Rehearsals started this week for AMADEUS, which begins previews inthe Olivier Theatre from 16 October press night 26 October. This autumn, Peter Shaffer's classic play Amadeus makes a long-a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PMLauren SamuelsBend it Like Beckham, BBC's Over the Rainbow, Grease,Ashleigh GrayWicked, Cool Rider andLizzy ConnollyDirty Rotten Scoundrels, Xanadu star in the European debut of VANITIES, a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:10AMEaster Rising Voice of a Rebel, a BBC Learning virtual reality VR experience, is available for the public in a free installation at the National Theatre's Lyttelton Lounge from today. Availa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:10AMMonday, September 5, 2016
Sion Lloyd joins the 30th anniversary cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera in the role of Monsieur Firmin, beginning tonight. His past credits include Titanic Charing Cross…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMAhead of celebrations for its fifth birthday in the West End this autumn and Roald Dahl's centenary on13 September, theRoyal Shakespeare Company's multi award-winning production ofMatilda Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:52AMThe British Theatre Academy's concert ofElegiesfor Angels, Punks and Raging Queensat Charing Cross Theatre was a complete sell-out on Sunday 4 September.Funds raised will go towards giving y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:41AMPaul Roseby, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of theNational Youth Theatre of Great Britain NYT has today announced the initial line-up of alumni who will join current members on stage …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36AMUnited Theatrical, Aria Entertainment and Music amp Lyrics Limited are delighted to present, in association with the Festival Theatre Edinburgh, the UK amp Irish premiere of THE ADDAMS FAMIL…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36AMScarlett Strallenwill return to the Menier Chocolate Factory to lead the company ofSHE LOVES ME this Christmas. The production reunites Strallen with director Matthew White, following their …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36AMIn the immortal and slightly edited words ofGreen Day, it's time to 'Wake UpBeforeSeptember Ends' to catch the smash hit UK production ofAmerican Idiotat the Arts Theatre, before it closes o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36AMSaturday, September 3, 2016
I hope there's a time when we don't feel like Alice Birch's bold, blackly funny, uncompromising battle cry of a play is a necessary intervention. A time when we're not reeling from sexist Ol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:10PMFriday, September 2, 2016
Ruth Wilson takes the title role in HEDDA GABLER in a new version by Patrick Marber, directed by Ivo van Hove, in the new National Theatre season. The production previews from 5 December.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:20AMThe show must go on. And on. Even for the understudies trapped in theatrical purgatory, forever waiting for their chance to perform. So far so Beckett That's the premise of American playwrig…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:20AMTHE KITE RUNNER, Khaled Hosseini's international bestselling novel and film, is a powerful story of friendship spanning cultures and continents, following one man's journey to find redemptio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14AMNatasha J Barnes who will play the title role of Cinderella, Suzie Chard and Wendy Sommerville who will play The Wicked Stepsisters complete the casting for the London Palladium Pantomime th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14AMThursday, September 1, 2016
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, officially opens Tara Theatre, a new state of the art home in South London for the acclaimed Tara Arts, the oldest diverse multicultural theatre company in the U…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12AMWednesday, August 31, 2016
Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe,TRAVESTY, the debut play by Liam Williams, will make its premiere London run at New Diorama Theatre next week.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:45AMAward-winning musical THOROUGH MODERN MILLIE is set to tour the UK in 2017.World Ballroom Showdance Champion and Professional DancerJoanne Cliftonwill take on the title role of MillieDillmou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34AMLast night, Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's production of THE ENTERTAINER opened at Garrick Theatre. Rob Ashford directs a cast that also includes Gawn Grainger, Phil Dunster, Jonah Hauer-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34AMHilton London Bankside will host Bompas amp Parr's supernatural voice installation, VOICE OF GOD, for the first time from 29thSeptember - 2ndOctober as part of the eclectic MERGE Bankside, t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:33AMThe latest 2016 state-of-the-nation play has arrived - from 1957. There's the Brexit-ish granddad mired in corrosive nostalgia, the forward-looking granddaughter joining anti-establishment p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32AMTuesday, August 30, 2016
A brand new theatre, named The Bunker, is opening in a former underground car park in Southwark Street and is set to be the capital's newest contemporary Off-West End venue. Behind this exci…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:58AMRehearsals have begun for the highly anticipated major new musical theatre adaptation of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, created by Julian Fellowes, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. Premiering at T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44AMThe capital is never short of theatre temptations, whether big West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From two theatrical titans taking on Pinter to the RSC in London and an u…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44AM 
