Wednesday, May 25, 2016
The Bush Theatre today announced a number of ways it will demonstrate the theatre's commitment to nurturing new writing at all levels, from emerging artists to established artists seeking to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:58AMThe criticallyacclaimed production of William Nicholson's moving play,SHADOWLANDS, comes to Exeter Northcott Theatre from Tues 28 June toSat 2 July.StarringStephen BoxerHumans,The Iron Lady,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:45AMArtistic Director Josie Rourke and Executive Producer Kate Pakenham announce today that the Donmar Warehouse will launch two ambitious seasons of work in London's King's Cross and in New Yor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:45AMA concert premiere performance of the new, original British musicalEUGENIUSwill take place on29 June 2016at the London Palladium. This exciting and innovative musical is produced by and star…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:45AMTuesday, May 24, 2016
New dance thriller JEKYLL amp HYDE is now playing at the Old Vic, with press night tomorrow. It'sdevised, directed and choreographed by Drew McOnie, inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's The …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09AMTickets are now on sale for Justin Fletcher's self-penned showJUSTIN LIVEat Wolverhampton Grand Theatre on Sunday 25th September 2016 at 1045am and 145pm.Also known as Mr Tumble, Justin star…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09AMSheffield Crucible Lyceum Theatre welcomes thought-provoking, funny and thrilling performances to the Studio this June - everything from poetry and romance deconstruction to a Tour de France…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:19AMImmersive promenade production ON CORPORATION STREET marks 20 years since the Provisional IRA exploded the largest-ever bomb on mainland Britain, on a warm sunny morning in Manchester city c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:19AMRay Rackham's July Garland musical THROUGH THE MILL comes to Southwark Playhouse this summer. It features musical supervision and arrangement by Simon Holt, musical direction by Jordan Li Sm…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:19AMTwo girls, five boys, mind-blowing beatboxing, breathtaking harmonies, superlative arrangements, stunning choreography,visual technicolor and one helluva show. GOBSMACKED is set to blast int…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06AMMonday, May 23, 2016
Last week, the Bush Theatre joined forces with theatre company Look Left Look Right to present devised original work THE NEIGHBOURHOOD PROJECT. Local Hammersmith amp Fulham residents, who co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:10AMFriday, May 20, 2016
The West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's SCHOOL OF ROCK THE MUSICAL will begin previews at the New London Theatre on October 24, with opening night on November 14. It's initially boo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:31AMThursday, May 19, 2016
The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's ROMEO AND JULIET is now playing at the Garrick Theatre, with press night on May 25 and a cinema broadcast on July 7. Joining Richard Madden and Lily Jam…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:31AMTuesday, May 17, 2016
Gender deconstruction, fraught feminism and the perils of hook-up culture: George Bernard Shaw’s comedy of manners, penned in 1893, shows we haven’t come as far as we might think. It’s…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:10PMMonday, May 9, 2016
Full casting is today announced for the world premiere of the new musical GROUNDHOG DAY, which previews at the Old Vic from July 11 with a press night on August 16. Carlyss Peer will play Ri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:33AMThursday, May 5, 2016
In this 400th anniversary year, amid what feels like 400 million shows and tributes, it’s increasingly difficult for a Shakespeare production to stand out. No such problem for Emma Rice’…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:26PMMonday, April 25, 2016
Blood, sexual violence, power games and lashings of nudity. Not Game of Thrones, whose new season has just premiered (yes, he’s really dead. Well, for now) – and whose shadow Kit Haringt…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:12PMWednesday, April 20, 2016
Vaudeville is having quite the West End moment, with Funny Girl inheriting the Savoy from Gypsy and Mrs Henderson Presents over at the Noël Coward. Gypsy is the pick of the bunch dramatical…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:02PMA Pulitzer Prize and numerous walkouts: The Flick, infamously, courts extreme reactions. Yet this latest American import is dedicated to minutiae. In Annie Baker’s slow-burning (three hour…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:10AMThursday, April 14, 2016
It’s all change once more for Gordon Greenberg’s slick, protean revival, which began life at Chichester back in 2014, as three new leads join the show’s transfer from the Savoy to the …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:51PMTuesday, April 12, 2016
Generation Y are worriers. There’s certainly plenty to fuel that angst, from mounting debts, employment uncertainty and the ever-worsening housing crisis to international conflict and terr…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:37AMThursday, April 7, 2016
It’s raining. Well, of course – it’s April in London. But it’s also pouring down on the Old Vic stage, hammering an already battered slate roof. When it lifts to reveal the semi-dere…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:50AMWednesday, April 6, 2016
In 2014, Pomona stormed the Orange Tree, turning the previously staid venue into a place of both lauded theatre revolution and disgruntled walkouts. Could Alistair McDowall repeat the feat a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:10AMTuesday, March 29, 2016
My skin is still tingling with the presence of imaginary critters. Never mind I’m A Celebrity… or Bear Grylls’s latest expedition – Tracy Letts has got them beat when it comes to nig…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:21PMThursday, March 24, 2016
Sequel-itis has spread to the stage. There’s no caped crusader, but the troubled quartet of Neil LaBute’s latest will be familiar to anyone who caught Reasons to be Pretty at the Al…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:30PMWednesday, March 23, 2016
Recovery depends on honesty, but Emma – not her real name – lies for a living. Duncan Macmillan’s searing play, getting a well-deserved West End transfer from the National, complicates…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:56PMThursday, March 17, 2016
The fourth production in Branagh’s Garrick season is the revival of an odd-couple romp he brought to the Lyric, Belfast in 2011. Sean Foley (best known for his superlative Branagh-directed…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:10PMWednesday, March 16, 2016
Infidelity, hypocrisy, disillusionment, betrayal – and yet this is by far the lightest of French playwright Florian Zeller’s current London hat trick. Premiering in 2011, and thus sandwi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:56PMTuesday, March 8, 2016
simple8, the critically-acclaimed ensemble based theatre company -winners of the 2015 Peter Brook Empty Space Awards - will make their Park Theatre debut with the world premiere of a new pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:43AMMonday, February 29, 2016
“Murder is hilarious,” quips Zawe Ashton’s scheming maid, and in Jamie Lloyd’s high-octane, queasily comic revival of Jean Genet’s radical 1947 play, it really is. It’s also luri…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:39PMFriday, February 26, 2016
Theatregoers suffering from First World War fatigue may want to pass on Jonathan Lynn’s merely competent historical drama about two mythic figures: Charles de Gaulle and Philippe Pétain. …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:34PM 
