Monday, April 22, 2013
London standup snaffles top prize at Melbourne international comedy festival, with Luke McGregor named best newcomer Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMThursday, April 18, 2013
Paul Raymond's daughter wants to convert part of Britain's first-ever adult entertainment bar into an off-Broadway-style venueSoho could be about to have a new theatre in an unlikely locatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AMPaul Raymond's daughter wants to convert part of Britain's first-ever adult entertainment bar into an off-Broadway-style venue Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Digital Theatre and CinemaLive have paired up to screen best of British theatre, both new and from the archives, in UK cinemasDigital Theatre, which makes filmed theatre productions availabl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMSince becoming artistic director of the Unicorn Theatre, Purni Morell (right) has broken with tradition and extended the venue’s programming to appeal to adults as well as children. Now sh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
Ayad Akhtar's debut play, which tackles racism, Islamophobia and sexism, receives prestigious new-writing awardAyad Akhtar's play Disgraced, which will receive its UK premiere at the Bush th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMMonday, April 15, 2013
Actor opens his adaptation of Louis Jenkins's Nice Fish poems in Minneapolis, in which two ice fishermen contemplate life, dogs and lost watchesMark Rylance, one of British theatre's biggest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:53AMThe concept of embedded criticism is still in its early days, but it seems to be gaining momentum. Matt Trueman wonders what the effects might be on critics and artists alike
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMFriday, April 12, 2013
The Royal Shakespeare Company's first Broadway premiere for 15 years deemed 'even more glorious than we were promised'Matilda: the Musical, winner of a record-breaking seven Olivier awards i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PMIrish actor Lisa Dwan will set a new record for the performance of Mouth, one of theatre's most challenging roles, for the 40th anniversary of the play's British premiereA disembodied mouth …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:20PM'Riotously enjoyable' with 'addictive songs' – New York critics help the RSC's London hit to preview takings of more than $4m"Even more glorious than we were promised," raves the New Yor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Theatregoers at the West End production elect to have song calling for the late prime minister's death performed as normalMargaret Thatcher's days of fighting elections may be long over, but…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:10AMMonday, April 8, 2013
Theatre composer plans School of Rock musical based on the Jack Black film to follow Profumo affair 'chamber musical'What do Stephen Ward, the man who triggered the Profumo affair, and Dewey…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:29AMFriday, April 5, 2013
Top seats now cost average of £81, with most expensive single ticket – for The Book of Mormon and The Audience – at £127The price of West End ticket prices has reached an all-time high…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57AMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Lord of the Rings star will play Romeo opposite Condola Rashad's Juliet in a contemporary-set productionCoiffed elves and fledging pirates come easily to Orlando Bloom, but this year the act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:35AMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Renegade theatre group to unveil new English-language piece on London's Young Vic and Edinburgh Fringe this summerBelarus Free Theatre will present a new piece – their first in English –…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AMMonday, March 25, 2013
Trey Parker and Matt Stone's musical takes £2.1m the day after opening, despite mixed reviewsThey came. They sang. They converted. The Mormon missionaries encamped in the West End seem to b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMTuesday, March 19, 2013
Despite being nicknamed Paint Never Dries, Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to Phantom is set to return for a UK tour after successful Australian stagingIts London premiere was widely judged to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:38AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Sellout show transfers to New York Theater Workshop, marking another coup for the Royal CourtCaryl Churchill's Love and Information is to receive its New York premiere early next year.The pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:27AMTuesday, March 12, 2013
The RSC's hit production still faces strong competition from a revival of Annie and Rodgers and Hammerstein's CinderellaMatilda the Musical is off to a strong start on Broadway, playing to 9…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:57AMMonday, March 11, 2013
Broadway star tweets she is 'completely devastated' after British shows called off at last minuteTony-award winner Kristin Chenoweth has been forced to cancel her UK tour three days before h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AMThursday, March 7, 2013
Star of 127 Hours reveals role in stage adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, on Stephen Colbert chatshowJames Franco has revealed he is to make his Broadway debut in a stage adapt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:39AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
The Cloud Atlas star joins a gala performance of The Chapel of Unrest at London's Bush theatreOscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent is returning to the stage for the first time in eight years to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Mike Bradwell is to direct Tim Fountain's comedy Queen of the Nile, which examines the contradictions of sex tourismHull Truck theatre is to welcome its founder Mike Bradwell back to its mai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:29AMMonday, March 4, 2013
Tom Attea's Benedictus, in which fictional pontiff has visions of new calling, will run off-Broadway in May and JunePlaywright Tom Attea has just got very, very lucky. Two years ago, he wrot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:29AMFriday, March 1, 2013
National theatre, LondonThis House is a thoroughbred crowdpleaser, lampooning – without tipping into spoof – a political system that is flawed but somehow still functioning.By taking us …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PMNational theatre, London Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PMDie Hard star last appeared in a stage play in 1984, but says theatre 'seems like a more reasonable job, more manageable'Yippee ki-yay, theatregoers: Bruce Willis has hinted that he's in the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Judges reward 'surprising, hilarious and wise' follow-up to British actor's first autobiography Red Carpets and Other Banana SkinsRupert Everett has won this year's Sheridan Morley prize for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMTuesday, February 26, 2013
Edward Fox steps in to play opposite Helen Mirren in Peter Morgan's play after Robert Hardy stands down due to injuryBafta-winning actor Robert Hardy has pulled out of The Audience at the Gi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMFriday, February 22, 2013
West End production starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II will be streamed to cinemas around the world on 13 JuneHelen Mirren's return to the role of Queen Elizabeth II has already mad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:41AM 
