Friday, August 30, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Back in the summer of 1995, you were either team Oasis or team Blur. There was no sitting on the fence as the rival Brit bands clashed over which group’s single would top the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:55AMSunday, August 18, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Lloyd, director of the Broadway-bound Sunset Boulevard musical led by an incandescent Nicole Scherzinger center stage as Norma Desmond, is making a move into the world of m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:24PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Sigourney Weaver will make her West End stage debut as storm-creating sorcerer Prospero in The Tempest and Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell will play sparring lovers Benedick an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal that Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal will be joined by fast-rising West End actress Molly Osborne, who will play Desdemona opposite them, in the spring 2…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:58AMFriday, July 19, 2024
Jim Carter, who famously played Carson the master butler on Downton Abbey, clearly was taken by the leading artist giving a terrifically moving performance as Dolly Gallagher Levi upon th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:36AMWednesday, July 10, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Imelda Staunton, swathed in glamorous red taffeta, descends a staircase on the London Palladium stage to lead a line of eager waiters in a chorus of “one of our favorite songs…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:18PMAli, the Broadway-bound musical about boxing titan and 20th century icon Muhammad Ali, who sought to use his fame to champion human rights, is headed for a springtime rumble in Chicago. The …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:59AMWednesday, June 26, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: The West Wing actor Joshua Malina will make his London stage bow in the fall playing a “secular, sarcastic, anti-religious Jew” who says “the unsayable” about Israel in …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:30AMFriday, June 21, 2024
As far as the three young women sitting in row E at London’s Bush Theatre were concerned, the name of the character Tosin Cole was playing in Benedict Lombe’s “spicy” love story Shi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:46AMSunday, June 16, 2024
Sam Mendes is bringing back his acclaimed, Tony Award-winning blockbuster production of The Lehman Trilogy for a fourth run in London. It’s quite a thing to bring the play, considered a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:59PMMonday, June 3, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: David Hare, one of the UK’s foremost playwrights and a double Oscar nominee, is in an unsparing mood about the state of UK politics. This comes as leaders of the country’s tw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:35AMWednesday, May 29, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: James Graham sets a mental timer of strictly 45 minutes for a conversation that will encompass tonight’s gala opening at London’s National Theatre — en route to a run at t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:58PMThursday, May 23, 2024
Not sure that I would equate Tom Holland and Zendaya with the same level of triple-A star firepower as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, but the last time I witnessed sheer frenzied pande…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30PMMonday, May 20, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Lord of the Rings star Morfydd Clark and Under the Banner of Heaven’s Billy Howle will star in new versions of John Osborn’s Look Back In Anger and Arnold Wesker’s Roo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:10AMFriday, May 10, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Wherefore art Tom Holland’s Romeo? You might well ask. Director Jamie Lloyd’s production of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet starring the Spider-Man actor and Francesca Amew…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:12PMEXCLUSIVE: Succession star Sarah Snook plays her final performances Saturday night at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket in the enthralling, award-winning play The Picture of Dorian Gra…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:27PMWednesday, May 1, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Faith Omole, one of the stars of Nida Manzoor’s Peacock/C4/Working Title punk comedy series We Are Lady Parts, will have her debut play produced on the London stage next mon…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:59AMTuesday, April 23, 2024
Following two sold-out limited seasons at London’s Barbican, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s acclaimed stage version of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli classic My Neighbour Totoro w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:58PMSunday, April 21, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Comedian and writer Julian Clary (Julian Clary: Live – Lord of the Mince) will play the title role in this festive season’s London Palladium pantomime Robin Hood, with singer…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PMFriday, April 19, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Stephan Elliott, who directed the celebrated cult classic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, tells this column that a sequel “is happening” and that the orig…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:22PMFriday, April 12, 2024
Daniel Mays remembers Michael Douglas and Timothy Van Patten, the respectively star and director of new Apple TV drama Franklin, bursting into song whenever he appeared on set. It came abo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:33PMFriday, April 5, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Judy Craymer would just love it if Barbie filmmaker Greta Gerwig could just make herself available to complete the Mamma Mia! movie trilogy. “Hey, Greta, if you’re free to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:18PMSaturday, March 9, 2024
Sandra Hüller (a Best Actress nominee) and Christian Friedel, stars of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest — nominated for Best Picture, Best International Picture, Director, Sound…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:58PMTuesday, March 5, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Louis McCartney describes himself as “a West End baby” because before he was cast to play boyish-looking monster Henry Creel in the Stranger Things stage show The First Sha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:01PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: BBC commissioning executives are booked to see the award-winning musical Standing at the Sky’s Edge, which opens Wednesday night at the Gillian Lynne Theatre following its tran…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:19PMSaturday, February 17, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Succession’s Sarah Snook, now the toast of the town for her dazzling one-woman performance playing 26 characters in a breathtakingly innovative staging of Oscar Wilde’s Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:01AMTuesday, February 13, 2024
The producers and key creatives behind the Live Aid musical Just for One Day, which officially opened Tuesday night at the Old Vic, have banded together to ensure that 10 percent of ever…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:44PMThursday, December 21, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Starring an electrifying Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Boulevard ends its limited run at London’s Savoy Theatre on January 6 but, as Deadline can reveal in its 2024 West End look …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:48AMThursday, December 14, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: The Stranger Things stage show, an unbelievably brilliant new blueprint for theatricality that premieres in London’s West End tonight, will be the first instalment in a trilog…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:43AMThursday, August 17, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Patriots, the hot new play by The Crown’s Peter Morgan, has recouped during its 12-week run in London’s West End, making a move to Broadway more than likely. The play’s suc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:26AMWednesday, June 21, 2023
Succession’s Sarah Snook is returning to the stage in London, and possibly Broadway, to take on an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, a dark tale of a portrait th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:26PM 
