Friday, March 1, 2019
Smith will play the Narrator this summer when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical returns to the Palladium
Sheridan Smith will return to the West End stage this summer in a new prod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:28AMThursday, February 28, 2019
Artistic director who won acclaim for her work with Maxine Peake is appointed to new role at Lamda
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda) has appointed Sarah Frankcom as its new di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMWednesday, February 27, 2019
As their stunning Sgt Pepper dance show tours the UK, Mark Morris and Ethan Iverson recall how they fell for the album’s ‘hokey, vaudeville’ charms
The light-footed Fred Astaire is amo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMWednesday, February 13, 2019
Downton Abbey actor stars in Christopher Hampton’s A German Life about Nazi leader’s assistant, who died in 2017Maggie Smith is to play Joseph Goebbels’ secretary, Brunhilde Pomsel, in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMMonday, February 4, 2019
Former artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe steps into limelight in her production of Angela Carter adaptationThe theatre director Emma Rice is to take over one of the lead roles in Wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMFriday, February 1, 2019
The standup inspired Mark Thomas with his activism, opened Jack Dee’s eyes and appalled Mark Steel – in the best possible way. Friends and colleagues pay tribute to Hardy, who has died a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMTuesday, January 29, 2019
Matthew Lopez’s epic drama wins three prizes, while Marianne Elliott’s production of Company is named best musicalThe Inheritance, an epic seven-hour drama about young gay New Yorkers, h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMBitter Wheat – ‘a black farce about a badly behaved movie mogul’ – to open at the Garrick theatre, London, on 7 JuneJohn Malkovich is to star in a “farce” inspired by the Harvey …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWednesday, January 23, 2019
It started as a challenge from Ken Campbell in a squat but Showstopper! The Improvised Musical grew into a West End sensation. The pair behind it tell allAcross the road from Victoria Statio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Celebrated for her performances in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly! Channing also earned an Oscar nomination for Thoroughly Modern Millie Carol Channing, the American actor who ori…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMTuesday, January 8, 2019
It is a stage sensation in France – not to mention Kazakhstan and Korea – but Notre Dame de Paris was panned by critics when it first hit London. Now it’s back, in the original FrenchE…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMMonday, December 31, 2018
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonMildred Hubble’s misadventures are told with wit and ingenuity in a touring production based on Jill Murphy’s booksJill Murphy was 15 when she invented M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMFriday, December 21, 2018
Iskander, a theatre-maker and former NHS executive, succeeds David Jubb, who called it a ‘fantastic appointment’Battersea Arts Centre in south London has appointed Tarek Iskander as its …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMThursday, December 20, 2018
The Egg, Bath French poodles face a dastardly end unless our swashbuckling heroes come to the rescue in this high-energy kids’ version of the classic adventure story‘Are you here for ze …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
New show links HG Wells’s sci-fi novel and Orson Welles’s 1938 radio adaptation and explores climate of fear preceding the US presidential electionIt is one of the most famous radio broa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMHackney Empire, LondonThis show has a dastardly villain in Jacob Peas Bogg and some spirited performances but there is nothing like its dameWriter-director Susie McKenna and composer Steve E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMMonday, December 10, 2018
New drama Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile looks back at the life of the playwright who wrote Rita, Sue and Bob TooA new drama is to revisit the life and early death of Andrea Dunbar, the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
Exclusive: New work created in honour of the late dancer and performed by Vidya Patel and Daniela Maccari, who has taken on his signature stage rolesA tribute performance has been created fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMTuesday, December 4, 2018
Know your strengths and eat boiled eggs … how do a musical-theatre star, a ballerina and an opera singer cope with the demands of their roles – and what we can we learn from them?The lig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMThursday, November 29, 2018
The actor, who is performing in Shakespeare’s tragedy on the Olivier stage, is to make her National Theatre Live debut with one of her real reptile co-stars When the National Theatre’s A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMWednesday, November 28, 2018
Three shows in London, New York and Los Angeles will be live-streamed in April, on what would have been the choreographer’s 100th birthdaySeventy-five dancers are to perform a total of 300…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
In her new solo show, Haley McGee values the gifts her exes gave her, while rating how much fun they were – and how good the sex wasImagine an episode of The Antiques Roadshow where the ob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMMonday, November 26, 2018
Unicorn, LondonFilskit Theatre’s winter warmer for under-sixes is a cracking tale of parenting penguin-styleMy five-year-old daughter Hilda loves penguins, principally Pingu and Peso, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04PMFriday, November 23, 2018
Berwick Kaler, who says this year’s show at York Theatre Royal is his last, promises loyal local audience a night of ‘absolute rubbish’After hundreds of frock changes, decades of in-jo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMTuesday, November 20, 2018
Dante or Die’s 80s-set touring show Take On Me celebrates community fitness centres and gives roles to locals If there’s a drama at your local leisure centre it’s probably no more than…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMMonday, November 19, 2018
Silbert – whose first job was as a Hampstead script reader – will leave Birmingham Rep for her new post in spring 2019Roxana Silbert has been appointed artistic director of Hampstead the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
Playwright-director will take over from Madani Younis at the west London venue in JanuaryThe playwright and director Lynette Linton has been announced as the new artistic director at the Bus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMFriday, November 9, 2018
Musical improv elves, cabaret and interactive hijinks abound in these festive shows for familiesRoyal & Derngate, Northampton, 27 November-30 December. Then touring. Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMSuperstar comic will give first UK performances in seven years at the Hammersmith ApolloJerry Seinfeld is to give four rare performances in London when he brings his standup show to the Hamm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThe UK tour will visit theatres with a personal connection to the actor and performances will encourage audience members to share the stageIan McKellen is to celebrate his 80th birthday next…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, November 4, 2018
Original music by Imogen Heap features in the ambitious two-part stage playMusic from the triumphant West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been released as a new album by the G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM 
