Sunday, May 12, 2019
In case you don't already know, it's Eurovision time This year, the annual song contest that brings together acts from across Europe and beyond is taking place in Tel Aviv in Israel. Here, w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:06PMMonday, April 29, 2019
West End Eurovision does exactly what it says on the tin casts of West End musicals compete by performing past Eurovision songs to win over juries of their peers and the live audience. But d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMWednesday, April 24, 2019
London's Old Vic, in its 200th year, launched a public fundraising campaign to modernise facilities for its audiences. Now that the first phase of 3.3 million construction and redesign works…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:31AMTuesday, April 16, 2019
Having been away from the stage for 12 years, Maggie Smith has returned in exceptional style in Christopher Hampton's A German Life. It's an almost 2 hour monologue, in which Smith recounts …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:55PMThursday, February 28, 2019
Gingerline was founded by food and drink enthusiasts who aim to create the ultimate - immersive - dining experience. To say too much more would spoil it, but you can expect a secret location…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:44PMSaturday, February 16, 2019
It's the 1970s and British sound designer Gilderoy is stepping well out of his comfort zone to create the soundscape for Italian horror-thriller director Santini's latest movie. Berberian So…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:51PMTuesday, December 18, 2018
Caroline, Or Change tells the story of a maid in Louisiana in 1963. Racial and class tensions form the backdrop, but the show also contains a great deal of joy, humour and sass thanks to a f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:41PMThursday, December 13, 2018
Anthony Neilson's new play is inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe short story of the same name. It's a weird evening at the theatre, with flashbacks, gore, murder, a detective, night terrors, gh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
It would be hard to find a classier and more joyful Christmas treat than Joe Stilgoe's one-night-only show Christmas at the Movies, featuring special guests Louise Dearman, saxophonist Jess …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:44AMThursday, September 27, 2018
Hampstead Theatre's Downstairs space has been transformed into a small classroom. Four teens have failed their GCSE English. They're being made to resit to keep their places at the school, a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMTuesday, September 11, 2018
US comic Andy Kindler is currently mid-way through a short residency at the Soho Theatre. How well does his overtly self-deprecating shtick translate to a London stage
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24PMFriday, August 10, 2018
Brian Friel's Aristocrats have moved into the Donmar for the late summer. The aristocrats in question are four of the O'Donnell siblings, reuniting at their childhood home Ballybeg Hall at a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:46PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
As part of its inaugural Festival of Science, the Royal Albert Hall will host Space Shambles, a night of science, music, comedy and wonder hosted by astronaut Chris Hadfield and comedian Rob…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Eurovision may be a song contest, but by now everyone knows that it takes more than just music to stand out in a crowd of 43. Performance and staging are crucial if you want to claim victory…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36AMMonday, April 30, 2018
It's almost time for this year's Eurovision Song Contest BroadwayWorld was lucky enough to meet several of this year's contestants at a recent press event in London, and in this article we e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00AMWednesday, April 11, 2018
By any standard, playwright James Graham is having quite a week. Labour of Love won Best New Comedy and Bertie Carvel won Best Supporting Actor for Ink at last weekend's Olivier Awards, and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:51PMThursday, March 29, 2018
The Inheritance, Matthew Lopez's witty, brutal two-part epic exploring the lives of gay men in New York clocks in at just short of 7 hours in total, but if you do go and see it, you're mostl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:04PMTuesday, March 20, 2018
This new play is a dramatic account of families divided by the sea. Teenager Hanako is apparently swept out to sea one stormy night, but her fate lies not in the ocean but in the hands of th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:09AMSunday, February 11, 2018
Again, written by Stephanie Jacob, is a short one-act play about a family reuniting after an undefined amount of time apart. How will the relationships play out when they're all back in the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMFriday, February 9, 2018
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour does exactly what it says on the tin. If you love the Saturday night TV show, you're sure to love the live experience too...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:16AMFriday, February 2, 2018
Julius Caesar has arrived at the Bridge Theatre, nestled beside London's City Hall and Tower Bridge. Featuring a large section of the audience in promenade in the 'pit', this kinetic, frenet…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:20AMSaturday, January 6, 2018
Bananaman the Musical has some ap-peel-ing aspects, with a bunch of silly banana-drama in the plot, a hard-working cast and some nicely cartoonish elements. But will it make your sides split…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36AMThursday, December 14, 2017
It's undeniablyunavoidably panto season in theatreland delete as per your personal proclivity. Qdos Entertainment's production of Dick Whittington at the London Palladium has been hotly anti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:02AMSaturday, December 2, 2017
If you're on the hunt for some unorthodox entertainment this Christmas, you could do much worse than a trip to see La Soir e. This 'dysfunctional family' of cabaret and variety acts have tru…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:15PMFriday, October 20, 2017
Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea surfaces onto the Donmar stage, directed by soon-to-be Young Vic Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah and with a magnetic central performance from Nikki Amuka-Bir…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AMWednesday, October 11, 2017
Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein has officially burst into the West End. Based firmly on the movie, also by Brooks, it's brilliantly kitsch, wholly unsubtle and very, very funny.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42AMSunday, October 8, 2017
Following their production of The Truth, also by Florian Zeller, the Menier Chocolate Factory, director Lindsay Posner and translator Christopher Hampton have teamed up again for the English…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMThursday, September 7, 2017
A major cast change in a long-running musical means it's time for a return visit The latest Wicked cast took over on 24 July, and BroadwayWorld chatted to several of them after a recent perf…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06AMMonday, August 14, 2017
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Gangsta Granny, Birmingham Stage Company's production of David Walliams' bestselling children's book, has arrived in the West End following a long-running UK tour. Suitable for kids aged 5 a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24AMWednesday, July 12, 2017
Even if you're not in the UK you'd have to have been living under a rock for the past couple of years to have missed the headlines about Brexit. It was inevitable that it would eventually le…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06AM 
