Monday, November 25, 2013
Tickets for O2 reunion featuring Cleese, Palin, Idle, Jones and Gilliam go in a flash, with four more dates addedTickets for the Monty Python comeback performance sold out in a very precise …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMMonday, November 11, 2013
Small investors asked to cover 10% of cost of stage show planned for 2015 – with returns of up to 60% targetedYou wouldn't lend him your car, but would Toad be worth investing money in? Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMWednesday, November 6, 2013
London Symphony Orchestra's principal conductor issues statement following gay rights protests in London and New YorkValery Gergiev, the Russian conductor facing a gay rights protest at his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMTuesday, November 5, 2013
Renowned dance theatre to create 500-seat space for mid-scale work amid growing appetite for dance from young and oldLondon's renowned dance centre Sadler's Wells is planning to make the cap…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:39PMThursday, October 31, 2013
Authors say excessive dominance is unhealthy and recommends reallocating lottery money to rebalance investment in EnglandPublic spending on the arts is heavily skewed towards London, with pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AMFriday, September 27, 2013
Young Vic announces The X Files star will play Blanche DuBois in 2014 production of Tennessee Williams classicGillian Anderson, fresh from her acclaimed role in the BBC2 thriller The Fall, i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16AMThursday, September 26, 2013
Research finds resurgence of interest in plays among younger people – and change in attitudes to audience etiquetteA higher proportion of people went to the theatre last year than attended…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AMMonday, September 16, 2013
Show that attracted cult following during a run on Broadway more than a decade ago plays in London next FebruaryFor months, it has been referred to only as "UGC London", a secret musical tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09PMTheatre launches ambitious project to find and perform UK's best-loved play written in EnglishHamlet and Macbeth will be up there, you would imagine, along with Waiting for Godot, An Inspect…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMTuesday, September 10, 2013
Artistic director says plays will transfer to London venue in 2014 and 2015 more than a decade after acrimonious splitThe Royal Shakespeare Company is to return to London's Barbican Centre i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PMMonday, September 9, 2013
Cameron Mackintosh left 'flummoxed' after musical sells more than £4.4m worth of tickets in one day for 25th anniversary run It had songs such as I Still Believe and Now That I've Seen Her …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:08PMMonday, September 2, 2013
Cowell is set to be the butt of many jokes − from lovechilds to high trouser waistlines – but he is taking them in good spirit"I honestly thought this is the worst idea I have ever heard…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55PMTuesday, August 27, 2013
Actor fined and given three penalty points over New Year's Eve incident in which his car hit a pedestrian in central LondonSteven Berkoff, the actor best known to some for his larger than li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:14PMThursday, July 25, 2013
Report calls for free advertising on underground network and says mayor should appoint ambassador for small theatresTube posters for West End shows that have been left beyond their expiry da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:58AMReport calls for free advertising on underground network and says mayor should appoint ambassador for small theatresTube posters for West End shows that have been left beyond their expiry da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:58AMMonday, July 15, 2013
Eat Pray Laugh! show to take place across country from October to spring 2014With a telephone by her side – "it is in touch with the bedside of little Kate Middleton" – Dame Edna Everage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:14PMMonday, July 8, 2013
Ballet choreographed by Will Tuckett will run at Duchess theatre over Christmas as ROH follows in footsteps of National and RSCOne tricky issue will be the interval car chase of Toad. "We've…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMThursday, June 20, 2013
Festival theatre's Angus Jackson to direct Langella in role often called the Ever~est of acting at Minerva theatre in NovemberFrank Langella, the triple-Tony award winning actor who memorabl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMMonday, June 10, 2013
English National Ballet scores coup with new commissions as part of programme inspired by centenary of first world warNew works by British choreographers Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant and Li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56AMSunday, June 2, 2013
First adaptation of PG Wodehouse's comedy double act as a play is based largely on 1938 book The Code of the WoostersThere are the books of course, TV series in the sixties and nineties, rad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Top performer who walked from Midnight Express will dance principal role with Stanislavsky Ballet in London"He is a good boy," Vladimir Urin said reassuringly to the dancer normally portraye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMSunday, April 28, 2013
Play about maths genius equals Matilda's record, as Helen Mirren has first win and Top Hat is named best musicalThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time dominated the UK's most pres…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMTuesday, April 23, 2013
Roddy Doyle says admiration for shows such as The Producers finally persuaded him to allow staging of bestselling novelOne very big reason why it has taken 25 years for The Commitments to hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMRoddy Doyle says admiration for shows such as The Producers finally persuaded him to allow staging of bestselling novel Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMWednesday, March 20, 2013
First production in six years, The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable, to be staged in huge disused venue in central LondonMost theatre companies announce new productions in a press release. Onl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01PMFriday, February 15, 2013
Jonathan Harvey's play returns 20 years after its debut with producers hoping it will speak just as powerfully to audiencesWhen Jonathan Harvey wrote Beautiful Thing, the gay age of consent …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PMDavid Cecil tells of arrest and how he was forced to leave, despite a magistrate earlier dismissing case against himA British theatre producer deported from Uganda after staging a play with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38AMTuesday, January 29, 2013
Figures published by the Society of London Theatres show ninth successive year of record box office returnsWest End theatre attendances went up slightly in 2012, allaying fears that the Olym…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:47AMWednesday, January 23, 2013
Artistic director Gregory Doran says he has perfect actor in mind to play lead in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the BodiesGregory Doran has a good idea of who could play what will be one of the mos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:09PMRoyal Shakespeare Company's artistic director, Gregory Doran, announces Tennant's return – plus first stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell novelsFive years after his critic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AMTuesday, December 11, 2012
Douglas H Jeffery's archive documents more than 30,000 productions, from RSC's early days to Lord of the Rings musicalHe could, apparently, be something of a pain when he was taking pictures…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM 
