Thursday, November 28, 2019
Rhys Ifans will play the iconic role of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, the new play by Aaron Sorkin based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, directed by Bartlett Sher, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:25AMHeadlong has announced its programme for 2020/21, the final season under current artistic director Jeremy Herrin.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMTuesday, November 26, 2019
Full casting has been announced for Ben Elton’s stage adaption of the critically-acclaimed BBC TV sitcom Upstart Crow which runs at the Gielgud Theatre from 7 February to 25 April 2020�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:07AMMonday, November 25, 2019
Who's the hero? Who's the tyrant? Who's the oppressed? The ten-strong cast has been announced for rarely-seen Soviet Russian political satire Dragon.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMSunday, November 24, 2019
Acting honours go to Andrew Scott & Maggie Smith at the 2019 Evening Standard Theatre Awards while Sweat wins Best Play.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:51PMSaturday, November 23, 2019
After finishing in Falsettos at The Other Palace tonight (23 November 2019), Joel Montague will return to the West End to take over from YouTube star Joe Sugg as Ogie in Waitress at the Adel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMFriday, November 22, 2019
Jane Horrocks and Karl Johnson will join, as previously announced, Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe in the Old Vic's forthcoming revival of Samuel Beckett's 1957 classic Endgame.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMImelda Staunton will star as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly!, alongside Jenna Russell as Irene Molloy, in a brand new London production of the musical at the Adelphi Theatre in 2020.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:35AMThursday, November 21, 2019
The producers of Waitress have announced the show's final West End extension at the Adelphi Theatre, where it will finish on 4 July 2020 ahead of a UK tour and planned London return.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:58AMBAFTA and Olivier Award nominee actress, singer and radio presenter Preeya Kalidas has this week joined the West End cast of Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the West End's Apollo Theatre,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMSean Mathias has been appointed as the first artistic director of Theatre Royal Windsor where, starting in 2020, he will programme and annual summer season of new stage productions.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMWednesday, November 20, 2019
The Old Vic has announced principal casting for Amy Herzog’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play 4000 Miles. Eileen Atkins and Homeland star Timothée Chalamet, making his London stage debut, ta…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:39AMFinal casting is announced today for the world premiere of Tom Stoppard’s new play Leopoldstadt.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:30AMMonday, November 18, 2019
Olivier Award winner Alice Krige, Nobuhle Ketelo, Paul Schoolman and William Close and his Earth Harp will star in the world premiere of a new stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Persona,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:59AMFriday, November 15, 2019
The National Theatre has announced it programmes of productions between December 2019 and June 2020 including Simon Godwin directing Romeo & Juliet with Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckle…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:14PMWednesday, November 13, 2019
By popular demand, the UK premiere of Caridad Svich's stage adaptation of Isabel Allende's best-selling 1982 novel The House of the Spirits has extended by a fortnight at the Cervantes Theat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:46AMTuesday, November 12, 2019
New 2020/2021 productions at London’s Bridge Theatre will begin with Polly Findlay directing Roger Allam and Colin Morgan in Caryl Churchill’s play A Number at London’s Bridge Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:33AMFollowing sold-out runs at both Chichester Festival Theatre and the Menier Chocolate Factory, Laura Wade’s The Watsons transfers to the West End in 2020. The production opens at the Harold…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45AMFriday, November 8, 2019
Jason Donovan and Jac Yarrow will be back at the London Palladium in 2020 when the hit production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:14AMWednesday, November 6, 2019
Sara Bareilles, who wrote the music and lyrics for the hit musical Waitress, will be making her West End debut next year in the show, reuniting with Olivier and Tony Award-winning actor Gavi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMTuesday, November 5, 2019
In our continuing series, editor Lisa Martland picks out some of her Top Picks from the last week of theatre (to 3 November 2019). Libby Purves emphasises the significance of Anumpama Chandr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, November 4, 2019
Shortlists have been announced for the 65th annual Evening Standard Theatre Awards ceremony, which will take place on Sunday 24 November 2019 at the London Coliseum.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:44AMFriday, November 1, 2019
The producers of the Tony Award-winning musical CURTAINS are delighted to announce the show will premiere in London at Wyndham’s Theatre, playing 38 performances from 13 December 2019 unt…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:39AMThursday, October 31, 2019
To Kill a Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin’s new play based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, directed by Bartlett Sher, will open at London’s Gielgud Theatre in May 2020.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:27AMWednesday, October 30, 2019
The Bunker Theatre will close in the new year ahead proposed redevelopment of its London Bridge site. The Bunker will present its final show at 53a Southwark Street on Saturday 28 March 2020…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:50AMRose Theatre Kingston today announces the appointment of Christopher Haydon as artistic director – the new creative lead for the company. Haydon takes up his role effective as of 1 January…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMTuesday, October 29, 2019
Jamie Lloyd’s new interpretation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita at the Open Air Theatre will transfer to London’s Barbican Theatre from 27 June to 22 August 2020 (press ni…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMDavid Hasselhoff will play Franklin Hart Jnr in 9 To 5 The Musical at London’s Savoy Theatre from 2 December 2019 until 8 February 2020.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMIn our continuing series, our editor Lisa Martland picks out some of her Top Picks from the last week of theatre (to 27 October 2019). Maryam Philpott is gripped by the work of Claire Foy an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, October 27, 2019
There were wins for Sheffield Theatres’ Life Of Pi at the 2019 UK Theatre Awards, revealed at London’s Guildhall.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:10PMFriday, October 25, 2019
Two-time Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe Award-winner Jessica Chastain is to make her UK theatre debut leading Jamie Lloyd Company’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:25AM 
