Monday, August 6, 2018
Keith Allen and Bryan Dick will star as William Hogarth, older and younger, in the double bill of Nick Dear's Hogarth's Progress at Rose Theatre, Kingston. Full casting is now announced.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMHackney Empire has announced the return of Olivier Award-nominated actress, television star and comedian Tameka Empson (EastEnders, The Big Life, 3 Non Blondes) for its landmark 20th-anniver…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMFurther all-star casting has been announced for Jamie Lloyd Company's Pinter at the Pinter, an unparalleled event featuring all twenty short plays written by Harold Pinter in the West End th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMThursday, August 2, 2018
Poldark’s Heida Reed will star with Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones’ Ramsay Bolton, Misfits) in the West End premiere of Foxfinder. Dawn King’s unsettling and darkly comic drama will play …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:36AMThe Almeida Theatre has announced a new production of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck in a new version created by Almeida associate director Robert Icke.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMWednesday, August 1, 2018
As The Phantom of the Opera heads into its 33rd year at London’s Her Majesty’s Theatre, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh are delighted to announce that Tim Howar will play The …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:06AMTuesday, July 31, 2018
With Spamilton: An American Parody currently running at the venue, the Menier Chocolate Factory has announced a major revival of Hugh Whitemore’s Pack of Lies directed by Hannah Chissick.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMOn the anniversary of the world premiere and the start of the third year for the London Production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace Theatre, the producers have announced th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMMonday, July 30, 2018
When Sarah Whitfield was offered the chance to pitch a book for Routledge’s Fourth Wall series (a collection of short accessible introductions to plays and musicals), Les Misérables was t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, July 28, 2018
The Donmar Warehouse has announced the full casting for artistic director Josie Rourke’s production of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. Previews start from Friday 28 September …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMFriday, July 27, 2018
Twenty years after she first played her, Elizabeth Mansfield returns to the role of Edith Piaf in a revised version of hit homage Hymn to Love, opening tonight (27 July 2018) at London's Jer…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:26AMThursday, July 26, 2018
The seven new musicals selected for Aria Entertainment’s prestigious festival of new musical theatre, From Page To Stage (FPTS), which returns for a sixth successive year from 11-25 Septem…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:03AMThe West End transfer of Kevin Elyot’s Coming Clean will run at Trafalgar Studios from 2 from 9 January to 2 February 2019 (press night on 11 January), directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher, a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:29AMHaving recently completed the restoration of the Victoria Palace Theatre, Delfont Mackintosh Theatres (DMT) are turning their attention to implementing a recommended programme of restorative…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:30AMWednesday, July 25, 2018
Rob Houchen, Neil McDermott, Emily Tierney, Alex Bourne and Simon Thomas are joining the cast of British musical Eugenius! when it returns for a six-week season at The Other Palace from 1 Se…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:01AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
Brendan Coyle will star in the Donmar Warehouse production of St Nicholas, a chilling one-man play by Conor McPherson, directed by Simon Evans, marking the first time McPherson and Coyle hav…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:10AMAlexandra Burke will join the West End cast of Chicago at the Phoenix Theatre, playing the role of Roxie Hart from Monday 16 August through to Saturday 14 October 2018.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:03AMFriday, July 20, 2018
The Playground Theatre has announced its first full autumn season, running from October 2018 to January. The programme features the world premiere of The Paradise Circus by cult American nov…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:39AMRose Theatre Kingston has announced the full cast for Nick Dear’s double-bill Hogarth’s Progress. Anthony Banks directs Bryan Dick as the younger William Hogarth in the first major UK re…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:57AMThursday, July 19, 2018
Trish Wadley Productions and Dead Puppet Society are creating a 357-seat traditional performance theatre in the Jerwood Gallery at the Natural History Museum to host the European premiere of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, July 18, 2018
Following his hugely successful first year as artistic director, Tom Littler is marking the start of his second year at the helm with a season of new work celebrating rebellious spirits.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:05AMTuesday, July 17, 2018
The producers of the award-winning Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre have announced that this week Rebecca McKinnis (Mamma Mia!, We Will Rock You) is stepping into the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMMonday, July 16, 2018
Star of stage and screen Bonnie Langford is to join the cast of 42nd Street as the production extends its residency at Theatre Royal Drury Lane for a final time, through to Saturday 5 Januar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMFrom 22 August 2018 term will begin for the year three cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Olivier Award-winning production of School of Rock – The Musical at the newly named Gillian Lynne The…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMThursday, July 12, 2018
Jonathan Bailey will play Jamie (originally written as the female character, Amy) and Alex Gaumond will play his devoted fiancée Paul in Marianne Elliott’s new production of George Furth …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:07AMThe Almeida Theatre has announced the full cast for the UK premiere of Clare Barron’s new play Dance Nation, directed by Bijan Sheibani (running from 27 August to 6 October, with a press n…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:17AMWednesday, July 11, 2018
Joshua McTaggart will step down as artistic director of The Bunker Theatre in September 2018. David Ralf will continue to lead the London off West End theatre in his new role as executive di…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:57AMMonday, July 9, 2018
Paul Roseby, artistic director and chief executive of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT) has today announced the company’s summer and autumn programme for 2018, including it…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:17AMSunday, July 8, 2018
We're counting down to the opening of Stephanie Martin's Alkaline, the latest play premiere from plucky new writing theatre company, pluck. productions. What happens when religion gets in th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:22PMFriday, July 6, 2018
Joining the Tommy Steele on stage at the London Coliseum in The Glenn Miller Story this summer is Marti Webb. The show runs for a limited season from 6 July to 18 August 2018. Sixty…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:12AMBest-selling recording artist, X Factor winner and West End performer Matt Cardle is to join the cast of Strictly Ballroom The Musical, playing the role of bandleader Wally Strand from 31 Ju…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:48AM 
