1,256 stories by "Chris Wiegand"
Role marks a major return for the actor after falling off the stage in 2024 and is a coup for the forward-thinking theatreIan McKellen is to play King Lear in his first major theatrical role…
The monumental soundtrack of Perry Henzell’s film, starring Jimmy Cliff, powered the best musical of 2025. Its creators discuss bringing their hit back after the reggae giant’s deathOn a…
The Royal Court is presenting the Slow Horses star’s version of one Beckett masterpiece alongside 19-year-old Leo Simpe-Asante’s riff on another. They combine beautifullyWhere does the t…
Report suggests that popular initiatives such as NT Live and NT at Home are making UK audiences more adventurousTheatre streaming services and cinema screenings of stage performances are not…
The actor commands the stage in Tom Morris’s striking production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, while Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt unite for The Last Five YearsWhen David Harewood was offered …
Stephen Dillane and Bridgerton’s Luke Thompson set to co-star in Robert Icke’s production based on the German film this autumnKeira Knightley will return to the West End stage for the fi…
Wicked star’s one-woman West End show was stopped in response to an increasingly common problem for theatresA performance of Dracula in the West End on Monday night was halted after its st…
Churchill theatre, Bromley James M Cain’s hard-bitten novella gained bleak power on screen but this version, giving Mischa Barton her UK stage debut, loses its flinty edgeThe West End’s …
Adaptation of Stephen Merchant’s 2019 film about WWE champ Saraya-Jade Bevis ‘will be an absolute blast’, says one of the film’s stars, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ JohnsonStephen Merchant�…
Tony award-winning actor will play lead role of Judith Bliss in Noël Coward's comedy at Wyndham's theatre in London
Christine Baranski is to make her West End debut alongside Richard E Gr…
'If we celebrate the impact of physical storytelling, we must acknowledge the artists behind it,' says Equity body, calling out the lack of movement categories in major awards
Choreographers…
The sleeper hit film has been transformed into a Disney stage show. But does it let exploitative huckster PT Barnum off the hook? We go behind the scenes of its launch run in Bristol
'Ladi…
The great Shakespearean shares his passion project, there's a sneak peek of Sam Ryder's Jesus Christ Superstar and Back to the Future: The Musical hits reverse
When stages went dark during t…
Other winners include Inter Alia's Rosamund Pike, Ivo van Hove for All My Sons and Hayley Atwell who beat her Much Ado co-star Tom Hiddleston to best Shakespearean performance
Brendan Gleeso…
London PalladiumThe musical-theatre megastars fall in and out of love, in opposing timelines, in a stirring production of Jason Robert Brown's musical
After her electrifying Evita, Rachel Ze…
New work will be choreographed and directed by Benoit Swan Pouffer, artistic director of Rambert, with Davies and Pet Shop Boys serving as executive producers
It's a Sin, the award-winning T…
Comedy duo will take the stage together in the West End for the first time in 17 years in Cinderella alongside Julian Clary
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are to return to the stage toget…
Intimate monologue or performance art? The singer's recent gigs give a tantalising idea of what a stage adaptation of her album might look like
'This conversation's too big for a phone call,…
The director's first play " an 1830s 'rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise' " is planned for early 2027 opening in London
Since Quentin Tarantino announced last year that he had wri…
Palais Garnier, ParisJessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple's Arena spills off the stage while Morau's equally audacious Étude has balletic body snatchers
What a joy to find Jessica W…
A letter from 15 critics to the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh condemns 'divisive move' that saw non-Scottish publications excluded from reviewing the musical's press night
Theatre critics in Sco…
The stars of Sex Education and The Morning Show will appear in a new West End production of Edward Albee's classic, directed by Marianne Elliott
Gillian Anderson is to return to the West End…
Actor who won a Tony award in Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical will reprise the role for West End debut
Leslie Odom Jr, who originated the role of Aaron Burr in Hamilton on Broadway, is to r…
Two musicals dominate nominations while Tom Hiddleston and Bryan Cranston vie for best actor, with Cate Blanchett and Rosamund Pike up for best actress' Olivier awards 2026: full list of nom…
Ted Lasso star and Celebrity Traitors finalist will take the helm at Royal Albert Hall ceremony in London next month as special award recipients are announced
Nick Mohammed has been named as…