1,017 stories by "Chris Wiegand"
Theatre Royal PlymouthBouncy songs explore three patients' experiences in this ambitious and spirited show about the health service's history and current crisis
As audiences return to theatr…
A newly rereleased documentary captures tense scenes in the studio for the 1970 musical's original cast recording " and reveals much about the songs and their singers
After a six-week tryout…
Hollywood actor will perform at Duke of York's theatre, London, as Amanda Wingfield in one of Tennessee Williams' most autobiographical plays
The Hollywood star Amy Adams is to make her West…
Hampstead theatre, LondonSet during the strange, out-of-time days between a death in the family and the funeral, Shelagh Stephenson's 1996 play precariously balances riotous humour and patho…
The Royal Shakespeare Company's artistic director has taken compassionate leave to look after his husband, the celebrated actor
The actor Sir Antony Sher has been diagnosed with a terminal …
Arrival, co-created with the local community, will take audiences on a journey around the historic industrial area set to welcome City Hall
When the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, completes t…
Comics including Romesh Ranganathan pay tribute to 'caring and terrific' standup, whose death from cancer has been announced
The comedian Phil Jerrod, known for his richly lyrical observatio…
Dystopian Trojan war play The Burnt City at site of Royal Arsenal will be company's costliest and most ambitious immersive piece
The immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, celebrated for crea…
Orange Tree theatre, LondonAthol Fugard's portrait of two lovers defying an apartheid-era ban on interracial sex crackles with tension
In Athol Fugard's best-known play, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead,…
Marlowe theatre, CanterburyThis stage update adds new songs to the much-loved movie caper but despite deft illusions it lacks sparkle and eccentricity
Well, hocus pocus and substitutiary loc…
Gillian Lynne theatre, London
Bewitching melodies abound as Andrew Lloyd Webber's terrifically OTT but warm and inclusive musical finally arrives
Delayed by a year because of the pandemic, a…
Bill Bailey, Lee Mack, Harry Hill and Diane Morgan are among the fellow comics who have paid tribute to Lock, 'an absolute genius', who died at home from cancer, surrounded by family
' Harry…
The Line of Duty actor will play Claudius and the Ghost when the postponed play opens next month
Adrian Dunbar is to join Cush Jumbo in the Young Vic theatre's production of Hamlet which, po…
Red Rose Chain will present Macbeth at the pop-up playhouse on the site of the greatest British archaeological discovery of the 20th century
A new outdoor theatre is to open next summer at S…
Amid widespread cancellations of performances, theatre unions and trade bodies say 'a vital industry' has been let down
Theatre unions and trade bodies claim the UK government has "let down …
The composer calls it 'a devastating decision that will affect the livelihoods of hundreds of people, and disappoint thousands'
Andrew Lloyd Webber has announced the cancellation of the open…
A revival of The Browning Version at Riverside Studios has been called off after cast members' illness and self-isolation disrupted rehearsals
A major summer theatre production starring and …
Jermyn Street theatre, London There are squabbles, strained smiles and domestic mishaps in Keith Waterhouse's spin on the Grossmiths' classic
Mr Pooter declares himself disgusted by "amateur…
Natalie Pilkington, performing in Leeds show of Tudor musical Six, accepts proposal from boyfriend who jumped on stage to pop the question
The musical Six, in which the wives of Henry VIII a…
Laura Elsworthy and Jordan Metcalfe, who wed in Stratford upon Avon in 2018, are playing the star-crossed lovers in their home town of Hull
This is a tale of two households, both alike in di…
The festival has shrunk because of Covid but there are plenty of shows in person and online this summer " here's our pick of the first to be announced
Sex Education Xplorers (S.E.X.)What did…
The composer said his latest musical would open, even if he went to jail. Now it has " but he's still furious at a government he says has 'dumped' theatre. We talk to him and the show's writ…
Game of Thrones star will appear in production focusing on modern political power, part of the London theatre's reopening season
Kit Harington is to star as Shakespeare's Henry V in a modern…
From the story behind Sondheim's Broadway flop to political theatre during South Africa's apartheid, these films capture the power of plays
The stage on screen: our guide to films about thea…
Curve, LeicesterPowerhouse renditions of songs from Joseph, Phantom, Superstar and more " plus memories from the man himself " dazzle in an inventive show
Andrew Lloyd Webber is the first to…
