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…
Singer to star in 'bloody scary' 2:22 " a Ghost Story, written by Danny Robins Lily Allen is to make her West End theatre debut in a "bloody scary" supernatural thriller opening in London th…
Actor will perform two tales with a musical theme featuring characters confronting their mortality with defiance A pair of Julian Barnes stories about old age are to be performed by Ian McDi…
The comedian will play the Prince of Wales in The Windsors: Endgame, due to play for 10 weeks in London this summer A new stage version of the TV hit The Windsors will star Harry Enfield bot…
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonBased on Christie Watson's incisive memoir, this dance-theatre show creates choreography from daily life on the wards In The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story…