1,047 stories by "Chris Wiegand"
In her new show, Muckers, the actor and playwright revisits the mess, mischief and bamboozling anxieties of growing up
'Ask her if it's true about the poo!" "Ask her what she really calls he…
Six and Waitress are the latest shows to find singalong success " and without a jukebox hit between them. What's their secret?
From The Sound of Music to The Greatest Showman, singalong scre…
New Boulevard theatre aims to awaken area's rebel spirit in the building that hosted Eddie Izzard and Rik Mayall in the 80s
A tiny new state-of-the-art theatre seeking to capture the "rebell…
The stage show, directed by Michael Grandage, has been running on Broadway for a year
An invasion of tiny Elsas " and a few Annas " will hit London in autumn 2020, as the stage musical of D…
After a Franglais Swan Lake, the comic explains economics with sex dolls in ChiffChaff. She talks about loving horror, how guinea pigs helped her through illness and standing up for comedian…
Walthamstow's Roger Ascham school has a superstar ex-pupil: Matthew Bourne. Now his company is putting on a show with the students " almost 500 of them
It looks, at first glance, like a regu…
He grew up listening to his father Pete reciting Shakespeare over breakfast. Now Billy Postlethwaite is taking on the part that obsessed them both: Macbeth
Billy Postlethwaite has lost his m…
US dramatist wins Susan Smith Blackburn prize for female playwrights with Fairview, beating dramas by debbie tucker green and Ella Hickson
The American dramatist Jackie Sibblies Drury has wo…
Smith will play the Narrator this summer when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical returns to the Palladium
Sheridan Smith will return to the West End stage this summer in a new produc…
Artistic director who won acclaim for her work with Maxine Peake is appointed to new role at Lamda
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda) has appointed Sarah Frankcom as its new di…
As their stunning Sgt Pepper dance show tours the UK, Mark Morris and Ethan Iverson recall how they fell for the album's 'hokey, vaudeville' charms
The light-footed Fred Astaire is among the…
Downton Abbey actor stars in Christopher Hampton's A German Life about Nazi leader's assistant, who died in 2017Maggie Smith is to play Joseph Goebbels' secretary, Brunhilde Pomsel, in a new…
Former artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe steps into limelight in her production of Angela Carter adaptationThe theatre director Emma Rice is to take over one of the lead roles in Wise…
Matthew Lopez's epic drama wins three prizes, while Marianne Elliott's production of Company is named best musicalThe Inheritance, an epic seven-hour drama about young gay New Yorkers, has b…
Bitter Wheat " 'a black farce about a badly behaved movie mogul' " to open at the Garrick theatre, London, on 7 JuneJohn Malkovich is to star in a "farce" inspired by the Harvey Weinstein sc…
It started as a challenge from Ken Campbell in a squat but Showstopper! The Improvised Musical grew into a West End sensation. The pair behind it tell allAcross the road from Victoria Statio…
Celebrated for her performances in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly! Channing also earned an Oscar nomination for Thoroughly Modern Millie Carol Channing, the American actor who ori…
It is a stage sensation in France " not to mention Kazakhstan and Korea " but Notre Dame de Paris was panned by critics when it first hit London. Now it's back, in the original FrenchEarly o…
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonMildred Hubble's misadventures are told with wit and ingenuity in a touring production based on Jill Murphy's booksJill Murphy was 15 when she invented Mildr…
Iskander, a theatre-maker and former NHS executive, succeeds David Jubb, who called it a 'fantastic appointment'Battersea Arts Centre in south London has appointed Tarek Iskander as its new …
The Egg, Bath French poodles face a dastardly end unless our swashbuckling heroes come to the rescue in this high-energy kids' version of the classic adventure story'Are you here for ze exec…
New show links HG Wells's sci-fi novel and Orson Welles's 1938 radio adaptation and explores climate of fear preceding the US presidential electionIt is one of the most famous radio broadcas…
Hackney Empire, LondonThis show has a dastardly villain in Jacob Peas Bogg and some spirited performances but there is nothing like its dameWriter-director Susie McKenna and composer Steve E…
New drama Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile looks back at the life of the playwright who wrote Rita, Sue and Bob TooA new drama is to revisit the life and early death of Andrea Dunbar, the p…
Exclusive: New work created in honour of the late dancer and performed by Vidya Patel and Daniela Maccari, who has taken on his signature stage rolesA tribute performance has been created fo…