1,039 stories by "Chris Wiegand"
Angela Lansbury's return to the West End stage in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit is one of London's hottest tickets but the star is still best known as TV sleuth Jessica Fletcher. Can you gu…
New artistic director will stage a musical version of Twelfth Night and introduces £5 tickets for every first preview at the theatreThe Young Vic's new artistic director, Kwame Kwei-Armah…
Playwright Barney Norris will collaborate with the Booker prize-winning author on a production opening in Northampton in 2019Twenty-five years after it was made into an Oscar-nominated film,…
Tributes paid to acclaimed actor who had been appearing in the Donmar's production of The Way of the WorldThe Donmar Warehouse in London has announced the sudden death of the actor Alex Beck…
Outfits worn by Susannah York, Patrick Stewart and Sinéad Cusack will also be listed on eBay to raise money for the Royal Shakespeare Company's costume workshopA red floor-length coat sport…
Exclusive: exhibition looks back on London cultural centre's legacy through 50 years of archive material An innovative new exhibition at London's Southbank Centre gives visitors a performer'…
Death is announced of a 'passionate collaborator' who choreographed innovative shows such as Enron and danced in Bourne productionsScott Ambler, the dancer who played the original Prince Sie…
Actors to share the stage in Christopher Hampton's adaptation of Tartuffe at London's Theatre Royal HaymarketOne is known for playing an unpredictable Birmingham gangster; the other for a ru…
Little Angel theatre, LondonBad puns, circus tricks and goggle-eyed jellyfish abound in a smart adaptation of the popular picture bookThe picture books by Julia Donaldson with illustrations …
Standing at the Sky's Edge, which features old and new songs by the musician, will play at the city's Crucible theatreThe singer and songwriter Richard Hawley will explore the history of the…
Southbank Centre to host Isabella Rossellini performing with her pet dog and Isabelle Huppert reading from the Marquis de SadeTwo celebrated European actors are taking one-woman shows to Lon…
Playwright's producer urged him to write Bitter Wheat about the Hollywood mogul facing allegations of sexual harassmentDavid Mamet has revealed that he has written a play about Harvey Weinst…
The playwright, a passionate supporter of the health service, has set Allelujah! in a beleaguered Pennines hospitalAlan Bennett is to explore life in a Yorkshire hospital threatened with clo…
The star will reprise 'superb' performance in a transfer of Jonathan Munby's acclaimed Chichester Festival theatre productionIan McKellen is to star in London's West End as King Lear, repris…
The London production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical surpasses The Book of Mormon as it hikes premium ticket pricesPremium seats for the London production of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Mi…
Owner says it is time to hand historic playhouse over to 'next generation of dream-makers'London's Theatre Royal Haymarket, which has staged premieres of Oscar Wilde plays and was John Gielg…
The Oscar-winning actor will play smooth lawyer Billy Flynn as the prohibition-era musical returns to the West End in MarchThe Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr is to make his British stag…
The star of France's premier crime drama talks about appearing in Ivo van Hove's bold take on A View from the Bridge and her determination to avoid typecastingIn a bar around the corner from…
The dark comedy foursome are to hit the road, taking new show to 'all the wonderful local places in our increasingly local country'Their three forthcoming reunion specials for the BBC are am…
CentrE17, LondonReggae songs, monkey puppets and a duet with a mop all add up to a surreal show for two- to five-year-olds My daughter Hilda is four, her favourite number is five and she can…
Enda Walsh to adapt Max Porter's acclaimed novel about love, art and bereavement for Complicité theatre company's Irish productionCillian Murphy is to star in an Irish stage version of Max …
As Lindsay Lohan prepares to make her West End debut in Speed-the-Plow, can you guess if these lines come from Mean Girls or David Mamet's plays?"I'm wearing a spinal halo." Mean GirlsMamet"…
Eight women describe alleged cases of historic harassment against director who called for search for 'Weinstein of British theatre'A leading director who called for a search for "the Weinste…
Musical comedy duo Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement reunite for a string of live dates after solo roles in Hollywood and on TVOK, band meeting! The Flight of the Conchords have announced th…
A star-studded new West End production of Harold Pinter's classic play, directed by Ian Rickson, is scheduled for 2018It was famously savaged by theatre critics who dismissed it as "puzzling…
