880 stories by "Marianka Swain"
Ye olde love triangle returns, this time as the centrepiece of a rock chamber musical that premiered Off-Broadway in 2013 and now makes its UK premiere. There's a good guy, a bad boy, and th…
The Old Vic today announces further programming, casting and dates for the 2016-17 season, both on and off the main stage. The 50th anniversary production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are…
Actor Adam Gillen's credits include A Taste of Honey at the Royal Exchange Theatre, The School for Scandal at the Barbican and the RSC's Wendy and Peter, as well as TV hits Fresh Meat and Be…
When Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band premiered Off Broadway in 1968, a year before the Stonewall Riots, it was groundbreaking in its depiction of a community of gay men. The work - later…
Wilde, Joyce, Shakespeare, Lenin, memory, the morality of war, social systems, and the meaning and purpose of art Stoppard's dazzlingly intellectual 1974 play really is a life, the universe …
Last night, Patrick Marber's highly anticipatedrevival of Tom Stoppard's TRAVESTIES opened at Menier Chocolate Factory. The cast features Tom Hollander, Freddie Fox, Clare Foster, Peter McDo…
The all-star cast ofKerry Ellis,Ramin Karimloo,Victoria Hamilton-Barritt andNorman Bowman, directed bySam Yates, have brought hit American musical MURDER BALLAD to the Arts Theatre. The show…
Harriet Thorpe's diverse career ranges from hit musicals Les Miserables, Wicked, Mamma Mia and Crazy For You to Absolutely Fabulous and extensive work with the National. She's currently star…
As we get closer to the opening of my production, From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads, I have begun to re-examine David Bowie and his relationship with theatre. It's a curious and fascinating s…
London is never short of theatre temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From Amadeus and a starry Stoppard revival to exciting new musicals, here …
With pristine timing, just as Strictly takes to the floor, the third - and final - touring show from former pros Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace makes a stop in the West End. The 'last' of …
Leah Harvey has just graduated from LAMDA, and is now making her professional debut in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy three plays staged in a 13-week repertory season…
Ventriloquist Nina Conti got her break when Ken Campbell specially devised Let Me Out for her in 2001, and she's since won numerous awards, headlined shows, appeared in Christopher Guest's F…
Welsh-Breton theatrical collaboration 'Merch yr Eog' The Salmon's Daughter, a unique co-production by Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru and Teatr Piba, begins a UK and Brittany tour next week. The p…
It's hard for people to grasp the possibilities of something like virtual reality or 360 film, as most don't have a frame of reference yet, so the best thing is to show them,' explains Toby …
Following the 10th anniversary West End gala performance of WICKED on 27 September, creator Stephen Schwartz joined current and past performers from the show on theApollo Victoria Theatre st…
As an actor, Nigel Harman's numerous credits include EastEnders, Guys and Dolls, Downton Abbey and Shrek The Musical, the latter of which he also directed. He's now helming the revival of a …
The Strictly Come Dancingstars were out in force for the West End opening of Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace's stage show The Last Tangoat Phoenix Theatre. Former judge Arlene Phillips, cur…
Wicked held a special gala performance last night at the Apollo Victoria Theatre to mark 10 years in the West End - a milestone guaranteed to make many in the industry green with envy. Curre…
Last night,Wickedmarked an impressive10 years in the West End with a special gala performance, attended by dozens of past cast members, such as Kerry Ellis, Oliver Tempsett, Louise Dearman, …
Damian Buhagiar's credits include the UK tour of Jersey Boys and Bugsy Malone at Lyric Hammersmith. He's now returned to the West End production of In the Heights in the role of Sonny, which…
Actor Ian Hallard has done a range of work, from musicals and Shakespeare to phone-hacking play Great Britain at the National Theatre and TV staples like Doctor Who and Poirot. He also co-wr…
The stage version of David Walliams' hit children's book GANGSTA GRANNY, adapted and directed by Neal Foster,is coming to the West End next summer following an extensive UK tour. Today, Wall…
The Globe is breaking bad. Cymbeline comes to us as Imogen -subtitledRenamed and Reclaimed, properly recognising that Imogen has far more to say than her royal father -but that's just the st…
The current racial crisis in America might seem too urgent, too horrific, for us to be constantly seeking historical stories, but Suzan-Lori Parks's play cycle makes a vividly articulate cas…
