The shortlists have been announced for The Imagination Awards, a new competition launched by the award-winning West End production of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, to encou…
Last night Sunday 3 July 2016 in Hyde Park at the Barclaycard British Summer Time Festival, the cast of the West End hitBEAUTIFUL - THE CAROLE KING MUSICALjoinedCarole Kingon stage for the f…
Fisayo Akinade, Sharon D Clarke and Alex Hassell have been cast in Caryl Churchill's new 10-minute play PIGS AND DOGS. Rehearsals start on Monday 11 July 2016. Pigs and Dogs runs from Wednes…
Phoebe Eclair-Powell began training as an actress at the Drama Centre London, but soon switched over to playwriting. She's worked with the National Youth Theatre on their Epic Stages program…
The first images of Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith in a new production of Ronald Harwood's THE DRESSER were released today, along with two new cast members Selina Cadell and Harriet Thorpe.
The National Theatre has today announced full casting for David Hare's STUFF HAPPENS, which returns to the National Theatre on 6 July, the day the Chilcot Inquiry report is published.
BUGSY MALONE returns to the Lyric Hammersmith for a limited 12-week run following the critically acclaimed, Olivier-nominated 2015 production, which marked the reopening of the revamped buil…
Today, Curve Artistic Director,Nikolai Foster,announces the cast for his production ofTHE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated actressCathy Tysonwill star as the ico…
Big Dance Week 2016, running from 2 to 10 July 2016, will be launched with a mass dance performance by hundreds of dancers in Trafalgar Square choreographed by Akram Khan onSaturday 2 July. …
Park Theatre has announced ababy-friendly performance of The Quiet House, and there's now a myriad of family-friendly options, from musicals to adaptations of beloved literary classics. But …
For those in sore need of a theatrical pick-me-up, jazz square your way over to Bugsy Malone. Last year's smash-hit opener of the redeveloped Lyric has been given a well-deserved encore, wit…
Artistic Director of The Old Vic Matthew Warchus, composer and lyricist Tim Minchin, choreographer Peter Darling, and designer Rob Howell, four of the creators of the international musical s…
Why are animals the way they areA long time ago, Rudyard Kipling wrote the Just So Stories for his own children - stories about where he imagined animals' trunks and humps and throats and ot…
Jude Akuwudike, Franc Ashman and Martins Imhangbe will join the cast ofTHE ROYALE, alongside Nicholas Pinnock, who plays Jay 'The Sport' Jackson - the first black heavyweight boxing champion…
Menier Chocolate Factory has announced further casting for its major revival of Tom Stoppard's TRAVESTIES. Joining Tom Hollander are Clare Foster Cecily, Freddie Fox Tristan Tzara, Forbes Ma…
Enter for the chance to win a pair of free tickets to rock n roll stand-up and Glastonbury regulars MIK ARTISTIK'S EGO TRIP at Warrington's Pyramid arts centre on Saturday 9 July.
London is never short of theatre temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a magical mega-hit and musical revivals to plays with strong politica…
This autumn Nottingham Playhouse and New Perspectives join forces with acclaimed novelist John Harvey to bring his most famous creation, jazz-loving detective Charlie Resnick, to the stage f…
Celebrating 100 years of Roald Dahl, Les Enfants Terribles The Trench, ebp Alice's Adventures Underground, gastronomic wunderkinds Bompas amp Parr and creative wranglers Creature of London p…
Hot on the heels of a record-breaking, critically acclaimed West End run, this new production ofFUNNY GIRL embarks on a major national tour in 2017. The five-star production opens at Manches…
In seeking to understand the historic, divisive and to some bewildering Brexit vote, I will turn to theatre. Through my regular exposure to it, I can number among my ever-widening acquaintan…
It begins promisingly, a dark Gothic fairy tale " both Grimm and grim. The writhing witches (four, oddly) are summoned from a pile of dead bodies, Stefan Fichert's eerie puppetry all chopped…
The RSC's hugely acclaimed 2014 pairing ofLove's Labour's LostandMuch Ado About NothingorLove's Labour's Won arrives in London this Christmas, following runs at Chichester Festival Theatre a…
Rehearsal images have been released for EXPOSURE THE MUSICAL - LIFE THROUGH A LENS, which features David AlburyJimmy,Natalie AndersonTara,Andy BarkeEnsemble,Rhiannon DuncanLustEnsemble,Zeph …
PROMISES, PROMISES, the hit Broadway musical based on the multi Oscar-winning 1960 film The Apartment, with music by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David and book by Neil Simon, is to get its…